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Q1202E

THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX BA AND LLB SECOND YEAR EXAMINATION 2019 May/June 2019 (A2)

LANGUAGE, MIND AND BRAIN Assessment Period: May/June 2019 (A2)

DO NOT TURN OVER UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO BY THE LEAD INVIGILATOR Candidates must attempt ALL questions in Part A. Candidates must attempt TWO questions in Part B. Section A is worth 20% of the marks for the paper. Section B is worth 80% of the marks for the paper. Questions within sections are equally weighted. Duration: 2 hours Answers to Part A should be indicated on the question paper. Only tick one answer for each question. Answers to Part B should be written in the separate answer booklet. Please enter the numbers of the questions answered in Part B only on the front of the answer booklet. Candidates must enter their candidate number but not their name both on this sheet and on the answer booklet. You may use the reverse of the pages for rough work. Do not tear off any part of this question paper. At the end of the examination the question paper and answer book, used or unused, will be collected from you before you leave the examination room. /Turn over

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Part A Answer all questions. For each question, tick only one answer. 1. Which of the following types of animal communication exhibits the design feature of displacement? ฀ a. Birdsong. ฀ b. Vervet monkey calls. ฀ c. Honeybee dances. ฀ d. Lemur calls. 2. What is the name of the part of the brain that connects Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas? ฀ a. Arcuate fasciculus. ฀ b. Corpus collosum. ฀ c. Angular gyrus. ฀ d. Cerebellum. 3. Which of the following are proposed as evidence for the innateness hypothesis? ฀ a. Languages share universal features. ฀ b. The language children are exposed to is impoverished. ฀ c. Children learn more nouns than verbs in the early stages of acquisition. ฀ d. Children make predictable mistakes while they are perfecting their grammar. ฀ e. a and b. ฀ f. all of the above ฀ g. a, b and d.

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4. Which of the following aphasias affect the phonology of a person’s speech? ฀ a. Broca’s aphasia. ฀ b. Wernicke’s aphasia. ฀

c. Foreign accent syndrome.

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d. Anomia.

฀ e. a, c and d. ฀ f. a and c. 5. Which of the following scanning techniques allow a person to move around freely during scanning? ฀ a. PET. ฀ b. MRI. ฀ c. fMRI. ฀ d. C(A)T. ฀ e. EEG ฀ e. a and c. ฀ f. d and e. 6. Which of the following types of model allow for information flowing in more than one direction? ฀ a. Feed-forward serial modular. ฀ b. Interactive serial modular. ฀ c. Connectionist. ฀ d. Parallel modular. ฀ e. all of the above. ฀ f. b, c and d.

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7. Which of the following are exchange errors, where the target utterance was “The cats chased the dog”? ฀ a. The dog chased the cats. ฀ b. The cat chased the cog. ฀ c. The cat chased the dogs. ฀ d. All of the above. ฀ e. a and c. 8. What does PPP stand for in Frazier and Fodor’s Sausage Machine model of parsing? ฀ a. Preliminary Parsing Process. ฀ b. Phrase Parsing Process. ฀ c. Preliminary Phrase Packager. ฀ d. Preliminary Phrase Parser. 9. What is a mondegreen? ฀ a. A speech error involving a semantically related substitution. ฀ b. A comprehension error involving incorrect segmentation of speech. ฀ c. A disfluency involving restarting an utterance. ฀ d. A comprehension error involving incorrect syntactic parsing. 10. Which of the following types of acquired dyslexia involve(s) an inability to process unknown words? ฀ a. Phonological dyslexia. ฀ b. Deep dyslexia. ฀ c. Surface dyslexia. ฀ d. Semantic dyslexia. ฀ e. a and b. ฀ f. a and c.

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Part B Answer two questions.

1. Describe two different experiments that have attempted to train animals to use human language. Which aspects of language were they able to master? Which aspects did they not master? What objections have been made in relation to such experiments? 2. In what ways are spoken and written language different? What evidence is there for and against considering written language as ‘natural language’? 3. What is meant by linguistic modularity? What evidence has been put forward to support the modularity hypothesis? 4. Describe and compare two models of word recognition OR two models of sentence recognition OR two models of sentence production. 5. To what extent do speakers of a language depend on syntactic processing to determine the meaning of an utterance? What evidence is there to support this?

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