VU Midterm Past Papers
48 solved midterm past paper MCQs for ENG511 (Psycholinguistics) at Virtual University, each with the correct answer marked. Use them to learn the VU question style and test your recall. An independent study tool — not affiliated with VU.
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Q1. Until the early part of their second year, infants communicate with their world primarily in ______ ways.
Q2. Transformational grammar was an influential theory of grammar formulated by Chomsky in the late ______.
Q3. Production is ______ as language production.
Q4. Situational models represent the state of affairs that a ______ refers to.
Q5. Every conversation has a topic development phase which is framed by opening and ______ phrase.
Q6. Genre is a ______, patterned, continuous, and purpose-oriented activity.
Q7. ______ prior to language is called prelinguistic.
Q8. The production of speech is a ______ process.
Q9. The acquisition of the sound system of their language by children does not occur in isolation of the ______.
Q10. Morphemes are acquired by children ______.
Q11. ______ words stage ranges from ______ months.
Q12. There are ______ primary grammatical concepts that appear in all languages.
Q13. Institutional discourse, although it may resemble ordinary conversation, incorporates ______ rules of discourse.
Q14. Interfering of two languages acquired simultaneously with one another is called ______.
Q15. Learning of a ______ language is called Language acquisition.
Q16. The ______ period is also called Pre-production stage.
Q17. In relation to 'story grammar', we tend to store the episodes of a story in ______ in memory.
Q18. Acquisition of second language after the native language is called ______ bilingualism.
Q19. ______ happens around ______ months.
Q20. Short-term memory ______ the online computation of discourse meaning.
Q21. ______ errors reveal consistent ______.
Q22. A conversation opener is an introduction used to begin a ______.
Q23. Freudian slip is also called ______.
Q24. According to Fiess (1980), children's acquisition is related to ______ factors.
Q25. From a communication standpoint, an inference is a proposition in the underlying ______.
Q26. Each level of representation in memory of discourse is based largely on ______ principles.
Q27. Meyer, Brandt, and Bluth (1980) found that when the key points of a passage are signaled explicitly, the performance ______.
Q28. Anomalous suspense means that the narrative knowledge is ______ to the reader.
Q29. Grammar can be divided into Prescriptive grammar and ______ grammar.
Q30. Which of the following cognitive systems exists with a limited capacity that is responsible for temporarily holding information available for processing?
Q31. Propositional Representation Theory was first developed by ______.
Q32. ______ is the ability to both observe and evaluate one's behavior.
Q33. The person who speaks ______ language/s is called bilingual.
Q34. Sign languages use the parts of human body in ______ dimensional space as the physical means of communication.
Q35. Lexical development refers to changes that occur in ______ knowledge over childhood.
Q36. Having the ability to use more than two languages is called ______.
Q37. In the opening and closing phases of conversations, there are some ______ also.
Q38. Speech errors fall into ______ categories.
Q39. ______ who use more tentative language when discussing conversational topics.
Q40. ______ errors are hardly ______.
Q41. Children's acquisition of the sound system of their language does not occur in isolation of the ______.
Q42. CPH can be elaborated as ______.
Q43. A baby's earliest heard language is called ______.
Q44. DTC means ______.
Q45. For Building Global Structure, we need to consider which aspect of ______ is being measured.
Q46. When speakers detect their errors, they start ______ them.
Q47. Speech errors reveal consistent ______.
Q48. time frame of babbling is ______ months.