Chapter 16.

16.1 Chapter 11: Psycholinguistic Modeling

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Psycholinguistic models are diagrammatic representations of what is believed to occur during language processing. Diagrammatic representations are meant to simplify and summarize many findings and to generate hypotheses about language processing. Test your knowledge of psycholinguistic modeling by answering the following questions.

Question 16.1

1. What model of language production and perception hypothesizes that different levels of processing—phonological, syntactic, and semantic—operate simultaneously?
Correct. Incorrect. Incorrect.
The correct answer is parallel processing model.

Question 16.2

2. What model of language processing hypothesizes that comprehension operates in stages—that is, that smaller units, such as phonological features, are progressively transformed into larger units (words and syntactic structures)?
Incorrect. Correct. Incorrect.
The correct answer is serial model.

Question 16.3

3. What type of processing model better handles bottom-up processing?
Incorrect. Correct. Incorrect.
The correct answer is serial model.

Question 16.4

4. What do we call any processing model that hypothesizes that at least two competing mechanisms are operational in any processing task?
Incorrect. Incorrect. Correct.
The correct answer is multiple-route model.

Question 16.5

5. What do we call models of language processing that depend on abstract structural concepts such as features, phonemes, phonological rules, and syntactic categories?
Incorrect. Correct. Incorrect.
The correct answer is symbolic models.

Question 16.6

6. What is the term for models of language processing that consist of multiple associations that link simple processing units (based on a representation of the transmission of information via neural networks in the brain)?
Incorrect. Incorrect. Correct.
The correct answer is connectionist models.