According to the Discussion of Word Production in Chapter10

question 64

Multiple Choice

According to the discussion of word production in Chapter10,

• A) the most challenging aspect of language production is the motor movements required to produce the various phonemes.
• B) researchers agree that during language production, we simultaneously retrieve information about three components of language-grammar, meaning, and sound.
• C) if you try to produce a particular noun, you will often retrieve it more effectively if you make a hand gesture.
• D) most college-educated North Americans have a speaking vocabulary of about 25,000 words.

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