Iyou Were Constructing an Audience-Analysis Questionnaire and Wanted to Learn

question 127

Multiple Choice

Iyou were constructing an audience-analysis questionnaire and wanted to learn how many oyour listeners had ever heard othe Salem witch trials, which othe following would be the best kind oquestion to ask?

• A) demographic question
• B) open-ended question
• C) leading question
• D) scale question
• E) fixed-alternative question

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Definitions:

Phonology

The branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

Audition

The formal term for the sense of hearing, or the process by which sound waves are converted into neural signals that the brain interprets.

Underextension

The overly restrictive use of words, common in early language development, where a child uses a word only for a specific object rather than for all objects that belong to a particular category.

Referential Style

A language learning approach in which individuals predominantly use language to refer to people and objects in their environment.