The Concept of Linguistic Performance Is Exemplified by a Child

question 10

Multiple Choice

The concept of linguistic performance is exemplified by a child that

• A) generates the correct form of fly, when asked to describe what a bird had done.
• B) recognizes that flew fits better than flown into the sentence The bird ____ high.
• C) looks longer in the direction of a sentence containing the wrong grammatical form of a verb than one that uses the correct form.
• D) looks longer in the direction of fluent speech than disfluent speech that contains disruptions.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A default premise stating no statistical significance or effect, used as a starting point for hypothesis testing to be either rejected or not rejected.

Z Statistic

A statistical measure that quantifies the distance (in standard deviation units) a data point is from the mean of a data set.

Normal Distribution

Normal Distribution is a continuous probability distribution characterized by a symmetric, bell-shaped curve, where mean, median, and mode are equal.

Two-tailed Hypothesis Test

A statistical test in which the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is greater than or less than a certain range of values.