When the Front Part of a Sentence Can Be Interpreted

question 56

Multiple Choice

When the front part of a sentence can be interpreted more than one way, but the end of the sentence clarifies which meaning is correct, we say that the sentence is an example of

• A) parsing.
• B) temporary ambiguity.
• C) speech segmentation.
• D) lexical priming.

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Definitions:

F Value

A statistic obtained in analysis of variance (ANOVA) testing, used to determine whether the means of several groups are equal or show significant differences.

F-Tests

A group of statistical tests that compute the ratio of variances to analyze the statistical significance of the differences between means.

Nondirectional

Pertains to hypotheses or tests that do not specify a direction of effect but instead test for any difference or association.

Type II Error

The probability of accepting a null hypothesis when it is false.