Government College Women University Sialkot

Whatsapp Group Task-II Course Title: Psycholinguistics

Submitted by: Rabia Abid Course Code: ENG-361
Roll no: ENG-16032 Submitted to: Dr. Sabboor
Group Members Submission Date: February 20th, 2019
Arooj Aslam ENG-16015 BS (Hons.) English 6th Semester
Nafeesa Bibi ENG-16055
Session 2016-20
Shanza Kanwal ENG-16038
Whatsapp Group Task-II 2

Chapter 7:
Input Processing in Adult SLA

1. ________ is concerned with how learners come to make form-meaning connections or

parse sentences.
a) Parsing c) Associative Learning theory
b) Input Processing theory d) The Concept-Oriented approach
2. The implicit process of micro-second-by-micro-second computation of the syntactic
structure of a sentence during real-time comprehension is called _______.
a) Parsing c) Semantic Processing
b) Syntactic Projection d) Syntactic Development
3. Input Processing theory was first presented in ____ by _______.
a) 1976, Manfred Piemen & Lenzing c) 1996, Bill Van Patten
b) 1987, Michael T. Ullman d) 1994, Kathleen Bardovi
4. The Meaning before Non-Meaning Principle asserts that learners are most likely to process
a) Redundant meaningful grammatical markers before Non-Redundant meaningful
grammatical markers.
b) Non-Redundant meaningful grammatical markers before Redundant meaningful
grammatical markers.
c) Meaningful grammatical markers before non-meaningful grammatical markers.
d) Lexical forms for meaning before grammatical forms.
5. When only one noun is capable of performing an action in the sentence because the
meanings of the verbs place requirements on nouns for an action or event to occur, it refers
to:
a) The Event Probability Principle c) Contextual-Constraint Principle
b) The Lexical Semantics Principle d) The First-Noun Principle
6. Input Processing theory is not:
a) concerned with initial data gathering
b) concerned with how learners get intake from the input
c) A model of acquisition
d) A research domain to processing and parsing of L2 sentences
7. IP theory offers ________ of SLA.
a) Meaning-based approach
b) Concept-based approach
c) An input-based and input-processing perspective
d) Form-Function & Form-Meaning perspective
8. The common misunderstanding regarding Input Processing Theory is that:
a) Input processing is a pedagogical approach.
Whatsapp Group Task-II 3

b) It deals with parsing strategies of L2 sentences.

c) It studies the way grammatical roles are assigned to nouns.
d) IP is one part of a complex set of processes that in acquisition.
9. ________ states that if grammatical forms express a meaning that can also be encoded
lexically, they’ll only be processed when there are lexical forms to relate with them.
a) The Meaning before the non-meaning principle
b) The Lexical Preference Principle
c) The Preference for Non-redundancy Principle
d) The Sentence Location Principle
10. IP is not equivalent to noticing as it only means:
a) Making form-meaning connections
b) Parsing of syntactic structure
c) Initial processing of data
d) Becoming aware of a formal feature of language
11. The pedagogical intervention or technique that manipulates input in certain ways to
counteract the (potential) negative effects of various input processing principles is called
_____.
a) Pedagogical grammar c) Input processing Instruction
b) Processing Instruction d) Optimal Processing
12. Input Processing is not a comprehensive model of acquisition instead it aims to be a theory
of what happens during:
a) Comprehension c) Listening
b) Speaking d) Reading
13. Input Processing theory deals with the ______ L2 learners might encounter in dealing with
the properties of the new language.
a) Processing problems c) Production issues
b) Explicit processes d) Both b & c
14. Input processing theory says that L2 learners have _________. Therefore, differ from
native speakers in the moment-by-moment processing of information.
a) Limited Capacity processors c) Near-native speakers
b) Non-natives of a language d) Limited vocabulary
15. The model of IP is presented as ______ on the issue of whether adults engage implicit or
explicit processes when learning a second language.
a) Implicit process c) Neutral/agnostic
b) Explicit process d) None of them
16. The ______ principle that does not override The First-Noun Principle.
a) The Event-Probability Principle c) Contextual-Constraint Principle
b) The Lexical Preference Principle d) The Lexical Semantics Principle
Whatsapp Group Task-II 4

17. Patten has originally considered and labelled The First-Noun Principle as:
a) Universal strategy/principle c) Individual strategy
b) Contextual strategy/principle d) Both a & b
18. _____refers to the contribution made to the meaning of an utterance by a linguistic form.
a) Communicative value c) Pragmatic value
b) Linguistic Value d) None of these
19. According to Input Processing theory, learners begin acquisition with native language
parsing procedures. This is codified in:
a) The lexical Preference Principle
b) The Lexical Semantics Principle
c) The L1 Transfer Principle
d) The Availability of Resources Principle
20. Which processing principle deals with how the specific position of a target form has an
impact on whether or not that form is likely to be processed?
a) The Sentence Location Principle
b) The First-Noun Principle
c) The Primacy of Meaning Principle
d) The Primacy of Content Words Principle
Whatsapp Group Task-II 5

Answer Key:
1. Input Processing theory
2. Parsing
3. 1996, Bill Van Patten
4. Meaningful grammatical markers before non-meaningful grammatical markers
5. The Lexical Semantics Principle
6. A model of acquisition
7. An input-based and input-processing perspective
8. Input processing is a pedagogical approach.
9. The Lexical Preference Principle
10. Becoming aware of a formal feature of language
11. Processing Instruction
12. Comprehension
13. Processing problems
14. Limited Capacity processors
15. Neutral/agnostic
16. The Lexical Semantics Principle
17. Universal strategy/principle
18. Communicative value
19. The L1 Transfer Principle
20. The Sentence Location Principle