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ETearle · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Imagine that you are about to utter a sentence. If you are currently struggling with the linearization problem, you will have difficulty

a. deciding which words to put first and which to put later.
b. assigning a linear order to the actor and the person who is acted upon.
c. discovering the deep structure from the surface structure.
d. deciding whether to use the active or the passive voice.

Question 2

When people speak to a young baby, their voices show great variation in both pitch and word emphasis. This aspect of speech production is called

a. linearization.
b. the gist.
c. syntax.
d. prosody.