Within the realm of conversational speech, knowledge refers to
a. the meaning of a conversation.
b. the rules for combining spoken words into sentences.
c. the tendency to see relationships between spoken concepts even when those relationships do not exist.
d. the previously understood information that we bring into the conversation.
Question 2
In an eye movement study, Rayner and coworkers had participants read sentences that contained either a high- or low- frequency target word. For example, the sentence Sam wore the horrid coat though his girlfriend complained, contained either the target word pretty or demure. Results showed the participants' was shorter for the target word .
a. lexical distinction; pretty
b. lexical distinction; demure
c. fixation; pretty
d. fixation; demure
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