Question #38919

Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing? 1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures. 2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all. 3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’. 4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels.


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Answer: Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing? 1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures. 2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all. 3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’. 4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels. 2 & 4.

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