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Questions -
1. Why are researchers interested in the number of color words used by different cultures?
2. How should cognitive psychologists interpret evidence of linguistic universals when considering the linguistic-relativity hypothesis?
3. Compare and contrast the kinds of understandings that can be gained by studying speech errors made by healthy people with those that can be gained by studying the language produced by people who have particular brain lesions.
4. Make an example of a pidgin conversation between two people and a creole conversation, focusing on the differences between pidgins and creoles.
5. Draft an example of a brief dialogue between a male and a female in which each may misunderstand the other, based on their differing beliefs regarding the goals of communication.
6. Suppose that you are an instructor of English as a second language. What kinds of things will you want to know about your students to determine how much to emphasize phonology, vocabulary, syntax, or pragmatics in your instruction?
7. Give an example of a humorous violation of one of Grice's four maxims of successful conversation.
Textbook - Cognitive Psychology by Robert Sternberg Deep explanation.