Suppose you hear a lecture about psychological disorders. The speaker says, "We have found that depressed individuals and nondepressed individuals differ in the prosody of their spoken language."
Which of the following observations, if true, would be most consistent with that statement?
a. Depressed people tend to have a monotone voice during speaking; nondepressed people have more variation in intonation.
b. Depressed people have more difficulty overcoming the linearization problem, compared to nondepressed people.
c. Depressed people have more difficulty producing a sentence with noun-verb agreement, compared to nondepressed people.
d. Depressed people produce shorter, less complex sentences, compared to nondepressed people.
Ans: a
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