Consider the following conversation. Person 2 has apparently violated which maxim of cooperation?              Person 1:  Hey, how you doing?               Person 2:  Not bad.  Yourself?               Person 1:  Pretty good.  What are you doing this weekend?               Person 2:  I just got a totally cool app for my phone.

Young children can show evidence of adapting to their listener by…

Which of the following are ways that children become more competent conversationalists as they develop?  Indicate if each item is a way children become more competent, or if it is not.

Describe one piece of evidence that suggests that human beings are well adapted to use language. The evidence may be about anatomy or about the brain. Be sure to explain WHY this evidence supports the idea that humans are adapted for language. Be clear but concise–you don’t have to write a lot to make a convincing case.  

The form of an utterance (locutionary act) does not always match its intended effect on the listener (perlocutionary act).  Which of these utterances is most likely to be one of those mismatches?

For each statement about linguistic registers, indicate if it is true or false. 

You are a speech-language pathologist, and you are assessing the communicative development of a 10-month-old infant.  Describe one situation that you would create in order to assess whether the infant can initiate joint attention, and what behaviors would tell you that the infant can do so.  {Keep your answer concise.}

What were the positive and negative effects of the Crusades on Medieval Europe? (4-6 Sentences)

What was the significance of the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment? (4-6 Sentences)

How many years have you been leading QA Automation teams? 1.      Do you have experience helping organizations implement and adopt QA Automation strategies where before they were very reliant on manual testing? a.      Have you done this for applications that were customer-facing applications? Any e-commerce? (get details of when/ where for each) 2.      Tell me about a time where you defined and executed an automation strategy for a large QA team. What was your approach? 3.      How would you drive adoption of automation in a team used to doing mostly manual testing? 4.      What are the key components of a scalable QA automation framework for web, mobile, and API testing? 5.      How do you integrate automated tests into a CI/CD pipeline? 6.      How do you balance business requirements with QA priorities in fast-moving e-commerce projects? 7.      Can you walk us through how you take requirements from business teams and translate them into QA automation initiatives? 8.      How would you handle resistance from long-tenured manual testers who are skeptical of automation? 9.      What metrics would you use to measure the success of a QA automation transformation? 10.  What is your experience with cloud-based test environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) or containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)? 11.  Have you used performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling, or Locust? 12.  What testing tools have you used most recently?