ALTA CERTIFICATION TEST EXAM ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE ACCURATE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Vowel - ANSWER: A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air
through a relatively open vocal tract. A, E, I, O, U
Consonant - ANSWER: One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving
through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips, tongue or teeth
during articulation.
Accent - ANSWER: Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more
words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder, longer, and/or in
a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Syllable - ANSWER: a spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that
may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of
sound made by one impulse of voice.
Open Syllable - ANSWER: A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor, freedom)
Closed Syllable - ANSWER: A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel
is usually short.
Base Word - ANSWER: A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand
alone.
Derivative - ANSWER: A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more
affixes
Affix - ANSWER: A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a
base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that
is different that the base word or root.
Prefix - ANSWER: An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the
meaning of that word.
Suffix - ANSWER: A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word
with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense,
number, person and comparatives.
Macron - ANSWER: The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or
phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
, Breve - ANSWER: The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or
phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in
which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Tilde - ANSWER: A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in
a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used
both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any
unaccented vowel-r combination is respelled in the dictionary sound picture, the
symbol (er) is used
Cedilla - ANSWER: The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s)
pronunciation, as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding
on c before the letters e, i, or y (the softeners), to remind themselves to pronounced
the (s) sound eg mice.
Digraph - ANSWER: Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph - ANSWER: Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant
sound
Vowel Digraph - ANSWER: To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Trigraph - ANSWER: Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Quadrigraph - ANSWER: Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Combination - ANSWER: A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs
frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is
unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar, er, ir, or, us, qu, wh)
Diphthong - ANSWER: Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose
sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in
English. These are ou/out, ow/cow, oi/oil, oy, boy
Grapheme - ANSWER: A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as
to cover not only writing, but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a
visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster
which represents a speech sound.
Phoneme - ANSWER: A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The
separate sound units of spoken words.
Morpheme - ANSWER: A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of
structural linguistics.
Orthography - ANSWER: The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized
spelling according to established usage.
COMPLETE ACCURATE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Vowel - ANSWER: A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air
through a relatively open vocal tract. A, E, I, O, U
Consonant - ANSWER: One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving
through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips, tongue or teeth
during articulation.
Accent - ANSWER: Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more
words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder, longer, and/or in
a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Syllable - ANSWER: a spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that
may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of
sound made by one impulse of voice.
Open Syllable - ANSWER: A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor, freedom)
Closed Syllable - ANSWER: A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel
is usually short.
Base Word - ANSWER: A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand
alone.
Derivative - ANSWER: A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more
affixes
Affix - ANSWER: A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a
base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that
is different that the base word or root.
Prefix - ANSWER: An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the
meaning of that word.
Suffix - ANSWER: A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word
with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense,
number, person and comparatives.
Macron - ANSWER: The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or
phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
, Breve - ANSWER: The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or
phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in
which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Tilde - ANSWER: A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in
a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used
both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any
unaccented vowel-r combination is respelled in the dictionary sound picture, the
symbol (er) is used
Cedilla - ANSWER: The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s)
pronunciation, as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding
on c before the letters e, i, or y (the softeners), to remind themselves to pronounced
the (s) sound eg mice.
Digraph - ANSWER: Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph - ANSWER: Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant
sound
Vowel Digraph - ANSWER: To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Trigraph - ANSWER: Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Quadrigraph - ANSWER: Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Combination - ANSWER: A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs
frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is
unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar, er, ir, or, us, qu, wh)
Diphthong - ANSWER: Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose
sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in
English. These are ou/out, ow/cow, oi/oil, oy, boy
Grapheme - ANSWER: A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as
to cover not only writing, but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a
visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster
which represents a speech sound.
Phoneme - ANSWER: A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The
separate sound units of spoken words.
Morpheme - ANSWER: A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of
structural linguistics.
Orthography - ANSWER: The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized
spelling according to established usage.
