SLO1 WGU Exam |Question and Answers| 100%
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Semantics - ANSWER Study of linguistics meaning of morphemes, words, phrases,
and sentences
Pragmatics - ANSWER The study of how context and situation affect meaning
Homonym - ANSWER To, too, two
Homograph - ANSWER Bear, bear spelled and pronounced the same
Metaphor - ANSWER Non literal meaning
Idiom - ANSWER Meaning unrelated to the meaning of its parts
Discourse - ANSWER Linguistic unit composed of several sentences
Deixis - ANSWER Most know context to understand
You go there.
She did that.
Anaphora - ANSWER Replacing a longer expression with a shorter one
Anomaly - ANSWER Violation of semantic rules
Phonetic alphabet - ANSWER Represent phonetics segments of speech
Cat - /k/ae/t/
Allomorph - ANSWER Alternate phonetic forms of a morpheme
Dog - d>g
Dogs -dagz
Orthography - ANSWER Written form of a language
Glottis - ANSWER Opening between the vocal cords
Obstruent - ANSWER Class of sounds consisting of nonnasal stops, fricatives, and
affricates
Sonorant - ANSWER Sounds vowels, glides, liquids, nasal
Suprasegmental - ANSWER Prosodic features
, Manner of articulation - ANSWER Airstream is obstructed as it travels through the
vocal tract
Place of articulation - ANSWER Part of the vocal tract at which constriction occurs
during the production of speech sounds
Bilabial - ANSWER Sounds made by bringing the lips together
Labiodental - ANSWER Sounds made by touching the bottom lip to the upper teeth
Alveolar - ANSWER Raising tongue to alveolar ridge
Palatal - ANSWER Raising front part of tongue to the palate
Velar - ANSWER Raising back of tongue to the soft palate or velum
Uvular - ANSWER Raising back of the tongue to the uvula
Voiced - ANSWER Sounds using voice
Voiceless - ANSWER Sounds made with open and nonvibrating vocal cords
Oral - ANSWER Air escaping through mouth
Nasal - ANSWER Air through nose
Overgeneralization - ANSWER When Lang learners apply certain rule to situations
where the rule doesn't work
Cutted, eated, runned
LAD - ANSWER Language acquisition device/universal grammar: device in brain
which is where language is acquired
Critical period hypothesis - ANSWER Lenneberg: there is a window of opportunity
for people to acquire a first language
Caretaker talk - ANSWER Modified talk used by parents and other caretakers when
talking to young children.
Esso baby
Behaviorism - ANSWER In regards to lang acquisition, language learning is a
matter of imitation and habit formation
Innatism - ANSWER Chomsky: children are biologically programmed for language
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Semantics - ANSWER Study of linguistics meaning of morphemes, words, phrases,
and sentences
Pragmatics - ANSWER The study of how context and situation affect meaning
Homonym - ANSWER To, too, two
Homograph - ANSWER Bear, bear spelled and pronounced the same
Metaphor - ANSWER Non literal meaning
Idiom - ANSWER Meaning unrelated to the meaning of its parts
Discourse - ANSWER Linguistic unit composed of several sentences
Deixis - ANSWER Most know context to understand
You go there.
She did that.
Anaphora - ANSWER Replacing a longer expression with a shorter one
Anomaly - ANSWER Violation of semantic rules
Phonetic alphabet - ANSWER Represent phonetics segments of speech
Cat - /k/ae/t/
Allomorph - ANSWER Alternate phonetic forms of a morpheme
Dog - d>g
Dogs -dagz
Orthography - ANSWER Written form of a language
Glottis - ANSWER Opening between the vocal cords
Obstruent - ANSWER Class of sounds consisting of nonnasal stops, fricatives, and
affricates
Sonorant - ANSWER Sounds vowels, glides, liquids, nasal
Suprasegmental - ANSWER Prosodic features
, Manner of articulation - ANSWER Airstream is obstructed as it travels through the
vocal tract
Place of articulation - ANSWER Part of the vocal tract at which constriction occurs
during the production of speech sounds
Bilabial - ANSWER Sounds made by bringing the lips together
Labiodental - ANSWER Sounds made by touching the bottom lip to the upper teeth
Alveolar - ANSWER Raising tongue to alveolar ridge
Palatal - ANSWER Raising front part of tongue to the palate
Velar - ANSWER Raising back of tongue to the soft palate or velum
Uvular - ANSWER Raising back of the tongue to the uvula
Voiced - ANSWER Sounds using voice
Voiceless - ANSWER Sounds made with open and nonvibrating vocal cords
Oral - ANSWER Air escaping through mouth
Nasal - ANSWER Air through nose
Overgeneralization - ANSWER When Lang learners apply certain rule to situations
where the rule doesn't work
Cutted, eated, runned
LAD - ANSWER Language acquisition device/universal grammar: device in brain
which is where language is acquired
Critical period hypothesis - ANSWER Lenneberg: there is a window of opportunity
for people to acquire a first language
Caretaker talk - ANSWER Modified talk used by parents and other caretakers when
talking to young children.
Esso baby
Behaviorism - ANSWER In regards to lang acquisition, language learning is a
matter of imitation and habit formation
Innatism - ANSWER Chomsky: children are biologically programmed for language
