CALT EXAM QUESTIONS
ANSWERS
AND SOLVED Y
CORRECTL
Suprasegmental ✔✔Aspect of Language
(intonation, stress, loudness, pitch level, juncture - (the set of features in speech that enable a
hearer to detect a word or phrase boundary), and speaking rate)
Segmental ✔✔Aspect of Language
(phonemes - vowels & consonants)
Phonoligical Awareness ✔✔The knowledge of and sensitivity to the sound structure of language
(umbrella term)
It includes: rhyming, segmentation activities, and manipulation activities
Segmentation Activities - segmenting sentences into words, segmenting compound words into
syllables, segmenting words into syllables, identifying initial and final sounds, and segmenting
syllables into phonemes
Manipulation Activities - omitting syllables, omitting sounds in words, and changing sounds into
words
,Dysarthria ✔✔A disorder in the nervous system which hinders control over the tongue, throat,
lips, or lungs
Neurological oral-motor dysfunction including weakness of the musculature necessary for
coordinating movements of speech production (slurred speech, difficulty with articulation)
Dyspraxia ✔✔Sensorimotor disruption in which the motor signals to the muscles, such as those
necessary for speech production, are not consistently or efficiently received
Difficulty getting the body to do what you want it to
Difficulty planning and coordinating body movement
Difficulty coordinating facial muscles to produce sounds
(a person is born with dyspraxia)
Phonemic Awareness ✔✔Awareness of the smallest units of speech (phonemes) and the ability
to isolate or manipulate the individual phonemes in words
Phonetics ✔✔The study of linguistic speech sounds and how they are produced and perceived
, Alphabetic Principle ✔✔The concept that letters on a page represent or map onto the sounds in
spoken words
Alphabetic Language ✔✔A language, such as English, in which letters are used systematically to
represent speech sounds or phonemes
Logographic Writing System ✔✔A system in which pictures represent the words of a language,
such as Chinese
If English was treated as a logographic writing system, it would contain over 700,000 symbols
Grapheme ✔✔A written letter or letter cluster representing a single speech sound
Ex: i, igh
Phonics ✔✔An approach to teaching reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol
relationships
Sound + Letters
Euphony ✔✔Words formed or combined as to please the ear
The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation
ANSWERS
AND SOLVED Y
CORRECTL
Suprasegmental ✔✔Aspect of Language
(intonation, stress, loudness, pitch level, juncture - (the set of features in speech that enable a
hearer to detect a word or phrase boundary), and speaking rate)
Segmental ✔✔Aspect of Language
(phonemes - vowels & consonants)
Phonoligical Awareness ✔✔The knowledge of and sensitivity to the sound structure of language
(umbrella term)
It includes: rhyming, segmentation activities, and manipulation activities
Segmentation Activities - segmenting sentences into words, segmenting compound words into
syllables, segmenting words into syllables, identifying initial and final sounds, and segmenting
syllables into phonemes
Manipulation Activities - omitting syllables, omitting sounds in words, and changing sounds into
words
,Dysarthria ✔✔A disorder in the nervous system which hinders control over the tongue, throat,
lips, or lungs
Neurological oral-motor dysfunction including weakness of the musculature necessary for
coordinating movements of speech production (slurred speech, difficulty with articulation)
Dyspraxia ✔✔Sensorimotor disruption in which the motor signals to the muscles, such as those
necessary for speech production, are not consistently or efficiently received
Difficulty getting the body to do what you want it to
Difficulty planning and coordinating body movement
Difficulty coordinating facial muscles to produce sounds
(a person is born with dyspraxia)
Phonemic Awareness ✔✔Awareness of the smallest units of speech (phonemes) and the ability
to isolate or manipulate the individual phonemes in words
Phonetics ✔✔The study of linguistic speech sounds and how they are produced and perceived
, Alphabetic Principle ✔✔The concept that letters on a page represent or map onto the sounds in
spoken words
Alphabetic Language ✔✔A language, such as English, in which letters are used systematically to
represent speech sounds or phonemes
Logographic Writing System ✔✔A system in which pictures represent the words of a language,
such as Chinese
If English was treated as a logographic writing system, it would contain over 700,000 symbols
Grapheme ✔✔A written letter or letter cluster representing a single speech sound
Ex: i, igh
Phonics ✔✔An approach to teaching reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol
relationships
Sound + Letters
Euphony ✔✔Words formed or combined as to please the ear
The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation
