SLO1 WGU ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
● 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
● Interactionism. Answer: Language develops as a result of the complex interplay between
the uniquely human characteristic of the child and the environment in which the child develops
ANSWERS GRADED A+
● 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
● Interactionism. Answer: Language develops as a result of the complex interplay between
the uniquely human characteristic of the child and the environment in which the child develops
