ESOL Praxis 5362 Exam Preparation Questions and Answers

Morpheme The smallest unit of language aka root word, prefix, suffix they cannot be broken down into smaller units Morphology principles Morphemes may be free ( chair, bag) or they may be bound or derivational and need to be combined with other morphemes to create meaning ( read-able, en-able Nominalizers Change adjectives or verbs into nouns (acy, -ance, -ician, -ism, -ist , -ity, -ment, -ster, -able, -al, -an, -atic) Fricatives A consonant chsracterized by fricitional passage of the expiered breath through a narrowing at some point in the vocal tract Articulatory phonetics The oldest branch which investigates the ways in which sounds are made Experimental phonetics The manipulation of the wabeform and tests to identify which aspects of sound are necessary for understanding. Homophemes Two or more words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings( wood, would, cite, sight) Common Reduced Form words:Deletion omission of one or more sounds: comftable/comfortable Common Reduced Form words: Schwa phonemes of a language are changed, minimized, or eliminated in order to make pronunciation easier: television Inflectional morphemes A bound grammatical morpheme added to complete words according to rules of syntax. They have strict grammatical function (-s, -ed, -ing, -en -'s, -er, -est)