touchstone UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Referent - CORRECT ANSWER - things that the symbols represent
Symbols - CORRECT ANSWER - real things, concepts, or ideas
Respiration - CORRECT ANSWER - airflow
Phonation - CORRECT ANSWER - vocal sounds
Resonation - CORRECT ANSWER - sound modifications
Articulation - CORRECT ANSWER - speech sound placement
Articulators - CORRECT ANSWER - tongue, jaw, lips, and palate
Paralinguistics - CORRECT ANSWER - melodic components of speech
Stress - CORRECT ANSWER - relative loudness on certain syllables
Intonation - CORRECT ANSWER - patterns of rises and fall in pitch
Speech Components - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. respiration
2. phonation
3. resonation
, 4. articulation
Nonlinguistic - CORRECT ANSWER - nonverbal; "silent language"
Metalinguistic - CORRECT ANSWER - knowledge of language; the more you know the
more effective you are as a communicator
Components of Language - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. use
2. content
3. form
Use - CORRECT ANSWER - pragmatics (the appropriate use of lang in different
contexts); ex: narrative - telling a story
Content - CORRECT ANSWER - semantics (word meaning); ex: nouns, verbs, adj etc
Form - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. phonology
2. morphology
3. syntax
Phonology - CORRECT ANSWER - sound system of a language
Morphology - CORRECT ANSWER - rules for word form; smallest language unit
Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER - sentence structure; how words are put together
12 cranial nerve mnemonic device - CORRECT ANSWER - the furry animal gives very
soft hugs