SLO1 WGU EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SLO1 WGU EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 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 - dg 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 Foreigner talk - ANSWER -Modified language used by native speakers of a language when speaking to a nonnative speaker Modified input - ANSWER -Changing language to make it more understandable for one's conversation partner Contrastive analysis hypothesis - ANSWER -Linked to behaviorism because they believe that errors in L2 come from l1 interference Krashen's five hypothesis - ANSWER -Acquisition learning Monitor Natural order Input Affective Holophrastic - ANSWER -Stage of child language acquisition where one word = one sentence Telegraphic - ANSWER -Utterances of children after the two-word stage when any grammatical morphemes are omitted Dialect - ANSWER -Language variety used by a particular group of speakers Regional dialect - ANSWER -Lang variety used by a particular group of spellers in a certain geographical region Social dialect - ANSWER -Lang variety used by a group of speakers who share the same social status Isogloss - ANSWER -Boundary separation one regional dialect characteristic from another Accent - ANSWER -Pronunciation of a specific regional dialect by a nonnative speaker Standard American English - ANSWER -An idealized dialect of English that is considered by some prescriptive grammarians to be the proper form of American English African American English - ANSWER -Dialect of English spoken by some African Americans Ebonics - ANSWER -Alternative term for the various dialects of African American English first used in 1997 Chicano English - ANSWER -Dialect of English spoken b some bilingual Mexican Americans in the southwest and California Code-switching - ANSWER -The insertion of a word or phrase other than that being spoken into a single sentence, or the movement back and forth between two languages or dialects Lingua Franca - ANSWER -Major language used in an area here speakers of more than one language love that permits communication and commerce among them Pidgin - ANSWER -Rule governed lang developed for communication among speakers of mutually unintelligible languages, often based on one of those languages