SLO1 WGU FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔African American English - ✔✔Dialect of English spoken by some African Americans
✔✔Ebonics - ✔✔Alternative term for the various dialects of African American English
first used in 1997
✔✔Chicano English - ✔✔Dialect of English spoken b some bilingual Mexican
Americans in the southwest and California
✔✔Code-switching - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Major language used in an area here speakers of more than
one language love that permits communication and commerce among them
✔✔Pidgin - ✔✔Rule governed lang developed for communication among speakers of
mutually unintelligible languages, often based on one of those languages
Market language
✔✔Creole - ✔✔Language which started as a pidgin learned by children as 1st language
✔✔Style/register - ✔✔Situation dialect
School; friend; church; work; family
✔✔Slang - ✔✔Words and phrases used in casual speech often invested and spread by
close social groups
Yo
Wassup
Yolo
Yo momma
Twerking
✔✔Argot/jargon - ✔✔Words according to occupational group
ELL
ESL
LPAC
ARI/AMI
, ✔✔Taboo - ✔✔Bad words according to "polite society"
✔✔Euphemism - ✔✔Coverup for taboo word
✔✔Colloquialism - ✔✔Word or phrase commonly used in informal speech or writing
some people consider it slang, but slang is usually more of an in-group phenomenon
✔✔Language - ✔✔System of human communication
✔✔Linguistics - ✔✔Study of language as a system of human communication
✔✔Phonology - ✔✔Sound system of a language
✔✔Phonetics - ✔✔Study of speech sounds
✔✔Proxemics - ✔✔Physical distance btwn people talking to each other
✔✔Syntax - ✔✔Rules of sentence formation
✔✔Discourse - ✔✔Lang which has been produced as the result of an act of
communication
✔✔Form - ✔✔Phonological or gestural representation of a morpheme or word
✔✔Meaning - ✔✔Refers to the conceptual or semantic aspect of a word or sentence
that permits us to comprehend the message being conveyed. The linguistic sign has
both a form (its pronunciation) and a meaning
✔✔Lexicon - ✔✔Speaker's mental dictionary --- and speaker's knowledge about
morphemes and words
✔✔Morpheme - ✔✔Smallest unit of sound "boy" or "s" in cats
✔✔Morphology - ✔✔Study of structure of words; the rules of word formation
✔✔Root - ✔✔Can work in isolation, system, boy, cran
✔✔Stem - ✔✔Root morpheme combined with affix morpheme
✔✔Bound morpheme - ✔✔Morphemes that can only occur in words attached to other
morphemes; prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes, and some roots such as a cran in
cranberry
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔African American English - ✔✔Dialect of English spoken by some African Americans
✔✔Ebonics - ✔✔Alternative term for the various dialects of African American English
first used in 1997
✔✔Chicano English - ✔✔Dialect of English spoken b some bilingual Mexican
Americans in the southwest and California
✔✔Code-switching - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Major language used in an area here speakers of more than
one language love that permits communication and commerce among them
✔✔Pidgin - ✔✔Rule governed lang developed for communication among speakers of
mutually unintelligible languages, often based on one of those languages
Market language
✔✔Creole - ✔✔Language which started as a pidgin learned by children as 1st language
✔✔Style/register - ✔✔Situation dialect
School; friend; church; work; family
✔✔Slang - ✔✔Words and phrases used in casual speech often invested and spread by
close social groups
Yo
Wassup
Yolo
Yo momma
Twerking
✔✔Argot/jargon - ✔✔Words according to occupational group
ELL
ESL
LPAC
ARI/AMI
, ✔✔Taboo - ✔✔Bad words according to "polite society"
✔✔Euphemism - ✔✔Coverup for taboo word
✔✔Colloquialism - ✔✔Word or phrase commonly used in informal speech or writing
some people consider it slang, but slang is usually more of an in-group phenomenon
✔✔Language - ✔✔System of human communication
✔✔Linguistics - ✔✔Study of language as a system of human communication
✔✔Phonology - ✔✔Sound system of a language
✔✔Phonetics - ✔✔Study of speech sounds
✔✔Proxemics - ✔✔Physical distance btwn people talking to each other
✔✔Syntax - ✔✔Rules of sentence formation
✔✔Discourse - ✔✔Lang which has been produced as the result of an act of
communication
✔✔Form - ✔✔Phonological or gestural representation of a morpheme or word
✔✔Meaning - ✔✔Refers to the conceptual or semantic aspect of a word or sentence
that permits us to comprehend the message being conveyed. The linguistic sign has
both a form (its pronunciation) and a meaning
✔✔Lexicon - ✔✔Speaker's mental dictionary --- and speaker's knowledge about
morphemes and words
✔✔Morpheme - ✔✔Smallest unit of sound "boy" or "s" in cats
✔✔Morphology - ✔✔Study of structure of words; the rules of word formation
✔✔Root - ✔✔Can work in isolation, system, boy, cran
✔✔Stem - ✔✔Root morpheme combined with affix morpheme
✔✔Bound morpheme - ✔✔Morphemes that can only occur in words attached to other
morphemes; prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes, and some roots such as a cran in
cranberry
