6/22/25, 5:18 AM Spanish CSET Subtest 1
Arts and Humanities English Linguistics
Spanish CSET Subtest 1\\(2025) (TESTING ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS) AND VERIFIED ANSWERS (MULTIPLE CHOICES)
||A+ GRADED |100% CORRECT!!
pragmatics the study of the use of language; deals with intentions behing
utterances
the amount a native speaker uses a particular grammatical or
syntactical process esp in word formation; a rule that works for
productive rule of language more than 2 words; the limitless ability to use lanuage to say new
things;
when we make new words we pply more productive rules i.e.
adding -ed to word ending
a linguistic theory which argues that the ability to learn language
is innate, distinctly human and distinct from other aspects of
unniversal grammar human cognition; that languge is hard
wired into the brain Noam Chomsky
a set of rules about language based on how it is actually used;
descriptive grammar there is no right or wrong language; "he goes" means "he said"
represents the unconscious knowledge of language
Phonolgy The branch of linguistics that deals with sytems of sounds.
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,6/21/25, 10:27 PM
The smallest unit of sound;may cause change in
meaning but does not have meaning on its own
phonemes "bake" v. "brake"
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morphology The study of the forms of words
The smallest meaningful
morpheme
unit of lanugage; A series of
pehnomes with special
meaning;
free morpheme can appear on its own i.e. "eat" "water"
must be attached to something else in order to make
bound morpheme
sense prefixes, suffixes or other affixes i.e s in "cats"
, re in "redo" , able in "inbreakable"
a suffix that is added to a word to assign a
grammatical function; never changes the
inflectional (affixes in
morphology) grammtical category
old-older
(adj)
An affix that is added to a word to create a new word
derivational (morpheme) or form of a word ; modern - modernise
nation-national
Lexicon the vocabulary of a language
lexemes a set of words that would be included under one entry in the
dctionary
a set of rules for constructing full sentences
Syntax
out of words phrases; word order changes
meaning
semantics the literal meaning of words, sentences and phrases
prescriptive grammar the structure of lanuage as it should be used; grammtically
correct
surface v. deep structure refers to the different levels that information goes through in
language production.
the information that exists in the mind of the speaker as
deep structure (language)
more or less an abstract representation
surface structure (laguage) expressing information linguistically by producing
sentences/utterances
linguistic rules must be learned to get from deep structure to suface structure
language
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, 6/21/25, 10:27 PM
a process starting early in life, infants start without
language development
language yet by 10 months they can distinguish speech
sounds and engage in babbling.
receptive (in language dev) understanding what is said to you;comprehension
expressive ( Lang Dev.) the ability to use vocabulary to put together senteces to epress
yourself
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Arts and Humanities English Linguistics
Spanish CSET Subtest 1\\(2025) (TESTING ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS) AND VERIFIED ANSWERS (MULTIPLE CHOICES)
||A+ GRADED |100% CORRECT!!
pragmatics the study of the use of language; deals with intentions behing
utterances
the amount a native speaker uses a particular grammatical or
syntactical process esp in word formation; a rule that works for
productive rule of language more than 2 words; the limitless ability to use lanuage to say new
things;
when we make new words we pply more productive rules i.e.
adding -ed to word ending
a linguistic theory which argues that the ability to learn language
is innate, distinctly human and distinct from other aspects of
unniversal grammar human cognition; that languge is hard
wired into the brain Noam Chomsky
a set of rules about language based on how it is actually used;
descriptive grammar there is no right or wrong language; "he goes" means "he said"
represents the unconscious knowledge of language
Phonolgy The branch of linguistics that deals with sytems of sounds.
1/1
7
,6/21/25, 10:27 PM
The smallest unit of sound;may cause change in
meaning but does not have meaning on its own
phonemes "bake" v. "brake"
/r/
morphology The study of the forms of words
The smallest meaningful
morpheme
unit of lanugage; A series of
pehnomes with special
meaning;
free morpheme can appear on its own i.e. "eat" "water"
must be attached to something else in order to make
bound morpheme
sense prefixes, suffixes or other affixes i.e s in "cats"
, re in "redo" , able in "inbreakable"
a suffix that is added to a word to assign a
grammatical function; never changes the
inflectional (affixes in
morphology) grammtical category
old-older
(adj)
An affix that is added to a word to create a new word
derivational (morpheme) or form of a word ; modern - modernise
nation-national
Lexicon the vocabulary of a language
lexemes a set of words that would be included under one entry in the
dctionary
a set of rules for constructing full sentences
Syntax
out of words phrases; word order changes
meaning
semantics the literal meaning of words, sentences and phrases
prescriptive grammar the structure of lanuage as it should be used; grammtically
correct
surface v. deep structure refers to the different levels that information goes through in
language production.
the information that exists in the mind of the speaker as
deep structure (language)
more or less an abstract representation
surface structure (laguage) expressing information linguistically by producing
sentences/utterances
linguistic rules must be learned to get from deep structure to suface structure
language
2/17
, 6/21/25, 10:27 PM
a process starting early in life, infants start without
language development
language yet by 10 months they can distinguish speech
sounds and engage in babbling.
receptive (in language dev) understanding what is said to you;comprehension
expressive ( Lang Dev.) the ability to use vocabulary to put together senteces to epress
yourself
3/17
