NIC FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE TEST.
What does "NCIEC" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER National Consortium of Interpreter Education
Centers
What does "EIPA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment
A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are used under different
conditions within a community, often by the same speakers. Often one is viewed as "high" or "prestige",
and the other is "low" or "low prestige" (slang/wrong/etc) - CORRECT ANSWER Diglossia
The smallest units of language that distinguishes one word from another. In ASL this is comprised of 5
parameters: handshape, movement, location, palm orientation, and non-manual markers. - CORRECT
ANSWER Phoneme
What does "OVR" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
What does "DOE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Department of Education
What does "PSE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Pidgin Signed English
Another term for the contact language arising from English and ASL - CORRECT ANSWER Pidgin Signed
English (PSE)
What does "VR" stand for? (Not virtual reality:) - CORRECT ANSWER Vocational Rehabilitation
Lexical items that are borrowed from other countries are called? - CORRECT ANSWER Loan words
Refers to individuals who have no language skills in any language. - CORRECT ANSWER Minimal
Language Competency (MLC)
,The rhythm of a language including stress, inflection, intonation, pausing and phrasing that help
listeners determine meaning and predict what the speaker will say next. - CORRECT ANSWER Prosidy
Identify the difference in parameter between the signs "INSTITUTE" and "ALCOHOL" - CORRECT ANSWER
Handshape
The part of speech that describes an action, occurrence, or indicates a state of being. - CORRECT
ANSWER Verb
The part of speech that expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone. - CORRECT ANSWER
Interjection
What does "SC-L" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Special Certificate-Legal
What does "HVO" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Highly Visual Orientation
A morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can only appear as part of a larger word. - CORRECT
ANSWER Bound morpheme
Model of philosophy motivated by the attitude that deaf people are handicapped, limited, and incapable
of understanding or participating in the world. This model is characterized by paternalistic care-taking
behavior on the part of the interpreter. - CORRECT ANSWER The Helper Model or Philosophy
Model of philosophy: A rigid, robot-like approach where interpreters assume no responsibility for the
interaction or communication dynamics taking place between clients - CORRECT ANSWER The Machine
Model (The Conduit Model) or Philosphy
What does "NBDA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER National Black Deaf Association
The language in which the original message is conveyed - CORRECT ANSWER Source language
What does "VRS" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Video Relay Service
,What does "VRI" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Video Remote Interpreting
Name the 8 parts of speech - CORRECT ANSWER Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction,
preposition, interjection
What does "CDI" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Certified Deaf Interpreter
What does "LRE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Least Restrictive Environment
Model or philosophy based on the belief that effective interpretation requires cultural and linguistic
mediation in order to accomplish speaker goals and maintain dynamic equivalence. - CORRECT ANSWER
The Bilingual-Bicultural Model or Philosophy
Interpreting is what type of profession according to Dean and Pollard? - CORRECT ANSWER A practice
profession.
According to which specific law does a deaf person have the right to request an interpreter for their
driver's test? - CORRECT ANSWER ADA Title II: public entities and transportation
The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences - CORRECT ANSWER
Conjunction
What does "LOVE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Linguistics of Visual English
What does "QA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Quality Assurance
What does "QAST" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Quality Assessment State Test
The simplest word order in ASL sentences is? - CORRECT ANSWER Subject-Verb-Object
, What does "WFD" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER World Federation of the Deaf
This term is used to describe when a bilingual individual is using one language and then changes to
another language. - CORRECT ANSWER code-switching
When does code-switching occur? - CORRECT ANSWER When a speaker alternates between two or
more languages, or language varieties in the context of a single conversation.
The ability to supply missing/deleted words or concepts in order to understand/complete the sentence.
- CORRECT ANSWER Cloze skills
Free morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER a morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can stand alone
The study of the formation and inflection of words in ASL. It studies how morphemes (the smallest units
of meaning) are combined to form words from components - CORRECT ANSWER ASL morphology
The study of the formation and inflection of words. It studies how morphemes (the smallest units of
meaning) are combined to form words from components - CORRECT ANSWER Morphology
Numerical incorporation is an example of:
Cloze skills, Loan words, ASL morphology, Bound morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER ASL Morphology
The set of rules, principles and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a language. -
CORRECT ANSWER Syntax
The study of the patterns of articulatory features in a language and how they are organized in the mind
and used to convey meaning. - CORRECT ANSWER Phonology
What does "FCC" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Federal Communications Commission
What does "SSP" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Support Service Professional
What does "NCIEC" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER National Consortium of Interpreter Education
Centers
What does "EIPA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment
A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are used under different
conditions within a community, often by the same speakers. Often one is viewed as "high" or "prestige",
and the other is "low" or "low prestige" (slang/wrong/etc) - CORRECT ANSWER Diglossia
The smallest units of language that distinguishes one word from another. In ASL this is comprised of 5
parameters: handshape, movement, location, palm orientation, and non-manual markers. - CORRECT
ANSWER Phoneme
What does "OVR" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
What does "DOE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Department of Education
What does "PSE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Pidgin Signed English
Another term for the contact language arising from English and ASL - CORRECT ANSWER Pidgin Signed
English (PSE)
What does "VR" stand for? (Not virtual reality:) - CORRECT ANSWER Vocational Rehabilitation
Lexical items that are borrowed from other countries are called? - CORRECT ANSWER Loan words
Refers to individuals who have no language skills in any language. - CORRECT ANSWER Minimal
Language Competency (MLC)
,The rhythm of a language including stress, inflection, intonation, pausing and phrasing that help
listeners determine meaning and predict what the speaker will say next. - CORRECT ANSWER Prosidy
Identify the difference in parameter between the signs "INSTITUTE" and "ALCOHOL" - CORRECT ANSWER
Handshape
The part of speech that describes an action, occurrence, or indicates a state of being. - CORRECT
ANSWER Verb
The part of speech that expresses emotion and is capable of standing alone. - CORRECT ANSWER
Interjection
What does "SC-L" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Special Certificate-Legal
What does "HVO" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Highly Visual Orientation
A morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can only appear as part of a larger word. - CORRECT
ANSWER Bound morpheme
Model of philosophy motivated by the attitude that deaf people are handicapped, limited, and incapable
of understanding or participating in the world. This model is characterized by paternalistic care-taking
behavior on the part of the interpreter. - CORRECT ANSWER The Helper Model or Philosophy
Model of philosophy: A rigid, robot-like approach where interpreters assume no responsibility for the
interaction or communication dynamics taking place between clients - CORRECT ANSWER The Machine
Model (The Conduit Model) or Philosphy
What does "NBDA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER National Black Deaf Association
The language in which the original message is conveyed - CORRECT ANSWER Source language
What does "VRS" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Video Relay Service
,What does "VRI" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Video Remote Interpreting
Name the 8 parts of speech - CORRECT ANSWER Noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction,
preposition, interjection
What does "CDI" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Certified Deaf Interpreter
What does "LRE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Least Restrictive Environment
Model or philosophy based on the belief that effective interpretation requires cultural and linguistic
mediation in order to accomplish speaker goals and maintain dynamic equivalence. - CORRECT ANSWER
The Bilingual-Bicultural Model or Philosophy
Interpreting is what type of profession according to Dean and Pollard? - CORRECT ANSWER A practice
profession.
According to which specific law does a deaf person have the right to request an interpreter for their
driver's test? - CORRECT ANSWER ADA Title II: public entities and transportation
The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences - CORRECT ANSWER
Conjunction
What does "LOVE" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Linguistics of Visual English
What does "QA" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Quality Assurance
What does "QAST" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Quality Assessment State Test
The simplest word order in ASL sentences is? - CORRECT ANSWER Subject-Verb-Object
, What does "WFD" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER World Federation of the Deaf
This term is used to describe when a bilingual individual is using one language and then changes to
another language. - CORRECT ANSWER code-switching
When does code-switching occur? - CORRECT ANSWER When a speaker alternates between two or
more languages, or language varieties in the context of a single conversation.
The ability to supply missing/deleted words or concepts in order to understand/complete the sentence.
- CORRECT ANSWER Cloze skills
Free morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER a morpheme, the most basic unit of meaning, that can stand alone
The study of the formation and inflection of words in ASL. It studies how morphemes (the smallest units
of meaning) are combined to form words from components - CORRECT ANSWER ASL morphology
The study of the formation and inflection of words. It studies how morphemes (the smallest units of
meaning) are combined to form words from components - CORRECT ANSWER Morphology
Numerical incorporation is an example of:
Cloze skills, Loan words, ASL morphology, Bound morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER ASL Morphology
The set of rules, principles and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a language. -
CORRECT ANSWER Syntax
The study of the patterns of articulatory features in a language and how they are organized in the mind
and used to convey meaning. - CORRECT ANSWER Phonology
What does "FCC" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Federal Communications Commission
What does "SSP" stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER Support Service Professional
