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SLO1 WGU Questions and Answers

Semantics
Ans: Study of linguistics meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and
sentences

Pragmatics
Ans: The study of how context and situation affect meaning

Homonym
Ans: To, too, two

Homograph
Ans: Bear, bear spelled and pronounced the same

Metaphor
Ans: Non literal meaning

Idiom
Ans: Meaning unrelated to the meaning of its parts

Discourse
Ans: Linguistic unit composed of several sentences

Deixis
Ans: Most know context to understand


You go there.
She did that.


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Anaphora
Ans: Replacing a longer expression with a shorter one

Anomaly
Ans: Violation of semantic rules

Phonetic alphabet
Ans: Represent phonetics segments of speech


Cat - /k/ae/t/

Allomorph
Ans: Alternate phonetic forms of a morpheme


Dog - d>g
Dogs -dagz

Orthography
Ans: Written form of a language

Glottis
Ans: Opening between the vocal cords

Obstruent
Ans: Class of sounds consisting of nonnasal stops, fricatives, and
affricates

Sonorant
Ans: Sounds vowels, glides, liquids, nasal

Suprasegmental


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Ans: Prosodic features

Manner of articulation
Ans: Airstream is obstructed as it travels through the vocal tract

Place of articulation
Ans: Part of the vocal tract at which constriction occurs during the
production of speech sounds

Bilabial
Ans: Sounds made by bringing the lips together

Labiodental
Ans: Sounds made by touching the bottom lip to the upper teeth

Alveolar
Ans: Raising tongue to alveolar ridge

Palatal
Ans: Raising front part of tongue to the palate

Velar
Ans: Raising back of tongue to the soft palate or velum

Uvular
Ans: Raising back of the tongue to the uvula

Voiced
Ans: Sounds using voice

Voiceless
Ans: Sounds made with open and nonvibrating vocal cords

Oral
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