SLP PRAXIS PRACTICE Question and
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• The influence of one phoneme upon another in production and perception wherein two
different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds -
✓✓Coarticulation
• _________ are produced when the dorsum of the tongue contracts the velum.
Describing consonants this way is according to place -✓✓Linguavelrs; Place
• The fundamental frequency or first harmonic is know as -✓✓Lowest frequency of a
periodic wave
• In _____________ speech sounds are modified due to the influence of adjacent
sounds -✓✓Assimilation
• Consonants can be described according to -✓✓Place, voice, manner
• ___________ are produced by lowering the velum keeping the VP port open -
✓✓Nasals
• ____________ are movements of particles in a medium containing expansions and
contractions of molecules -✓✓Sound Waves
• ____________ an electronic instrument that graphically records the changing intensity
levels of the frequency components in a complex sound wave -✓✓Sound Spectrograph
• A young child who says "up" when someone picks up a ball is using the relation of -
✓✓Locative action
• What age does a child begin to use reduplicated babbling? -✓✓4-6 months
• A child says "jump [on] bed". This is an example of what type of semantic relation? -
✓✓Action + Locative
• First grammatical morpheme in Brown's 14? -✓✓Present Progressive -ing
• When do most children use "all gone" to express emerging negation? -✓✓Between 1-
2 years of age
, • At what age do children have an average MLU of 6.0 - 8.0? -✓✓5-6 years
• Which language development theory states that language develops because people
are motivated to interact socially with others around them? -✓✓Social Interactionism
Theory
• Proponents of the ______________ theory are mostly concerned with cognitive
functioning, not cognitive structures or concepts. -✓✓Information processing
• According to __________ theory, language acquisition is made possible by cognition
and general intellectual processing -✓✓Cognitive theory
• Skinner is associated with what theory? -✓✓Behavioralist or behavioral
• According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development a 0-2 year old child is is the
___________ period. -✓✓Sensorimotor
Hint: Young children are discovering their environment with there senses
• The English language has how many speech sounds that are classified as consonants
or vowels? -✓✓46
• When a child produces a posteriorly placed consonant instead of an anteriorly placed
consonant they are using what phonological process? -✓✓Backing
• General factors related to SSD include: -✓✓Gender, IQ, birth order, sib status,
socioeconomic status, lang development & academic performance, Auditory
discrimination skills
• "Hallmark" of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) -✓✓Inconsistent errors
• Children with mild hearing loss due to fluid/infections my exhibit the following -
✓✓Final consonant deletion, stridency, fronting
• __________ treatment activities include sound blending, rhyming, and alliteration -
✓✓Phonological awareness
• An important structure adjacent to the brainstem that contains the hypothalamus and
thalamus is the _____________ -✓✓Diencephalon
• The corpus striatum is composed of 3 nuclear masses which are the -✓✓-Globus
pallidus
-Caudate nucleus
-Putamen
Answer 2026 | Comprehensive Study
Pack with Detailed Rationales | A+
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• The influence of one phoneme upon another in production and perception wherein two
different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds -
✓✓Coarticulation
• _________ are produced when the dorsum of the tongue contracts the velum.
Describing consonants this way is according to place -✓✓Linguavelrs; Place
• The fundamental frequency or first harmonic is know as -✓✓Lowest frequency of a
periodic wave
• In _____________ speech sounds are modified due to the influence of adjacent
sounds -✓✓Assimilation
• Consonants can be described according to -✓✓Place, voice, manner
• ___________ are produced by lowering the velum keeping the VP port open -
✓✓Nasals
• ____________ are movements of particles in a medium containing expansions and
contractions of molecules -✓✓Sound Waves
• ____________ an electronic instrument that graphically records the changing intensity
levels of the frequency components in a complex sound wave -✓✓Sound Spectrograph
• A young child who says "up" when someone picks up a ball is using the relation of -
✓✓Locative action
• What age does a child begin to use reduplicated babbling? -✓✓4-6 months
• A child says "jump [on] bed". This is an example of what type of semantic relation? -
✓✓Action + Locative
• First grammatical morpheme in Brown's 14? -✓✓Present Progressive -ing
• When do most children use "all gone" to express emerging negation? -✓✓Between 1-
2 years of age
, • At what age do children have an average MLU of 6.0 - 8.0? -✓✓5-6 years
• Which language development theory states that language develops because people
are motivated to interact socially with others around them? -✓✓Social Interactionism
Theory
• Proponents of the ______________ theory are mostly concerned with cognitive
functioning, not cognitive structures or concepts. -✓✓Information processing
• According to __________ theory, language acquisition is made possible by cognition
and general intellectual processing -✓✓Cognitive theory
• Skinner is associated with what theory? -✓✓Behavioralist or behavioral
• According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development a 0-2 year old child is is the
___________ period. -✓✓Sensorimotor
Hint: Young children are discovering their environment with there senses
• The English language has how many speech sounds that are classified as consonants
or vowels? -✓✓46
• When a child produces a posteriorly placed consonant instead of an anteriorly placed
consonant they are using what phonological process? -✓✓Backing
• General factors related to SSD include: -✓✓Gender, IQ, birth order, sib status,
socioeconomic status, lang development & academic performance, Auditory
discrimination skills
• "Hallmark" of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) -✓✓Inconsistent errors
• Children with mild hearing loss due to fluid/infections my exhibit the following -
✓✓Final consonant deletion, stridency, fronting
• __________ treatment activities include sound blending, rhyming, and alliteration -
✓✓Phonological awareness
• An important structure adjacent to the brainstem that contains the hypothalamus and
thalamus is the _____________ -✓✓Diencephalon
• The corpus striatum is composed of 3 nuclear masses which are the -✓✓-Globus
pallidus
-Caudate nucleus
-Putamen
