SPANISH CSET SUBTEST 1 EXAM UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ phonemes.
Answer: The smallest unit of sound;may cause change in meaning
but does not have meaning on its own
"bake" v. "brake"
/r/
◉ morphology.
Answer: The study of the forms of words
◉ morpheme.
Answer: The smallest meaningful unit of lanugage;
A series of pehnomes with special meaning;
◉ free morpheme.
Answer: can appear on its own i.e. "eat" "water"
◉ bound morpheme.
,Answer: must be attached to something else in order to make sense
prefixes, suffixes or other affixes i.e s in "cats" , re in "redo" , able in
"inbreakable"
◉ inflectional (affixes in morphology).
Answer: a suffix that is added to a word to assign a grammatical
function;
never changes the grammtical category
old-older
(adj)
◉ derivational (morpheme).
Answer: An affix that is added to a word to create a new word or
form of a word ;
modern - modernise
nation-national
◉ Lexicon.
Answer: the vocabulary of a language
◉ lexemes.
Answer: a set of words that would be included under one entry in
the dctionary
,◉ Syntax.
Answer: a set of rules for constructing full sentences out of words
phrases;
word order changes meaning
◉ semantics.
Answer: the literal meaning of words, sentences and phrases
◉ pragmatics.
Answer: the study of the use of language; deals with intentions
behing utterances
◉ productive rule of language.
Answer: the amount a native speaker uses a particular grammatical
or syntactical process esp in word formation; a rule that works for
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
◉ unniversal grammar.
, Answer: a linguistic theory which argues that the ability to learn
language is innate, distinctly human and distinct from other aspects
of human cognition; that languge is hard wired into the brain
Noam Chomsky
◉ descriptive grammar.
Answer: a set of rules about language based on how it is actually
used; there is no right or wrong language; "he goes" means "he said"
represents the unconscious knowledge of language
◉ prescriptive grammar.
Answer: the structure of lanuage as it should be used; grammtically
correct
◉ surface v. deep structure.
Answer: refers to the different levels that information goes through
in language production.
◉ deep structure (language).
Answer: the information that exists in the mind of the speaker as
more or less an abstract representation
◉ surface structure (laguage).
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ phonemes.
Answer: The smallest unit of sound;may cause change in meaning
but does not have meaning on its own
"bake" v. "brake"
/r/
◉ morphology.
Answer: The study of the forms of words
◉ morpheme.
Answer: The smallest meaningful unit of lanugage;
A series of pehnomes with special meaning;
◉ free morpheme.
Answer: can appear on its own i.e. "eat" "water"
◉ bound morpheme.
,Answer: must be attached to something else in order to make sense
prefixes, suffixes or other affixes i.e s in "cats" , re in "redo" , able in
"inbreakable"
◉ inflectional (affixes in morphology).
Answer: a suffix that is added to a word to assign a grammatical
function;
never changes the grammtical category
old-older
(adj)
◉ derivational (morpheme).
Answer: An affix that is added to a word to create a new word or
form of a word ;
modern - modernise
nation-national
◉ Lexicon.
Answer: the vocabulary of a language
◉ lexemes.
Answer: a set of words that would be included under one entry in
the dctionary
,◉ Syntax.
Answer: a set of rules for constructing full sentences out of words
phrases;
word order changes meaning
◉ semantics.
Answer: the literal meaning of words, sentences and phrases
◉ pragmatics.
Answer: the study of the use of language; deals with intentions
behing utterances
◉ productive rule of language.
Answer: the amount a native speaker uses a particular grammatical
or syntactical process esp in word formation; a rule that works for
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
◉ unniversal grammar.
, Answer: a linguistic theory which argues that the ability to learn
language is innate, distinctly human and distinct from other aspects
of human cognition; that languge is hard wired into the brain
Noam Chomsky
◉ descriptive grammar.
Answer: a set of rules about language based on how it is actually
used; there is no right or wrong language; "he goes" means "he said"
represents the unconscious knowledge of language
◉ prescriptive grammar.
Answer: the structure of lanuage as it should be used; grammtically
correct
◉ surface v. deep structure.
Answer: refers to the different levels that information goes through
in language production.
◉ deep structure (language).
Answer: the information that exists in the mind of the speaker as
more or less an abstract representation
◉ surface structure (laguage).
