CETP Exam Pre-Certification
Assessment Test with Answers 2025
What is a teflon injection into the vocal folds used for? - Used to improve
airway closure.
What is acculturation and assimilation? - Acculturation refers to the process by
which immigrants assume american cultural attributes.
Assimilation is the process of their incorporation into the cultural and social
networks of the host society.
Do all african americans speak AAE? - No
What are misconceptions with AAE? - It is substandard
It does not have a regular, predictable system
Use of AAE must be discontinued
Standardized tests can be used as an indicator of actual language knowledge
and skill
What are some biases against individuals with AAE in formal language tests? -
Grammatical judgement items (which sentence is correct)
Sentence repetition tasks
Grammatical closure tasks
Receptive grammatical tasks
Articulation tasks
,What are grammatical and syntactical characteristics of AAE? - Omission of
possessives "that the woman car"
Omission of noun plural "He got two box of apple"
Omission third person singular "She walk to school"
Omission to be forms "She a nice lady"
Present tense used regardless of other factors "You is smart"
Have omitted with present tense forms "I been here for two hours"
Past tense endings omitted "He live in california"
Past tense was used regardless "They was shopping"
Multiple negatives "We don't have no more"
Been used to indicate distant past "I been had the mumps"
Done to indicate that an action was started and completed "I done fixed the
stove"
Be is used as main verb "she be working"
Pronoun used to restate the subject "my brother, he surprise me"
Them substituted for those
Future tense is and are replaced by gonna "She gonna help us"
Place at at then end of where questions "Where is the store at?"
What are articulation and phonological characteristics of AAE? - /l/ is lessened
or omitted "coo'"
/r/ is lessened or omitted "muddah"
/f/ substituted for voiceless /th/ at end of word "teef"
/t/ substituted for /t/ at beginning of word "tink" for think
/d/ for /th/ "dis"
/v/ for /th/ at end of word "breave"
consonant cluster reduction
,differing syllable stress patterns "POlice" "JUly"
metathesis "axe" for "ask"
devoicing of final consonant
possible deletion of final consonant
i for e sub
b for v sub
diphthong reduction
n for ng "walkin"
What are articulation and phonological characteristics observed among spanish
speakers? - /t/ /d/ and /n/ may be dentalizied (tip of tongue placed against
teeth)
Final consonants devoiced
b/v substitution
ch/sh substitution
t for voiceless th and d for voiced th
schwa inserted before clusters
may omit sounds at end of words
/h/ silent in beginning of words
, trilled r
y for the dj sound. Like yulie for julie
possible lisp
may substitute eeee for ih (peeeg for pig)
What are some language differences observe among spanish speakers? -
Adjective comes after noun "the house green is big"
s is often omitted from plurals, possessives and regular third person "the baby
cry" "we have five plate"
past tense -ed is omitted
double negatives used
negative imperatives may be used "no touch hot stove"
no may be used as a verb "the kid no cross the street"
"more" before adjective, like in spanish "this cake is more big"
adverb follows verb "he drives very fast his motorcycle"
pronoun modifiers are used "this is the book of my sister"
Assessment Test with Answers 2025
What is a teflon injection into the vocal folds used for? - Used to improve
airway closure.
What is acculturation and assimilation? - Acculturation refers to the process by
which immigrants assume american cultural attributes.
Assimilation is the process of their incorporation into the cultural and social
networks of the host society.
Do all african americans speak AAE? - No
What are misconceptions with AAE? - It is substandard
It does not have a regular, predictable system
Use of AAE must be discontinued
Standardized tests can be used as an indicator of actual language knowledge
and skill
What are some biases against individuals with AAE in formal language tests? -
Grammatical judgement items (which sentence is correct)
Sentence repetition tasks
Grammatical closure tasks
Receptive grammatical tasks
Articulation tasks
,What are grammatical and syntactical characteristics of AAE? - Omission of
possessives "that the woman car"
Omission of noun plural "He got two box of apple"
Omission third person singular "She walk to school"
Omission to be forms "She a nice lady"
Present tense used regardless of other factors "You is smart"
Have omitted with present tense forms "I been here for two hours"
Past tense endings omitted "He live in california"
Past tense was used regardless "They was shopping"
Multiple negatives "We don't have no more"
Been used to indicate distant past "I been had the mumps"
Done to indicate that an action was started and completed "I done fixed the
stove"
Be is used as main verb "she be working"
Pronoun used to restate the subject "my brother, he surprise me"
Them substituted for those
Future tense is and are replaced by gonna "She gonna help us"
Place at at then end of where questions "Where is the store at?"
What are articulation and phonological characteristics of AAE? - /l/ is lessened
or omitted "coo'"
/r/ is lessened or omitted "muddah"
/f/ substituted for voiceless /th/ at end of word "teef"
/t/ substituted for /t/ at beginning of word "tink" for think
/d/ for /th/ "dis"
/v/ for /th/ at end of word "breave"
consonant cluster reduction
,differing syllable stress patterns "POlice" "JUly"
metathesis "axe" for "ask"
devoicing of final consonant
possible deletion of final consonant
i for e sub
b for v sub
diphthong reduction
n for ng "walkin"
What are articulation and phonological characteristics observed among spanish
speakers? - /t/ /d/ and /n/ may be dentalizied (tip of tongue placed against
teeth)
Final consonants devoiced
b/v substitution
ch/sh substitution
t for voiceless th and d for voiced th
schwa inserted before clusters
may omit sounds at end of words
/h/ silent in beginning of words
, trilled r
y for the dj sound. Like yulie for julie
possible lisp
may substitute eeee for ih (peeeg for pig)
What are some language differences observe among spanish speakers? -
Adjective comes after noun "the house green is big"
s is often omitted from plurals, possessives and regular third person "the baby
cry" "we have five plate"
past tense -ed is omitted
double negatives used
negative imperatives may be used "no touch hot stove"
no may be used as a verb "the kid no cross the street"
"more" before adjective, like in spanish "this cake is more big"
adverb follows verb "he drives very fast his motorcycle"
pronoun modifiers are used "this is the book of my sister"
