SLO1 WGU EXAM 2023 WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Semantics - ANSWER Study of linguistics meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences Pragmatics - ANSWER The study of how context and situation affect meaning Homonym - ANSWER To, too, two Homograph - ANSWER Bear, bear spelled and pronounced the same Metaphor - ANSWER Non literal meaning Idiom - ANSWER Meaning unrelated to the meaning of its parts Discourse - ANSWER Linguistic unit composed of several sentences Deixis - ANSWER Most know context to understand You go there. She did that. Anaphora - ANSWER Replacing a longer expression with a shorter one Anomaly - ANSWER Violation of semantic rules Phonetic alphabet - ANSWER Represent phonetics segments of speech Cat - /k/ae/t/ Allomorph - ANSWER Alternate phonetic forms of a morpheme Dog - d>g Dogs -dagz Orthography - ANSWER Written form of a language Glottis - ANSWER Opening between the vocal cords Obstruent - ANSWER Class of sounds consisting of nonnasal stops, fricatives, and affricates Sonorant - ANSWER Sounds vowels, glides, liquids, nasal Suprasegmental - ANSWER Prosodic features Manner of articulation - ANSWER Airstream is obstructed as it travels through the vocal tract Place of articulation - ANSWER Part of the vocal tract at which constriction occurs during the production of speech sounds Bilabial - ANSWER Sounds made by bringing the lips together Labiodental - ANSWER Sounds made by touching the bottom lip to the upper teeth Alveolar - ANSWER Raising tongue to alveolar ridge Palatal - ANSWER Raising front part of tongue to the palate Velar - ANSWER Raising back of tongue to the soft palate or velum Uvular - ANSWER Raising back of the tongue to the uvula Voiced - ANSWER Sounds using voice Voiceless - ANSWER Sounds made with open and nonvibrating vocal cords Oral - ANSWER Air escaping through mouth Nasal - ANSWER Air through nose Overgeneralization - ANSWER When Lang learners apply certain rule to situations where the rule doesn't work Cutted, eated, runned LAD - ANSWER Language acquisition device/universal grammar: device in brain which is where language is acquired Critical period hypothesis - ANSWER Lenneberg: there is a window of opportunity for people to acquire a first language Caretaker talk - ANSWER Modified talk used by parents and other caretakers when talking to young children. Esso baby Behaviorism - ANSWER In regards to lang acquisition, language learning is a matter of imitation and habit formation Innatism - ANSWER Chomsky: children are biologically programmed for language Interactionism - ANSWER Language develops as a result of the complex interplay between the uniquely human characteristic of the child and the environment in which the child develops Foreigner talk - ANSWER Modified language used by native speakers of a language when speaking to a nonnative speaker Modified input - ANSWER Changing language to make it more understandable for one's conversation partner Contrastive analysis hypothesis - ANSWER Linked to behaviorism because they believe that errors in L2 come from l1 interference Krashen's five hypothesis - ANSWER Acquisition learning Monitor Natural order Input Affective Holophrastic - ANSWER Stage of child language acquisition where one word = one sentence Telegraphic - ANSWER Utterances of children after the two-word stage when any grammatical morphemes are omitted Dialect - ANSWER Language variety used by a particular group of speakers
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