01
True or false
1 point
True or false: English spelling is a direct map of speech sounds.
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02
Written response
1 point
What field describes the physical properties of speech sounds, including their articulation, acoustic signal, and perception?
03
Fill in the blank
1 point
English spelling may reflect historical conventions as well as sound and .
04
Choose one
1 point
An English speaker pronounces /p/ with aspiration in pin but without aspiration after /s/ in spin. How should these pronunciations be analyzed?
- A
They are different phonemes because their pronunciations differ.
- B
They are allophones of the same phoneme because the difference is context-dependent and does not distinguish words here.
- C
They are separate morphemes because they occur in different words.
- D
They are spellings that represent different historical conventions.
05
Fill in the blank
1 point
The change from walk to walked marks past tense without usually creating a new dictionary word. This is an example of .
06
Choose all
1 point
Select all statements supported about sound patterns larger than individual consonants and vowels.
- A
Syllables are among the sound-pattern units larger than individual consonants and vowels.
- B
Stress is one of the larger sound patterns that can contribute to language interpretation.
- C
These larger patterns are irrelevant to locating word boundaries.
- D
Intonation is another larger sound pattern that can help distinguish meanings.
07
Choose all
1 point
Select all kinds of information that may be associated with a familiar word in a literate speaker's mental lexicon.
- A
A word's sound or sign form and its meaning.
- B
Only a single definition, with no information about grammatical category.
- C
Information about grammatical category and morphological structure.
- D
Patterns of use and, for literate speakers, potentially spelling information.
08
Written response
1 point
What term names one of the different spoken forms of a morpheme, such as the differently pronounced English plural endings in cats, dogs, and buses?
09
Choose one
1 point
A listener hears bank in a sentence but cannot tell which meaning is intended from the word alone. What helps resolve the ambiguity?
- A
Its sound form alone always identifies a single meaning.
- B
Its meaning is determined only by its spelling.
- C
Surrounding words and the situation help identify the intended meaning.
- D
It cannot have more than one meaning in a speaker's lexicon.
10
True or false
1 point
True or false: Comprehension and production are not merely exact reverses of one another; context, expectations, and stored forms can affect them differently.
- A
True
- B
False
11
Choose one
1 point
Which change is an example of derivation rather than inflection?
- A
The change from walk to walked to mark past tense.
- B
The change from book to books to mark plural.
- C
The change from teach to teacher to form a related word.
- D
The different pronunciations of the plural ending in cats and dogs.
12
Choose one
1 point
Why might a speaker need specific learned information to produce went rather than simply applying a regular past-tense pattern to go?
- A
It is built by adding the regular past-tense suffix to go.
- B
It may require specific learned information because it is an irregular form.
- C
It is an allophone of the word go.
- D
It is a plural form created by adding a bound plural suffix.
13
Choose one
1 point
A reader encounters a complex word they have never seen before, but recognizes its root and affix. What is a reasonable way to interpret it?
- A
The word cannot be understood unless its entire form has been memorized.
- B
The word's meaning must be unrelated to its parts.
- C
Known parts and word-formation patterns may help the reader infer its meaning.
- D
The reader must treat each part as a separate sentence.
14
Open ended
1 point
Explain how a listener can use sound, word recognition, morphology, and context to understand the sentence The dogs barked. Include the grammatical information conveyed by the endings.
15
Choose one
1 point
A researcher measures the acoustic properties of speech sounds. Which area of linguistics is most directly concerned with this work?
- A
Phonology
- B
Phonetics
- C
Morphology
- D
The mental lexicon
16
Choose one
1 point
English /p/ is typically aspirated at the beginning of pin but not after /s/ in spin. English listeners generally treat these pronunciations as instances of the same sound category. What best describes their relationship?
- A
They are separate phonemes because their pronunciations differ physically.
- B
They are morphemes because they occur in different words.
- C
They are allophones because they are non-contrastive realizations of one sound category.
- D
They are inflections because they mark grammatical information.
17
Choose one
1 point
How many morphemes are in the word books, and what are they?
- A
Two: book and -s
- B
One: books is a single indivisible unit
- C
Three: b, oo, and ks
- D
Four: one for each written letter
18
Written response
1 point
What term names one of the different spoken forms of a morpheme, such as a form of the English plural ending heard in cats, dogs, or buses?
19
Written response
1 point
What word-formation process creates kindness from kind, forming a related word that can have a different grammatical category?
20
True or false
1 point
If replacing one sound in a word creates a different word, that sound difference can indicate a phonemic contrast. True or false?
- A
True
- B
False
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