Language Myths 5&6

Question 1

Vowel markers

Answer 1

defined as a letter or digraph that marks the preceding vowel letter as a First Vowel Sound.

Question 2

Homographs

Answer 2

Words that have the same spelling, but different meanings and pronunciations.

Question 3

Language perceptions

Answer 3

carrying out various psychological operations such as isolating and segmenting words, phrases, and longer units, and attributing meaning to them

Question 4

Language implications

Answer 4

Implication or entailment is used in propositional logic and predicate logic to describe a relationship between two sentences or sets of sentences

Question 5

Homophones

Answer 5

Words that have the same pronunciation, but different meanings. The words are not spelled the same.

Question 6

Facilitators in speech

Answer 6

A Language Facilitator is an instructional assistant who has a primary responsibility for a student with communication needs related to their ability to access and/or use spoken language receptively and expressively

Question 7

Homonym

Answer 7

Words that have the same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings.

Question 8

Social context

Answer 8

includes the culture that the individual was educated or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact

Question 9

Informal interaction

Answer 9

casual communication between coworkers in the workplace.

Question 10

Gender distribution of talk

Answer 10

Men are much more likely to command and use personal space than women. Men often prefer face-to-face communication, with the opportunity to shake hands or pat someone’s shoulder. Women are usually comfortable speaking with someone side by side and are more comfortable being in close proximity with other women

Question 11

Conversational interaction

Answer 11

Interaction conducted in a dialogical way, by exchanging natural language messages

Question 12

Cultural transmission

Answer 12

Property of a communication system referring to the fact that at least some aspects of it are learned through interaction with other users of the system.

Question 13

Pragmatics

Answer 13

the study of the use of natural language in communication

Question 14

Syntax

Answer 14

the rules that pertain to the ways in which words can be combined to form sentences in a language.

Question 15

Semantics

Answer 15

the meaning of words and combinations of words in a language.

Question 16

Phonology

Answer 16

the branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds (including or excluding phonetics), within a language or between different languages.

Question 17

Spectogram

Answer 17

A visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time

Question 18

Phoneme

Answer 18

any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another

Question 19

Morphology

Answer 19

The study of word formation processes

Question 20

Constituents

Answer 20

an identifiable subpart of a sentence

Question 21

Syllabic consonants

Answer 21

a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in some pronunciations of the English words rhythm, button and bottle

Question 22

Vowel epenthesis

Answer 22

means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the beginning syllable or in the ending syllable or in-between two syllabic sounds in a word

Question 23

Syllabification

Answer 23

the division of words into syllables, either in speech or in writing

Question 24

Final devoicing

Answer 24

the expected voiced consonant becomes unvoiced at the end

Question 25

Neutralisation

Answer 25

the elimination of certain distinctive features of phonemes in certain environments