GACE Unit 1

Question 1

dialect

Answer 1

language of a region

Question 2

code switching

Answer 2

mixing 2 languages

Question 3

transcription

Answer 3

visually represent sound

Question 4

pidgin

Answer 4

Grammatically simplified, made of 2 languages

Question 5

elision

Answer 5

sounds are omitted from a word (mac-and-cheese —->mac’n’cheese)

Question 6

voised sound

Answer 6

vibrate vocal cords

Question 7

voiceless sound

Answer 7

does not vibrate the vocal cords

Question 8

semantics

Answer 8

meaning of words

Question 9

transculturation

Answer 9

individual living two cultures

Question 10

acculturation

Answer 10

individual accepts a new culture but losing the first one

Question 11

morpheme

Answer 11

smallest unit of language with meaning

Question 12

morphology

Answer 12

study of use of morphemes

Question 13

cognitive academic language proficiency

Answer 13

(CALP) language needed for academic work or study; critical thinking

Question 14

Basic interpersonal communication skills

Answer 14

(BISK) social language student uses every day

Question 15

metathesis

Answer 15

sounds are rearranged in a word (iron —>pronounced iern)

Question 16

(negative) interference

Answer 16

language learner incorrectly apply rules from their native language to the rules of the language they are learning

Question 17

assimilation

Answer 17

when speech sound changes due to the influence of nearby words

Question 18

epenthesis

Answer 18

inserting an additional sound to the middle of a word

Question 19

Diphthong

Answer 19

sound made when a vowel sound blends into another vowel sound in a syllable (ou —> loud)

Question 20

voicing

Answer 20

a voiceless consonant gains its voice because of nearby sounds

Question 21

bound morpheme

Answer 21

must be attached to a word to have meaning (player -er)

Question 22

free morpheme

Answer 22

can stand alone (play)

Question 23

connotation

Answer 23

emotions put behind words (idioms–native speaker would understand

Question 24

denotation

Answer 24

dictionary definitions

Question 25

progmatics

Answer 25

examines the meaning of context (Really?!?)

Question 26

syntax

Answer 26

order of words arranged to have meaning

Question 27

phonology

Answer 27

study physical properties of speech sound

Question 28

phonetics

Answer 28

study of production of sound in speech (how sounds are organized and used)

Question 29

determiners

Answer 29

a, an, the---> come before a noun

Question 30

appositive phrase

Answer 30

follow noun it describes; separated with commas (My dad, a clockmaker, loved antiques)

Question 31

gerund

Answer 31

noun ending in -ing makes it a verb

Question 32

participal phrase

Answer 32

phrase acts as an adjetive