Category: Writing

Which one of the following refers to a child’s conscious
awareness of sounds within his or her native language?
a. morphophonology
b. metaphonology
c. phonetic coding
d. phonotactics

Which of the following is not a syllable structure process?
a. cluster reduction
b. final consonant deletion
c. gliding
d. reduplication

What syllable shapes predominate the first50-word stage of
language development?
a. CV, VC, and CVC
b. CVCC
c. CCVC
d. CVCVC

Canonical babbling includes
a. reduplicated babbling
b. nonreduplicated babbling
c. reflexive babbling
d. a and b e. none of the above

If a child produces [tɑ] for stop, then which of the
following constraints is violated?
a. *COMPLEX
b. *CODA
c. *FRICATIVES
d. MAX

According to metrical phonology, the word potato has which
one of the following stress patterns?
a. weak branching to “po,” strong branching to “tato”;
further divided into strong branching on “ta,” weak branching on “to”
b. strong branching on “po,” weak branching to “tato”; further
divided into strong branching on “ta,” weak branching on “to”
c. weak branching to “po,” strong branching to “tato”;
further divided into weak bra

Which one of the following terms is not representative of
autosegmental phonology?
a. tiers are separable and independent levels
b. certain segments are autonomous and do not have a
one-for-one match on another level
c. strong and weak stresses are emphasized
d. feature spreading is also a portion of this concept

Which one of the following is true about
nonlinear/multilinear phonologies?
a. segments are governed by more complex linguistic
dimensions such as stress
b. emphasis is on the sequential arrangement of sound
segments
c. all sound segments have equal value
d. no one sound segment has control over the other units