SLP Praxis - Practice Questions
A _____________ may or may not be a speech sound; the term refers generally to any sounds that can be produced by the vocal tract - Phone
The influence of one phoneme upon another in
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SLP Praxis - Practice Questions
A _____________ may or may not be a speech sound; the term refers generally to any sounds that can be produced by the vocal tract - Phone
The influence of one phoneme upon another in production and perception wherein two different articulators move simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds - Coarticulation
_________ are produced when the dorsum of the tongue contracts the velum. Describing consonants this way is according to place - Languageless; Place
The fundamental frequency or first harmonic is known as - Lowest frequency of a periodic wave
In _____________ speech sounds are modified due to the influence of adjacent sounds - Assimilation
Consonants can be described according to - Place, voice, manner
___________ are produced by lowering the velum keeping the VP port open - Nasals
____________ are movements of particles in a medium containing expansions and contractions of molecules - Sound Waves
____________ an electronic instrument that graphically records the changing intensity levels of the frequency components in a complex sound wave - Sound Spectrograph
A young child who says "up" when someone picks up a ball is using the relation of - Locative action
What age does a child begin to use reduplicated babbling? - 4-6 months
A child says "jump [on] bed". This is an example of what type of semantic relation? - Action + Locative
First grammatical morpheme in Brown's 14? - Present Progressive -ing
When do most children use "all gone" to express emerging negation? - Between 1-2 years of age
At what age do children have an average MLU of 6.0 - 8.0? - 5-6 years
Which language development theory states that language develops because people are motivated to interact socially with others around them? - Social Interactionism Theory
Proponents of the ______________ theory are mostly concerned with cognitive functioning, not cognitive structures or concepts. - Information processing
According to __________ theory, language acquisition is made possible by cognition and general intellectual processing - Cognitive theory
Skinner is associated with what theory? - Behavioralist or behavioral
According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development a 0–2-year-old child is is the ___________ period. - Sensorimotor
Hint: Young children are discovering their environment with there senses
The English language has how many speech sounds that are classified as consonants or vowels? - 46
When a child produces a posteriorly placed consonant instead of an anteriorly placed consonant, they are using what phonological process? - Backing
General factors related to SSD include: - Gender, IQ, birth order, sib status, socioeconomic status, lang development & academic performance, Auditory discrimination skills
"Hallmark" of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) - Inconsistent errors
Children with mild hearing loss due to fluid/infections my exhibit the following - Final consonant deletion, stridency, fronting
__________ treatment activities include sound blending, rhyming, and alliteration - Phonological awareness
An important structure adjacent to the brainstem that contains the hypothalamus and thalamus is the _____________ - Diencephalon
The corpus striatum is composed of 3 nuclear masses which are the - -Globus pallidus
-Caudate nucleus
-Putamen
These separate the laryngeal vestibule from the pharynx and help preserve the airway - Aryepiglottic Folds
The cranial nerve that innervates the larynx and also innervates the elevator veil palatini, palatoglossus and palatopharyngeal muscles is - Cranial nerve X, the vague nerve
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