ALTA Certification Review Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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Course
ALTA CALP
Institution
ALTA CALP
Vowel
A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a
relatively open vocal tract. A, E, I, O, U
Consonant
One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is
constricted or obstructed by the lips, tongue or teeth during articulation...
ALTA Certification Review Questions and
Correct Answers the Latest Update
Vowel
✓ A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a
relatively open vocal tract. A, E, I, O, U
Consonant
✓ One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is
constricted or obstructed by the lips, tongue or teeth during articulation.
Accent
✓ Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase
or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder, longer, and/or in a higher tone.
The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Syllable
✓ a spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include
consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by
one impulse of voice.
Open Syllable
✓ A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor, freedom)
Closed Syllable
✓ A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
✓ A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Derivative
✓ A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Affix
✓ A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or
root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different
that the base word or root.
Prefix
✓ An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Suffix
✓ A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different
form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense, number, person and
comparatives.
Macron
✓ The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary
notation that indicates a long sound.
✓ The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary
symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one
consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Tilde
✓ A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to
indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding
words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r
combination is respelled in the dictionary sound picture, the symbol (er) is used
Cedilla
✓ The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation, as
opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the
letters e, i, or y (the softeners), to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) sound
eg mice.
Digraph
✓ Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
✓ Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Vowel Digraph
✓ To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Trigraph
✓ Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
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