At what age do children learn the sounds r, th(voiced), and zh?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 3

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A child presents with velar assimilation at age 6. Is this atypical or typical? If atypical, when should this have been eliminated?

• this is typical; velar assimilation does not typically eliminate until age 7

• atypical; age of elimination should have been 5

• atypical; age of elimination should have been 3

• typical; age of elimination should have been 2

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Which of the following best explains the phonological process of nasal assimilation?

• a non-nasal sound is changed to a nasal sound due to the influence of neighboring nasal sounds.

  e.g. "nunny" for "bunny"

• incorporation of nasals into words that typically do not contain them.

  e.g. "nup" for "cup"

• replacement of nasals with other sounds, namely bilabials.

  e.g. "hobe" for "home"

• deletion/omission of nasal sounds in words. e.g. "wat" for "want"

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which of the following words is an example of the phonological process of fronting?

• saying "dalk" instead of "talk"

• saying "tar" instead of "car"

• saying "at" instead of "cat"

• saying "top" for "stop

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Which of the following is not one of the five parameters of language?

• pragmatics

• morphology

• articulation

• semantics

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Which of the following is the best example of coarticulation?

• saying "wanna" instead of "want a/to"

• saying "stunk" instead of "skunk"

• saying "pleak" instead of "please

• saying "pwoblem" instead of "problem

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Which is not likely to be examined in an oral-mech exam?

• tongue

• pharynx

• dentition/teeth

• vocal quality/resonance

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Phonology is...

• a rule-based system that governs articulation of specific sounds

• a rule-based system of identifying disorders

• the rule-based system of suprasegmental features that make up speech(rate, prosody, etc)

• a rule-based system that governs use and understanding of entire classes of sounds

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Which of the following is not a category of speech sound disorders?

• speech delay

• motor speech disorder

• speech errors

• phonological processes

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A phonemic inventory can be described as...

• a collection of all phonemes that a child says in specific contexts

• collection of decontextualized individual phones that a child can produce in isolation

• an approximation of a child's phonemic awareness

• all of the phones that can be seen in a particular language

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