Which of the following describes the meaning of words and sentences in a particular language?

Important Information about Techniques

See Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria for important information about the usage of these informative techniques and how they relate to the normative WCAG 2.0 success criteria. The Applicability section explains the scope of the technique, and the presence of techniques for a specific technology does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to create content that meets WCAG 2.0.

The objective of this technique is to provide a definition for any word used in an unusual or restricted way.

A word is used in an unusual or restricted way when:

  • dictionaries give several definitions of the word but one specific definition must be used in order to understand the content;

  • a specific definition must be used in order to understand the content and dictionaries list that definition as rare, archaic, obsolete, etc.;

  • the author creates a new definition that must be used in order to understand the content.

This technique can also be used to provide definitions for jargon, that is, the specialized vocabulary used in a particular profession or technical field and understood by people in that field but not by people outside the field.

The technique can also be used to define idiomatic expressions. For example, speakers of a language who live in a particular region may use idiomatic expressions that are accepted by everyone in the region but not by people from other regions where the same language is spoken.

The word "technology" is widely used to cover everything from the stone tools used by early humans to contemporary digital devices such as cell phones. But in WCAG 2.0, the word technology is used in a more restricted way: it means a mechanism for encoding instructions to be rendered, played or executed by user agents, including markup languages, data formats, and programming languages used in producing and delivering Web content.

Some people say "spill the beans" when they mean "reveal a secret", e.g., "In the police station, Joe spilled the beans about the plot to kidnap the prime minister."

In Japanese, Kata-kana is used for adopted foreign words. If words are unfamiliar to users, provide the meaning or translation so that users can understand them.

アクセシビリティ(高齢者・障害者を含む全ての人が利用できること)は、Webサイトに不可欠である。

English translation: "Accessibility" (it can be accessed by all users including elderly people and people with disabilities) is an essential aspect of the Websites.

レイアウトテーブルとCSSの併用をハイブリッド(複合型)という。

English translation: Using both layout table and CSS is called "hybrid" (combination of multiple forms).

No resources available for this technique.

Procedure

For each word or phrase used in an unusual or restricted way:

  1. Check that a definition is provided for the word or phrase

Expected Results

  • Check #1 is true.

If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.

cognate

adjective

linguistics cognate words or languages have the same origin

contextual

adjective

connected with a particular context

disyllabic

adjective

disyllabic words have two syllables

figurative

adjective

linguistics if you use words in a figurative way, you use them not in their normal literal meaning but in a way that makes a description more interesting or impressive

figuratively

adverb

using words not in their normal literal meaning but in a way that makes a description more interesting or impressive

literally

adverb

in the most basic, obvious meanings of the words that are used

monosyllabic

adjective

linguistics a monosyllabic word has only one syllable

native

adjective

your native language or native tongue is the first language that you learn, usually in the country where you were born

old

adjective

used with the names of languages to refer to the form of the language that was used in the past

phatic

adjective

used for describing words or phrases that you use for social reasons, for example in order to be friendly, rather than in order to give information

pidgin

adjective

used for describing speech or language in which a foreign language is mixed with the speaker’s first language

polysemous

adjective

a polysemous word has more than one meaning

proverbial

adjective

used when you are describing something with an expression from a proverb

sesquipedalian

adjective

very formal used to describe a very long word with many syllables

syncretic

adjective

linguistics combining two or more inflections that were originally separate

synonymous

adjective

linguistics if two words are synonymous, they have the same meaning or almost the same meaning

unmarked

adjective

linguistics an unmarked word or phrase is generally used in normal English rather than being, for example, formal or informal

Is the repeating of sounds and syllables such as Bababa that typically begins at the age of 4 to 6 months?

Babbling and baby jargon – This is the use of repeated syllables over and over like “bababa,” but without specific meaning. It usually occurs between 6 and 9 months. Babbling turns into baby jargon, or “nonsense speech.”

Which of the following are shortcut strategies or guidelines that suggest but do not guarantee a solution to a problem?

Heuristics. A heuristic is a mental rule-of-thumb strategy that may or may not work in certain situations. Unlike algorithms, heuristics do not always guarantee a correct solution.

Do useful character of language in the ability of language to communicate even more meaning than is verbalized is known as?

pragmatics. The useful character of language and the ability of language to communicate even more meaning than is verbalized.

Which of the following is the smallest unit of language that carries meaning?

The Morpheme is the smallest unit of a language that can carry meaning.