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15 Cards in this Set
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Semantics |
Focuses on what words, sentences and texts mean. |
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Semantics: Etymology
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helps us understand the meaning of words by tracing their history and origins and by studying how their use has changed over time. |
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Semantics: Denotation |
the literal, or dictionary meaing of a word. |
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Semantics: Connotation |
refers to the subjective meaning of a word or phrase. Could be influenced by emotion and culture. |
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Semantics: Context |
readers and listeners must locate words in context in order to understand their meaning. |
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Pragmatics |
studies how context helps us decipher the meaning of words.
Semantics and Pragmatics govern meaning.
You can tell someone to "close the door" with a smile or frown and that context will signal a meaning to the other person. |
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Phonology |
the study of a language's sound system and how sounds convey meaning
It finds meaning in the smalles units of sound called phonemes. |
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Phoneme |
a sound or group of sounds. Help distinguish differences in the meaning of words.
Ex: the words ball and hall mean different things because the phonemes /b/ and /h/ signal they are two different words. |
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Phonological Awareness |
refers to the understanding that words are built upon sounds and that sounds can be combined to form words.
Can be promoted through using rhyming, segmenting and blending |
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Phonological Awareness: Rhyming |
Listening to rhymes helps children identify sounds and common word patterns.
Learn to hear similarities and differences in word sounds. |
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Phonological Awareness: Segmenting |
Breaking down a word into separate sounds helps children divide words into phonemes |
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Phonological Awareness: Blending |
Once children learn to segment words, they can then recombine the individual phonemes into smooth-flowing words. |
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Morphology |
the study of morphemes, which are the smallest units of meaning in a language.
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Morphology: Morphemes |
Smallest units of meaning in a language.
May or may not stand alone, and all words are composed of one or more morphemes.
Ex: Payment, "Pay" is a morpheme (meaningful unit) that can stand alone. "ment" (suffix meaning) cannot stand alone. |
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Alphabetic Principle |
The relationship between symbols and sounds.
Letters in an alphabet are symbols that represent the sounds in a language.
Mastering this principle, is a major step to reading competency. |
