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23 Cards in this Set
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Phonology
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The study of sounds in languages
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Phonemes
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Unit of sound that is the smallest possible unit. The b in book /b/. Approximately 41 in English
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Intonation
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Variances in voice that help make up meaning such as using a higher pitch at the end of a question. Changes in stress and pitch
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Pitch
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High or low tone voice such as the end of a question. Part of intonation.
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Modulation
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Changing control of one's frequency such as soft and loud, high or low.
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Aural Comprehension
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Person's ability to understand information recieved via the ears
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Digraph
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Two letters that form one sound such as ph, sh, qu. Hothouse is not one.
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Diphthong
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Similar to a digraph except that the sounds are vowels. Must move tongue such as the "oy" in toy
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Schwa
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Vowel sound that is unaccented or unstressed such as the "ah" in alone.
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Initial/Medial/Final Consonant Clusters
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When consonants are strung together such as bland /bl/ and /nd/. There are common initial and final consonants that you can teach
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CVCC Words
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Consonant Vowel Consonant Consonant are learned after a learner is comfortable with short words. Progressive patterns as they advance such as CCVCC
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Compound
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a word that is made up of two more independent morphemes such as mailbox but not mailer
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Morpheme
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the smallest part of a word that gives the word meaning and cannot be further subdivided. Unhappy has two. Unhappiness has three.
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Lexical Morpheme
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A baseword and/or a prefix an infix, or a suffix.
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Phonics
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the teaching of individual letter sounds and their relationship in combined letter sounds.
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Decoding Skills
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Ability to analyze and make sense of the symbols that make up a language both written and verbal.
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Spelling Patterns
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Common combination of letters. "ea" is the same in head and bread. The problem is with words like beard and bead.
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Orthonography
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Sound-symbol codes. Set of rules for a certain language. K makes the k or c sound. Chinese language has symbols that make up an entire phrase.
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Structural Analysis
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If the word is unknown the learner can break it down into parts to determine meaning
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Prior Knowledge
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What the learner knows from past experiences or learning.
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Contrastive Analysis
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Study the differences between two language. Faulty theory.
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Context Clues
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Learner can look at surrounding words to discern the meaning of the unknown word.
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Word Structure
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How Morphemes are placed together. There are specific rules such as adding s or es to make something plural.
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