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10 Cards in this Set
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Onset |
The beginning consonant or consonants in a syllable up to the vowel in a word |
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rime |
The part of a syllable that includes the vowel sound and any consonant sounds coming after. |
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r-controlled vowel |
When a vowel letter is followed by the letter r making the vowel neither long nor short. |
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Grapheme |
A letter or combination of letters that represents a phoneme. |
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Syllable |
A unit of pronunciation consisting of one vowel sound alone or one vowel sound along with one or more consonants. |
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Dipthong |
A vowel sound made up of a blend of two vowel sounds (sometimes called a glide) in immediate sequence and pronounced in one syllable. |
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Diagraph |
To letters that stand for one phoneme. |
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Closed Syllable |
Any syllable that ends with a consonant phoneme. (e.g. the ball in football) |
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Schwa |
A sound closely resembling a short u that commonly occurs in unstressed syllables, represented by an upside-down e in the dictionary. |
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Affix |
A linguistic element that is not an independent word but is added to the beginning and/or end of a word and modifies its meaning. |
