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21 Cards in this Set
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Grapheme |
smallest unit of writing |
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Phoneme |
smallest unit of sound |
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Open syllable |
a syllable ending in a vowel |
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Closed syllable |
a syllable ending in a consonant |
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Digraph |
a combination of two letters which represent one sound |
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Diphthong |
two vowels in one syllable, with sound moving from the first to the second vowel (quite rare in French) |
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Nasal consonant |
produced using the nose rather than the mouth |
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Epsilon |
name for [ɛ] |
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H-aspiré |
when the initial letter 'h' is silent and so blocks contraction/liaison |
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Italic 'a' |
[ɑ] |
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Roman 'a' |
[a] |
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Schwa |
[ə] unstressed central vowel 'e muet' |
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Tilde |
an accent placed over a vowel to indicate nasalization [~] |
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Tréma |
two dots placed over a vowel to indicate that the preceding vowel is pronounced independently [ë] |
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Modal voice |
the register which is used most frequently in the language |
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Glottal stop |
obstructing airflow, using vocal cords, to mark boundaries between words |
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Homographs |
two or more words which are spelled the same but pronounced differently |
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La phrase |
a sentence, which must contain at least one verb |
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L'énoncé |
the utterance, defined by spaces between words |
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la coupe des syllables |
how syllables are cut (see open/closed syllables) |
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l'accent |
stress, form of emphasis/exaggeration, but quite rare in French |
