Ch. 2 Flashcards
What is an allograph?
Different letter sequence or patterns that represent the same sound.
Ex: “loop”, “through”, “threw”, “fruit”,
What is a grapheme?
Printed letter in a word.
Ex: “through” has 7 graphemes and 3 speech sounds (phonemes)
What is a morpheme?
Smallest meaningful unit if language.
Ex: cat, run, jump; -s, -ed, pre-, re-
What is a free morpheme?
Morphemes that can stand alone and still retain meaning.
Ex: book, music, press
What is a bound morpheme?
Morphemes that are bound to other words and carry no meaning when they stand alone. (Prefixes, suffixes, etc.)
Ex: PREdate, REtread, bookS,
What is the mean length if utterance (MLU)?
Average number of morphemes per utterance.
What is a phoneme?
Speech sounds
What is a vowel quadrilateral?
A two-dimensional figure that displays the relative position of the tongue during vowel production
What is a minimal pair?
Pair of words that vary by only one phoneme.
Ex: cook and book, passed and last
What is an allophone?
Variant pronunciation of a particular phoneme.
Ex: Say “lip”, the production of /l/ is in the front. Now “ball”, the production of /l/ is in the back
What is a syllable?
Composed of one or more vowels in combination with a consonant
What are the 4 parts of a syllable?
Onset, rhyme, nucleus, coda
What is the onset of a syllable?
Consists of all the consonants that precede a vowel.
Ex: split, tried, fast
What is the rhyme of the syllable?
The rhyme is divided into 2 components, the nucleus and the coda
What is the nucleus of the syllable?
Typically a vowel
