Chapter 2 FIrst Exam

Question 1

Grapheme

Answer 1

printed or written letter

Question 2

Allograph

Answer 2

different letter sequences that represent the same sound

Ex. loop, through, threw, fruit

Question 3

Diagraphs

Answer 3

pairs of letters represent one sound

ex. hoot, shoe, steal, tissue

Question 4

Morpheme

Answer 4

smallest unit in language capable of carrying meaning

Question 5

Free morpheme

Answer 5

morphemes that can stand alone

Question 6

Bound morpheme

Answer 6

Morphemes are bound to other words and carry no meaning if they stand alone. prefixes and suffixes.

Question 7

phoneme

Answer 7

speech sound or family of speech sounds

Question 8

suprasegmentals

Answer 8

indicate stress, intonation, pattern, and tempo

Question 9

syllable

Answer 9

basic building block of language

Question 10

minimal pair

Answer 10

Words that vary by only one phoneme

Question 11

Allophones

Answer 11

variant pronounciations of a phoneme

Question 12

complementary distribution

Answer 12

two allophones are found in distinctly different phonetic environments and are not free to vary in terms of where in the mouth they may be produced.

Question 13

onset

Answer 13

consonants that precede the vowel

Question 14

rhyme

Answer 14

has to components nucleus and coda

Question 15

syllabic consonants

Answer 15

when consonants take on the role of vowels

Question 16

nucleus

Answer 16

typically a vowel

Question 17

coda

Answer 17

includes either single consonants or consonant cluster

Question 18

open syllable

Answer 18

syllables that end with a vowel phoneme

Question 19

closed syllable

Answer 19

Syllables that end with a consonant phoneme