Language & Linguistics Flashcards
Alphabetic Principle
The idea that sounda used in oral speech are represented by written symbols, and that these symbols can be combined to form units of speech such as words
Logographic
Symbols represent meanings instead of letters
Phonology
The rule system within a language by which phonemes are sequenced, patterned, and uttered to represent meanings
Phoneme
The smallest unit of sound that can change the meaning of a word.
Vowel
A e i o u y
Sounds that can be produced without closing the teeth, moving the tounge, or obstructing the air flow from the lungs
Consonants
Sounds that require the use of the lips and tounge to alter air-flow
Phonemic awareness
The conscious awareness that words and utterances are made up of segments of our own speech that are represented with letters in an alphabetic orthography
Knowing words are made up of letters and that letters have sounds
Blending
Putting sounds together to create words
Segmenting
Breaking apart a word into sounds
Rhyming
Identifying similar phonemes in different words
Phonics
An approach to the study of the relationships between letters and the sounds that they represent, can also mean reading instruction with teaches sound symbol correspondences in order to help students sound out words
Morphology
The study of the meaningful units of language, called morphemes, and how their patterns of distribution contribute to the forms and structures of words
Derivational morpheme
A morphine that is combined with roots or stems to form new words with new meanings and has the potential to change the part of speech
Root
A morphine that underlies an infected sectional or derivations paradigm
Believe is the root of unbelievably
Stem
An underlying form to which an inflectional ending is attached and can be made up of a root and affixes for example unbelievable is the stem for unbelievably
