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Structure and Development of the English Language

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root word

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word from which another word is developed. (symbol is root for symbolic, symbolism, etc)

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phonics

Front

a term that describes that part of phonetics applied to the teaching of reading. it is concerned with sounds of word elements.

Back

allomorphs

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are variants of the same morpheme. the sound denoting the past tense can be t,d, or td

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lexeme

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different forms of a phoneme (sit, sat and sitting are all forms of the same lexeme)

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short vowels

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the 5 vowels when they produce the sounds a in cat, e in bet, i in sit, o in hot, u in cup.....they are NOT diphthongs

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morpheme

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is the smallest structural unit with meaning.

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free morphemes

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units that stand alone (ditch, dog) or can appear with other lexemes (dog house)

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compound word

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two or more base words connected to form a new word. (doghouse)

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contraction

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shortened form of 2 words which one or more letters are removed and replaced with an apostrophe.

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inflectional morphemes

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change a word's number, tense, or other characteristics to create a new word. (cat+s= cats) or (add ed to make past tense)

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open syllables

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a vowel appears at the end of the syllable....it will say its long sound (basin is an open syllable)

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derivational morphemes

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add to a word to create another word. (add ment to state= statement)

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heteronyms

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words that are spelled the same but differ in pronunciation and meaning

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closed syllables

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single vowel letter is followed by a consonant. (button, both syllables are closed) and will make a short sound

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vowel digraphs

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2 letters are used to represent the vowel sound. (ai in sail)

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phoneme

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smallest linguistically distinctive unit of sound (d sound in dig and drill)

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phone

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speech or sound

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grapheme

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letter or letters that constitute a phoneme

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base word

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standalone linguistic that cannot be deconstructed or broken down into smaller words (dog, house)

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bound morphemes

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appear with other morphemes to form a lexeme , usually prefixes or suffixes- (un, able, non)

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phonetics

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science of speech sounds. deals with minute differences in sounds.

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phonology

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systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken language

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allophone

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several similar speech sounds that belong to to the same phoneme (night rate or nitrate)

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linguistics

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the science or study concerned with developing models of linguistic knowledge.

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long vowels

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synonymous with the names of the single letter vowels, a in baby, e in meter, i in tiny, o in broken, u in humor.

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R-controlled vowels

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occurs when an r follows a vowel, modifying that vowels sound, (a in arms has has neither the short a in apple or the long sound in ale.

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consonant- E

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spellings wherein a single vowel, followed by consonant and the letter E- making the long vowel sound. (bake, themse, come)

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etymology

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word or history origin

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syllabication

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the breaking down of words into each uninterrupted unit of spoken language.

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diphthongs

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linguistic elements that fuse 2 adjacent vowel sounds. au, oy, aw, ou, ew...they are considered long

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