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LETRS Volume 1 Vocabulary Practice| 92 Questions And Answers
affix - -a morpheme or a meaningful part of a word that is attached before or
after a root to modify its meaning; a category that includes prefixes, suffixes
and infixes.
-affricate - -a speech sound with features of both a fricative and a stop; in
English /ch/ and /j/ are affricates.
-affrication - -the pronunciation of /t/ as /ch/ in words such as "nature",
and /d/ as /j/ in words such as "educate".
-alphabetic principle - -the principle that letters are used to represent
individual phonemes in the spoken word; a critical insight for beginning
reading and spelling.
-alphabetic writing system - -a system of symbols that represent each
consonant and vowel sound in a language.
-Anglo-Saxon - -Old English, a Germanic language spoken in Britain before
the invasion of the Norman French in 1066.
-base word - -a free morpheme, usually of Anglo-Saxon origin, to which
affixes can be added.
-bound morpheme - -a meaningful part of a word that makes words only in
combination with other morphemes; includes inflections, roots, prefixes, and
derivational suffixes.
-chunk - -a group of letters, processed as a unit, that corresponds to a piece
of a word, usually a consonant cluster, rime pattern, syllable or morpheme.
-closed sound - -a consonant sound made by using the tongue, teeth, or lips
to obstruct the air as it is pushed through the vocal cavity.
-cognate - -a word in one language that shares a common ancestor and
common meanings with a word in another language.
-closed syllable - -a written syllable containing a single vowel letter that
ends in one or more consonant; the vowel sound is short.
-cluster - -adjacent consonants that appear before or after a vowel; a
consonant blend.
, -coarticulation - -speaking phonemes together so that the feature of each
spreads to neighboring phonemes and all the segments are joined into one
linguistic unit (syllable).
-concept - -an idea that links other facts, words, and ideas together into a
coherent whole.
-consensus - -agreement in the scientific community on specific truths that
have emanated from a series of studies about a specific problem or issue.
-consonant - -a phoneme (speech sound) that is not a vowel and that is
formed by obstructing the flow of air with the teeth, lips or tongue; also
called a "closed sound" in some instructional programs; English has 25
consonant phonemes.
-consonant cluster - -adjacent consonants that appear before or after a
vowel; a consonant blend.
-consonant digraph - -a two-letter combination that represents one speech
sound that is not represented by either letter alone.
-consonant -le syllable - -a written syllable found at the ends of words such
as "dawdle", "single" and "rubble".
-context - -the language that surrounds a given word or phrase (linguistic
context), or field of meaningful associations that surrounds a given word or
phrase (experiential context).
-context processor - -the neural networks that bring background knowledge
and discourse to bear word meanings are processed.
-correlational studies - -studies that show the strength of relationship
between two or more variables, but that ordinarily are not sufficient to prove
a causal relationship between or among those variables.
-cross-sectional - -a type of study that draws samples of students from
different age groups or grade-level groups.
-cumulative instruction - -teaching that proceeds in additive steps, building
on what was previously taught.
-decodable text - -text in which a high proportion (i.e. 70-90%) of words
comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught; used to
provide practice with specific decoding skills; a bridge between learning
phonics and the application of phonics in independent reading of text.
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