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AIC linguistics midterm
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Graduate
04/06/2009

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Term
Define Consonant
Definition
Sound that is produced with a clear and definite obstruction of air as it  passed through the vocal track.
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Define Vowel
Definition
No obstruction of air.  Differentiated by the shape or oral stucture.
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Grapheme
Definition
Letters or letters representing a phoneme.
Term
Phonology
Definition
The study of how laguage uses single sounds.  Combining phonemes into words.
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Phonetics
Definition
The study of speech sound in a language.
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Morphology
Definition
Study of how a language combines its most basic elements of meaning/function to make words.
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Orthography
Definition
The spelling system of a language.
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Syntax
Definition

Study of how words combine into larger units of langage.

 

Making sentence

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Semantics
Definition

Study of the meaning of words and comprehension of larger units of language.

 

vocabulary

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Phonemic Awareness
Definition
Ability to pick out and manipulate sounds in spoken words.
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Phonological Awareness
Definition
recognizing differences of sounds in words and sentences.
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Vowel nasalization
Definition
When a vowl is spoken before a nasal consonant it is nasalized, the nasal phoneme (/m/,/n/) become hard to hear by the vowel
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Coarticulation
Definition
one sound colors another. seperate letters make one sound but together can sound different ie. had,hand
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