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| the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language; it distinguishes one word from another - for example, 'b' in 'bug' and 'l' in 'lug' |
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| the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language and the spelling of words - i.e. the suffixes 'ed' or 'ly' |
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| a unit (a letter or letters) of a writing system that represents one phoneme - also a written symbol within a language, such as alphabetic letters |
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grapheme-phoneme
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| working together, the phonemes comprise graphemes, whereas the graphemes represent the phonemes as written symbols |
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| the concept that letters and letter combinations are used to represent phonemes and orthography |
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| the initial consonant sound in a single syllable or word: the onset of 'fun' is /f/ and the onset of 'glide' is /gl/ |
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| a unit composed of the vowel and any following consonants within a syllable, such as 'ag' in 'bag' |
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| the process of dividing a spoken word into the smallest units of sound within that word - i.e. cat into three phonemes: /c/a/t/ |
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