LETRS Module 1-3 (Answered)

LETRS Module 1-3 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 afficates. *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 meaningf