LETRS Glossary Volume 1 Units 1-4 Questions and Answers 2025/26

LETRS Glossary Volume 1 Units 1-4 Questions and Answers 2025/26 academic language - answer-written or spoken language that is more stylistically formal than spoken conversational language; language that is most often used in academic discourse or text. adjective - answer-part of speech that describes a noun or person (e.g., windy, blue). adverb - answer-part of speech that describes a verb, adjective, or adverb (e.g., sadly, crookedly). affricate - answer-speech sound with features of both a fricative and a stop; in English, /ch/ and /j/ are ________. allophones - answer-Slight alterations to pronunciation of phonemes resulting from phonemes overlapping with one another in a spoken word; these variations of pronunciation are predictable and unconscious, as most speakers make them. allophonic variation - answer-The slightly different pronunciation of a phoneme, de- pending on its place in a word; for example, automatic nasalizing of a vowel before a nasal consonant.