Phonology Correct Answer: the study of speech sounds in language
Phoneme Correct Answer: in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
ELL Correct Answer: English language learner
Pitch Correct Answer: detemines the context or meaning of words, or series of
words
Stress Correct Answer: can occur at a word or sentence level and can modify a
word's meaning
Phonographics Correct Answer: study of letter and letter combinations
Grapheme Correct Answer: all of the letters and letter combinations that
represent a phoneme such as f, ph, gh for /f/
Homonym Correct Answer: words having the same sound but different meanings
Homograph Correct Answer: a word written the same way as another word but
having a different meaning (e.g., bow--hair and bow--ship)
Homophone Correct Answer: One of two or more words pronounced alike, but
different in spelling or meaning (e.g., hair/hare, scale (fish)/scale (musical).
Heteronym Correct Answer: one of two or more words that are spelled alike but
have different meanings and pronunciations, Polish/polish
Digraph Correct Answer: is any two letters that form a single sound /ph/ in phone
or /ea/ in read
Dipthong Correct Answer: occurs when two vowels combine to form a sound that
slides from one to the other /oy/ in boy /ou/ in house
Phoneme Correct Answer: in a language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
ELL Correct Answer: English language learner
Pitch Correct Answer: detemines the context or meaning of words, or series of
words
Stress Correct Answer: can occur at a word or sentence level and can modify a
word's meaning
Phonographics Correct Answer: study of letter and letter combinations
Grapheme Correct Answer: all of the letters and letter combinations that
represent a phoneme such as f, ph, gh for /f/
Homonym Correct Answer: words having the same sound but different meanings
Homograph Correct Answer: a word written the same way as another word but
having a different meaning (e.g., bow--hair and bow--ship)
Homophone Correct Answer: One of two or more words pronounced alike, but
different in spelling or meaning (e.g., hair/hare, scale (fish)/scale (musical).
Heteronym Correct Answer: one of two or more words that are spelled alike but
have different meanings and pronunciations, Polish/polish
Digraph Correct Answer: is any two letters that form a single sound /ph/ in phone
or /ea/ in read
Dipthong Correct Answer: occurs when two vowels combine to form a sound that
slides from one to the other /oy/ in boy /ou/ in house
