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phonological processing .......Answer.........perception,
interpretation, recall, and production of language at the level of
the speech sound system
phonology .......Answer.........the science of speech sounds,
including the development of speech sounds in one language or
comparison of speech sound development in different
languages.
prosody .......Answer.........the musical quality of language,
including intonation, expression, stress, pitch, juncture, and
rhythm, which is significant in our ability to communicate and
comprehend emotions and attitudes
,age 2 of 46
rime .......Answer.........the written or spoken vowel and the final
consonant in a syllable.
rhyme/alliterations .......Answer.........the earliest developing
phonological skills. Rhyme requires students to become aware of
the vowel sound in a word and sounds after it. Alliteration
requires students to become aware of on-sets or initial letters.
root .......Answer.........a content word to which affixes can be
added
schwa .......Answer.........an unaccented vowel whose pronunciation
approximates the short (u) sound.
segmentation .......Answer.........separating a word into units, such
as syllables, onsets and rimes, or individual phonemes, for the
purpose of reading or spelling
,age 3 of 46
situation .......Answer.........a feature in a word that provides clues
about how to spell or read a word. The situation refers to the
position of letters or sounds, placement of accent, and the
influence of surrounding sounds or letters.
sound deletion .......Answer.........early literacy task in which the
student is presented with a word and is asked to say all of the
sounds in the word except one.
sound picture .......Answer.........letter or word written with
diacritical markings indicating pronunciation
syllable .......Answer.........a spoken or written unit that must have
a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or
follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one
impulse of the voice.
, age 4 of 46
vowel .......Answer.........a class of open voiced sounds produced
by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal
tract.
vowel consonant e syllable .......Answer.........a vowel-consonant e
syllable in one vowel, one consonant, and a final e. The final e is
silent. The vowel is long.
vowel pair or vowel team syllable .......Answer.........a vowel pair
or vowel team syllable contains two adjacent vowels
Alexia .......Answer.........the loss of the ability to read, usually the
result of brain injury
aphasia .......Answer.........the loss or impairment of the ability to
use and comprehend words as the result of brain injury