Phonology Basics
What is the study of speech sounds called?
What is Phonology?
What is a Syllable?
What is a unit of pronunciation containing one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants?
What does word stress refer to?
What is giving emphasis to certain syllables within a word?
What is it called when students identify words that rhyme?
What is Rhyme Recognition?
English is what type of language: stress-timed or syllable-timed?
What is Stress-Timed?
What is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can be recognized as distinct from other sounds?
What is a Phoneme?
Every syllable must contain what part, usually a vowel?
What is the Nucleus?
What is the strongest amount of stress in a word called?
What is primary stress?
What phonological awareness skill involves putting individual sounds together to form a word?
What is Phoneme Blending?
Spanish is described as what type of language?
What is Syllable-Timed?
What is the understanding of the internal linguistic structures of words called?
What is Phonological Awareness?
What is the consonant sound or sounds that come before the nucleus called?
What is the Onset?
In English, where is the stress usually placed in a two-syllable noun such as PREsent?
What is the First Syllable?
What phonological awareness skill involves breaking a word into its individual sounds?
What is Phoneme Segmentation
In a stress-timed language, what happens between two stressed syllables?
There are equal intervals of time between two stressed syllables.
What are the five components of phonology discussed in the presentation?
What are sentence segmentation, syllabification, word stress, intonation patterns, and phonological awareness?
What is the part of a syllable consisting of the nucleus plus the coda?
What is the Rime?
How does the meaning of CONduct change when the stress moves to the second syllable?
CONduct is a noun meaning behavior, while conDUCT is a verb meaning to direct.
If you change the /k/ in cat to /m/, creating mat, what phonological awareness skill are you practicing?
What is Phoneme Manipulation?
Which type of words generally receive stress in English: lexical words or function words?
What are Lexical Words?
Phonological awareness involves breaking language down in what progression?
What is Words, Syllables, Sounds?
How many syllables are in the word Lollapalooza?
What is 5?
The word CONtract can be a noun or a verb. What happens to the stress when the word changes from a noun to a verb?
CONtract = noun; conTRACT = verb. The stress moves from the first syllable to the second.
If you reverse the first and last sounds in cat, what new word do you get?
What is Tac?
Why is phonological awareness especially important for multilingual learners?
It is just as crucial for learning to read as it is for English-only learners, and phonological awareness can transfer from a learner's first language to their second language.