Definitions from Word-O Game

4. study of relationship between speech sounds&letters that represent them—produces only pronunciation
7. part of syllable-consists of its vowel Q& any consonant sounds that come after it.
12. usually has other vowel friends as in: nail, deer, cue, pie, make, rode
14. process of hearing the phonemes & being able to put them together
15. part of syllable that precedes vowel of syllable –in multi-syllabic words each syllable has this (br ook—“br” precedes the vowel “o”)
17. special set of suffixes that change number, case, or gender for nouns, tense for verbs, and form for adjectives and adverbs
18. bound morpheme at end of a word
20. 2 vowels in 1 syllable where 2 sounds are heard
23. speech sound in which flow of breath is constricted or obstructed
25. bound morpheme at beginning of word
26. unglided sound (of unobstructed sound)
28. smallest unit of meaning in a word

1. smallest unit of speech sound in language
2. category of inflectional endings when attached to nouns indicates possession ( Mary’s ball is blue.)
3. morpheme that can stand alone
5. symbols that represent phonemes
6. inflectional ending when attached to nouns indicates this change—actor to actress and host to hostess
8. words that come from or are derived from another language and will not stand alone in English—words that are bound morphemes
9. formed by combining 2 free morphemes into a shortened form by omission of 1 or more letters and the insertion of an apostrophe
10. process of hearing spoken word & being able to identify its phonemes
11. short vowel sounds that are marked by breve
13. when 2 adjacent vowels in a syllable represent 1 speech sound
14. morpheme that must be attached to a word to have meaning
16. vowel sounds in w/c the name of letter is heard—marked by macron—long vowels
19. words that are English words and will stand alone—they are free morphemes
21. speech sound in which flow of breath is unobstructed
22. 2graphemes represent 1 phoneme
24. contains 1 vowel sound
26. any vowel that has the sound of the short “u” –such as the “a” in “again”
27. 2 or 3 consonant sounds clustered together in word or syllable where all consonant sounds are heard