Glossary of Terms

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accented syllable

Syllable which receives greater stress than the other syllables

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breve

A dia

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Morphemes - small, indivisible units which give meaning to word (single sound, syllable, or more than one syllable)

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Phoneme - The smallest unit of sound which distinguishes one word from another. (The English language includes 44 phonemes).

Pitch - varied intonation which modify sentence meaning (highs, lows, falling, rising)

Pragmatics - the study of how context affects the user's interpretation of language, the knowledge needed to obtain meaning from a situation, and the fundamental patterns of cultural interaction.

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Semantics - the study of meanings of individual words and of larger units such as phrases and sentences. The meaning of words may be derived from context, previous knowledge, intonation of the speaker, or connotation.

Stress - emphasis or accent on specific syllables

Syntax - the structure of sentences and the rules that govern the correctness of a sentence

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