COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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the smallest units of sound that make up language
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the smallest units of sound that carry meaning
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the system of using words to create meaning
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the system of rules for putting words in order
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phoneme – The smallest unit of sound. There are approximately 44 phonemes – e.g. ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘ch’, ‘igh in light’. Phonemes can be put together to make words e.g c-a-t. Grapheme – A way of writing down a phoneme e.g. ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘ch’, ‘igh’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound in a language. Phonology: The study of the sound system of a language. Morpheme: The smallest unit of meaning in a language (word or unit – prefix re in redo, s in cars).
Detailed explanation-3: -Phonemes. A phoneme is the basic unit of phonology. It is the smallest unit of sound that may cause a change of meaning within a language, but that doesn’t have meaning by itself.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Central dialect of Rotokas possesses one of the world’s smallest phoneme inventories. (Only the Pirahã language has been claimed to have fewer.) The alphabet consists of twelve letters, representing eleven phonemes.
Detailed explanation-5: -Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a language. A phoneme is the smallest unit (sound) of language which serves to distinguish words from one another. Example: bat contains three phonemes (/b/a/t/). A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of language that cannot be broken into smaller parts.