GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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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: -A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. A phoneme is the smallest unit of spoken sound and is often the one thing that distinguishes one word from another. For example, cat and rat are only differentiated by the first phoneme.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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.