Example of phonological awareness
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Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work. They must understand that words are made up of individual speech sounds, or phonemes. A child's skill in phonological and phonemic awareness is a good predictor of later reading success or difficulty.
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Phonological awareness is a critical early literacy skill that helps kids recognize and work with the sounds of spoken language.
Phonological awareness is made up of a group of skills. Examples include being able to identify words that rhyme, counting the number of syllables in a name, recognizing alliteration, segmenting a sentence into words, and identifying the syllables in a word. The most sophisticated — and last to develop — is called phonemic awareness.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Manipulating the sounds in words includes blending, stretching, or otherwise changing words. Children can demonstrate phonemic awareness in several ways, including:
- recognizing which words in a set of words begin with the same sound
("Bell, bike, and boy all have /b/ at the beginning.")
- isolating and saying the first or last sound in a word
("The beginning sound of dog is /d/." "The ending sound of sit is /t/.")
- combining, or blending the separate sounds in a word to say the word
("/m/, /a/, /p/ – map.")
- breaking, or segmenting a word into its separate sounds
("up – /u/, /p/.")
This diagram explains the relationship between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness:
Phonological and phonemic awareness and phonics: different but interrelated
Sometimes phonological and phonemic awareness are confused with phonics; they are two different yet interrelated skills.
Phonological and phonemic awareness refer to spoken language — the understanding that the sounds of spoken language work together to make words.
Phonics refers to the connection between sounds and print — it’s the instruction that teaches that letters represent the sounds of spoken language, or the alphabetic principle. Phonics is the tool teachers use to facilitate making print-sound associations.
Children who cannot hear and work with the phonemes of spoken words will have a difficult time learning how to relate these phonemes to letters when they see them in written words.
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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Introduction
Learn the definitions of phonological awareness and phonemic awareness — and how these pre-reading listening skills relate to phonics.
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Phonological awareness and phonemic awareness: what’s the difference?
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentences and words. Examples include being able to identify words that rhyme, recognizing alliteration, segmenting a sentence into words, identifying the syllables in a word, and blending and segmenting onset-rimes. The most sophisticated — and last to develop — is called phonemic awareness.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
This includes blending sounds into words, segmenting words into sounds, and deleting and playing with the sounds in spoken words.
Phonological awareness (PA) involves a continuum of skills that develop over time and that are crucial for reading and spelling success, because they are central to learning to decode and spell printed words. Phonological awareness is especially important at the earliest stages of reading development — in pre-school, kindergarten, and first grade for typical readers.
Explicit teaching of phonological awareness in these early years can eliminate future reading problems for many students. However, struggling decoders of any age can work on phonological awareness, especially if they evidence problems in blending or segmenting phonemes.
How about phonological awareness and phonics?
Phonological awareness refers to a global awareness of sounds in spoken words, as well as the ability to manipulate those sounds.
Phonics refers to knowledge of letter sounds and the ability to apply that knowledge in decoding unfamiliar printed words.
So, phonological awareness refers to oral language and phonics refers to print. Both of these skills are very important and tend to interact in reading development, but they are distinct skills; children can have weaknesses in one of them but not the other.
For example, a child who knows letter sounds but cannot blend the sounds to form the whole word has a phonological awareness (specifically, a phonemic awareness) problem. Conversely, a child who can orally blend sounds with ease but mixes up vowel letter sounds, reading pit for pet and set for sit, has a phonics problem.
44 phonemes
There are 26 letters in the English alphabet that make up 44 speech sounds, or phonemes.
Letters vs. phonemes
Dr. Louisa Moats explains to a kindergarten teacher why it is critical to differentiate between the letters and sounds within a word when teaching children to read and write.
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Reception of lexical addition when translating
Both lexical and grammatical transformations often require the introduction of additional words. The introduction of additional words is due to a number of reasons: differences in the structure of the sentence and the fact that more concise English sentences require a more detailed expression of thought in Russian. The absence of the corresponding word or the corresponding lexical-semantic variant of the given word is also the reason for the introduction of additional words in the translation.
Here are some examples from fiction translations:
“Wouldn’t you like a cup of hot chocolate before you go?”
- Would you like a cup of hot chocolate for the road?
...The conductor came around for old Mrs Morrow's ticket,
...The conductor came in to check Mrs. Morrow's ticket.
Additions during the translation process can also be caused by other reasons. One of them is the syntactic restructuring of the sentence structure during translation, during which it is sometimes necessary to introduce certain elements into the sentence. So, when translating into English, in order to convey the “communicative division of a sentence”, in some cases it turns out to be necessary to introduce a subject into the English sentence, which is absent in the original Russian sentence:
In 1958 the first recordings were made.
In 1958 that orchestra made its first recordings.
In the 1930s, preparations began for the construction of a hydroelectric station near Samara.
In the 1930’s the Soviet Union launched preparations for the building of a hydro-power project near Samara.
Subject nouns added in English sentences are determined by broad context factors. Additions in these cases, in principle, could be avoided, but this would require the use of a passive construction in the translation, which would make the English text stylistically heavier.
Often, lexical additions are conditioned by the need to convey in the translation text the meanings expressed in the original by grammatical means. For example, when transmitting English plural forms of nouns that do not have this form in Russian. Thus, workers of all industries should be translated as workers in all industries. Wed See also: defenses, modern weapons, etc. For example:
There are other philosophies of the past which give strong support to the Humanist position. (C. Lament, The Philosophy of Humanism)
There are other philosophies (or currents, theories) of the past that strongly support the concept of humanism.
Attributive combinations consisting of the combinations “noun + noun” and “adjective + noun” are of particular difficulty. The latter are terminological in nature.
For example: pay claim (pay offer) - demand (proposal) to increase wages, wage strike - strike demanding higher wages, gun license - certificate for the right to carry weapons, oil countries of oil-producing countries, etc.
The correct choice of the semantic component added to the Russian translation requires knowledge of extralinguistic factors.
Sometimes additions turn out to be due to purely stylistic considerations:
She never used scent, and she had always thought it rather fast, but Eau de Cologne was so refreshing.
She never perfumed herself, considering it a sign of a certain frivolity, but cologne is another matter, it is so pleasantly refreshing.
Fundamentals of General Phonetics and Phonology
Phonetics:
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Phonology – studies social use sounds of the language in the process of communication.
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Articulatory phonetics - physiology of education speech sounds.
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Acoustic phonetics - physical characteristics speech sounds.
Phonetics the science of speech sounds. Speech sounds - phenomenon is complex.
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Functions and signs of language
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Phoneme:
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Sounds speeches, being perceived, become facts of consciousness. In consciousness there are certain patterns of speech sounds, common ideas about them.
Perceived consciousness only those sounds that exist in the speech sound standard. Those. only those who have perceptual functions - functions of bringing to perception.
Word sound is synonymous with phoneme. In language phoneme, in speech - background.
Example - chain and chain. Cage and cage. Words differ in that the last consonants hard or soft. These words are different the sound of the "e" phoneme. Russian speakers they do not see the language of this difference, they morons, bitch. For us it's the same phoneme.
Significant feature - the ability of phonemes to distinguish morphemes and words, participate in their designation.
Example - var and thief, var and steam.
Phonemes distinguish between sound shells of words and only in this way participate in the expression values. Words differ not only those that consist of different letters, how many that mean different things.
Acoustics the phoneme is not to some extent stable in speech and are important for distinguishing the phonemes themselves from each other.
For example, the vowels "e" and "O".
General signs that cannot be used to distinguish phonemes of a language - integral signs.
Im oppose differential.
Differential signs mean ocoustic-articulatory properties that are perceived speakers and distinguish phonemes from each other friend and also contribute to the recognition phonemes and words.
Example for the Russian "t" hardness is differential sign. Dark, languid. For h - part is not differential property, since he has hard h.
Phonemap - a complex sound unit, a set different acoustic-orticulation properties which manifest themselves differently in the sound chains and variously perform the significative function.
Variation phonemes
Scheme 27.
background is a variant of the phoneme.
Options Phonemes (Allophones)
Phonetic:
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Basic option. Small, small and kids. This is an option in which all signs are preserved phonemes.
Isolated utterance phonemes. This is a bitch standard. -
Variant in a strong position. Pronounced in favorable conditions.
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Variant in a weak position
Non-phonetic:
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Individual. The structure of the speech apparatus.
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Dialectic
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Orthoepic
Differences phonological systems of languages
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Number phonemes and the ratio of vowels and consonants
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Organization phonemic groups
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Operation phonemes in the speech stream.
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Phonemic groups are correlated and not correlative . For example b and p - differ in sound. The phoneme n is different from the phoneme s - 4 features.
Operation phonemes in the speech stream - for example phoneme alternation. One phoneme system language is different from the phonemes of another language very many.
Russian r and French r are fundamentally different.
Various phonemes are pronounced in open and closed syllable. Especially in open syllables (open ones end in vowels). They are just as different at the beginning and at the end. phonemes. For Russian language character loss of voice at the end occurs stun. For English aspiration of words beginning to h. We do not have it.
Reduction unstressed vowels are typical for Russian language - small, baby and kids.
This everything creates our native accent.
System phonemic language differs from phonemes another language even if the languages closely related. For example, Russian Ukrainian and Belarusian. Learn and assimilate, day, day, village and rural.
Prosodic phenomena
Syllable and its types. It includes the appearance stress, accent, verbal features structures, emergence and disappearance sounds and syllables in words.
Word:
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Word is the minimum natural sound pronunciation unit.
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word – syllable 1 + syllable 2+…
Sonor and muscular theory of syllables. They answer to the question of how syllables appear and how they connect.
Sonor syllable theory
Syllable seen as a combination of sonorous element with a less sonorous (they consist mostly of voice).
By word-forming abilities varying degrees of sonority vowels, sonorous consonants, calls, voiceless and fricative or explosive consonants.
By muscular theory of sound
Syllable – unity of voltage rise and amplification sonority at the beginning of a syllable and falling and termination of these characteristics at the end words.
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Open - syllable pronounced when open oral cavity. The top of his syllable syllabic element - vowel sound is at the end of a syllable. More often the only syllable-forming vowel. For example, the names Vera and Veronica.
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Closed - Formed when the mouth closes so the top of the syllable, its syllabic element is at the beginning of a syllable.
After what is the fall in sonority voltage. An example is as alt, ar. -
Closed-closed. This is a mix of open and closed syllables. When articulating, they mix. Starts with a consonant sound, in the middle sound - vowel sound and ends consonant sound - house, raft, duty,
Division morphemes and syllables may not match. The root morpheme can consist of 2-3 syllables. Water. 2 syllables. In and yes. Both syllables open. Here is the root of the waters and ending a. There are languages in the world that the number of morphemes and syllables is the same. For example, Chinese.
Types accents
accent, or accent, - highlighting a sound, syllable and words by increasing muscle air pressure and pressure or changes in voice pitch.
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By selection object:
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Syllabic - the object of stress of the syllable. It's a regular changing the pitch of the voice or sound intensity, which can serve a distinguishing function.
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Verbal - word. This is the selection of one of the syllables and the subordination of all unstressed syllables to it. Along with the main, there may be a side accent.
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Phrase - phrase. Performs also semantic-syntactic role, uniting words into bars and phrases. Sometimes called semantic emphasis. Tact - two or several syllables united by stress. Proclitics are special words that lose their own emphasis and join another word: two day.
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acoustic-articulation characteristic:
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Monotonic (characterized by a change in strength and sound duration) - power (strength jet) and quantitative (duration jets)
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Polytonic / musical - change the pitch and his musicality.. Typical for Chinese, because many single-root words differ only sound tone.
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place of stress in a word:
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Permanent. Fixed to all words of the language.
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