Sentences with phrase «represent phonemes»

With 44 phonemes (sounds) in the English language and only 26 letters in the alphabet you are always going to need two -, three -, and even four - letter combinations to represent some phonemes.

The purpose of phonics is to quickly develop pupils» phonemic awareness, which is their ability to hear, identify, and use phonemes (the smallest unit of spoken language), and to teach them the relationship between phonemes and the graphemes (a letter or combination of letters used to represent a phoneme) that represent them.

Not exact matches

The pronunciation of a word is represented as a series of basic sound units called phonemes.

For instance, «white» can be represented by the phoneme sequence «W - AY - T» («AY» is used to represent the sound of the letter «i» in «white»).

Each phoneme is further divided into a sequence of states — the «beads» — which represent how the sound power spectrum changes over the duration of a phoneme.

The fact is that our written language is morphophonemic, which means we can not pronounce a word until we know what phonemes the graphemes are representing within a morpheme, and we must consider the history (etymology) of the word.

The three phonemes that make up the word (we might represent them as «k» and «uh» and «p») are visually represented in writing as «cup.»

Some phonemes can be represented by more than one letter (for example, a / k / sound can be written with the letter C or the letter K, or even CK).

Aware that some English phonemes such as the sounds represented by / th / in either and ether are present in few other languages, teachers can demonstrate how the / th / sounds are formed (with the tongue and front teeth) and can help their students practice pronouncing words that feature these sounds.

Phonics teaching involves six phases in which children learn how to read and spell using progressively harder phonemes and graphemes — sounds and the letters that represent them.

Each phoneme that a child hears and represents with a letter is an indication that the child is decoding sounds that correspond to distinct letters.

Thin black lines connect these groupings that are used to represent basic units of speech, or phonemes.

Arpabet, a development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) as a part of their Speech Understanding Project, is a phonetic transcription code that breaks down words into phonemes which are then represented as a sequence of ASCII characters.