individual phoneme
collocation in Englishmeaningsofindividualandphoneme
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individual
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
existing and considered separately from the other things or people in ...
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phoneme
noun[C]
uk/ˈfəʊ.niːm/us/ˈfoʊ.niːm/
one of the smallest units of speech that make one word different from ...
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(Definition ofindividualandphonemefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Table 9 shows the percentages of each surface manifestation occurring byindividualphoneme.
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Because both children and adults show evidence of sensitivity to both individual segments and to units larger than theindividualphoneme, the holistic/segmental dichotomy may be unwarranted.
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Activation decays gradually: anindividualphonemeor lexical item may remain partially activated after it has been produced.
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Synthetic phonics teaches phonics at the level of theindividualphonemefrom the outset; not syllables and not onset and rime.
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Such results would suggest that adults do not always conceive of letters in printed words as representing individual phonemes.
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As part of this process, phonological units, including individual phonemes associated with individual letters, are also activated.
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Substitution between groups of sounds rather than individual phonemes is a process not reported on in spoken language development where phoneme-phoneme substitutions are more common.
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British-based and influenced sites tend to have the most consistency in symbols used for individual phonemes, although slight variations do exist.
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The child was asked to blend individual phonemes, pronounced by the examiner at 1-s intervals, to form a whole word.
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It is also possible that noisy representations in short-term memory are a sign of inadequate top-down mapping of some of the individual phonemes.
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Thus, infants are not necessarily attending to individual phonemes, but may be responding to more general features of the acoustic signal, such as manner of articulation.
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If their representations are holistic and do not represent individual phonemes, they will not be able to complete phonological awareness tasks at the level of the phoneme.
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The system should direct users to the significant differences and as far as possible inform them of the type of mismatch, especially the length and quality of individual phonemes.
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The combined scores in the initial and end sound parts of the task provided an indication of the child's ability to identify individual phonemes within a word.
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The system directs users to the significant differences and as far as possible informs them of the type of mismatch, in terms of the length and quality of individual phonemes.
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They are regarded as syllable features for several reasons, but most importantly because they cause contrast between syllables rather than between individual phonemes.
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In theory, such consonants could be analysed as individual phonemes.
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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate individual phonemes.
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This might mean that children are aware of syllables as units of speech early on, while they do nt show awareness of individual phonemes until school age.
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