PHONOLOGY

It studies the phonic elements from the point of view of their function.

Phonological awareness

Composed of a group of skills that include being able to identify rhyming words, count the number of syllables in a noun, recognize alliteration, segment a sentence into words, and identify the syllables in a word.

Phonemic Awareness

It is the ability to notice, think about and work with the individual sounds (called phonemes) in spoken words.

PHONETICS

It deals with the production of speech sounds by humans, often without prior knowledge of the language being spoken.

Examples

("w") When, wet, one

("h") Hot, ahead, whole

("t") Tea, button, tight

PHONEME

It is the smallest unit of sound that carries meaning.

Example


Phoneme Pronunciation

"K"

"Ch"

"F"

Graphemes

C, Ch, k

ch, tch

f, ph

Examples

cat, chaos, book

church, catch

fish, phone

ALLOPHONE

The occurrence of one allophone in place of another is usually determined by its position in the word (initial, final, medial.) or by its phonetic environment.

Example

The t sound in the words "hit", "tip" and "little".

( file ) `FaIt

( fool ) `Fut

( feel ) `fit

Examples

Isolate and say the first or last sound in a word ("The beginning sound of dog is /d/.").
("The beginning sound of dog is /d/." "The ending sound of sit is /t/").

Blend or blend the separate sounds in a word to say the word.
("/m/, /a/, /p/ - map .")

Recognize which words in a set of words begin with the same sound.
(" Bell , bike and boy have /b/ at the beginning").