Word Study for Advanced Readers and Writers WTW

Question 1

Derivational Relations

Answer 1

Describes the type of word knowledge that more advanced readers and writers develop in there final stage

Question 2

Morphemic

Answer 2

or meaning chunks as well

Question 3

Etymology

Answer 3

Study of Word Origins

Question 4

unaccented syllables

Answer 4

The syllable in a word that gets little emphasis and may have an indistinct vowel sound.

Question 5

Syllable Juncture

Answer 5

The alternating patterns of consonants and vowels at where syllables meet.

Question 6

absorbed or assimilated Prefix

Answer 6

Prefixes in which the spelling and the sound of consonants have been absorbed into the spelling and the sound at the beginning of the base or root to which the prefix is affixed.

Question 7

Consonant alteration

Answer 7

The process in which the pronunciation of consonants change in the base root or derivationally related words while the spelling doesn’t change.

Question 8

reduced vowels

Answer 8

A vowel occurring in an unstressed syllable See also Schwa