LETRS Glossary Volume 1 Units 1-4 | with 100% Correct Answers

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academic language Correct Answer: written or spoken language that is more stylistically formal than spoken conversational language; language that is most often used in academic discourse or text. ... adjective Correct Answer: A part of speech that describes a noun or person (e.g., windy, blue). adverb Correct Answer: A part of speech that describes a verd, adjective, or adverb (e.g., sadly, crookedly). affricate Correct Answer: A speech sound with features of both a fricative and a stop; in English, /ch/ and /j/ are ________. allophones Correct Answer: Slight alterations to pronunciation of phonemes resulting from phonemes overlapping with one another in a spoken word; these variations of pronunciation are predictable and unconscious, as most speakers make them. allophonic variation Correct Answer: The slightly different pronunciation of a phoneme, depending on its place in a word; for example, automatic nasalizing of a vowel before a nasal consonant. [Show More]

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