Arabic-L:PEDA:Descriptive terms for online teaching tool

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Date: 12 Nov 2009
From:Adil Al-Kufaishi <adil at hum.ku.dk>
Subject:Descriptive terms for online teaching tool

Dear Mahmoud
If you are dealing with the written form (the script), then you refer  
to the individual characters as letters (graphems) but if you are  
dealing with pronunciation, then you refer to each sound as a phone.  
If you have more than one letter, then you refer to them as  
combination of letters, characters or graphems and if you have more  
than one sound you refer to them as combination of sounds or phonems  
if by substituting them you obtain a different word with a different  
meaning. The combination of letters may constitute a syllable or a  
morpheme if they comply with the definition of a morphem (the  
smallest, indivisible and meaningful unit in the language). I hope  
that this explaination responds to your inquiry.
Adil Al-Kufaishi

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