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1) Subject:Descriptive terms for online teaching tool
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Date: 12 Nov 2009
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Adil Al-Kufaishi <<a href="mailto:adil@hum.ku.dk">adil@hum.ku.dk</a>></span>
Subject:Descriptive terms for online teaching tool
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Dear Mahmoud<br>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.<br>Adil Al-Kufaishi<br></span>
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