| Question | Answer |
| Mental Lexicon (4) | - definition (semantic properties)
- pronunciation (phonological form) .. including stress!
- word class (morpho-syntactic)
- spelling (orthographic) |
| Denotative Meaning | formal definition |
| Connotative Meaning | broader and reliant on context |
| Semantic Neighborhood/Semantic Set | set of words that are meaningfully related to or frequency associated with a given word |
| Inflectional Morphology | provide info about time (tense & duration), quantity (#), or size without changing the essential meaning or class of the base word |
| Derivational Morphology | changes meaning and/or the class of the word
- a morpheme added to a word to create a different word, often a different grammatical class
- prefixes and suffixes |
| Inflectional Morphemes (8) | plural
possessive
comparative
superlative
present tense
past tense
present participle
past participle |
| Simple View of Reading | Reading Comprehension = Decoding + Linguistic Comprehension
- a framework that explains how written words are decoded and how reading comprehension is achieved in the same way as oral comprehension |
| Decoding | - sounding out words
- identifying words in print
- recognizing whole words |
| Linguistic Comprehensive | - ability to understand oral language
- apply word-level semantic knowledge to derive meaning at sentence and discourse level
- linguistic and listening comprehension |
| Transparent Derivational Morphology | - the semantic link between the base word and the derived word is clear or transparent
- affixes don't affect the sound/spelling of the base word
- bad.. badly, will... willful |
| Opaque Derivational Morphology | - the semantic link between the base word and the derived word is less clear
- affixes change either the entire sound, spelling, or both
- magic... magician, line... lineage |
| Emergent Literacy Skills | - vocabulary knowledge
- syntactic exposure
- questions (asking and responding)
- expands spoken language
- knowledge of print
- alphabetic principle
- grapheme-phoneme correlations
- inferencing
- academic language |
