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GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS
Discourse – Connected speech.
Mental lexicon- Words in long-term memory that are recognised and used in spoken or written language.
Morpheme The smallest meaningful part of a word.
Morphology – Refers to the linguistic structure of words, with specific respect to how words may be broken up into meaningful parts (morphemes).
Phonology – The system governing the speech sound patterns that exist in a spoken language.
Semantic – Related to word meanings.
Semantic network – A structure that shows how concepts or words are related and interconnected.
Simple View of Reading- A theory that describes reading comprehension as the product of both word recognition and language/listening comprehension.
Syntactic bootstrapping – A theory that explains how children learn word meanings by using the structure of language.
Syntax – The grammatical structure of a sentence.
Vocabulary – Knowledge of words’ meanings.
Vocabulary breadth- The size of a person’s vocabulary, or the number of words they know.
Vocabulary depth- The quality of knowledge for each word in a person’s vocabulary.