tilde - correct answer waving line placed over a vower before "r" in a combination to indicate unaccented syllable ~ syntax - correct answer arrangement and sequence of words in sentences, clauses, and phrases; set of principles that dictate sequence and function in order to convey meaning ( G.U.M.) voiced/unvoiced cognates - correct answer phonemes pronounce din the same place of the mouth but vary in voicing /k/ /g/ phonology - correct answer sound system of a language; science of speech sounds;the study of peach sound system, rules and patterns of speech; unconscious rules and patterns of spoken language (sad vs sank) suprasegmental - correct answer aspects of language ( intonations, pitch, juncture, speaking rate) supersize occipital cortex - correct answer vision; receives information first Old English - correct answer Began when Angles, Saxons, Jutes arrived in England. Language of Vikings; Old Norse and Latin also influenced; Teutonic invasion; Christianizing of Britain; 449 AD-1066; decline of Old English as result of Norman Conquest phonological awareness - correct answer an umbrella term used to refer to a student's sensitivity to sound structure in language; understanding of internal linguistic structures of words; awareness of onset-rime and individual phonemes naming speed - correct answer a speed naming task; administered to pre-readers