Phonetic Function, Makes pronunciation easier and helps speech flow smoothly, Phonological Function, Carries stress, rhythm, intonation; stress changes meaning, Morphological Function, Helps form new words through affixes, Orthographic Function, Helps in spelling and hyphenation, Onset, Consonant (s) before the vowel, Nucleus, The vowel or syllabic consonant; obligatory part, Coda, Consonant (s) after the vowel, “PL” in “play”, Example of an onset, “A” in “cat”, Example of a nucleus, “ND” in “friend”, Example of a coda, “work → worker”, New syllable added by suffix, “reCORD” (verb), Stress on the second syllable, “REcord” (noun), Stress on the first syllable, “animal”, Three syllables, “calculator”, Four syllables.

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