Traditional Inuit beliefs are bound up in the spiritual web of humans interacting with animals interacting with the environment. Their belief system reflects a deep love and respect for their world and environment.
The knowledge and ability to recognize that words are made up of a combination of individual speech sounds. phonics A body of knowledge consisting of 26 letters used to symbolize 44 English speech sounds.
Analysis of Language. Linguists divide the study of spoken language into two categories--phonology and grammar. Phonology is the study of sounds. Grammar is how the sounds are used to make sense. Phonology. The smallest unit of sound that can be altered to change the meaning of a word is called a phoneme. In English, for example, the words gin, kin, pin, sin, tin, and win all have different meaning due to the fact that the initial sound, or phoneme, is different.