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.
-permissible combinations of phonemes in one's native language. -As infants hear their native language more and more, they also develop the ability to recognize this. Examples: /ps/ occurs at end of words and not beginning and /h/ never in final syllable position. --Ability to detect this in one's language helps infants segment words from continuous speech. ex. Knowing /ps/ ends a word and will not continue a word.