SLA+and+Literacy+Glossary

Lexicon - the vocabulary of a person, language, discipline, or branch of knowledge Lexical Access - when/how a person arrives at the meaning of a word (very closely related to word recognition) [|Mental Lexicon] - a mental dictionary that contains information regarding a word's meaning, pronunciation, syntactic characteristics, and so on [|Orthography] - "a set of conventions for how to write a language. It includes rules of spelling,hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation" [|Syntax] - "the structure of sentences," or how words are arranged grammatically to make meaning
 * Automaticity - "the degree of routinized control that one has over linguistic knowledge" "we cannot stop ourselves from carrying out the process and we cannot introspect on the process" (Grabe, p. 27)
 * Morpheme - "the minimal unit of meaning in language; elements of meaning may be smaller than words (e.g. the word //unclear// contains two units, //un// + //clear//)
 * Morphology - "the study of how morphemes form words and function in language"
 * Phonology - "the sound patterns of a language"
 * Semantics - "related to the meanings of words and sentences"


 * Gass, S. M. (2013). //Second language acquisition: An introductory course //. Routledge.