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phonological awareness  

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  • Phonological awareness is the explicit understanding that spoken language comprises discrete linguistic units of sound structure, such as words, syllables, and phonemes. Phonological awareness encompasses a wide variety of skills that indicate an understanding that spoken language can be analyzed and manipulated based on the sound structure of words alone, independent of word meaning. [Source: Encyclopedia of Language Development; Phonological Awareness]

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