Consider How We Pronounce the Word "Beef": the Graphemes Map

question 12

Multiple Choice

Consider how we pronounce the word "beef": the graphemes map onto phonemes in a regular way; you need no special knowledge about the word to know how to pronounce it. Words like this are said to have:

• A)Regular morpheme-to-phoneme association
• B)Irregular spelling-to-sound correspondence
• C)Regular spelling-to-sound correspondence
• D)Irregular pronunciation equivalence
• E)Irregular morpheme-to-grapheme correspondence

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Definitions:

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