rime
9.6
The part of a syllable that includes its vowel and the sounds after it
- noun
- /raɪm/
- Specialized
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rima
- Students segment words between an onset (/fl/ in the word flat) and the rime (at the end of flat).
- onset and rime
- syllable and rime
- nucleus and rime
Examples
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Instruction in onset-rimes is another way of learning to read words (Treiman, 1992).
Academic text (2007) -
Instruction in phonemes and onset rimes resulted in fewer trials and a higher percentage of correct responses.
Academic text (2007) -
In phonics, children learn to identify the rime by recognizing the vowel and ending consonants in words.
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The teacher explained that the rime is essential for understanding how to blend sounds into words.
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When analyzing the poetry, we looked closely at the rime structure to see how it affected the flow of each line.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rime in phonology names the part of a syllable with the vowel and any following consonants and comes from the same root as rhyme, because the rime is the part that makes words rhyme, for example the 'og' in 'dog'.
