0 frost (= the thin, white layer of ice that forms when the air temperature is below the freezing point of water, especially outside at night):
There was a strong rime on all vegetation.
1 → rhyme specialized
The ground was hard and the rime thick and crisp on the grass.
One morning big dry snowflakes starred the rime on the sill.
On the other hand, each form has its own unique onset and rime, which means that no form benefits from phonetic consistency.
Either onset - rime or phonemic synthesis was required.
This development is held to occur in the fixed sequence of syllables, then onsets and rimes, and finally, phonemes.
It is worthy of note that the above-mentioned consistency calculations are based on spelling body - rime correspondences and not grapheme - phoneme correspondences.
Accordingly, we provided our children with a relatively brief period of literacy tuition at the large unit (onset - rime) level.
