Artic Final Flashcards
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Articulation definition
Totality of processes that result in speech
How many muscles involved?
As many as 100
Speech sounds definition
Physical sound realities- they are end products of articulatory motor processes
Phonology
Study of the sound system of language- include rules that govern its spoken form
Articulation disorder
Difficulties with the motor production aspects of speech or inability to produce certain speech sounds
- Child may not be stimulable for sounds produced in error
- term historically used to denote all children who demonstrated an inability to produce certain speech sounds
Phonological disorder
Refers to impaired comprehension of the sound system of a language and the rules that govern the sound combinations
Phoneme
Smallest unit within a language that can combine with other units to establish words and distinguish between them
Minimal pair
Words that differ in only one phoneme
Phonology
How phonemes are organized and function in communication
Phonotactic constraints
Rules governing the position of words phonemes can be used in
Phonological vs. articulation disorder?
Phonetic errors result in articulation disorders whereas phonemic errors represent phonological disorders
Cognates
Pairs of similar sounds differing in only one feature
Parameters to describe vowels
Portion of tongue involved in articulation- front vs. back
Tongue position relative to palate high vs. low
Degree of lip rounding/unrounding
Parameters to describe consonants
Place of articulation
Manner of articulation
Voicing features
Coarticulation
Concept that the articulators are continually moving into position for other segments over a stretch of speech.
Result of coarticulation is referred to as ____
Assimilation
Coalescence
Features from two adjacent sounds are combined so that one sound replaces two other sounds
Three parts of a syllable
Peak, onset, coda
Peak
Most prominent, acoustically intense part of a syllable
Onset
All segments prior to the peak
Coda
Sound segments of a syllable following it’s peak
Phonation
Sound wave vibration of air produced by the vocal folds
Respiration
Provides air flow. In order to speak you must have a breath stream
Resonance
Created by varying the oral cavity/change shape of oral cavity/change size of vocal tract- modify sound waves
Through moving the articulators, you can change resonances by interfering with the air flow
Articulation problem- generally how to provide therapy
One phoneme at a time. Treatment includes:
Auditory discrimination, behavior modification, stimulus/response, behavior management, operant conditioning- when child performs the operation, give him/her a reward
Guy behind structuralist/universalist theory
Jakobson
Universalist- two distinct periods of vocal production?
Babbling and onset of meaningful speech
What happens during the babbling period?
Infant produces a great quantity and diversity of sounds, produces diverse sound without any regular sequence of acquisition,
discontinuity- infant must relearn speech sounds- babbling not considered continuous with phonemic development
What happens during the onset of meaningful speech period?
Infant develops his/her language’s phonological system according to a hierarchical, universal, and innate order of acquisition
Infants learn oppositions/contrasts of decreasing magnitude expressed in distinctive features
Guys behind behaviorist/learning theory
Mowrer and Olmstead
Characteristics of behaviorist/learning theory
Infant vocalizations are shaped through a series of steps as a consequence of contingent reinforcement
Sequence of events in behaviorist/learning theory
- Infant attends to caretaker’s vocalizations during nurturing
- Caretaker’s speech takes on secondary reinforcement patterns
- Infant’s own vocalizations take on secondary reinforcing values
- Infant productions which closely resemble caretaker’s speech selectively reinforced by caretaker and infant
Generative/prosodic components of analysis of a child’s system
Adult pronounced form, child’s perceived form, child’s underlying form, phonotactic rules, substitution rules, child’s spoken form
Interactionist-Discovery Theory
Phonological acquisition is the result of a child’s active discovery of patterns in the input language
Child uses these patterns to attack new words, while at the same time adult input is examined for new structures
Child is capable of inventing a set of phonological rules designed to reduce the complexity of target words to a pronounceable level
Distinctive features
Phonetic constituents that distinguish between phonemes
Binary systems
Use + and - signs to indicate presence or absence of distinctive sound features
Universal features
Characteristics that exist between the phoneme systems of different languages
Distinctive feature analysis
Sound substitution can be specified according to presence or absence of distinctive features between the target sound and the substitution. Can also be used to document patterns of errors
What is ordering?
Another step in gradual revision of the phonological system from its innate state to the adult form:
Sue and zoo realized as /tu/
Then the pattern changes to /tu/ for Sue and /du/ for zoo
Suppression
Term used in natural phonology to refer to the abolishment of previously employed phonological processes
Nonlinear (Multilinear) Phonologies
Single sound segments seen as being governed by more complex linguistic dimensions (stress, intonation, metrical, and rhythmical factors)
Autosegmental phonology
- Nonlinear phonological theory proposed by John Goldsmith’s attempts to characterize changes within the boundary of a segment by factoring them out, putting them into a different tier
- Autosegmental refers to the concept that certain segments are autonomous; they do not have a one-to-one match on another level.