chapter 1 Flashcards
speech
Spoken language or verbal communication
System in which meanings are communicated through a pattern of movements generated by the speech mechanism and a measureable pattern of acoustic vibrations.
Requires very precise neuromuscular coordination.
speech includes
Articulation
Prosody
Pitch
Intonation
Fluency-rhythm and rate of speech
what makes up the speech mechanism
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
LARYNEGEAL SYSTEM
ARTICULATORY/RESONATING SYSTEM which includes the SUPRALARYNGEAL (Pharyngeal- oral-nasal cavities).
language
Socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combinations of those symbols.
Language is arbitrary, creative and learned.
Languages evolve.
Primary vehicle for communication
Can be spoken or manual (American Sign Language)
generative system
Language is a generative system-it is a creative/productive tool.
-Finite set of rules and symbols allow us to produce and infinite number of novel utterances.
-Words can refer to more than one thing
-Things can be called more than one name
-Words can be combined in a variety of ways
rules of language
form: syntax, morphology and phonology
content : semantics
use: pragmatics
five aspect of language
Phonology
-Distributional Rules
-Sequencing Rules
Morphology
-Free Morphemes
-Bound Morphemes
-Inflectional Morphemes
-Derivational Morphemes
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
form
Elements that connect sounds and symbols with meaning.
Rules that govern phonology, morphology and syntax
PHONEME
PHONEME-smallest linguistic unit of sound that signals a difference in meaning
(ie /m/at, /p/at, /b/at)
ALLOPHONE
ALLOPHONE-a specific production of a phoneme belongs to the same sound family , and does not change the meaning of a word.
Phonemes are classified:
-Acoustic Properties, Articulatory Properties and Manner of Articulation
phonological processes
SYLLABLE STRUCTURE PROCESS
ASSIMILATION
BACKING
SYLLABLE STRUCTURE PROCESS
SYLLABLE STRUCTURE PROCESS: delete one or more phonemes in a consonant cluster-Cluster Reduction (ie top it for stop it) or Final Consonant Deletion (ie. “ba” for bat)
ASSIMILATION
ASSIMILATION-one sound has influenced the other (ie. “goggy” for doggy)
BACKING
BACKING-make a sound in the back of the mouth when it is suppose to be make in the front of the mouth. (ie. TOP –child will say COP) or FRONTING- where child will make a sound in the front of the mouth when it is suppose to be made in the back (ie COP-child will say TOP)
Morphology
Morphology is a set of rules that govern words
MORPHEME
MORPHEME-the smallest linguistic unit with meaning that can’t be broken down and still have meaning.
FREE MORPHEMES-
FREE MORPHEMES-when a morpheme stands by itself (ie. Car, boy).
BOUND MORPHEMES-
BOUND MORPHEMES-cannot stand alone and is always attached to a free morpheme
BOUND MORPHEMES can be attached by prefixes and suffixes
ie. Biggest (2 morphemes)-superlative morpheme means most
ie. Cooked (2 morphemes)- ed means past tense
Morphemes deal with numbers (ie. Cat/s)
ie. Joan’s (2 morphemes) –possessive morpheme
Derivational morphome
Includes both suffixes and prefixes
changes whole classes of words
creates a new meaning of the word
inflectional morpheme
morpheme that serves a purely grammatical function never creating a new word. only a different form of the same word (past tense, plural).
mean length of utterance
MLU-measure of language development based on average number of morphemes per utterance
4. Why the man sitting 5 morphemes
ADD NUMBER OF MORPHEMES AND DIVIDE BY THE NUMBER OF UTTERANCES
Syntax
Rules which govern the organization of sentences, word order and different types of sentences
Sentence Organization, which combinations are acceptable and which ones are not
(ie. “The boy hit the ball” vs. “Ball the hit boy the”)
Each sentence contains Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase.
Transformational Rules:
Transformational Rules: allows us to change basic sentences into a variety of sentence types
variety of sentence types
Declarative Sentence: THE GIRL HIT THE BOY.
Negative Sentence: THE GIRL DID NOT HIT THE BOY.
Passive Sentence: THE BOY WAS HIT BY THE GIRL.
Interrogative Sentence: DID THE GIRL HIT THE BOY
Compound Sentence: THE BOY CRIED AND THE GIRL WAS HAPPY
prescriptive grammar
A set of rules how a language should be spoken.
It refers to the notion that there is one way of speaking a language.
Dictates a particular standard of grammar.