Chapter 2 Flashcards
American Sign Language
The language of the Deaf community in the U.S. ASL has its won set of phonological, morphological, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic conventions that differ from those of spoken english.
Attempt
In an episode, information about the actions that the main character takes to achieve his or her goal.
Babbling
Prespeech vocalizations
Bound Morphemes
A morpheme that cannot stand alone as a seperate word. For ex: adding s to end of birdS, jump to jumpED, run to runnING
Canonical babbling
Around the age of 7 monts, infants stat to use their voice to make syllable-like strings
Communication
any exchange of meaning , whether intended or unintended
Consequence
In a narrative episode, information about the outcomes of the main character’s actions in relationship to the initiating event.
Episode
A part of the story that consists of an initiating event, attempt, and consequence. Episodes may also contain internal responses, plans, and reactions/endings.
Expression jargon
Babbling in a adult-like intonation patter. Sequences of syllables sound like statements or questions, but they contain few real words.
Free morpheme
A morpheme that can stand alone as a word.
Genre
A literary style (narration, description, persusion, mystery, horror, fairy tale)
Idiom
an expression that can have both a literal and a figurative interpretation for ex: skating on thin ice
Initiating event
Background information about the event that propels the main character into action. For ex: usually a problem
Language
a standardized set of symbols and the conventions for combining those symbols into words, phrases, sentences, and texts for the purpose of communication thoughts and feelings.
Language content
The meaning of an utterance or word. Content relates to the linguistic system of semantics.
Language form
The structure of language. Form relates to the linguistic terms of phonology, morphology, and syntax.
language use
Choices that speakers, signers, and writers make about the words and sentences structures that will best express their intended meanings.
Lexicon
A mental dictionary of words.
Manner of Articulation
The amount and type of constriction during the production of phonemes.
metaphor
Expressions in which words that usually designate one thing are used to designate another
Morphology
The part of grammar that concerns the study of morphemes (the smallest unit of meaning)
Phoneme
A speech sound that can change meaning.
Phonological awareness
A type of metalinguistc awareness. Knowledge of the sequence of sounds that make up words.
Phonological processes
Simiplifications of adult-like productions of words. Some of the more common processes are weak syllable deletion. , final consonant deletion, and velar fronting. Descriptions of variations in the way sounds are produced whey they co-occur with other sounds.
Phonology
The study of organization of sounds: language rules that govern how sounds are combined to create words.
Place of articulation
The place of construction during the production of phonemes.
Pragmatics
Conventions related to the use of language in various speaking situations
reduplicated babbling
Babbling sequences in which the same syllable is repeated.
semantics
the meaning of individual words or the meanings that are expressed when words are joined together.
setting
In a narrative, background information about the characters, the place where the story occurs, or the time of the story.
story grammar
conventions for the ways in which meanings are sequenced to form a story
syllable
a basic unit of speech production that must contain a vowel.
syntax
conventions related to the way words are ordered to create sentences.
variegated babbling
babbled sequences in which the syllable content varies
voicing
vibration of the vocal folds during the production of a phoneme.
