Chapter 9 Flashcards
Definition of phonological disorder
impairment of speech-sound production that differs from age and culturally based norms
Definition of articulation disorder
inability to articulate certain speech sounds
Definition of cognates
two phonemes that differ by only one characteristic
e.g., /s/ & /z/
Definition of prevalence
the percentage of persons who have exhibited a disorder in their lifetime
Definition of incidence
the number of persons who develop a disorder within a specific period of time
true or false: prevalence is always a larger number than incidents
true
what is the percentage of prevalence of phonological disorders?
4%
true or false: girls are affected at higher rates than boys
false - boys are more affected
Definition of functional etiology
unknown cause
what percent of phonological disorder cases have functional etiology?
60%
what are known associations or phonological disorders?
otitis media (middle ear disorder)
developmental motor speech disorders
other developmental disorders, such as Down syndrome
Definition of surface representation
what we produce: articulation (in the mouth)
Definition of underlying representation
phonology (in the mind)
Definition of contrastiveness
Phonemes signal a contrast in meaning between two words in a language
(e.g., bat vs hat)
Definition of allophones
variations of a single phoneme
e.g., aspirated /p/ and unaspirated/pl
what does IPA stand for?
International Phonetic Alphabet
Definition of International Phonetic Alphabet
representation of each phoneme used in the world’s languages as a specific symbol; used in phonetic transcription
Definition of articulatory Phonetics
the classification of speech sounds which serves as a road map to what the articulators are doing when a phoneme is produced
letters that are produced with very little constriction against air flow
vowels
three articulatory characteristics of vowels
Height: how high the tongue is placed (high, mid, low)
Frontness: how far forward the tongue is placed (front, central, back)
Roundness: are the lips rounded? (rounded, unrounded)
letters that are produced with more constriction against the airflow
consonants
three articulatory characteristics of consonants
place of articulation: where in the vocal tract is the constriction? (bilabial, velar, etc.)
manner of articulation: how is the consonant produced? (stop, nasal, etc.)
voicing: are the vocal folds vibrating? (voiced, unvoiced) (/s/ vs /z/)
true or false: all children master phonemes in a predictable order at a predictable rate
false – normal children…
by what age are all English phonemes normally mastered?
8
three levels of acquisition of consonants
Vowels
single consonants
consonant blends
Definition of co-articulation
sounds overlap one another during articulation
e.g., the /t/ of tea is produced with lips drawn back, but the /t/ of too is produced with lip rounding
Definition of assimilation
the features of one sound take on the features of neighboring sounds
(e.g., the vowel in man is nasalized because of the influence of the nasal consonants around it)