Exam 1 Flashcards
Phonology
The study of sounds and how sounds are combined to make meaningful words and sentences
Speech Sound Disorders
Umbrella term to refer to disorders that may be found in clients who have difficulty producing speech sounds
Used interchangeably with articulation and phonological disorder.
Can be mild to profound
Most of the children- unknown cause, functional, idiopathic
Articulation Disorders
A motor based disorder (production based speech sound disorder) secondary to a child’s inability produce the sound or sound
Phonological Disorders
A rule based disorder- reflect the fact that the child has a lack of knowledge regarding where to appropriately use sounds that they can
produce. A collapse in phonemic contrast or a neutralization of phonemic contrast
A child can have both _____ based and _________based impairments- it is not black and white
rule
motor
______% of school age children have a speech sound disorder
5%
_______% of preschoolers have a SSD
10-15%
Frequently SSDs coexist with a
language disorder - assess all areas
Speech
consists of organized set or system of sounds that are used to convey meaning
Speech production is not all that helps us to understand speech,________________play a crucial role in mood, age, gender, dialect, stress prosody
suprasegmentals
Phonemes:
The minimal sound elements that represent and distinguish language units. Don’t have meaning in and of themselves but make distinction in meaning
between words, such as minimal pairs (cat/fat)
Allophone
Individual variant of a phoneme. Every time you produce a sound it can be produced a little differently such as the initial /p/ compared to the final /p/
in /pop/ one is not released the other is (allophonic variation).
Allophonic Variation
In another language the allophonic variations in our language can be two different phonemes in another language.
Morphemes:
Smallest unit of language that carries meaning, is made up of a combination of phonemes. Bound morphemes vs. free morphemes
Bound morphemes
suffixes and prefixes that attach to a word
Free morphemes:
a whole word that cannot be linguistically broken down into smaller units
Allophone:
a variant or alternate form of a phoneme within a language
Phonemic Transcription:
Always used it slashes // - the abstract description of a sound
Phonetic Transcription:
The actual production of speech said by a person, enclosed in brackets [ ]
Narrow transcription
is when you use diacritic markings vs broad transcription
4 Sub-systems of speech
- Respiration: Lungs, airway, diaphragm, provides air through the VFs, driving force that causes the VFs to vibrate
e. g. ALS, Cerebral palsy - Resonance: modification of the voice as it travels through the pharynx, oral, and nasal cavity
Based on the modification of the size and shape of the resonating cavities
e.g. Cleft palate - Phonation
Hyperadduction- strain-strangled vocal quality
Hypoadduction- breathy vocal quality - Articulation : how the sounds are shaped through the various structures in the oral cavity
Tongue, teeth, palate, etc
To have normal speech one must also have adequate _____________for both input and output of speech, and an intact nervous system for adequate control
and integration of all of the subsystems
hearing sensitivity
Consonant Production:
Place: where along the vocal tract the • consonant is formed
Manner: how it is formed
Voice: whether the vocal folds are in vibration or not
Manner of Articulation:
• Stops: formed by complete closure of the vocal tract. The air builds up behind the closure and is then released and produces a burst of noise. Shortest in
duration of all phonemes. Also known as stop plosives.
- Fricatives: continuous airflow through a narrow or constricted channel that results in a hissing or turbulent quality
- Affricates: have a stop and fricative component, begin as a stop and released as a fricative
- Nasals: lower the velum (soft palate) so the velopharyngeal floor is open and the air travels through the nasal cavity
- Glides: Semi-vowels, a transitioning from a partly constricted state to a more open state of whatever vowel follows it
- Liquids: the vocal tract is obstructed slightly more than vowels, oral passage is constricted but wider than it is during the production of other consonants
- /l/-lateral /r/- rhotic
- retroflex vs. bunched /r/
Place of Articulation:
- Bilabial: produced by both lips /b,p,m,w/
- Labiodental: produced with the lips and teeth, upper front teeth over lower lip /f,v/
- Linguadental/interdental: tongue tip between the front teeth, voiced and voiceless th
- Lingua-alveolar/alveolar: tongue tip and alveolar ridge
- Linguapalatal/palatal: tongue bladeand hard palate
- Linguavelar/velar: tongue dorsum and soft palate
- Glottal: vibration of air at the level of the VFs, /h/
Voicing
whether the VFs are in vibration or not
• Voiced: b, d, g, x, v, m, l, r, w, y
• Voiceless: glottis is open, p, t, k, s, voiceless th, f, h, sh, ch
Cognate Pairs:
two sounds are alike in place and manner, differ only in voice /p-b/
Distinctive Features
identifying the presence of absence of the feature, binary system with (+ and - if present or not)
Vocalic
do not have a marked constriction in the vocal tract, all vowels –also /l/ and /r/ can also be considered vocalic
Consonantal:
do have a marked constriction in the vocal tract, all the consonants except the /h, w, and j/
High:
made with the tongue elevated and above the neutral position when producing /schwa/- entire tongue is elevated above the neutral position
Back
tongue is retracted from the neutral position /schwa/— k, g, ng
Low
tongue is lower than neutral position, there is only one such phoneme /h/
Anterior:
produced more forward then the palatal /sh/– w, f, v, vth, vlth, t, d, s, z, n, l, p, b, m
Coronal:
just the tongue blade is elevated above the neutral position, vth, vlth, t, d, s, z, n, l, sh, dj, r, ch, j
Round:
when producing sounds with lips rounded or protruded – two consonants /r, w/
Tense:
sounds made with a relatively greater degree of muscle tension or contraction at the root of the tongue- tense sounds are mostly voiceless- p, t, k, ch, j, f, vlth, s, sh, l
Continuant:
sounds made with an incomplete constriction- glides, fricatives, and liquids
Nasal:
sounds that are resonated in the nasal cavity – m, n, ng
Strident:
sounds that force the airstream through a small constriction- fricatives and affricates
Sonorant:
sounds that force the airstream through a small constriction- fricatives and affricates
Interrupted:
a complete closure or blockage of air - stops and affricates
Lateral:
/l/ is the only one, tongue is placed on the alveolar ridge and the air flows laterally along the sides of the tongue
Voice
sounds produced with VF vibration
Obstruents
consonants produced by complete closure or narrow constriction- stops, fricatives, and affricates
Sibilants:
sounds produced with high frequency, the have a more strident quality and a longer duration - s, z, sh, dj, ch j
Approximants:
a sound is produced by complete closure or narrow constriction- stops, fricatives, and affricates
Rhotic
/r/- sounds with /r/ coloring
Syllabics
any sound that can stand as the nucleus of a syllable- all of the vowels are syllabic and 4 consonants - l, n, m, r
Vowels
Monophthongs
(one sound) pure vowels and have a single articulatory position
Vowels
Diphthongs
(two sounds) quick gliding of 2 simple vowels which cannot be perceptually seperated
Vowels
Syllabics
vowels and diphthongs are the carriers of syllables, while consonants and consonant clusters attach to vowels to form various syllable shapes.
Because of their syllable forming status, vowels are also termed syllabics
Vowel Production:
Tongue position
Lip rounding
Tenseness
Phoneme Classification (syllable level) Onset:
the consonant or cluster that initiates a syllable
Phoneme Classification (syllable level) Nucleus:
the vowel or diphthong that follows the initial consonant or cluster
Phoneme Classification (syllable level) Coda:
the phoneme or cluster that finishes or closes a syllable and follows the nucleus
Phoneme Classification (syllable level) Rhyme
the nucleus and coda
e.g. Glasses- 2 syllables
onset for 1st syllable is gl, nucleus is a, no coda, rhyme a
2nd syllable- onset s, nucleus e, rhyme [ez]
Phonological Processes
simplification that a person produces that affect an entire class of sounds. Occurs in normal developing children as well as those that have a disorder
Syllable structure processes
sound changes that modify the syllabic structure of words as the child attempts to produce the adult target
Unstressed Syllable Deletion
(weak syllable deletion)- the child omits one or more syllables in a multisyllabic word [me do] for tomato
Reduplication:
(doubling) - totally or partially repeats a syllable in a multisyllabic word
- total: [baba] for bottle
- partial: [bada] for bottle
Diminutization
add an /I/ at the end of the word- cuppy “cupi” for cup
Epenthesis:
insert the schwa between two phonemes of a cluster
Final Consonant Deletion:
deletes the final consonant or cluster at the end of the word
Initial Consonant Deletion:
delete the initial consonant or cluster of a word [ap] for cop- this is very rare for normal developing children
Cluster Reduction
reducing one or more phonemes of a cluster
total: [ap] for stop
partial: [tap] for stop
Stopping
stopping fricative or affricates e.g. pat for fat. more common in word initial position then final
Deaffrication
producing either a stop or fricative for an affricate [tEr] for chair [dab] for job
Velar fronting
replace a more front sound with a velar sound (back sound) t for k, d for g, and n for -ing. [tap] for /kap/
Depalatalization:
substitution of an alveolar fricative for a palatal fricative [sEl] for shell or [beIz] for beige