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Language Flashcards

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Areas of Language

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Form
Content
Function (Use)

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form

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phonology
orphology
syntax

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content

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semantics

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function

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pragmatics

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SLI

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children who have trouble developing language in the absence of any reasons or cause.

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Suprasegmentals

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-suprasegmentals, refer to the melodic and rhythmic elements of the phonological system.

  • Stress
  • Juncture
  • Intonation
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Paralinguistic elements of communication

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are not linguistic elements. They go with the linguistic elements.

  • voice
  • resonance
  • timing/latency
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Nonverbal Elements of Communication

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  • facial gesture
  • limb gesture
  • gaze
  • head and body movement
  • physical distance or proxemics
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erivational morphemes

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added to a word to create a new word or a new form of a word.

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Lexical semantics

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words (forms (morphemes) and meanings (sememes)) which constitute the generic, culturally-shared knowledge of the speakers of the language.

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discourse pragmatics

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how linguistically coded propositions fit into a wider communicative context.

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Organization of a lexicon-

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  • Meaning
  • Semantic category
  • Synonyms/Antonyms
  • Meaning relationship
  • Phonological info
  • Morphological info
  • Syntactic info
  • Pragmatic
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homographs

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word with multiple meanings all of whose forms sound alike and are spelled the same way

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Homonyms

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-A word with multiple meanings all of whose forms sound alike and are spelled differently

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Syntax

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sequential and temporal

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Transitive

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Transitive clauses have two nouns — a subject noun and an object noun.

Example: I ate dinner

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intransitive verbs

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Intransitive clauses have a single noun — a subject noun.

Example: She slept well

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Major clause types

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  • Declarative-
  • Interrogative
  • Imperative
  • Exclamatory
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-Declarative

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making a statement

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-Imperative

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-giving a command, making a request

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Pragmatics (examples of)

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Topic maintenance
Coherence
inferencing
Ellipsis
Register
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Cohesive devices

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things that make a sequence hang together

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Ellipsis

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linguistic feature that refers to forms in the talk which certain elements are not present.

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Register

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-speaking in the appropriate way for different situations with different people.

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different levels of meaning in language:

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  • Lexical meaning
  • referential meaning
  • propositional meaning
  • affective
  • interactive or social meaning
  • linguistic/discourse meaning
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referential meaning

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involves the meaning of words and what they refer to.

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propositional meaning-

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the who, what, when, why of an utterance.

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Standard Deviation

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-average difference of scores from the mean score on a standardized test
68% of the scores fall within 1 SD of the mean, with 96% of the scores falling within 2 SDs.

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Normal Curve

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A normal distribution represents the tendency for scores to fall around the mean (central tendency)

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Percentile Rank

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percentage of subjects in the norming population who scored at or below a certain raw score

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3 Kinds of Standard scores

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  1. Z-score
  2. T-score
  3. Scaled score
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Children with Limited Language

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  • A child who is largely nonverbal
  • A child who speaks largely at the single-word level
  • A child who is using early multiword combinations
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Developmental Language Disorders

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Child’s diagnostic category does not explain or predict language behavior language behavior.

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Speech Sound Disorders

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  • Articulation disorder – sensorimotor based
  • Phonological disorder – linguistically/system based
  • Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) – sensorimotor based
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Components of the Final Motor Act of Articulating

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Biological component

Cognitive-linguistic component

Sensorimotor-acoustic

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What does Biological component include?

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  • Vocal tract and articulators
  • Nervous system > motor and sensory functions
    - Auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, proprioceptive
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What is the Cognitive-linguistic component?

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Semantics, morphosyntax, pragmatics

-Phonemic elements, phonological rules

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What does Sensorimotor-acoustic include?

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  • Motor programming and motor learning of the sequences of physical movement in a wide variety of phonetic contexts
  • Motor production in the vocal tract > acoustic vibrations > ears of the listener/interpretation
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Misarticulation Categories

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  • Substitution
  • Omissions
  • Distortions
  • Addition
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Independent analysis describes the child’s productions in….

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features, segments, syllable shape

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Relational analysis transcribes the child’s productions and compares them to the adult target forms in…..

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Determination of correct vs. incorrect productions

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Nonstuttering Dysfluent vs. Incipient stutterer

Frequency

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9 or less vs

10 or more per 100 words

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Nonstuttering Dysfluent

predominant type

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Whole word and phrase repetitions, interjections, revisions

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Nonstuttering Dysfluent Unit repetitions

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No more than 2 unit repetitions (b-b-ball)

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Nonstuttering Dysfluent

Voicing and air flow

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Little or no difficulty starting or sustaining air flow; continuous phonation during part word repetitions

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Acquired Language Disorders

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  • Dependant on severity of injury and language development at time of injury
  • First 3-12 months post injury spontaneous recovery
  • Typically have residual language problems
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Trade offs

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Increased complexity in one area may result in decreased complexity or accuracy in another area

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