Language Myths 5&6 Flashcards
Vowel markers
defined as a letter or digraph that marks the preceding vowel letter as a First Vowel Sound.
Homographs
Words that have the same spelling, but different meanings and pronunciations.
Language perceptions
carrying out various psychological operations such as isolating and segmenting words, phrases, and longer units, and attributing meaning to them
Language implications
Implication or entailment is used in propositional logic and predicate logic to describe a relationship between two sentences or sets of sentences
Homophones
Words that have the same pronunciation, but different meanings. The words are not spelled the same.
Facilitators in speech
A Language Facilitator is an instructional assistant who has a primary responsibility for a student with communication needs related to their ability to access and/or use spoken language receptively and expressively
Homonym
Words that have the same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings.
Social context
includes the culture that the individual was educated or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
Informal interaction
casual communication between coworkers in the workplace.
Gender distribution of talk
Men are much more likely to command and use personal space than women. Men often prefer face-to-face communication, with the opportunity to shake hands or pat someone’s shoulder. Women are usually comfortable speaking with someone side by side and are more comfortable being in close proximity with other women
Conversational interaction
Interaction conducted in a dialogical way, by exchanging natural language messages
Cultural transmission
Property of a communication system referring to the fact that at least some aspects of it are learned through interaction with other users of the system.
Pragmatics
the study of the use of natural language in communication
Syntax
the rules that pertain to the ways in which words can be combined to form sentences in a language.
Semantics
the meaning of words and combinations of words in a language.
Phonology
the branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds (including or excluding phonetics), within a language or between different languages.
Spectogram
A visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time
Phoneme
any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another
Morphology
The study of word formation processes
Constituents
an identifiable subpart of a sentence
Syllabic consonants
a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in some pronunciations of the English words rhythm, button and bottle
Vowel epenthesis
means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the beginning syllable or in the ending syllable or in-between two syllabic sounds in a word
Syllabification
the division of words into syllables, either in speech or in writing
Final devoicing
the expected voiced consonant becomes unvoiced at the end
Neutralisation
the elimination of certain distinctive features of phonemes in certain environments