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Highlighted Vocabulary Terms in Chapter 6

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Speech Disorder   Refers to difficulty in producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality (for example, a hoarse voice) or fluency of speech, often referred to as stuttering  
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Language Disorder   Is difficulty in receiving, understanding, and formulating ideas and information  
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Receptive Language Disorder   Is characterized by difficulty in receiving or understanding information  
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Expressive Language Disorder   Is characterized by difficulty in formulating ideas and information  
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Cleft Palate/Lip   Describes a condition in which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or the upper lip  
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Dialect   Is a regional variation of a language, as when someone speaks English using terms or pronunciations common only in that region  
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Speech   Is the oral expression of language. The disorder may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations  
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Language   Is a structured, shared, rule-governed symbolic system for communicating  
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Phonology   Is the use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words  
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Phonemes   Are individual speech sounds and how they are produced, depending on their placement in a syllable or word  
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Morphology   Is the system that governs the structure of words  
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Morpheme   Is the smallest meaningful unit of speech  
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Syntax   Provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences  
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Semantics   Refers to the meaning of what is expressed  
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Pragmatics   Refers to the use of communication in context  
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Social Interaction Theories   Emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions  
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Articulation   Is a speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds  
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Substitutions   Occur when a person substitutes one sound for another, as when a child substitutes /d/ for the voiced /th/ ("doze" for "those"), /t/ for /k/ ("tat" for "cat"), or /w/ for /r/ ("wabbit" for "rabbit")  
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Omissions   Occur when a child leaves a phoneme out of a word  
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Additions   Occur when students place a vowel between two consonants  
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Distortions   Are modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word  
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Apraxia   Is a motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech  
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Pitch   Is affected by the tension and size of the vocal folds, the health of the larynx, and the location of the larynx  
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Duration   Is the length of time any speech sound requires  
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Intensity   (Loudness or softness) is based on the perception of the listener and is determined by the air pressure coming from the lungs through the vocal folds  
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Resonance   Is determined by the way in which the tone coming from the vocal folds is modified by the spaces of the throat, mouth, and nose  
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Hypernasality   Is when air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than /m/, /n/, and /ng/  
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Hypnonasality   Occurs because air cannot pass through the nose and comes through the mouth instead  
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Fluency   Is the rate and rhythm of speaking  
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Specific Language Impairment   Describes a language disorder with no identifiable cause in a person with apparently normal development in all other areas  
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Organic Disorders   Are those caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person  
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Functional Disorders   Are those with no identifiable organic or neurological cause  
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Congenital Disorder   Is a disorder that occurs at or before birth  
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Acquired Disorder   Is a disorder that occurs well after birth  
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Oral Motor Exam   Is examination of the appearance, strength, and range of motion of the lips, tongue, palate, teeth, and jaw  
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Bilingual   Refers to someone who uses two languages equally well  
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Bidialectal   Refers to someone who uses two variations of a language  
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System for Augmenting Language (SAL)   Focuses on augmented input of language  
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