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Chapter 6 Vocabulary

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Speech Disorder   A difficulty that a person has in producing sounds as well as having general difficulties with voice quality or fluency of speech  
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Language Disorder   Difficulty a person has in receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information  
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Receptive Language Disorder   Difficulty a person has only in receiving and understanding information  
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Expressive Language Disorder   Difficulty a person has only in formulating and expressing ideas and information  
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Cleft Palate or Lip   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   A language variation that a group of individuals uses and that reflects shared regional, social, or cultural/ethnic factors  
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Speech   The oral expression of language that occurs when a person orally produces sounds and syllables  
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Language   A structured, shared, rule-governed, symbolic system for communicating  
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Phonology   The use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words  
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Phonemes   Individual speech sounds  
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Morphology   The system that governs the structure of words  
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Morpheme   The smallest meaningful unit of speech  
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Syntax   A system that provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences  
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Semantics   The meaning of what is expressed in language  
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Pragmatics   The use of communication in contexts  
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Social Interaction Theories   Theories that emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions.  
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Articulation   A speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds  
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Substitution   An occurrence where a person substitutes one phoneme for another  
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Omission   An occurrence where a person leaves a phoneme out of a word  
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Addition   An occurrence where a person places an extra vowel between two consonants  
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Distortions   Modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word  
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Apraxia   A motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech  
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Pitch   The quality of a person's speech that is affected by the tension and size of the vocal folds and the health of the larynx  
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Duration   The length of time that any speech sound requires  
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Intensity   A quality of speech that is based on the perception of the listener and is determined by air pressure coming from the lungs through the vocal folds  
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Resonance   The perceived quality of someone's voice 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   A speech condition in which air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than /m/, /n/, and /ng/  
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Hyponasality   A speech condition when air cannot pass through the nose and comes through the mouth instead  
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Fluency   The rate and rhythm of a person's speaking  
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Specific Language Impairment   A language impairment not related to any physical or intellectual disability  
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Organic Disorder   A disorder caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person  
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Functional Disorder   A disorder with no identifiable organic or neurological cause  
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Congenital Disorder   A disorder that occurs at or before birth  
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Acquired Disorder   A disorder that occurs well after birth  
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Oral Motor Exam   An examination of the appearance, strength, and range of motion of the lips, tongue, palate, teeth, and jaw  
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Bilingual   A description of someone who can speak two different languages  
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Bidialectal   A description of someone who can speak two variations of a language  
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System for Augmenting Language (SAL)   An instructional strategy that focuses on augmented input of language  
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