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Chapter 6 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Speech Disorder | A difficulty that a person has in producing sounds as well as having general difficulties with voice quality or fluency of speech |
| Language Disorder | Difficulty a person has in receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information |
| Receptive Language Disorder | Difficulty a person has only in receiving and understanding information |
| Expressive Language Disorder | Difficulty a person has only in formulating and expressing ideas and information |
| 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 |
| Dialect | A language variation that a group of individuals uses and that reflects shared regional, social, or cultural/ethnic factors |
| Speech | The oral expression of language that occurs when a person orally produces sounds and syllables |
| Language | A structured, shared, rule-governed, symbolic system for communicating |
| Phonology | The use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words |
| Phonemes | Individual speech sounds |
| Morphology | The system that governs the structure of words |
| Morpheme | The smallest meaningful unit of speech |
| Syntax | A system that provides rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences |
| Semantics | The meaning of what is expressed in language |
| Pragmatics | The use of communication in contexts |
| Social Interaction Theories | Theories that emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions. |
| Articulation | A speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds |
| Substitution | An occurrence where a person substitutes one phoneme for another |
| Omission | An occurrence where a person leaves a phoneme out of a word |
| Addition | An occurrence where a person places an extra vowel between two consonants |
| Distortions | Modifications of the production of a phoneme in a word |
| Apraxia | A motor speech disorder that affects the way in which a student plans to produce speech |
| 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 |
| Duration | The length of time that any speech sound requires |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hypernasality | A speech condition in which air is allowed to pass through the nasal cavity on sounds other than /m/, /n/, and /ng/ |
| Hyponasality | A speech condition when air cannot pass through the nose and comes through the mouth instead |
| Fluency | The rate and rhythm of a person's speaking |
| Specific Language Impairment | A language impairment not related to any physical or intellectual disability |
| Organic Disorder | A disorder caused by an identifiable problem in the neuromuscular mechanism of the person |
| Functional Disorder | A disorder with no identifiable organic or neurological cause |
| Congenital Disorder | A disorder that occurs at or before birth |
| Acquired Disorder | A disorder that occurs well after birth |
| Oral Motor Exam | An examination of the appearance, strength, and range of motion of the lips, tongue, palate, teeth, and jaw |
| Bilingual | A description of someone who can speak two different languages |
| Bidialectal | A description of someone who can speak two variations of a language |
| System for Augmenting Language (SAL) | An instructional strategy that focuses on augmented input of language |
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