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Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Speech disorder | refers to difficulty producing sounds as well as disorders of voice quality or fluency of speech. |
Language disorder | entails difficulty receiving, understanding, or formulating ideas and information. |
Receptive language disorder | characterized by difficulty receiving or understanding information. |
Expressive language disorder | characterized by difficulty formulating ideas and information. |
Cleft palate or lip | condition in which a person has a split in the upper part of the oral cavity or upper lip. |
Dialect | language variation that a group of individuals uses and that reflects shared regional, social, or cultural/ethnic factors. |
Speech | oral expression of language |
Language | structured, shared, rule-governed, symbolic system for communication. |
Phonology | use of sounds to make meaningful syllables and words. |
Phonemes | speech sounds. |
Morphology | system that governs the structure of words. |
Morpheme | smallest meaningful bit of sound. |
Syntax | rules for putting together a series of words to form sentences. |
Semantics | refers to the meaning of what is expressed. |
Pragmatics | refers to the use of communication in contexts. |
Social interaction theories | emphasize that communication skills are learned through social interactions. |
Articulation | speaker's production of individual or sequenced sounds. |