Quiz 1 Flashcards
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What is a communication disorder?
the impairment in the ability to receive, send, process, and comprehend concepts, including verbal, nonverbal, and graphic symbol systems
What are the subdivisions of a language disorder?
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
What are the subdivisions of a speech disorder?
articulation disorder, voice disorder, fluency disorder
What is the difference between speech and language?
speech is the how, motor aspects, and actual production
language is the what, the way words are used
What is articulation?
the totality of motor movements involved in production of the actual sounds that comprise speech
What are articulators?
those structures that are important in forming the individual sounds
What are phonemes?
the smallest linguistic unit that is able, when combined with other such units, to distinguish the meaning between words
What are allophones?
variations in phoneme realizations that do not change the meaning of a word when they are produced
What is phonology?
the study of how phonemes are organized and function in a language
What are phonotactics?
the allowed combinations for a language
What are minimal pairs?
two words that differ in only one phoneme
What is the difference in phonological disorders and articulation disorders?
Artic- motor based (“I can’t make the sound”)
Phono- pattern based (“I need help understanding the rules of the language”)
A speech sound disorder can affect the ____ or the ______ of speech sounds within a specific language system.
form and function
What are speech sound disorders?
1) perception
2) motor production
3) phonological realization of speech sounds and segments
4) problems with phonotactic rules and prosdic elements
What is an articualtion disorder?
SSD that affect the form or speech sounds; associated with structural (cleft palate) and motor based (apraxia) difficulties
What is a phonological disorder?
SSD that affects function of speech sounds within a language system; associated with difficulties in the generation of phonemes, phoneme rules, and phoneme patterns
