Slp Flashcards
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What are the known terms linked with Speech sound errors?
Terms related to speech sound errors include articulation, phonology, phonetics, phoneme, and phone.
What is communication?
Communication is the process of exchanging information through speech, writing, or non-verbal cues.
What is the difference between language and speech?
Language is a system of symbols and rules for communication, while speech is the physical production of sounds.
What is the difference between phonology and articulation?
Phonology is the study of sound systems in languages, while articulation refers to the physical production of speech sounds.
What must an SLP be able to do?
An SLP must be able to describe a child’s ability to produce, perceive, combine sounds, know the right words, describe sounds in words, and show how sounds are produced.
What is phonetics?
Phonetics is the study of the physical characteristics of speech sounds, including their production, transmission, and perception.
What is a phone?
A phone is the smallest unit of speech, represented between [ ], used in any language.
What is phonology?
Phonology is the study of the sound system in languages.
What is a phoneme?
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a specific language that distinguishes one word from another, represented with IPA symbols between slashes: / /.
What is articulatory phonetics?
Articulatory phonetics studies how speech sounds are produced with the articulators.
What are articulators?
Articulators are parts of the human body involved in speech production.
What is acoustic phonetics?
Acoustic phonetics studies speech sounds as transmitted through air via sound waves.
What is phonetic encoding?
Phonetic encoding is the relationship between the acoustic properties of sound waves and how the listener perceives different speech sounds.
What is co-articulation?
Co-articulation occurs when articulators move simultaneously to produce overlapping sounds.
What is assimilation?
Assimilation is when sounds in a word affect each other by becoming similar.
What are the types of assimilation?
Types of assimilation include remote, contact, progressive, and regressive.
What are articulation disorders?
Articulation disorders refer to difficulties with the motor production aspects of speech.
What are phonological disorders?
Phonological disorders are issues with the conceptualization or language rules affecting sound patterns.
What are phonological processes?
Phonological processes are patterns that young children use to simplify adult speech.
What are syllable structure processes?
Syllable structure processes involve sound changes that reduce, delete, or repeat sounds or syllables.
What is final consonant deletion?
Final consonant deletion is the omission of the final consonant in a syllable or word.
What is cluster reduction?
Cluster reduction is the deletion of one or more consonants from a consonant cluster.
