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1
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Definition of Communication

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 The primary function of language
 The process of exchanging information and ideas (needs & desires)
 An active process that involves encoding, transmitting, and decoding messages

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Encoding

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The first step the sender is faced with. Uses encoding in order to convey meaning (symbols are used to encode ideas into messages that OTHERS can understand); this process translates info into a message in the form of symbols that represent ideas / concepts.

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Transmitting

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To begin transmitting the message, the sender uses some kind of channel (also called a medium).

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Decoding

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conducted by the receiver. Once the message is received and examined, the stimulus is sent to the brain for interpreting, in order to assign some type of meaning to it. It is this processing stage that constitutes decoding. The receiver begins to interpret the symbols sent by the sender, translating the message to their own set of experiences in order to make the symbols meaningful. Successful communication takes place when the receiver correctly interprets the sender’s message.

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Paralinguistic Aspects

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Suprasegmental Devices)-

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Why are Paralinguistic mechanisms called suprasegmental devices?

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Paralinguistic mechanisms are called Suprasegmental devices because they can change the form & meaning of a sentence by acting across elements, or segments, of a sentence.

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Examples of Suprasegmental Devices

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	Intonation: the use of pitch. The most complex.
	Stress: For emphasis
	Rate
	Pauses
	Pitch, pauses, and rhythm
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Examples of Nonlingusitc Aspects

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	Gestures
	Body posture
	Facial expression
	Eye contact
	Head and body movement
	Physical distance or proximity
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What are Metalinguistic skills?

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Metalinguistic skills are the abilities to talk about language, analyze it, think about it, judge it, and see it as an entity separate from its content.

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Examples of Metalinguistic skills

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 Phonological awareness:Phonemic awareness refers to the specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Phonemes are the smallest units comprising spoken language.
 Grammatical judgment
 Ambiguity:
 Word awareness: is the knowledge that words have meaning.

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The pre-linguistic stage

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Infants are pre-wired” for communication. They focus on their mother’s eyes during feeding, have a preference for the human voice, and demonstrate complex facial expressions.

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Within the first year of life, infants…

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can discriminate phonemes and intonation patters. can tell speech from non-speech. They coo.

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When is the first social smile?

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3-6 weeks

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Proto-conversations

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An interaction between an adult (typically a mother) and baby, that includes words, sounds and gestures, that attempts to convey meaning before the onset of language in the child

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Joint Reference

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Reference is the ability to differentiate one entity from many and to note its presence.
Joint Reference: presupposes that two or more individuals share a common focus on one entity

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Joint Action

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Throughout the 1st year of life, a caregiver & infant develop shared behaviors in familiar contexts.Joint action: routine action that provides structure within which language can be analyzed. From this, the child learns turn-taking & conversational skills.

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When does facial imitation begin?

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4-6 months

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3 developmental stages of early communication intentions

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o Behaviors are undifferentiated & unknown (1-8 months)
o Use of gestures &vocalizations to express intent(8-12 months)
o Use of words to convey intentions(12 mos+)

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Paralinguistic

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the aspects of spoken communication that do not involve words. Ex)intonation, stress, rate, pauses

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Presupposition

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Even at the single-word stage, a child has some knowledge of the information to be included in a conversation, giving evidence of presupposition. It’s the assumption that the listener knows or does not know certain information that a child, as speaker, must include or delete from the conversation.

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What is language?

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 A socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts
 The use of arbitrary symbols and rule governed combinations of those symbols
 Dialects

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 Generative system aka Nativist approach

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Children are able to acquire language because they are born with innate rules or principles related to structures of human languages.
Generativists assume that it is impossible for children to learn linguistic knowledge from the environment given. The input children hear is limited & full of errors & incomplete information. Even with these limitations, children are still able to acquire the linguistic knowledge quickly because of the guidance of innate linguistic hypotheses.

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Language Components

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Form, Content, Use

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Form

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Phonology, Morphology, Syntax

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Content

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semantics

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Use

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Pragmatics

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Linguistic competence

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A language user’s underlying knowledge about the system of rules. Even though the user can’t state the rules, performance demonstrates adherence to them.

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Linguistic performance

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Linguistic knowledge in actual usage.

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5 aspects of cognitive development important for language

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  • Imitation
  • Object permanence:Seen when infants search for a missing object. It’s knowing that an object exists even when it is not readily visible.
  • Causality: The relation of cause and effect?
  • Means-Ends:
  • Play
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Toddler Productive Vocabulary

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• Growth of productive vocabulary to about 50 words

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Child’s productions are ___________ of adult’s productions

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approximations

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Categories of toddler’s lexicon:

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  • Animals, food and toys
  • Co-ordinates
  • People and animal within the child’s environment
  • Words represent individual objects
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Nouns account for _____ of toddler vocabulary

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60-65%

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modifier

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• Modifier- is a word, phrase, or clause which functions as an adjective or an adverb to describe a word or make its meaning more specific.

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There is a vocabulary spurt from _____ months.

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18-24 months

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How many words a day do infants add to their lexicon?

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10-20 new words per day

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Under-extensions:

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Overly restricted meanings. Ex) Using the word “cup” for ONLY the CHILD’S cup. Child doesn’t apply the word ‘cup’ to other cups.

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Overextensions

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Meanings that are too broad when compared to the adult meaning. Example, Calling all men “Daddy”. The child doesn’t necessarily think that ALL men are his/her daddy, the child just ASSUMES that all men are CALLED ‘daddy’

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Categories for overextensions

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  • Visual similarity: Perceptual similarities are mostly visual. 60% of extensions.
  • Functional similarity:25% of extensions.
  • Contextual similarity of an object with an event (blanket with a nap)
  • Emotional similarity:Accounts for a very small number of extensions
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first sounds

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plosives, nasals, glides, vowels

41
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Two word utterances begin when?

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18-24 months

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To remain on topic, preschoolers often use what tactic?

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Repetition

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Presupposition

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Adaptation to the listener’s knowledge

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Which is first? Form or Function?

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Form follows function
• A communication base is established first.
• Language is then used to express verbally those intentions and functions that were previously expressed non-verbally

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Bootstrapping

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-the process of learning language in which children use what they know to decode more mature language

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How many words do preschoolers add to their vocabulary a day?

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2-5 words

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fast-mapping

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Word meanings are inferred without direct teaching by adults

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1st year milestone

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single word utterances

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2nd year milestone

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grammatical morphems

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3rd year milestone

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embedded phrases and clauses within sentences; conjunctions

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Narratives begin at age…

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2

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Time Order is acquired by age..

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3

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Speech

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• Speech is the verbal means by which humans communicate

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Phoneme

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the smallest meaningful unit of speech

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Allophones

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subtle phonetic realizations of a phoneme.

56
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Phonemes are classified by:

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Place and manner of articulation. Voiced or Voiceless.

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Place of articulation:

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  • Bilabial (both lips)
  • Dental (touching the tongue to the teeth)
  • Velar (touching the tongue to the velum)
  • Alveolar
  • Glottal
  • Labio-dental
  • Palatal
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Manner of articulation

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  • Plosive(p,b,t, d, k,g)
  • Fricative(f,v,s,z,)- a manner class of consonants characterized by construction of (but not stopping) the air flow, with the constriction creating turbulence or friction.
  • Affricates(ch sound’ /ʧ/ and ‘j sound’ /ʤ/)–a consonant produced by briefly stopping then releasing the oral airflow as a fricative.
  • Liquids (r, l) a type of approximant produced by the articulators approaching one another but not coming so close as to create turbulence
  • Glides(w, j)
  • Nasal(m,n) phonemes
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Coarticulation

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the articulation of two or more speech sounds together, so that one influences the other

60
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Development of Speech Stages

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Phonation, Cooing Expansion, Canonical, Variegated babbling, Jargon/gibberish, pre-representational, representational,

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Phonation stage

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(0-1 month)- vocalization is limited to crying to signal hunger and discomfort.

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Cooing stage

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(2-3 months)- babies may begin to laugh and make sounds in the back of their throats that sound like “goo”.

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Expansion stage

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(4-6 months)-vocal behavior diversifies has infants approach the end of their first six months of life. New forms include more substantial vowel-like sounds, as well as a variety of less “speechy”soundssuch as bilabial trills (“raspberries”), squealing, and growling.

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Canonical stage

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(7-9 months)- During the canonical stage, the babbling involves reduplicated sounds containing alternations of vowels and consonants, for example, “baba” or “bobo”.Reduplicated babbling (also known as canonical babbling) consists of repeated syllables consisting of consonant and a vowel such as “da da da da” or “ma ma ma ma”.

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Variegated babbling

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(10-12 months)- Variegated babbles contain mixes of consonant vowel combinations such as “ka da by ba mi doy doy”. Variegated babbling differs from reduplicated babbling in terms of the variation and complexity of syllables that are produced.

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First words - The Pre-Representational Stage

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(12-18 months)
• Simple syllabic structure: CV (“no”), VC (“eat” or “up”), CVCV- reduplicated (such as “mama”, “dada”), and CVCV-not reduplicated (such as “doggie”).
• Limited repertoire of sounds: stops (plosives) (b,p,t,d,k,g) nasals (m,n) and glides (w, j)
• Most frequent vowels: i, a , and u.

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Two-word combinations-The Representational Stage

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(18-mos-4-yrs) –
• Number of different soundsincreases
• Syllabic structures become more complex
• Phonological processes:

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Phonological processes:

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Cluster reduction, Reduplication, Weak syllable deletion, Final consonant deletion, Fronting, Stopping, Gliding

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Cluster reduction

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(/poon/ for /spoon/)- the child eliminates a consonant cluster that they do not like to produce

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Reduplication

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(/wawa/ for /water/)

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Weak syllable deletion

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(/nanna/ for /banana/)-Children will leave out the unstressed syllable. For example, telphone for telephone

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Final consonant deletion

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(/hea/ for /head/)

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Fronting

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a phonological process referring to the substitution of a consonant further back in the mouth with a consonant produced further forward, typically velar fronting

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Stopping

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(/tun/ for /sun/)-Fricative (ongoing) sounds are replaced by stops. For example, toup forsoup or pit for peach.

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Gliding

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(/wed/ for /red/)/r/ and /l/ are replaced by /w/. For example, wun for run.

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Labial assimilation

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When a sound is changed to a labial sound (b, p, m, w) because of another labial sound in a word.

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Velar assimilation

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(/gog/ for /dog/)-When a non-velar sound is changed to a velar (k, g, ng) sound.

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Nasal assimilation

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(/munny/ for /bunny/)- When a non-nasal sound is changed to a nasal (m, n, ng) because of the influence of another nasal sound in the word.

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Liquid assimilation

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(/lellow/ for /yellow/)- a non-liquid sound changes to a liquid sound

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assimilation is also called:

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consonant harmony

81
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acquirement of articulation

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The classes of nasals, stops, and glides are acquired before fricatives, affricates, and liquids.• Front consonants are acquired beforeback consonants (labial (first), THEN alveolar, palatal and velar).
• Sounds are FIRST AQCUIRED in the initial position of words.
• Most consonantclusters are acquired LATE (age 7-8)

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types of morphemes

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free or bound

83
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bound morphemes

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‘s (possession)
er (more)
 un (negative)
 ly (manner)
s (plural)
84
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Derivational morphemes

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(mad-madly; mad-madness; judge-judgment

85
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Inflectional morphemes

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(big-bigger- biggest)

86
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phonology includes:

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Phoneme - the smallest meaningful units of speech
o Allophones
o Distributional rules
o Sequencing rules

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Distributional rules

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describe which sounds can be employed in various positions in words

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Sequencing rules

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Sequential constraints in phonology refer specifically to the clusters of sounds that you are allowed to use when making words happen.

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Semantics

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Rules govern the meaning of words and word combination

o Word meaning includes:

 Semantic features (the semantic features of “bachelor” include “unwed” and “male”)

 Selection restrictions (“bachelor’s wife” ;“unwed bachelor”)

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Pragmatics

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Discourse & conversational skills. Ex. turn-taking