Typical and Disordered Communication Flashcards
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Explain the role of culture and environment in humans communication
Humans are social beings. We need to communicate with others. Variables, such as culture identity, setting, and participants, affect communication and its success or failure.
Culture identity - the more you understand about your own culture and that of the people with whom you communicate, the more effective your interaction will be.
The environment - not only does communication reflect the culture of the speakers but it also occurs within an environment or context. In fact, the act of continuation often only makes sense writing a context. The communication environment includes not only the location in which communication occurs, but also the people involved and the even in which they are involved.
What are the variables that affect communication?
Culture Identity, Setting, and Participants.
Define language and its characteristics.
Language is a socially shared code that is used to represent concepts. This code uses arbitrary symbols that are combined in rule-governed ways.
Each language consists of rules that dictate how these words are arranged in sentences. The rules of a language make up its grammar.
Language is generative; this means that you can create new utterances.
Languages are dynamic; they change over time.
What is Sociolinguistics?
The study of such influences on communication.
What are the three components of a language?
CFU - Content, Form, and Use
Explain “Form” in a language?
Form consists of phonology, morphology, and syntax.
Phonology is the sound system of a language. In English, there’re 43 phonemes (unique speech sounds).
Morphology includes the structure of words. Morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit within a language. Words contain both free morphemes (e.g. cat, go, like, and magnificent) and bound morphemes (e.g. cats, going, dislike, and magnificently).
Syntax pertains to how words are arranged in a sentence and to the ways in which one word may affect another.
Define “Content” in a language.
Content of a language is the semantic of a language, where several pieces of meaning come together to define a particular word.
Define “Use” in a language.
Use, or pragmatics, is the driving force behind all aspects of language. We speak for a reason. It is the purpose of our utterance that primarily determines its form and content. Pragmatic rules vary with culture.
Define Speech.
Speech is the process of producing the acoustic representations or sounds of language. Features such as articulation, fluency, and voice interact to influence speech production.
What is Articulation?
Articulation refers to the way in which speech sounds are formed. For example. the movement of our tongue, teeth, and lips to produce the specific phonemes of a language; and the combination of these individual sounds to form words.
What is Prosody? And what are the prosodic features?
Prosody is the component of speech that includes rate and rhythm . Prosodic features are known as suprasegmentals. Stress and intonation are also suprasegmental features of speech production.
What’s Fluency in speech?
Fluency is the smooth, forward flow of communication. It is influenced by the r rhythm and rate of speech. Every language has its own rhythmic pattern, or timing.
