Communication
What comprises communication?
What is:
Language
Speech
Extralinguistics
What are the four processes involved in the production of speech?
What is:
Respiration
Phonation
Articulation
Resonation
What are the 5 components of language?
What is:
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
What is the anatomy of the inner ear?
Cochlea
Inner hair cells
Outer hair cells
What is articulation?
Used to modify sound into a vowel or consonant.
What are the different communication modes?
Auditory-Oral system
Visual-Graphic System
Visual-Gestural System
How is a vowel produced?
Voiced. The vocal folds are vibrating when making the sound. There is no significant constriction of the air stream.
Language is what type of behavior?
What is:
Language is an acquired behavior
What is the anatomy of the outer ear?
Auricle
Ear canal which funnels sound to the middle ear
What is temporal auditory processing?
deals more specifically with the ability to perceive bref acoustic events that comprise speech sounds.
Explain extralinguistic communication.
Extralinguistic Communication involves the behaviors or actions we use to convey a message.
How is a voiceless sound produced?
The vocal folds are not vibrating when making the sound
Explain Pragmatics.
The social aspect of language.
Conveying emotion, topic maintenance, correcting when when your communication partner does not understand.
How does a baby's vocal tract differ from an adults vocal tract?
An infant's vocal tract becomes adultlike over the first three years of their life.
small oral space
small and retracted lower jaw
has sucking pads
tongue takes up a lot of oral space
limited tongue movement
breathe through their mouth
can breathe and swallow at the same time
eustachian tube is horizontal
Where is Broca's area.
Located in the frontal lobe.
What is nonlinguistics?
Nonlinguistics (Nonverbal communication)
Gestures, body movements, facial expressions.
Explain stress.
Loudness designated to a certain syllable.
What hemisphere of the brain is important for language?
The left hemisphere
Which seven cranial nerves are involved in speech and language?
V - trigeminal
VII - facial
VII - vestibulocochlear
IX - glossopharyngeal
X- vagus
XI - accessory
XII - Hypoglossal
What is encoding?
expression and production
What is metalinguistics?
Refers to the ability to use language to communicate or talk about and to analyze language. (rhyming uses metalinguistics)
What is intonation?
Patterns of variable pitch in a spoken message. (ex. when asking a questions, oue intonation goes up at the end.)
Names a theory on how cognition and language are related.
What is:
Strong cognition hypothesis
Weak cognition hypothesis
Separate but related
Local homology model
WhWhat comprises the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
The brain and spinal cord.
Where is Wernicke's area.
Located in the temporal lobe.