Speech Sound Development
At what age are most speech sounds mastered?
Approximately age 8
What type of morpheme is “-ing”?
What is inflectional?
What is the primary muscle of respiration?
What is the diaphragm?
What is the main cause of hypernasality?
What is velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI)? Common causes include: structural abnormality (e.g. short palate, cleft palate, submucosal cleft palate, oronasal fistula), adenoidectomy/tonsillectomy,
Which sound class typically develops first?
What are stops.
What skill involves understanding word relationships and meanings?
What is semantics?
Which structure vibrates to produce voice?
What are the vocal folds?
Congestion or a stuffy nose would likely result in what vocal quality?
What is hyponasality?
What phonological process is expected in a 2-year-old but not a 5-year-old?
What is final consonant deletion?
At what age do children typically use 2-word combinations?
What is around 18–24 months?
The hard palate separates the oral from what cavity?
What is the nasal cavity?
What process describes replacing a back sound with a front sound?
What is fronting?
Difficulty with turn-taking and topic maintenance falls under which domain?
What is pragmatics?
What cranial nerve controls tongue movement?
What is the Hypoglossal nerve (CN XII)?
Name the last sound group to typically develop.
What are liquids (/r/, /l/) and voiced/voiceless “th”?
This is the difference between receptive and expressive language?
What is understanding vs. producing language?
Which laryngeal cartilage is commonly called the “Adam’s apple”?
What is the Thyroid cartilage?