Processes of Language
The process involved in pulling together one’s thoughts for sharing.
What is Formulation?
Refers to the meaning of individual words and word combinations.
What is semantics?
Disorders affecting semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, or pragmatics.
What are language disorders?
Age of first true words?
What is 12 months?
Smallest unit of sound
What is a phoneme?
What is the Central Nervous System?
What is the largest lobe of the cerebrum.
What is the frontal lobe?
The process involved in conveying ideas to others.
What is transmission?
Refers to the rules of language governing the organization of sentences.
What is Syntax?
Disorders affecting articulation, fluency, voice, or motor speech.
What are speech disorders?
Term for sounds produced with no meaning.
What is vocalization?
The two domains that make up grammar.
What are syntax and morphology?
What is the cerebellum?
Afferent extensions of neurons.
What are dendrites?
The process involved in receiving the information from another person.
What is reception?
Refers to the rules of language governing the internal organization of words.
What is morphology?
Disorders affecting sensorineural, conductive, and auditory processing.
What are hearing disorders?
When a child extends a meaning too widely.
What is an overextension?
The amount of words a child knows at 18 months.
What is 50 words?
Part of the brain that sits directly on top of the spinal cord and regulates cardiac and respiratory functions.
What is the brain stem?
AKA the windpipe.
What is the trachea?
The process involved in making sense of the received message.
What is comprehension?
Refers to the rules of language governing the sounds used to make syllables and words.
What is phonology?
Term used for disorders of swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
The simultaneous engagement of two or more individuals in mental focus on a single object or event.
What is joint attention?
What does MLU stand for?
What is Mean Length of Utterance?
Leaf-like structure that inverts to protect the airway.
What is the epiglottis?
Long tube of muscle that runs from the bottom of the pharynx to the entrance of the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
The two processes that involve language.
What is Formulation and Comprehension?
Refers to the rules of language governing how language is used for social purposes.
What is pragmatics?
Aphasia is an example of what type of disorder?
What is a language disorder?
Language that goes beyond the here and now.
What is decontextualized langusage?
Describes a young child’s understanding of and sensitivity to the sound units of oral language (syllables, phonemes, words).
What is phonological awareness?
Cartilaginous box that sits at the front of the neck on top of the trachea.
What is the larynx?
What is the corpus callosum?