Communication Disorders
A professional trained to diagnose children and adults with speech and language disorders. They can help people develop speech and language skills and recapture speech and language skills that have been lost.
What is a Speech Language Pathologist.
Places with many bilingual speakers can impact the languages in that area.
Language Contact
Using “dude” to organize discourse into segments.
What is discourse structure marking.
The speaker should be as informative as required, but no more informative.
What is the maxim of quantity.
Speaking statements with a rising note at the end
What is Uptalk.
T/F: Speech, language, and hearing are all interconnected and all contribute to how effectively we communicate.
What is true.
Dialect boundaries often follow the migratory routes of humans.
What is population movement.
Often used when a speaker is taking a confrontational or “one-up” stance. Dude is used to calm the situation, it signals that issue is not serious.
What is confrontational stance attenuator
The speaker should give only relevant information.
What is the maxim of relation.
The injection of creaky, glottal vibrations at the end of words.
What is vocal fry.
These diagnoses (ASD, Down Syndrome, Specific Language Impairment) are classified as ________.
What are developmental communication disorders.
Transportation to various areas can lead to dialect endangerment.
What is Expanding transportation and Communication Networks.
Can be used on its own to express both positive and negative reactions.
What is exclamation.
The speaker should not say anything which is false or lacks evidence.
What is the maxim of quality.
Who leads linguistic change?
What are teenage girls.
Verbal and nonverbal message: intonation, tone, facial expression, eye contact, distance between speakers, fillers, prosody, etc.
What is communication.
Dialects no longer change in the cities, they change in the suburbs.
What is Shifting Cultural Centers.
Used to address someone and represents closeness.
What is affiliation and connection.
The speaker should avoid obscurity, ambiguity, disorderliness, or verboseness.
What is the maxim of manner.
First used as a conversation filler, to give the speaker time to formulate their next thought.
Commonly used in quotative form
Used to show emphasis
What is "like"
Interruption in flow of speaking.
What is a fluency disorder.
What language do these words come from? smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan
What is Irish
Used when a stance of agreement is taken, either sympathizing with an individual person or agreeing with the content of an utterance.
What is agreement.
Which maxims does this violate?
Teacher: Why didn’t you do your homework?
Student: May I go and get some water? I’m so thirsty.
What is the maxim of relation.
T/F: Debrah Tannen thinks the use of uptalk makes women sound uncertain.
What is false.