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.
Speaking statements with a rising note at the end
What is Uptalk.
Animal communication systems are the same as human languages.
What is FALSE
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 injection of creaky, glottal vibrations at the end of words.
What is vocal fry.
Refers to the notion that at least some part of a communication system is learned through interaction with other users.
What is Cultural Transmission.
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.
Who leads linguistic change?
What are teenage girls.
True/ False: In all animal communication systems, the number of signals is fixed.
What is True.
Even though the signals in some animal communication systems are complex, there is no mechanism for systematically combining discrete units in new ways to create new signals. (Productivity)
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.
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"
What features of language not found in animal communication
What are displacement and productivity
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.
T/F: Debrah Tannen thinks the use of uptalk makes women sound uncertain.
What is false.
True/False: Snakes, lizards, and frogs use arbitrary signals when communicating with each other.
What is False. They use Iconic symbols.