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Chapter 2
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Undergraduate 1
08/27/2012

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T/F Communication is not interactive.
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False
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Semantic Features
Definition
Pieces of meaning that come together to define a particular word.
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Acquired Impairment
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A disorder that is a result of an illness, accident, or environmental circumstance later in life
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What is the ratio of human exchanges of meaning that take place nonverbally?
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2/3- Nonverbal Communication
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What are the four zones that describe the progressively increasing distance of communicators from one another?
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1.) intimate
2.) social
3.) formal
4.) public
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Phonology
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An error in sound use, such as not pronouncing the ends of words, is a disorder called?
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Communication
Definition
exchange of ideas between sender and receiver. It involves message transmission and response of feedback. Communication is interactive. It involves give and take
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Sociolinguistics
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study of effect of cultural identify, setting, and participants on communication and its success or failure
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Language
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A socially shared code of conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule governed combinations of those symbols
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Grammar
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rules of a language
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Linguistic intuition
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the recognition of right and wrong grammar by native speakers of that particular language
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Generative
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language is generative because each utterance is freshly created. We may paraphrase or modify and present ideas in our own individual way.
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Dynamic
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language is dynamic because it changes over time; it does not stay the same
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Form
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the perceivable aspect of language. it includes phonology, morphology, syntax
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Phonology
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sound system of a language
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morphology
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the structure of words
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morpheme
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smallest grammatical unit of meaning within a language
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free morpheme
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may stand alone and still carry meaning: ex; cat
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bound morpheme
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must be attached to a free morpheme to carry meaning. Ex. (s) in cats. the s is a bound morpheme and changes the meaning of the word from singular to plural
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syntax
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pertains to how words are arranged in a sentence (rules/grammar)
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Phonotactic rules
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specify how sounds may be arranged in words. These rules are not universal
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Content
Definition
meaning of language. aka semantics
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Semantic features
Definition
pieces of meaning that come together to define a particular word
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Use
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aka pragmatics, the driving force behind all aspects of language- we speak for a reason. The social aspect of language.
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speech
Definition
spoken language, primary modality for language
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Articulation
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refers to the way in which speech sounds are formed. Think of how we have to move our tongue, teeth, and lips in order to produce specific sounds in a language
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Fluency
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influenced by the rate and rhythm of speech. Each language has its own rhythmic pattern. No one has perfectly fluent speech
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Rate
Definition
speech at which we talk
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Prosody
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rate and rhythm of speech are sometimes referred to as vocal prosody
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Fluent
Definition
speech that is smooth and relatively free of distruptions
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Voice
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reveals certain things about the speaker as well as their message. Overall loudness and the loudness pattern within sentences and words are important as well as pitch and quality of the voice
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Pitch
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listeners perception of how high or low a sound is. Physically measured as cycles per second. or Hertz
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Habitual pitch
Definition
Basic tone that an individual uses most of the time,
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Intonation
Definition
pitch movement and variation within an utterance. A rising intonation can change a statement into a question
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Suprasegmental
Definition
prosodic feature of a language that allows you to convey different meanings by varying stress, intonation, and duration of speech
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