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Speech Sound Disorders
Exam 1 Vocabulary
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Speech-Language Pathology
Undergraduate 4
09/10/2013

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Allophones
Definition
variants of a phoneme in a particular language
EX: aspirated /p/ and unaspirated /p/
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Alveolar
Definition
consonants produced at the alveolar ridge: /t,d,s,z,n,l/
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Apraxia
Definition
motor programming difficulty particularly consonant seqences
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Articulation
Definition
movement of speech production mechanism to produce speech sounds
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Coarticulation
Definition
the related overlapping articulatory influences that occur a s sounds are produced in connected speech
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Assimilation
Definition
a sound change in which one is influenced by another and changes
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Cognates
Definition
consonant sounds that differ from each other only by by voicing
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Dental
Definition
a consonant sound produced with contact of the tongue and teeth
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Diacritics
Definition
special marks used with IPA symbols to add more detail to transcription
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Dialect
Definition
a variety of a language spoken by a group
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Diphthongs
Definition
thow vowels produced cosecutively in the same syllable creating a nucleus (two artic positions)
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Distinctive Freatures
Definition
a universal sef of phonetic characteristics that differentiate speech sounds (+voice, -nasal)
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Distortions
Definition
deviation in production that is not phonemic (lisp)
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Grapheme
Definition
written or printed letters
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Digraph
Definition
two letters yielding on sound (sh)
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Ideolect
Definition
speech that is characteristic of a single individual
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Intelligibility
Definition
the degree to which other can understand a persons speech
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IPA
Definition
International Phonetic Alphabet
symbols established for each phoneme across all languages
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Lingual
Definition
referring to the tongue
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Minimal Pair
Definition
two words differing by only on sounds (pat/bat) the test for determining phonemes of a language
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Morpheme
Definition
minimal meaningful unit, may involve more than one phoneme
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Nucleus of a syllable
Definition
the sonority peak or loudest part of a syllable usually a vowel , sometimes a syllabic consonant
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Obstuents
Definition
consonants made with the vocal tract partially or completely impeded (stops, fricative, affricate)
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Phone
Definition
a single speech sounds produced by a speaker, may not be meaningful
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Phoneme
Definition
one group of similar speech sounds perceived as the same within a language
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Phonetic/Phonemic Repertoire
Definition
all of the speech sounds that an individual produces
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Acoustic Phonetics
Definition
study of speech properties, including frequency, intensity, and duration
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Physiological Phonetics
Definition
deals with spee/sound productions (aka articulatory phonetics - analyze airflow, muscle potentials, and structural movements)
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Phonological Patterns
Definition
accepted groupings (clusters, stridents)
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Phonological Deviations
Definition
speech sound changes (omissions, substitutions) abnormal
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Phonotactics
Definition
rules of a language specifying where sounds can occur and how sounds can be combined in that language
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Prevocalic
Definition
Consonant occurring before a vowel
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Intervocalic
Definition
Consonant between two vowels
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Postvocalic
Definition
consonant after vowel
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Protowords
Definition
consistant sound patterns by children semantically similar but may no model adult words (first meaningful vocal productions)
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Prosody/Suprasegmentals
Definition
aspects such as stress and tone that extend over more than one segment
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Sibilant
Definition
mid to high frequency consonants (the "S" group)
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Stridents
Definition
sibilants + /f/ and /v/
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Sonorants
Definition
sounds produced with relatively unobstructed vocal tract
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Speech Perception
Definition
Identification of vowels and consonants of a language largely due to auditory cues
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Stimulability
Definition
the ability of a child to produce a sound following a model and if necessary, with additional assistas (tactile cues, amplification) not previously produced
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Stimulable
Definition
sounds that can be produced after cuing (imitating a model
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Successie Approximations
Definition
gradual progression in productions toward the desire target sound
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Syllabic Consonants
Definition
a consonant that serves a the syllable nuclei
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Tactile Cuing
Definition
the use of touch cues to stimulate appropriate placementt or manner of production (touching under the chin at the base of the tongue to stimulate a velar production)
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Velopharyngeal Port
Definition
those structures (soft palate, uvula, pharyngeal wall) that open and close the connection between the oral and nasal cavities
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Virgules
Definition
a pair of backslash marks used to denote a distinctive speech sound
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Vocalizations
Definition
infant's early vocalizations (prelingueistic) that do not appear to be based on the adult language or to be used ina meaningful way
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Voiced
Definition
a type of sound produced with bibrations of the adducted vocal folds in the larynx
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Voiceles
Definition
a type of consonant produced without bibration of the adducted vocal folds
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Critical Age Hypothesis
Definition
the premise that children are at irisk for literacy problems if severe speech difficulties have not resolved by age 5 or 6
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Matthew Effect
Definition
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
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