CSD-2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fast Mapping, Consonant Harmony, Deixis

• School: App State
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: CSD-2259
• Professor: Joe Klein

Document Summary

Chpt 2: communicative competence- the knowledge of implicit awareness that speakers of a language have and use to communicate effectively in that language. More than speaking in grammatically, well-formed sentences. The speaker"s skilled navigation of both linguistic and pragmatic elements of language. Linguistic aspects: phonological competence- the ability to recognize and produce the distinctive, meaningful sounds of a language or phoneme. Changing a certain phoneme changes the meaning of the word. Infants are born ready to distinguish among the sound of all language. Children achieve phonological competence with their first year. Perceptual narrowing- an infant"s ability to perceive speech sounds in their native language and distinguish sounds that are not their native language. Infant"s vocal tract is much different than an adults. Vocal tract is very small, larynx sits high in throat. Phonological processes- normal phonological deviations that children make in producing specific sounds and words. Context specific, within in certain speech contexts.