CSD-3366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Metalinguistic Awareness, Paralanguage, Spoken Language

• School: App State
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: CSD-3366
• Professor: Emily Lakey

Document Summary

Speech, language, and communication: speech- a verbal means of communicating, the result of planning and executing specific motor sequences. Other methods of communication include writing, drawing, and signing. Speech is a process that requires precise neuromuscular coordination. Phonemes- specific sounds each spoken language has. Spoken language also includes voice quality, intonation, and rate. Also includes facial expressions, gestures, body posture. In conversation, non-speech may make up up to 60% of information exchanged: language- a socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-governed combination of these symbols. The relationship between individual sounds, meaningful sound units, and the combination of these units specified by the rules of a language. The symbols are organized in certain ways to convey ideas. Dialects- subcategories of the parent language that use similar but no identical rules. It is esti(cid:373)ated that half of the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld(cid:859)s 6000 la(cid:374)guages a(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot lea(cid:396)(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) children.