SPA 4004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: World Health Organization, Augmentative, Pragmatics

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Speech Pathology & Audiology
• Course: SPA 4004
• Professor: Sharon Difino

Document Summary

Week 1: world health organization, language / cognition. Iconic augmentative: language conventions, language is rule governed, english vs. spanish rules differ, adjective follow nouns in spanish. La mesa roja vs. the red table : language domains, use, pragmatics, how to use language, form. Syntax: the grammar, morphology, phonology, content semantics, vocab, phonology, the sound system of the language, the smallest unit of language that overlays the meaning to motoric movements of speech. Ipa: international phonetic alphabet: morphology, smallest unit of language that expresses meaning, bound-free or root words vs. bound, prefixes and suffixes, they are bound morpheme. Syntax: sentence level, that marks relationships between rules and ideas, grammar. Semantics: the meaning of language, two types, lexical. Dog : conceptual, concepts: barks, wags, growls, four legs , pragmatics, how we use the language, form and content. Intent; request: quality of expression; topic initiation, maintenance, shifting, closure, eye contact; body gestures. Intonation, discourse: culturally varies, expressive vs. receptive language, expressive.