SLHS 2010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Triangle Wave, Exhalation, Transverse Wave

• School: CU-Boulder
• Department: Speech, Language & Hearing Sci
• Course: SLHS 2010
• Professor: Ryan Pollard

Document Summary

The prototypical speech chain is two people standing face to face speaking to one another but it will vary depending on where the people are and what they are trying to convey. muscles contract in order to these ears need to change the acoustic sound wave then convert back to words/language create physical sound waves. Discourse use: style, appropriateness, cohesiveness, rhetorical force (persuasiveness, topic/subtopic structure, what are the universal features of language, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, rules that allow us to combine meaningless sounds into meaningful words and sentences, complex structure that allows phrases to be moved to make questions, relative clauses, passives, etc. Yes they are able to learn sign language and communication sometimes: what is unique about human language, arbitrariness no link between signal/meaning, displacement can talk about things that aren"t physically present, productivity combine existing units to form new meanings, duality of patterning meaningless units are combined to create meaningful units.