Communication Sciences and Disorders 4411A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Speech-Language Pathology, Hypernasal Speech, Pervasive Developmental Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: Communication Sciences and Disorders 4411A/B
• Professor: Janis Cardy

Document Summary

Form: phonology- study of sound systems of languages. Phonotatics rules for combining phonemes into syllables and words. Phonemes unit of sound in a language that convey meaning (cid:523)ex: (cid:498)p(cid:499) and (cid:498)b(cid:499) are different phonemes(cid:524) Ex #1 plural (cid:498)s(cid:499) added to word-final voiced consonant= (cid:498)z(cid:499) and when plural (cid:498)s(cid:499) added to word-final voiceless consonant= (cid:498)s(cid:499) Ex#2 (cid:498)dm(cid:499) cannot appear at the beginning of words but can appear in the middle of words (madmen: morphology- study of internal structure of words. Morpheme smallest unit of meaning on it"s own. Free morphemes (stand alone word like play or safe) can function independently, and form words or parts of words and cannot be divided into any smaller units and still carry meaning. Bound morphemes (includes prefixes and suffixes like playing and unsafe) cannot stand-alone and must be attached to other free morphemes or other bound morphemes. Attached to nouns, verbs, adjectives to change meaning (and sometimes changes word class as well)