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THE DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION. I have used some other sources in my lectures for this class :**. Owens, R.E., Farinella, K.A., & Metz (2015). Introduction to communication disorders: A lifespan evidence-based perspective (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson.
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I have used some other sources in my lectures for this class:** • Owens, R.E., Farinella, K.A., & Metz (2015). Introduction to communication disorders: A lifespan evidence-based perspective (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson. • Justice, L.M., & Redle, E.E. (2014). Communication sciences and disorders: A clinical evidence-based approach (3rd ed.). New Jersey: Pearson Education • Hulit, L.M., Fahey, K.R., & Howard, M.R. (2015). Born to talk: An introduction to speech and language development (5th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. • Owens, R.E. (2014). Languge disorders: A functional approach to assessment and intervention (6th ed.). New Jersey: Pearson Education.
Roseberry-McKibbin, C., & Hegde, M.N. (2015). Advanced review of speech-language pathology: Study guide for PRAXIS and comprehensive examination (4th ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. • This is in press, and will be out in 2015.
A terrific resource:** • Paul, R., & Norbury, C.F. (2012). Language disorders from infancy through adolescence: Listening, speaking, writing, and communicating (4th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
And workshops I have attended for CEUs:** ASHA 2013, Chicago ASHA Schools Conference Long Beach, 2013 • CSHA, 2014, San Francisco • ASHA Schools Conference, Pittsburgh, 7/14
Why is all of this information about child language development important?** • We need to recgonize what is typical and what is not typical so we can intervene as early as possible in children’s lives
I. COMMUNICATION** • Definition: The process of sending and receiving messages that serve to transmit information between persons or groups • Communicative competence occurs when speakers effectively influence their listeners’ behaviors • Most human interactions have an underlying agenda
II. VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION • A. Nonverbal Communication
B. Verbal Communication** • Involves the use of words to exchange ideas • Auditory-oral—spoken language • Visual-graphic—written, pictures, gestures (gestures that are systematic—e.g., sign language)
III. SPEECH** • Physical production of sounds to communicate meaning through the neuromuscular control of the structures of the vocal tract • Involves articulation, voice, resonation, and fluency
Phonology:** • Study of the sound systems of a language • We have the IPA • English orthography is problematic: • Bough, thought, rough, though, through
IV. LINGUISTICS** • Linguistics is the study of language • We are most concerned with 2 types of linguistics
V. LANGUAGE** • Language is the system of arbitrary verbal symbols that speakers put in order according to a conventional code to communicate ideas and feelings or to influence the behavior of others
Linguistic competence…** • Refers to our hypothetical, unconscious linguistic ability • Represents speakers’ idealized, underlying knowledge of their language
Linguistic performance…** • Refers to a speaker’s production of linguistic units • Influenced by limitations such as fatigue, memory lapses, distractions, illness, etc.
VI. THE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE • A. Semantics
Word relations in semantics:** • How do meanings of words interact with each other?
For example, we have antonyms, which are opposites:** • Binary antonyms-no middle ground (alive vs. dead). • Gradable antonyms: Represent 2 different points on a continuum (attractive vs. homely)
Synonyms:** • Different words that carry similar meanings • Scared/afraid • Beautiful/pretty • Hard/difficult
Semantic relations:** • This term describes the role that each noun in a sentence has in relation to the verb in the sentence
For example, “Daddy” assumes 2 different semantic relations:** • I’m looking for Daddy’sball (Daddy is the possessor) • Daddy threw the ball (Daddy is the agent or actor who instigated the action)
Semantics also involves a child’s knowledge of:** • Words with multiple meanings (rock, pound) • Deictic words whose referents change depending on who is speaking (this, that, here, there) • Categories—mental constructs that allow a child to group similar words together
What categories can you think of that a kindergartener might need to know?
B. Pragmatics** • Practical use of language in social interaction • Focuses on the speaker’s achieving a practical outcome through using language as a tool
Direct speech act:** • Only has one interpretation • “Please pass the butter.”
Discourse:** • Conversation; extended verbal exchange on some topic
Youtube example:** • In the following clip from Big Bang Theory (Sheldon and Amy in car with Penny): • Penny is driving Sheldon to meet Amy for the first time—it is a first date • What rules of discourse do Sheldon and Amy violate?
C. Morphology** • The study of minimal, meaningful units of language • Morphemes are the smallest elements of language that carry meaning • Free morphemes stand alone • Bound morphemes must be attached to free morphemes to carry meaning
Types of Free Morphemes:** • Grammatical morphemes/function words: is, the, of, and, a, but • Lexical morphemes/content words: words that carry the “meat” • For example: cloud, university, taco, student, Harry Potter, run, walk, write, funny, crazy, blue
Types of bound morphemes:** • Inflectional: alter the meaning of the free morpheme to which they are attached without deriving a new grammatical category • Usually these are suffixes (see p. 27) such as plural –s, possessive –s, past tense –ed, etc.
In children’s language…** • Inflectional morphemes appear before derivational morphemes
With one girl, LaShon, a first grade 6-year old… We worked with her first grade language arts book
I would have LaShon read each page, and we would talk about the vocabulary and what it meant, focusing first on comprehension and decoding