Intro to communication disorders
What is communication?
Interactive nature: it is a give and take process, conveying and receiving thoughts and ideas (exchange of verbal and nonverbal between speaker and listener)
Sociolinguistics: cultural identity, setting, participants, context, social, and environmental factors (study of social language)
Language: “A socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and a rule governed combination of those symbols” ----Language (ability to exchange and communicate)---A means of communication----can be spoken (Verbal) or nonverbal----Any language can be coded into secondary media – visual, tactile, etc.
Modality dependent (how it is expressed) ----Arbitrary: relates signs/symbols with particular meanings
Phonological system (phonemes/ 43 in English language/ minimum sound to change the meaning)
Human language is unique: it has properties of productivity, recursivity, and displacement
Productivity is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process for the formation of novel structures: ex. Spammed, emailed, twitted, did you boscov today? -----Recursivity: Unlimited extension of any natural language is possible (Noam Chomsky). For example, two simple sentences
1..1.1 1."Dorothy met the Wicked Witch of the West in Munchkin Land" and 2."The Wicked Witch's sister was killed in Munchkin Land"
—can be embedded in a third sentence, 3."Dorothy liquidated the Wicked Witch with a pail of water." 4. "Dorothy, who met the Wicked Witch of the West in Munchkin Land where her sister was killed, liquidated her with a pail of water.”
Displacement: the capability of language to communicate about things that are not immediately present spatially or temporally, things that are either not here or are not here now
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Interactive nature: it is a give and take process, conveying and receiving thoughts and ideas (exchange of verbal and nonverbal between speaker and listener)
Sociolinguistics: cultural identity, setting, participants, context, social, and environmental factors (study of social language)
Language: “A socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and a rule governed combination of those symbols” ----Language (ability to exchange and communicate)---A means of communication----can be spoken (Verbal) or nonverbal----Any language can be coded into secondary media – visual, tactile, etc.
Modality dependent (how it is expressed) ----Arbitrary: relates signs/symbols with particular meanings
Phonological system (phonemes/ 43 in English language/ minimum sound to change the meaning)
Human language is unique: it has properties of productivity, recursivity, and displacement
Productivity is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process for the formation of novel structures: ex. Spammed, emailed, twitted, did you boscov today? -----Recursivity: Unlimited extension of any natural language is possible (Noam Chomsky). For example, two simple sentences
1..1.1 1."Dorothy met the Wicked Witch of the West in Munchkin Land" and 2."The Wicked Witch's sister was killed in Munchkin Land"
—can be embedded in a third sentence, 3."Dorothy liquidated the Wicked Witch with a pail of water." 4. "Dorothy, who met the Wicked Witch of the West in Munchkin Land where her sister was killed, liquidated her with a pail of water.”
Displacement: the capability of language to communicate about things that are not immediately present spatially or temporally, things that are either not here or are not here now
Other important