AUSP 305 Study Guide - Final Guide: Morpheme, Phoneme, Vocal Folds

• School: UTK
• Department: Audiology and Speech Pathology
• Course: AUSP 305
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Language set of rules for communicating: rules for language, what a word stands for, how words are pronounced, how words are created, how senses are formed. Speech is physical act with physical consequences. It can be physical or acoustic, it is meaningless unless it involves 1) reason to communicate 2) listener to interpret. Dialect differ in pronunciation, vocab and grammar. Social dialects: social group, ethnic group share common dialect. Linguistic description of a dialect can be descriptive or prescriptive. Idiolect: your own personal or unique use of language. Morpheme: smallest meaningful unit of speech: every morpheme is not a word. Some words have more than one morpheme: feet (2), cat walk(2) review( 2) In english morphemes are used as : prefixes, suffixes, verb endings(-s, -ed, past tense) Phonemes: speech sound segments that help distinguish among morphemes within a language. A morpheme has one or more phoneme* Minimally contrasting phonemes: differ in only one sound (ban,van,ran)