CMD 273 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Phonetics, Manual Communication, Social Class

• School: URI
• Department: Communicative Disorders
• Course: CMD 273
• Professor: Mahler Leslie A.

Document Summary

Chapter 2 - cmd 273 - clinical phonetics - 4th edition. Speech - a pattern of the movements of the speech organs and a pattern of acoustic vibrations. Speech community - group of people who live within the same geographical boundaries and use the same language. Dialects - different usage patterns within a language. Speakers use the same language but pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar may differ. Regional dialects - characteristic of people who live in a certain region. If dialects of the same language diverge enough, they may become separate languages. In written language, dialects are not so apparent. Idiolect - an individual"s unique form of spoken language. Mark us as separate and unique speakers. Speech is not the only way to use language. Cats = cat + s two morphemes. Catlike = cat + like two morphemes. Lexicon - list of morphemes in a language. Each word is made up of one or more morphemes.