CDIS 3223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paralanguage, Developmental Disability, Speech Perception
13 Sep 2016
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Features of communication: exchange of information between individuals through a common system of signs, symbols, or behavior representation: 2-way process true communication must be a sender & receiver, multiple modes. Tactile communication shaking hands, waving, shrugging shoulders (more used by nonverbal clients. : both sender and receiver need to participate, common to all living organisms all animals, living beings have some form of communication. Language shared system for representing concepts through arbritory symbols and rule-based combination of these symbols. Speech is the most common form of language. Language is a shared system of symbols: morphemes : smallest unit of meaning in a language. All the words in english language consist of morpheme. Unit of word that can exist on its own. Something that needs to be added to a free morpheme to have its own meaning. Cars = 2 morpheme: phonemes: smallest meaningful unit of sound in a language. Not the number of letters in a word.
