Communication, language, and speech week 1 vocab

Communication

Exchange of ideas between two or more people involving intent, message, means, cause/effect, and partner. it does not have to be verbal.

Speech

Oral expression of language involving motor skills, coordination of respiration, phonation, resonation, articulation, voice, and fluency.

Articulation

ability to produce sounds

Fluency

ability to produce fluent speech

Voice

ability to produce clear sounds with appropriate volume

Language

Social shared system of symbols that is rule governed (how we use pronouns, adjectives, past tense … general ground rules)

Receptive Language

What we understand (vocabulary)

Expressive language

what we express (not only verbal)

Phoneme

Smallest unit of speech

Morpheme

smallest unit of meaning

Syntax

grammatical structure, order of sentences

Semantics

word meaning

Pragmatics

use of language for social and communication purposesand understanding context in interactions.