dialect variations - guest

speech sound disorder meets 3 criteria:

• arises during childhood and is not directly attributable to damage to the speech mechanism, sensory systems, peripheral system or CNS

• is not a result of dialect or accent

• child or members of child’s community consider it a speech problem

what is an accent:

• unique way that speech is pronounced by a group of people

• can be regional

what is dialect:

• a rule governed language system that reflects the regional and social background of its speakers

• can be regional or social

what impacts speech patterns?

• age

• language

• socioec status

• geography

• gender

4 dialects/linguistic systems:

• lexical repertoire

• systematic grammar

• principles of pronunciation

• syntactic principles

what is code switching:

• use their dialect sometimes, then switch it off

it is important for us as speech language pathologists to know what is standard in a child’s world. T/F

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what is a pidgin:

• communication system used by groups of people who wish and need to communicate with eachother

what is a creole:

• pidgin develops into creole

• pidgin becomes the mother tongue of a community

phonological development is similar in bilingual children as in monolingual children. T/F

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what is negative transfer?

• slower phonological development than peers

what is positive transfer?

• more advanced skills or skills commensurate to monolingual peers

how one language influences another:

• specific phonemes and allophones in inventories wont be the same

• differences in distribution of sounds exist across langs

• consonants may have diff places of artic

• diff phono rules

• how and when pronunciation is acquired

there is no superior dialect. T/F

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how do you know if a child speaks a dialect and does not have a communication disorder or speaks a dialect and presents with a communication disorder?

• dynamic assessment

• listen to people in his environment

• who does the child spend most of his time with?

• consistency of features