Nasal consonant

The more I grow, the more I understand just how important language is in the world. English is the only language that I speak and I learned this language from my parents. English is the only language that my parents know how to speak. Although, interestingly enough, when my mother was a child, her mother and father would speak Italian throughout the house. They soon stopped speaking Italian when my mother began to catch onto their private conversations. My mother lost her ability to understand…

The poem “Bilingual/Bilingue”, by Rhina. P. Espaillat describes how a young girl is struggling with her combined cultures and two separate languages. The girl was born in a Mexican family who speak Spanish, but she is bilingual(bilingue) and speaks both Spanish and English. The girl must must struggle with the fact father fears that, because she is bilingual, that she will lose the part that connects them together, that being their shared language. The poem utilizes language, imagery, as well…

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1. During group time, T along with the rest of his group were given the instructions by the gym teacher. She said, “I want you to see how many pull ups you can do. Don’t stop when you begin feeling pain, try and see if you can hold it a little longer.” T was the first person in his group to go. Before T went up to the bar, he turned his head half way to the side, just for his friend to see his face. He smirked and then quickly turned his head around and leaped toward the bar. The teacher asked T…

In contemporary America, the diversity of language has undoubtedly grown in prominence, as communication has continued to develop, and cultures have continued to intertwine. With countless forms and types of languages existing in the modern society, many have inevitably learned to speak and adapt to the common language that is English. While it would often be highly beneficial to learn that common language, in regards to opportunities for success, it is also true, however, that if one decides to…

Code-switching is a normal part of everyday language and is often overlooked, but through this assignment it became more apparent than ever before, most notably when code switching occurred between languages and within each separate languages. For this field report, I analyzed code-switching in my native language-Polish and then English as they both took place in the same context, my sister’s kitchen. It was a rather peaceful and relaxed saturday afternoon when the communication event took place…

Culture is an important factor that my parents hold highly of and felt that my siblings and I should learn every aspect of it. Growing up, my siblings and I attended Vietnamese classes where we learned how to read and write Vietnamese. Vietnamese is not that hard to learn because the letters are similar to those in the English language, but the difficulties was in the accent marks on the words. A wrong pronunciation of the word meant another word. For example, the Vietnamese word for dad is ba,…

visible compared to phonemes in the back of the mouth. Substitution errors in the manner of articulation relate to nasal-oral substitution. Nasality is one component that affects hearing-impaired children. Nasalization problems occur because of poor velopharnygeal closure. For example, to produce an /n/, the port must be open. To produce a /d/, the port must remain closed. Nasal errors are considered to be “a segmental problem as well as a problem…

Nasal resonance and airflow can also be impacted by cleft lip and/or palate. The abnormal nasal resonance and airflow cause hypernasal and hyponasal speech. Hypernasal speech occurs when there is too much airflow coming through the nasal cavity making sounds more breathy. Hyponasal speech occurs when too little airflow comes through the nasal cavity making the sounds sound as if the child has a plugged nose (Nagarajan, Savitha, & Subramaniyan, 2009). Velopharyngeal dysfunction is the…

velopharyngeal dysfunction. Seminars in Speech and Language, 17;32;(2), 141-149. doi:10.1055/s-0031-1277716 − The article stated incidences of hyponasality in both cleft and non-cleft populations. Common causes of hyponasality include swelling of the nasal passages secondary to allergic rhinitis or the common cold, adenoid hypertrophy, nasopharyngeal polyps, or even hypertrophic tonsils that intrude into the pharynx. Other hyponasality causes, particularly in individuals with clefts or…