Phonology

FACE, POLITENESS AND SOCIAL DEIXIS IN SOCIAL INTERACTIONS. When living within a society, we perform different social activities which are recognizable by other individuals or groups that are part of the same society. These activities can be done individually (reading a book, getting dressed) or collectively (a family reunion, a business meeting) but always keeping in mind that they are done by taking into consideration directly or indirectly other members of the community in order to have…

Introduction It is considered that language is like “a mirror image of society” or “a system of measurement to evaluate the social perceptions” in various aspects of human life in different societies at different historical timeline. (Khang, 2011). Social changings push the development of language to recognize and reflect those movements. Beside social factors, cultural background, the growth of economy, education… gender also has a huge impact on the way of using language between two groups…

In addition to an Expressive/ Receptive Language Disorder, Amanda is also presenting with a Sensory Integration Disorder (SID), now commonly referred to Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). Her symptoms include hyperarousal to visual and auditory stimuli. A Diagnosis of SID entails problems associated with the interpretation of any form of sensory input. A Difficulty processing normal sensory stimuli can affect the normal development of children and with certain degrees of severity relate to…

Academic Achievement Student’s academic achievement should represent intellectual growth and the ability to produce knowledge—but there are times that African American students fail to gain this privilege because of the teachers’ perception of AAE (Delpit, 2002). In the educational system, teachers tend to correct more miscues that are dialectical in nature in reading casts when students are African Americans. The teachers also expect lower intelligence, academic achievement, and reading skills…

Would you be content with knowing that your past elementary or high teacher had a low level of education for early childhood teaching? The term, word gap, first discovered in the 1995 Hart and Risley study argued that lower socioeconomic status (SES) children are exposed to 30 million fewer words in comparison to children in affluent households. Implications of the study primed the development of education policies that directly shape educational opportunities of language minority students…

HOMOPHONE RETRIEVAL IN YOUNGER ADULTS Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Homophones are one group of words which pronounced in the same way but differing in meaning or spelling or both. Interlingual homophones are words that have identical phonology across languages but different meanings. An example is /more/ which means “peacock” in Hindi and pronounced as “more” in English. Bilingualism is commonly defined as the use of at least two languages by an individual (ASHA, 2004). It is…

Accent. A dialect is a feature of speech which varies across England and is dependent on where an individual has resided their whole lives or may have moved to over the years. The main differences in dialect can be shown through; looking at the phonology, graphology or grammar of speech. (Fasold 2006)…

For this project I interviewed Sherri Stirbus. Sherri is a Speech Language Pathologist for Children’s Hospital Colorado. She works at KidStreet. KidStreet is a day rehab program for young children with significant disabilities. Every child is required to have a feeding tube to be in the program. The children receive speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, art therapy, music therapy, psychology services and nursing services each week. KidStreet is an amazing place because it…

production through his descriptions. In the meantime, reading books will also help his letter-to-sound associations, understanding of story telling sequencing and turn taking skills. From this activity, I am hoping to see improvements in Toby’s phonology and pragmatics while he is in a pre-school…

baseline procedures showed that his expressive language skills were within normal limits, whereas his articulation with /s/ and / ʃ/ were very delayed. Collaborating with my clinical supervisor, Michele Linares, and applying knowledge gained from my phonology class I decided to use Van Riper’s traditional approach to articulation. Due to my client’s beliefs, it was imperative that I maintained creativity and conformed my lesson plan in accordance with his religion. I couldn’t use any pop culture…