Phonology

1. An assessment aims to identifying the child’s strengths and weaknesses, develop a language profile of the child, determine concerns, and helps determine next steps. Through assessments the clinician can gather specific language details such as Amelia’s receptive and expressive language, word/sound productions, word combinations, and play skills. Amelia’s assessment (a) will include a standardized test (direct interaction with the child), a language sample, parent questionnaires (direct…

Within Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ and Atwood’s ‘The Year of the Flood’, each modern novel’s societies present their central women characters as being enslaved. Arguably, this applies to both the central women characters Toby from ‘The Year of the Flood’ and Mariam from ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’. The main focus of ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ is how the changing political situation across the twentieth and twenty first century affects women. On the other hand, ‘The Year of the Flood’…

demonstrate use of several change “predictors” and possess a large number of risk factors, the more concerned the clinician should be about language development. The predictors used in this study included: language production and comprehension, phonology, ability to imitate, play, gestures use, and social skills. Each predictor included “red flags” for development that would require therapy as well as positive outcomes that predict positive outcomes for children who would not necessarily require…

Question 1: Hegemonic gender roles are based on heterosexual understanding about the sex’s inabilities to be complex and step out of the roles that are assigned to them. Those who challenge this have corrupted their status in society resulting in hatred from those who follow the social norms. It is women who speak for equality in power, men that don’t fear society’s judgments, and women who follow their own path that purposely go out of the one dimensional beliefs that were forced upon them.…

Infants, who are between 0-3 months, learn to turn to their parents once they speak. Besides smiling, when they hear their voice. The sounds which are uttered as random prolong the vowels such as “a, u, o”. Most of the newborns attitudes are unintentional who begin to automatically make cooing sounds like “aaa, ooo, aaah”. Child knows that the sound come up as sound. They are happy to utter the sound and play tonguetied, thus the production of sound begins spontaneously. They learn to make…

Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework and Literature Review Many scholars have been discussing the meaning of language and defined it through different ways. According to Bloomfield (1914) language is the system of signs controlled by structural rules which relate the signs to its meanings, N. Chomsky (1996) defined it as a group of sentences which fixed in length and buildup of limited set of parts .other scholars such as E. Sapir (1921), R.A Hall (1968), R.H Robins (1979), have defined it as a…

LANGUAGE: A NAME FOR DIVERSITY Why do I care that language dies? Since we have started living, all the people around us including our teachers have deeply internalized in us the value of saving diversity. We have learned that anything that surrounds us is a creature and, as so, we should protect them as much as we protect ourselves. In school, specifically in Science, we were taught that everything, even the smallest creature is connected with one another. Just like a chair with a missing leg,…

One of the main differences that sign language presents to an audience is the mode in which the language makes itself perceived. Bochner et al. (2011), noted that the only true difference that sign language has opposing an oral language is the fact that the signed languages transmit ideas and linguistic concepts through the visual channel of the brain as opposed to the more commonly used auditory channel of the brain. There is an assumption that people do not use sign language in the same manner…

What is hearing loss and deafness? Is it the inability to hear sound? Or is it more than that? The answer will depend on who you ask. With regard to hearing loss, there are three main types. An individual with conductive hearing loss has the inability to hear due to any number of issues stemming from the outer ear. Sound waves are not able to pass from the outer ear to the inner ear, specifically the cochlea (a spiral cavity that looks like a snail shell that receives sound in the form of…

Introduction Popular culture is a necessity nowadays because if people do not follow the trends in the society, they might be marginalized from the mainstream culture and it would be difficult for them to reconnect with others. Although there is no accurate definition to describe what popular culture is, it is seen as a form of communication that has a connection with the mainstream culture which subdivides into mass culture and folklore and folk culture (Buhmann, Hellmueller, & Bosshart, 2015)…