Language (portions still under construction)
"When a person has trouble understanding others (receptive language), or sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings completely (expressive language), then he or she has a language disorder." (ASHA, 2001)
Errors may occur in oral, written, graphic or manual expression or reception. A language disorder can affect language processing; preliteracy and language-based literacy skills, including phonological awareness” (ASHA, 2001).
If you would like more information about typical language and speech sound development, click on this ASHA web page: Typical Speech and Language Development.
Keep reading to learn more or just click here to find language games at my Quia site and other language activity links!
Category Challenge http://www.quia.com/cb/741046.html
Hangman Categories http://www.quia.com/hm/751166.html
Multi-meaning Word Battleship http://www.quia.com/ba/494119.html
Other language links: (still creating these! More to come!)
Errors may occur in oral, written, graphic or manual expression or reception. A language disorder can affect language processing; preliteracy and language-based literacy skills, including phonological awareness” (ASHA, 2001).
If you would like more information about typical language and speech sound development, click on this ASHA web page: Typical Speech and Language Development.
Keep reading to learn more or just click here to find language games at my Quia site and other language activity links!
Category Challenge http://www.quia.com/cb/741046.html
Hangman Categories http://www.quia.com/hm/751166.html
Multi-meaning Word Battleship http://www.quia.com/ba/494119.html
Other language links: (still creating these! More to come!)
Language Aspects
Phonology: Phonological rules tell us which sound can be used in certain positions of a word or which sounds can be used in combination. For example, the English phonological rules do not allow the sounds "dn" to be used in this order beside each other. (Owens, 1988) These same phonological rules also tell us when to change the way two sounds are made when they are next to each other, as in the word "walked." The "ed" is pronounced as a "t." While the "ed" in "hugged" is pronounced as "d."
Morphology: This is the "internal organization of words" (Owens, 1988) and the rules associated with that organization which affect meaning. A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning. (Owens, 1988) "Dog" is a morpheme on its own. If you add "s"(another morpheme) to it; "dogs"; then the word tells you there is more than one dog and therefore has a new meaning.
Syntax: This is the rules of sentence structure. These rules tell us that "They went to the store to buy cucumbers," is a sentence; while "store to cucumbers went to the they buy" is not a sentence although it has exactly the same words.
Semantics: This language component deals with word meaning.
Pragmatics: Rules for social language.