Exam 1: Language and Human Communication an Overview

Which term refers to "sounds that create meaningful differences"?

Describe the roles of the CNS and PNS in speech production.

Present this sentence and ask students to vary stress to change the meaning at least four ways: "The girl in green was very naughty."

Proxemics means body language.

Fluent reading requires decoding of letters and words, use of narrative knowledge, and semantic-syntactic information.

How might an understanding of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development apply to how a mother scaffolds her young child's learning? Learning Activities

Children who have difficulty with the auditory-oral system usually find the visual-graphic system easier to use.

Describe Piaget's four stages of cognitive development and the influences of each stage on language development.

Explain to a lay person the difference between speech and language.

What is meant by communicative competence?

American Sign Language is not a true language.

Present students with video clips of other cultures communicating with the sound turned off. Discuss how body language, proxemics, and gesture vary between cultures.

Describe the five basic components of language and give an example of each.

A free morpheme can also be called an affix.

The melodic components of speech are often referred to as subsegmental devices.

Nonlinguistic behaviors are not universal and vary by culture.

How does consonant production contrast with vowel production?