CSD 250, Fall 2006

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WELCOME!! CSD 250, Fall 2006 Fundamentals of
Speech Language Analysis Sandie Barrie
Blackley, MA/CCC
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Introduction

• Who am I?
• Who are you?
• What are we doing here?
• Management issues
• The text
• The syllabus
• The calendar
• Questions?

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Why Study Language Structure?

• Linguistic structure supports communication in
  both
• Oral language (listening speaking
• and
• Written language (reading writing)

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Layers of Language Processing

• Speech sounds (phonemes)
• Meaning chunks (morphemes words)
• Written language (orthography)
• Semantics
• Syntax

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Neuro-linguistic Processing

• People who have weak linguistic awareness are
  less able to
• remember new and/or complex words
• sound out words from print
• spell words
• interpret punctuation
• interpret long or complex sentences

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Your Personal (Language) Trainer.

• Just as physical exercise can build endurance and
  strength, so language practice can build language
  processing accuracy and speed.

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Language interventionists must have an
understanding of..

• How the brain learns language (spoken written)
• The structure of language (spoken written)
• Pedagogy (how to teach)

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Speech to Print (Moats, p. 7)

• Linguistic units are neither auditory nor visual
  they are abstract, mental phenomena and can be
  understood even by people who are hard of
  hearing. Because our attention is on meaning, we
  are not aware of the code translation process by
  which meaning is conveyed. Nor should we
  be---unless we must teach someone the same
  process deliberately, step by step. ..Thus, to
  understand printed language well enough to teach
  it explicitly requires conscious study of its
  systems and forms, both spoken and written.
  (p.7).

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Think-Pair-ShareEXERCISE!

• How many speech sounds are in your first name?
• What letter(s) represent each of the speech
  sounds in your first name?

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Example

• I have 5 speech sounds in my first name
• /s-æ-n-d-? /

S a n d ie
...and 5 graphemes (but 6 letters)
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Jack The Twoderful BeansWhat is going on
here?????

• Twice upon a time there lived a boy named Jack in
  the twoderful land of Califivenia. Twoday Jack, a
  double-minded lad, decided three go fifth three
  seek his fivetune. After making sure that Jack
  nine a sandwich and drank 8-up, his mother
  elevenderly said, Threedoloo, threedolooo. Try
  three be back next Threesday. Jack went fifth
  and soon met a man wearing a four-piece suit and
  a threepee. Fifthrightly Jack asked the man,
  Im a Califivian. Are you two three?
  Cerelevenly replied the man, offiving the high
  six. Any two five elevenis?

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Grading

• 55 of the grade is from Blackboard exercises
  (which you can re-work until you like your
  grade!)
• 30 is based on a timed final exam taken on
  Blackboard (and drawn from the Blackboard
  exercises)
• 15 is based on a team project (helping a
  graduate student make language practice materials
  for a language-impaired client )

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Suggested Study Plan

• Read next weeks assigned chapter (s) between
  Thursday and Sunday
• Work through the exercises between Sunday and
  Tuesday. (Exercises will be posted to the course
  Blackboard by Saturday at midnight )
• Consider studying with a buddy post or email
  questions. (If you are emailing me .make it
  before 9 PM Tues.!)