What is a speech sound disorder? - Answers most common communication disorder shown by
children
What are other names for speech sound disorders? - Answers phonological disorders and
articulation disorders
How may severity of speech sound disorders differ person to person? - Answers can range from
speech that is completely unintelligible to speech that only has a few mispronounced words
At what age should children have all of their speech sounds? - Answers 6-7 years old
What is the most common speech sound disorder on a SLPs caseload? - Answers speech
sound disorder
What must SLPs be able to describe regarding speech sound disorders? - Answers be able to
describe the child's ability to:
1. produce speech sounds clearly
2. perceive speech sounds accurately
3. combine speech sounds into words
Which treatment approach did E.W. Scripture recommend? - Answers specific treatment for
"negligent lisping" (now known as stopping of fricatives)
What was Lee Edward Travis' contribution to the field? - Answers contributions in speech sound
disorders and fluency disorders; treatment programs: organic vs. functional
What was Grant Fairbanks contribution to the field? - Answers wrote Voice and Articulation
Drillbook (manual for treating voice and speech disorders)
What therapy approach did Charles Van Riper establish? - Answers traditional approach
What assessment did Mildred Templin publish? How did Mildred Templin change the approach
to treatments for misarticulation? - Answers published Certain Language Skills in Children and
Templin-Darley Tests of Articulation
What is the difference between auditory, acoustic, and articulatory phonetics? - Answers
auditory phonetics: perception of sounds
acoustic phonetics: transmission of sounds
articulatory phonetics: production of sounds
What is the mental representation of a sound? - Answers phoneme
,What are the actual sounds you speak (also the smallest units of speech)? - Answers
morpheme
What is an allophone? How are allophones different from errored speech sounds? - Answers
non-distinctive unit; a phoneme with more than one variant (e.g., dialects, accents)
What is orthography? - Answers written language
How many vowel and consonant symbols are there in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?
- Answers Vowels: 18
Consonants:24
Total:42
Why was the IPA created? How are IPA consonants classified? - Answers contains symbols to
transcribe the consonants and vowels produced by a speaker of any of the world's languages;
organized by:
1. place of articulation
2. manner of articulation
3. consonant voicing
Who are diacritics used for? What is the diacritic symbol for "dental"? - Answers voiced vs.
voiceless, aspirated, nasalized, lateral release, etc. ;ex. t (t̪ )
What is the difference between phonetic transcription and phonetic repertoire? - Answers
phonetic transcription: abstract representation of a speaker's articulatory knowledge
phonetic repertoire: inventory of the phones produced by a speaker
What systems and anatomical structures are included in the speech production system? -
Answers systems: respiratory system, phonatory system, articulatory system
anatomical structures: lips, teeth, palate (alveolar ridge, hard palate, soft palate/velum), nasal
cavity, tongue, nasopharynx, pharyngeal cavity, oral cavity, lungs, diaphragm, rib cage, larynx,
trachea
How many resonating cavities are there in the articulatory system? What are they? - Answers 3;
pharyngeal cavity, oral cavity, nasal cavity
Which articulators are moveable? Which are fixed? - Answers moveable: tongue, jaw, lips, soft
palate (velum)
fixed: teeth, alveolar ridge, hard palate
, How are consonants classified? Describe the different places of articulation. Describe the
different manners of articulation. Describe which consonants are voiced. - Answers
characterized by constriction in the oral and/or pharyngeal cavities
places of articulation: bilabial, labiodental, lengua-dental, lingua-alveolar, lingua-palatal, lingua-
velar, glottal
manners of articulation: stops/plosives, fricatives, affricates, glides, nasals, liquids
voiced consonants: /b/, /m/, /w/, /v/, /l/, /n/, /d/, /z/, /r/, /g/, /sz/, /ng/, /th/
What must happen in the vocal tract for a nasal to be produced correctly (e.g., /m/ as in "Mike")?
- Answers lowering of velum and allowing air to escape through nasal cavity rather than oral
cavity
What is the most sophisticated and coordinated activity performed by humans? - Answers
speech
What characterizes vowels as opposed to consonants? - Answers Vowels are classified by
tongue elevation and advancement; consonants are classified by place, manner, and voicing
How are vowels classified? - Answers Vowels are classified by tongue elevation (high, mid, low)
and tongue advancement (front, central back)
What is tongue elevation? - Answers the distance that the tongue is moved from the base of the
mouth
Which vowels are classified as 'high'? - Answers /i/, /I/, /u/, /horseshoe/
Which vowel is a high-back vowel? - Answers /u/,/ʊ/
Which vowel is categorized as mid-back? - Answers /o/
How does an infant's speech perception abilities change throughout the first year of life? -
Answers as infant: able to hear all possible human consonants and vowels (approx. 600
consonants and 200 vowels)
1 year: environment shapes speech perception to fit a specific language
When does a fetus start to (1) hear, (2) become sensitive to sounds, and (3) respond to voices &
sounds? - Answers hear: 18 weeks
become sensitive to sounds: 24 weeks
respond to voices & sounds: 25-26 weeks
What is categorical perception? When does it develop? - Answers the ability to divide the speech
stream into individual sounds; develops at birth