Wednesday 1 February 2012

2: LANGUAGE AND SPEECH

TASK 2: 7 FEB 2012


Speech Organs
Language and speech are not the same thing but are closely related. Answer.Com (2012) states that LANGUAGE is the process of finding the words stored in our brain and constructing sentences or utterances.

Furthermore, Answer.Com (2012) states that language is made up of 3 parts: (1) symantics - word meaning Symantics is the CONTENT of language, (2) syntax - word order, Syntax is the FORM of language, and (3) pragmatics - the USE of language in context. However, SPEECH refers to the actual process of making sounds, using such organs and structures as the lungs, vocal cords, mouth, tongue, teeth, etc.” It includes articulation and phonology. 
 


REFERENCE

Answer.Com. 2012. Is the Language and Speech the Same Thing?  Available on: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_language_and_speech_the_same_thing. Accessed on 4 January 2012.

Firawati, Tatik. 2009. Animals and Human Language. Available on: http://tetikfirawati.com/2009/10/02/animals-and-human-language/. Accessed on: 3rd February 2012.

29 comments:

  1. Distinguish between language and speech? And how is language and speech produced!
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:
    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).
    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.
    When a person is unable to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently, or has problems with his or her voice, then he or she has a speech disorder.
    In our example, Tommy has a speech disorder that makes him hard to understand. If his lips, tongue, and mouth are not moved at the right time, then what he says will not sound right. Children who stutter, and people whose voices sound hoarse or nasal have speech problems as well.
    Jane has a receptive and expressive language disorder . She does not have a good understanding of the meaning of words and how and when to use them. Because of this, she has trouble following directions and speaking in long sentences. Many others, including adults with aphasia and children with learning disabilities, have language problems.
    Language and speech disorders can exist together or by themselves. The problem can be mild or severe. In any case, a comprehensive evaluation by a speech-language pathologist (SLP) certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the first step to improving language and speech problems.
    how is language and speech produced!
    speech production
    Speaking is in essence the by-product of a necessary bodily process, the expulsion from the lungs of air charged with carbon dioxide after it has fulfilled its function in respiration. Most of the time one breathes out silently, but it is possible, by adopting various postures and by making various movements within the vocal tract, to interfere with the egressive airstream so as to generate noises of different sorts. This is what speech is made of.
    The vocal tract comprises the passage from the trachea (windpipe) to the orifices of the mouth and nose; all the organs

    language production
    In psycholinguistics, language production is the production of spoken or written language. It describes all of the stages between having a concept, and translating that concept into linguistic form. In computational linguistics/natural language processing and artificial intelligence, the term natural language generation (NLG) is more common, and those models may or may not be psychologically motivated.



    REFERENCE

    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm
    Heselwood B, Bray M, Crookston I. Juncture, rhythm and planning in the speech of an adult with Down's syndrome. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 1995;9:121-137.
    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/329791/language/27168/Speech-production
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_production

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  2. The Difference Between Speech and Language
    To understand your child’s speech and language development, it may help to better understand what’s involved and the differences between the two. Language is the set of rules, shared by the individuals who are communicating, that allows them to exchange those thoughts, ideas or emotions in order to express and receive information in a meaningful way. Language can include spoken word but may also be expressed through writing, signing or gestures. Speech is the verbal expression of language and consists of voice andarticulation
    Delays in speech and language may not seem easy to distinguish as they often overlap. For instance, a child experiencing troubles with language may be able to pronounce words but may struggle putting more than two words together. On the other hand, a child experiencing challenges with speech may be difficult to understand but he may be able to use words and phrases to express ideas. It could also be that your child has trouble comprehending and following directions but speaks well.
    Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntacticcombination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large (usually to about 10,000 differentwords) vocabularies. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units. These vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, and their set of speech sound units differ, creating the existence of many thousands of different types of mutually unintelligible human languages. Some human speakers (polyglots) are able to communicate in two or more of them. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also provide humans with the ability to sing.
    In psycholinguistics, language production is the production of spoken or written language. It describes all of the stages between having a concept, and translating that concept into linguistic form. In computational linguistics/natural language processing and artificial intelligence, the termnatural language generation (NLG) is more common, and those models may or may not be psychologically motivated.


    Reference
    http://www.abilitypath.org/areas-of-development/communication--speech/hearing/articles/what-is-speech-and-language-02.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_production

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  3. Friday, January 1, 2010
    The Difference Between Speech and Language
    The difference between "speech" and "language" has been a confusing point for many people. I have been called a Speech Therapist, Speech Teacher, Teacher, or Speech-Language Pathologist depending on who is saying it. Some people think I teach others how to give speeches, some think I teach kids how to speak and some think I am an English or reading teacher. One of the biggest confusions in public schools is when kids "go to speech" but we work completely on language goals. Some kids, as well as teachers and other adults, are confused by this contradiction. To alleviate this confusion just a bit, I will provide some definitions and explanation to help differentiate. This is just the quick explanation.

    referece:

    http://topicsinspeechandlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/01/difference-between-speech-and-language.html

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  4. Language is different from speech.

    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:

    * What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    * How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    * How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    * What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)

    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:

    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).

    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.

    When a person is unable to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently, or has problems with his or her voice, then he or she has a speech disorder.

    In our example, Tommy has a speech disorder that makes him hard to understand. If his lips, tongue, and mouth are not moved at the right time, then what he says will not sound right. Children who stutter, and people whose voices sound hoarse or nasal have speech problems as well.

    Speech production
    In linguistics (articulatory phonetics), manner of articulation describes how the tongue, lips, jaw, and other speech organs are involved in making a sound make contact. Often the concept is only used for the production of consonants. For any place of articulation, there may be several manners, and therefore several homorganic consonants.

    Normal human speech is produced with pulmonary pressure provided by the lungs which creates phonation in the glottis in the larynx that is then modified by the vocal tract into different vowels and consonants. However humans can pronounce words without the use of the lungs and glottis in alaryngeal speech of which there are three types: esophageal speech, pharyngeal speech and buccal speech (better known as Donald Duck talk).

    how is languge produced?
    air moves from the lungs.
    sounds are produced by impeding by and or interrupting the flow up air.
    - b lips
    - s tongue behind teeth restricts air
    - sh tongue at palate restricts air
    the vocal cords produce sounds by vibration.

    references:
    http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/9/9.65/old/Nov5handout.PDF
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech
    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm

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  6. Name :Hendri Saputra
    Nim :10250021
    Distinguish Between Language and Speech
    Although some authours say that language is sound (Dinneen, 1967) or that the medium of language is sound (Bolinger and Sears, 1981) this is not necessary true. Most of the world’s language are spoken or oral, and for most individuals speaking precedes and is of greater importance than reading or writing. However, some human languages are signed or gestural. Thesae languages, of which American Sign Language (ASL) is one example, have the same basic linguistic features foundin oral human Language. This, like spoken language, they are rule goverened, arbitrary system of communication with hierarchial substructuring that are capable of infinite creativity and spontaneously acquired by infants exposed to them

    how is language and speech produced?
    Linguists and psycholinguists have looked at many aspects of the production and perception of spoken language, too many to do more than list in a single lecture. Rather than give an abstracted list of issues and techniques, we'll look in a bit of detail at two kinds of studies -- those that use speech errors to learn about language production, and those that look at the time course of spoken word recognition. Keep in mind that these are two small parts of a very large and interesting picture, about which you can learn much more by taking a course in psychology of language.
    References:
    Gleason Berko Jean “Psycholinguistics” Boston University
    Nan Bernstein Ratner “Psycholinguistics” University of Maryland
    Http://www.hbcollege.com
    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm
    http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/pages/whatis_vsl.aspx
    http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/production_perception.html

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  7. How to produce language
    In psycholinguistic, language production is the production of spoken or written language. It describes all of the stages between having a concept, and translating that concept into linguistic form.
    The basic loop occurring in the creation of language consists of the following stages:
    1. Intended message
    2. Encode message into linguistic form
    3. Encode linguistic form into speech [motor system]
    4. Sound goes from speaker's mouth to hearer's ear [auditory system]
    5. Speech is decoded into linguistic form
    6. Linguistic form is decoded into meaning
    How to produce speech
    Human speech is produced by vocal organs. The main energy source is the lungs with the diaphragm. When speaking, the air flow is forced through the glottis between the vocal cords and the larynx to the three main cavities of the vocal tract, the pharynx and the oral and nasal cavities. From the oral and nasal cavities the air flow exits through the nose and mouth, respectively. The V-shaped opening between the vocal cords, called the glottis, is the most important sound source in the vocal system. The vocal cords may act in several different ways during speech.
    Language is different from speech.
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating.
    Speech consists of the following:
    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).

    So, between language and speech are different. Language focuses on how to make word and how to combine the words become sentence, so it can help in interaction to each other.
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. In the language we don’t focuses on articulation, voice and etc. that have relation to sound, because these parts are involved to speech. In speech we talk about how to produce sounds, and the sound influenced by articulation, voice and fluency.

    References:
    http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/9/9.65/old/Nov5handout.PDF
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_production
    http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/publications/files/theses/lemmetty_mst/chap2.html
    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm

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  8. Language is different from speech
    Kelly (1997-2012)
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:
    Articulation, voice, and fluency,
    Speech production
    the expulsion from the lungs of air charged with carbon dioxide after it has fulfilled its function in respiration. By adopting various postures and by making various movements within the vocal tract, to interfere with the egressive airstream so as to generate noises of different sorts. The vocal tract comprises the passage from the trachea (windpipe) to the orifices of the mouth and nose.
    Language production
    Levelt (1989)
     First, we must conceptualize what we wish to communicate;
     Second, we formulate this thought into a linguistic plan;
     Third, we execute the plan through the muscles in the speech system;
     Finally, we monitor ore speech, assessing whether it is what we intended to say and whether we said it the way we intended to.
    References :
    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/329791/language/27168/Speech-production
    ttp://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm
    jpkc.hrbu.edu.cn:8080/jpkcjs/.../kj/.../12.ppt

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  9. The Difference Between Speech and Language

    Brenda Van Wie (2010) : Speech is the physical process by which we verbalize language. It is a method of communication that uses voice and coordinated movements of the speech articulators (tongue, lips, jaw, teeth etc.). Speech is the verbal expression of language and consists of voice, fluency and articulation

    Chambers (2011) : Language is the set of rules, shared by the individuals who are communicating, that allows them to exchange those thoughts, ideas or emotions in order to express and receive information in a meaningful way. Language can include spoken word but may also be expressed through writing, signing or gestures.

    How is language and speech produced?

    Acoustics.hut.fi : Human speech is produced by vocal organs. When speaking, the air flow is forced through the glottis between the vocal cords and the larynx to the three main cavities of the vocal tract, the pharynx and the oral and nasal cavities. From the oral and nasal cavities the air flow exits through the nose and mouth, respectively.

    Belinchón, Igoa (1994) : Speech does not start in the lungs. It starts in the brain and it is, then, studied by Psycholinguistics. After the creation of the message and the lexico-grammatical structure in our mind, we need a representation of the sound sequence and a number of commands which will be executed by our speech organs to produce the utterance. So, we need a phonetic plan of and a motor plan.

    Nay (2011) : The process of producing language can be divided into four steps. First is message, where the message that will be presented is processed. Second is functional, where lexical form is identified. Third is positional, where the constituent is formed and affixations are done. Fourth is phonology, where the structure of phonology has been formed.

    Van Wie, Brenda. 2012. Differences Between Speech and language. Available on :. http://topicsinspeechandlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/01/difference-between-speech-and-language.html. Accessed on: 7th February 2012.

    Chambers, Patricia. 2011. What is Speech and Language. Available
    On : http://www.abilitypath.org/areas-of-development/communication--speech/hearing /articles/what-is-speech-and-language-02.html. Accessed on: 7th February 2012.

    Acoustics.hut.fi. 2012. Phonetics and Theory of Speech Production. Available on : http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/publications/files/theses/lemmetty_mst/chap3.html. Accessed on: 7th February 2012.

    Belinchón, Igoa. 1994. Psicologia del Lenguaje. Available on : Belinchón, Mercedes, José Manuel Igoa y Ángel Rivière, 1994, Psicología del Lenguaje: Investigación y teoría, Madrid: Trotta. Accessed on: 7th February 2012.

    Nay. 2011. General step to produce language. Available on : http://linguasphereus.blogspot.com/2011/04/general-steps-to-produce-language.html. Accessed on: 7th February 2012.

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  10. NAME : MUJI LESTARI
    NIM :09 25 0038

    THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
    Language is a system of comunication in speech and writing used by people to produce a speech or sound. The understanding and use of our language is the focus of language therapy. A few of the things I might address are concepts, grammar, use of language in social settings (pragmatics), morphology (plural markers, possessive markers, irregular verb tense...), word finding, vocabulary, synonyms, homonyms, and written expression. Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. speech is the physical process by which we verbalize language. It is a method of communication that uses voice and coordinated movements of the speech articulators (tongue, lips, jaw, teeth etc.).
    So, from the definitions above the difference between language and speech are language as a system or method and speech as an action.
    HOW TO PRODUCE LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
    language production is the production of spoken or written language. It describes all of the stages between having a concept, and translating that concept into linguistic form. In computational linguistics/natural language processing and artificial intelligence, the term natural language generation (NLG) is more common, and those models may or may not be psychologically motivated.
    Speech production is the process by which spoken words are selected to be produced, have their phonetics formulated and then finally are articulated by the motor system in the vocal apparatus. Speech production can be spontaneous such as when a person creates the words of a conversation, reaction such as when they name a picture or read aloud a written word, or a vocal imitation such as in speech repetition.
    The Production of Speech Sounds

    (Fernando Trujillo) The articulation process is the most obvious one: it takes place in the mouth and it is the process through which we can differentiate most speech sounds. In the mouth we can distinguish between the oral cavity, which acts as a resonator, and the articulators, which can be active or passive: upper and lower lips, upper and lower teeth, tongue (tip, blade, front, back) and roof of the mouth (alveolar ridge, palate and velum). So, speech sounds are distinguished from one ano ther in terms of the place where and the manner how they are articulated.

    REFFERENCE
    http://topicsinspeechandlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/01/difference-between-speech-and-language.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_production
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/language
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_production
    http://www.ugr.es/~ftsaez/fonetica/production_speech.pdf
    Oxford dictionary

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  11. The Difference Between Speech and Language
    1.)What is Language? While speech involves the physical motor ability to talk, language is a symbolic, rule governed system used to convey a message. In English, the symbols can be words, either spoken or written.
    2.)What is speech? When we speech pathologists refer to the term speech we are referring to three things: articulation/phonological skills, speech fluency and voice.

    So, from those sentences we know the diffrencess between language and speech. In the other hand, (eduward halomoan:2010), Language is a communication tool for us to interact with otherhumans. Without language we may not be able to interact,because language is the source for the creation of human interaction with the other

    How to produce languange and speech
    1.)In psycholinguistics, language production is the production of spoken or written language. The procedures are:
    -Air moves from the lungs.
    -Sounds are produced by impeding
    -interrupting the flow of air.

    2.)Speech production is the process by which spoken words are selected to be produced, have their phonetics formulated and then finally are articulated by the motor system in the vocal apparatus.
    It must be said that speech does not start in the lungs. It starts in the brain and it is, then, studied by Psycholinguistics. So, we need a
    phonetic plan of and a motor plan (Belinchón, Igoa y Rivière, 1994: 590)

    http://www.brainyquote.com/words/sp/speak222181.html
    http://www.yourdictionary.com/speech
    http://www.playingwithwords365.com/2012/01/what-is-the-difference-between-speech-and-language/
    http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/how__all.html
    http://www.ugr.es/~ftsaez/fonetica/production_speech.pdf

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  12. Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)

    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:
    • Articulation: How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    • Voice: Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    • Fluency: The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).
    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.
    When a person is unable to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently, or has problems with his or her voice, then he or she has a speech disorder.
    Language and speech disorders can exist together or by themselves. The problem can be mild or severe. In any case, a comprehensive evaluation by a speech-language pathologist (SLP) certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the first step to improving language and speech problems.
    Children's speech and language development follows a typical pattern (see Communication Guide for more information). If you have concerns about your child's speech or language, consult a speech-language pathologist.

    How to produce language and speech

    Language Produce
    First, we must conceptualize what we wish to communicate;
    Second, we formulate this thought into a linguistic plan;
    Third, we execute the plan through the muscles in the speech system;
    Finally, we monitor ore speech, assessing whether it is what we intended to say and whether we said it the way we intended to.

    Speech Produce
    Speaking is in essence the by-product of a necessary bodily process, the expulsion from the lungs of air charged with carbon dioxide after it has fulfilled its function in respiration. Most of the time one breathes out silently, but it is possible, by adopting various postures and by making various movements within the vocal tract, to interfere with the egressive airstream so as to generate noises of different sorts. This is what speech is made of.

    references :

    http://www.a1speechtherapy.com/speechandlanguage.html
    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/329791/language/27168/Speech-production
    jpkc.hrbu.edu.cn:8080/jpkcjs/Linguistics/6kczy/kj/08c/12.ppt

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  13. Mukhlis
    102500
    Language is different from speech.

    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:

    What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)

    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:

    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).

    how is language and speech produced!

    Speech processing and language technology contains lots of special concepts and terminology. To understand how different speech synthesis and analysis methods work we must have some knowledge of speech production, articulatory phonetics, and some other related terminology.

    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm
    http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/publications/files/theses/lemmetty_mst/chap3.html

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  14. Language and Speech

    Language is something used in comunication. Language is the expression of human communication that is based on systematic, conventionally used signs, sounds, gestures, or marks that convey understood meanings within a group or community.

    Speech is something produced language when it is pronounced or human express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

    The differences of Language and Speech

    Language is different from speech, language is made up of socially shared rules that include: what words mean, how to make new words, how to put words together, what word combinations are best in what situations.

    Speech consists of articulation (how speech sounds are made), coice (use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound), fluency (the rhythm of speech).

    How is Language and Speech produced?

    Language is basically innate, that children are born with a special, language is produced when a human want to say something and it is invented from the lungs through vocal track as a voice maker.

    Normal human speech is produced with pulmonary pressure provided by the lungs which creates phonation in the glottis in the larynx that is then modified by the vocal tract into different vowels and consonants. Speech is produced by precisely coordinated muscle actions in the head, neck, chest, and abdomen. Speech development is a gradual process that requires years of practice. During this process, a child learns how to regulate these muscles to produce understandable speech.

    References:
    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm
    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm
    Jean Barko and Nan Bernstein. 1998. Psycholinguistics second edition. America. Earl McPeek.

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  15. Distinguish between language and speech
    LANGUAGE: The understanding and use of our language is the focus of language therapy.
    A few of the things I might address are concepts, grammar, use of language in social settings (pragmatics), morphology (plural markers, possessive markers, irregular verb tense...), word finding, vocabulary, synonyms, homonyms, and written expression.

    SPEECH: The physical process by which we verbalize language. It is a method of communication that uses voice and coordinated movements of the speech articulators (tongue, lips, jaw, teeth etc.).
    For example, when a child produces an "f" instead of a "th" sound I first make them aware that they need to place their tongue between their top and bottom teeth, and blow gently rather than gently biting their bottom lip with their top teeth for making an "f."

    How to produce languange and speech:
    When children are evaluated for their language abilities, there are assessments done in receptive and expressive language areas separately. Children generally have better receptive skills than expressive skills since they can understand things before they can express the same things. Testing for specific areas of weakness helps to guide the development of goals for each child.
    Normal human speech is produced with pulmonary pressure provided by the lungs which creates phonation in the glottis in the larynx that is then modified by the vocal tract into different vowels and consonants. However humans can pronounce words without the use of the lungs and glottis in alaryngeal speech of which there are three types: esophageal speech, pharyngeal speech and buccal speech.
    Eventually, with practice, there is muscle memory and a change from voluntary concentration on the sound to an involuntary carry over of correct production to all contexts. It can be compared to anyone attempting to change a habit.

    References
    http://topicsinspeechandlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/01/difference-between-speech-and-language.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech

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  17. Distinguish between language and speech? And how is language and speech produced!

    What Is Language? What Is Speech?

    Language is different from speech.
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:
    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).
    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.
    When a person is unable to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently, or has problems with his or her voice, then he or she has a speech disorder.
    In our example, Tommy has a speech disorder that makes him hard to understand. If his lips, tongue, and mouth are not moved at the right time, then what he says will not sound right. Children who stutter, and people whose voices sound hoarse or nasal have speech problems as well.
    Jane has a receptive and expressive language disorder . She does not have a good understanding of the meaning of words and how and when to use them. Because of this, she has trouble following directions and speaking in long sentences. Many others, including adults with aphasia and children with learning disabilities, have language problems.
    Language and speech disorders can exist together or by themselves. The problem can be mild or severe. In any case, a comprehensive evaluation by a speech-language pathologist (SLP) certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the first step to improving language and speech problems.
    To understand your child’s speech and language development, it may help to better understand what’s involved and the differences between the two. Language is the set of rules, shared by the individuals who are communicating, that allows them to exchange those thoughts, ideas or emotions in order to express and receive information in a meaningful way. Language can include spoken word but may also be expressed through writing, signing or gestures. Speech is the verbal expression of language and consists of voice and articulation
    Delays in speech and language may not seem easy to distinguish as they often overlap. For instance, a child experiencing troubles with language may be able to pronounce words but may struggle putting more than two words together. On the other hand, a child experiencing challenges with speech may be difficult to understand but he may be able to use words and phrases to express ideas. It could also be that your child has trouble comprehending and following directions but speaks well.


    Reference:

    -. http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm

    -. http://www.abilitypath.org/areas-of-development/communication--speech/hearing/articles/what-is-speech-and-language-02.html

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  18. The differences between language and speech
    Language is different from speech.
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating.
    Speech consists of the following:
    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).

    So, between language and speech are different. Language focuses on how to make word and how to combine the words become sentence, so it can help in interaction to each other.
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. In the language we don’t focuses on articulation, voice and etc. that have relation to sound, because these parts are involved to speech. In speech we talk about how to produce sounds, and the sound influenced by articulation, voice and fluency.
    How to produce language
    In psycholinguistic, language production is the production of spoken or written language. It describes all of the stages between having a concept, and translating that concept into linguistic form.
    The basic loop occurring in the creation of language consists of the following stages:
    1. Intended message
    2. Encode message into linguistic form
    3. Encode linguistic form into speech [motor system]
    4. Sound goes from speaker's mouth to hearer's ear [auditory system]
    5. Speech is decoded into linguistic form
    6. Linguistic form is decoded into meaning
    How to produce speech
    Human speech is produced by vocal organs. The main energy source is the lungs with the diaphragm. When speaking, the air flow is forced through the glottis between the vocal cords and the larynx to the three main cavities of the vocal tract, the pharynx and the oral and nasal cavities. From the oral and nasal cavities the air flow exits through the nose and mouth, respectively. The V-shaped opening between the vocal cords, called the glottis, is the most important sound source in the vocal system. The vocal cords may act in several different ways during speech.

    References:
    http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/9/9.65/old/Nov5handout.PDF
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_production
    http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/publications/files/theses/lemmetty_mst/chap2.html
    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm

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  19. Distinguish between language and speech? And how is language and speech produced!

    What Is Language? What Is Speech?

    Language is different from speech.
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:
    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).
    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.
    When a person is unable to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently, or has problems with his or her voice, then he or she has a speech disorder.
    In our example, Tommy has a speech disorder that makes him hard to understand. If his lips, tongue, and mouth are not moved at the right time, then what he says will not sound right. Children who stutter, and people whose voices sound hoarse or nasal have speech problems as well.
    Jane has a receptive and expressive language disorder . She does not have a good understanding of the meaning of words and how and when to use them. Because of this, she has trouble following directions and speaking in long sentences. Many others, including adults with aphasia and children with learning disabilities, have language problems.
    Language and speech disorders can exist together or by themselves. The problem can be mild or severe. In any case, a comprehensive evaluation by a speech-language pathologist (SLP) certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the first step to improving language and speech problems.
    To understand your child’s speech and language development, it may help to better understand what’s involved and the differences between the two. Language is the set of rules, shared by the individuals who are communicating, that allows them to exchange those thoughts, ideas or emotions in order to express and receive information in a meaningful way. Language can include spoken word but may also be expressed through writing, signing or gestures. Speech is the verbal expression of language and consists of voice and articulation
    Delays in speech and language may not seem easy to distinguish as they often overlap. For instance, a child experiencing troubles with language may be able to pronounce words but may struggle putting more than two words together. On the other hand, a child experiencing challenges with speech may be difficult to understand but he may be able to use words and phrases to express ideas. It could also be that your child has trouble comprehending and following directions but speaks well.


    Reference:

    -. http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm

    -. http://www.abilitypath.org/areas-of-development/communication--speech/hearing/articles/what-is-speech-and-language-02.html

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  20. Language is different from speech.

    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:

    What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)

    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:

    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).

    how is language and speech produced!

    Speech processing and language technology contains lots of special concepts and terminology. To understand how different speech synthesis and analysis methods work we must have some knowledge of speech production, articulatory phonetics, and some other related terminology.

    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm
    http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/publications/files/theses/lemmetty_mst/chap3.html

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  21. Name :Hendri Saputra
    Nim :10250021

    Distinguish Between Language and Speech

    Although some authours say that language is sound (Dinneen, 1967) or that the medium of language is sound (Bolinger and Sears, 1981) this is not necessary true. Most of the world’s language are spoken or oral, and for most individuals speaking precedes and is of greater importance than reading or writing. However, some human languages are signed or gestural. Thesae languages, of which American Sign Language (ASL) is one example, have the same basic linguistic features foundin oral human Language. This, like spoken language, they are rule goverened, arbitrary system of communication with hierarchial substructuring that are capable of infinite creativity and spontaneously acquired by infants exposed to them

    Language is different from speech.
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:

    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").

    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).

    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).
    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.
    how is language and speech produced?
    Linguists and psycholinguists have looked at many aspects of the production and perception of spoken language, too many to do more than list in a single lecture. Rather than give an abstracted list of issues and techniques, we'll look in a bit of detail at two kinds of studies -- those that use speech errors to learn about language production, and those that look at the time course of spoken word recognition. Keep in mind that these are two small parts of a very large and interesting picture, about which you can learn much more by taking a course in psychology of language.

    References:
    Gleason Berko Jean “Psycholinguistics” Boston University
    Nan Bernstein Ratner “Psycholinguistics” University of Maryland
    Http://www.hbcollege.com
    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm
    http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/pages/whatis_vsl.aspx
    http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/production_perception.html

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  22. The differences between language and speech
    Language is different from speech.
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating.
    Speech consists of the following:
    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).

    So, between language and speech are different. Language focuses on how to make word and how to combine the words become sentence, so it can help in interaction to each other.
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. In the language we don’t focuses on articulation, voice and etc. that have relation to sound, because these parts are involved to speech. In speech we talk about how to produce sounds, and the sound influenced by articulation, voice and fluency.
    How to produce language
    In psycholinguistic, language production is the production of spoken or written language. It describes all of the stages between having a concept, and translating that concept into linguistic form.
    The basic loop occurring in the creation of language consists of the following stages:
    1. Intended message
    2. Encode message into linguistic form
    3. Encode linguistic form into speech [motor system]
    4. Sound goes from speaker's mouth to hearer's ear [auditory system]
    5. Speech is decoded into linguistic form
    6. Linguistic form is decoded into meaning
    How to produce speech
    Human speech is produced by vocal organs. The main energy source is the lungs with the diaphragm. When speaking, the air flow is forced through the glottis between the vocal cords and the larynx to the three main cavities of the vocal tract, the pharynx and the oral and nasal cavities. From the oral and nasal cavities the air flow exits through the nose and mouth, respectively. The V-shaped opening between the vocal cords, called the glottis, is the most important sound source in the vocal system. The vocal cords may act in several different ways during speech.

    References:
    http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/9/9.65/old/Nov5handout.PDF
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_production
    http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/publications/files/theses/lemmetty_mst/chap2.html
    http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm

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  23. SPEECH : speech is the physical process by which we verbalize language. When we speech pathologists refer to the term speech we are referring to three things: articulation/phonological skills, speech fluency and voice.
    LANGUAGE : While speech involves the physical motor ability to talk, language is a symbolic, rule governed system used to convey a message. In English, the symbols can be words, either spoken or written. We also have gestural symbols, like shrugging our shoulders to indicate “I don’t know” or waving to indicate “Bye Bye” or the raising of our eye brows to indicate that we are surprised by something
    In psycholinguistics, language production is the production of spoken or written language. It describes all of the stages between having a concept, and translating that concept into linguistic form. In computational linguistics/natural language processing and artificial intelligence, the term natural language generation (NLG) is more common, and those models may or may not be psychologically motivated
    Speech production is the process by which spoken words are selected to be produced, have their phonetics formulated and then finally are articulated by the motor system in the vocal apparatus. Speech production can be spontaneous such as when a person creates the words of a conversation, reaction such as when they name a picture or read aloud a written word, or a vocal imitation such as in speech repetition
    Speech production is not the same as language production since language can also be produced manually by signs

    References:
    layingwithwords365.com.2012.The difference between speech and language.http://www.playingwithwords365.com/2012/01/what-is-the-difference-between-speech-and-language/. Accessed on: 7th February.
    wikipedia.org. 2012. Language production. Available on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_production.Accessed on: 3rd February 2012.
    wikipedia.org .2012.speech production . available on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_production. .Accessed on: 3rd February 2012.

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  24. Language and speech are not the same thing. Speech is a broad term simply referring to patterned verbal behavior. In contrast, a language is a set of rules for generating speech.

    Speech production
    In linguistics (articulatory phonetics), manner of articulation describes how the tongue, lips, jaw, and other speech organs are involved in making a sound make contact. Often the concept is only used for the production of consonants. For any place of articulation, there may be several manners, and therefore several homorganic consonants.

    Normal human speech is produced with pulmonary pressure provided by the lungs which creates phonation in the glottis in the larynx that is then modified by the vocal tract into different vowels and consonants. However humans can pronounce words without the use of the lungs and glottis in alaryngeal speech of which there are three types: esophageal speech, pharyngeal speech and buccal speech (better known as Donald Duck talk).

    references:
    http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/language_2.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech

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  25. 7 FEBRUARY 2012

    Language and Speech

    Asha.org (1997-2012) Language is different from speech.
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    1. What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    2. How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    3. How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    4. What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following: Articulation, Voice, and Fluency.

    Language and speech disorders can exist together or by themselves. The problem can be mild or severe. In any case, a comprehensive evaluation by speech-language pathologist (SLP) certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the first step to improving language and speech problems.


    Reference
    Asha.org (1997-2012) What Is Language? What Is Speech? Available on: http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm. Accessed on 7 February 2012.

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  26. Kelly's 4-year-old son, Tommy, has speech and language problems, Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:
    Articulation
    • How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    • Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    • The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).
    • 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.
    References
    Asha. Org(1997-2012)What is language .Available on:http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/language_speech.htm. Accessed on 7 February 2012

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  27. Language and speech
    Brenda Van Wie (2010) Language: The understanding and use of our language is the focus of language therapy. A few of the things I might address are concepts, grammar, use of language in social settings (pragmatics), morphology (plural markers, possessive markers, irregular verb tense...), word finding, vocabulary, synonyms, homonyms, and written expression.
    Speechlanguageresources.com (2011) Speech is the physical production of sound using our tongue, lips, palate and respiratory system to communicate ideas.
    How to produce language and speech?
    Wikipedia (2012) Speech production is the process by which spoken words are selected to be produced, have their phonetics formulated and then finally are articulated by the motor system in the vocal apparatus. Speech production can be spontaneous such as when a person creates the words of a conversation, reaction such as when they name a picture or read aloud a written word, or a vocal imitation such as in speech repetition.

    References :
    Speechlanguage.com (2011). What is speech. Available on: http://www.speechlanguage resourc es.com/what-is-speech.html. Accessed on: 8 february 2012.
    Brenda Van Wie (2010). The Difference Between Speech and Language: the “How and the “what”. Available on: http://www.fcps.edu/CanterburyWoodsES/cueing/language.html. Accessed on: 7 february 2012.
    Speech production. Available on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_production. Accessed on : 7 february 2012.

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  28. Name: Putra Mahesa Satria
    Nim: 09250045
    Number 2:
    THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
    Language is a system of comunication in speech and writing used by people to produce a speech or sound. The understanding and use of our language is the focus of language therapy. A few of the things I might address are concepts, grammar, use of language in social settings (pragmatics), morphology (plural markers, possessive markers, irregular verb tense...), word finding, vocabulary, synonyms, homonyms, and written expression.
    Speech is the physical process by which we verbalize language. It is a method of communication that uses voice and coordinated movements of the speech articulators (tongue, lips, jaw, teeth etc.). Speech is the verbal expression of language and consists of voice, fluency and articulation.
    Reference:
    http://topicsinspeechandlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/01/difference-between-speech-and-language.html.
    http://www.abilitypath.org/areas-of-development/communication--speech/hearing /articles/what-is-speech-and-language-02.html.

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  29. The distinguish between language and speech
    Language is made up of socially shared rules that include the following:
    • What words mean (e.g., "star" can refer to a bright object in the night sky or a celebrity)
    • How to make new words (e.g., friend, friendly, unfriendly)
    • How to put words together (e.g., "Peg walked to the new store" rather than "Peg walk store new")
    • What word combinations are best in what situations ("Would you mind moving your foot?" could quickly change to "Get off my foot, please!" if the first request did not produce results)
    Speech is the verbal means of communicating. Speech consists of the following:
    Articulation
    How speech sounds are made (e.g., children must learn how to produce the "r" sound in order to say "rabbit" instead of "wabbit").
    Voice
    Use of the vocal folds and breathing to produce sound (e.g., the voice can be abused from overuse or misuse and can lead to hoarseness or loss of voice).
    Fluency
    The rhythm of speech (e.g., hesitations or stuttering can affect fluency).
    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.
    When a person is unable to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently, or has problems with his or her voice, then he or she has a speech disorder.
    Furthermore, Van Wie states SPEECH (ARTICULATION): In the context of my profession, speech is the physical process by which we verbalize language. It is a method of communication that uses voice and coordinated movements of the speech articulators (tongue, lips, jaw, teeth etc.). When I am addressing "speech" in therapy, I am working on the person's ability to have adequate strength and coordination of the speech musculature through oral-motor exercises. I am working on teaching them correct articulation or placement of articulators for production of specific consonant and vowel sounds. For example, when a child produces an "f" instead of a "th" sound I first make them aware that they need to place their tongue between their top and bottom teeth, and blow gently rather than gently biting their bottom lip with their top teeth for making an "f." Once they learn the correct placement, we practice the sound alone, then we practice it at the syllable level, we practice it in all positions of short words, we progress to multi-syllable words, then phrases, sentences, and finally conversation. It is a lengthy process to correct an error sound because there is conscious effort needed on the person's part. Eventually, with practice, there is muscle memory and a change from voluntary concentration on the sound to an involuntary carry over of correct production to all contexts. It can be compared to anyone attempting to change a habit.

    LANGUAGE: The understanding and use of our language is the focus of language therapy. A few of the things I might address are concepts, grammar, use of language in social settings (pragmatics), morphology (plural markers, possessive markers, irregular verb tense...), word finding, vocabulary, synonyms, homonyms, and written expression. This is not a complete list, but it gives you an idea of the category.

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