Glossary / Lexicon

Patronizing speech refers to inappropriate speech to older adults that is based on stereotypes of incompetence . . . Read More

Pitch is defined as the highness or lowness of a sound, as determined by the frequency of sound waves. . . . Read More

Prosody is defined as the intonational and stress pattern and the tempo of an utterancethe intonation . . . Read More

Jargon refers to a specialized Vocabulary commonly used within a group, such as a profession or a trade. . . . Read More

Babbling refers to the infant''s preferential production largely of those distinct phonemesboth vowels . . . Read More

Babbles refer to vowel/consonant combinations that infants begin to produce at about 4 to 6 months of . . . Read More

Baby talk refers to a form of adult-to-child speech characterized by relatively simple utterances, concrete . . . Read More

Expressive strategy refers to a style of child language characterized by low noun/pronoun ratio, poor . . . Read More

Paralinguistics is concerned with factors of how words are spoken, that is, the volume, the intonation, . . . Read More

Prosodic factors are factors such as intonation and stress that are superimposed on speech segments. . . . Read More