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Nuts and Bolts

Some linguistic elements – other than areas of research

For speech and language therapy

VocalTractBugle

The human instrument

What therapy for spoken language has to work with

Adapting it for speech

Sets

Sets

Building

Branching

BasicsAcorn

Growing

From level to level

Print

Single words or signs

Not as simple as they look

syllables-image

Syllables

Pulses in speech

PhonemesR

Sounds or letters?

Not the same thing.

MorphemeYinYang

Morphemes

The smallest elements of meaning

MarkednessR

Markedness

Starting points and orderings

features-image

Features

‘Inside’ the sounds of speech.

underspecification

Underspecification

Minimising the storage

DrumR

Rhythm

And metre or metricality in speech

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Intonation

What people are mostly talking about when they say that someone has a ‘sing song’ voice

Derivation2

Derivation

One step after another

Universals and ideosyncracies

Idiosyncracies and universals

What makes English English?

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