Speech - Language Characteristics
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As we serve the public in any given setting, we're going to be asked to evaluate individuals speech and language; today many people from all around the world live and work in the U. S. so the likely hood of an SLP needing to know the normal speech and language patterns of various regions, cultures, languages is very high. |
hispanic LanguagesSpanish Phonemic Inventory: ASHA
Comparions of Phonemes Spanish to English: Bruce Hayes Language and Culture among Hispanics in the United States: This research article concentrates on the three major ethnic groups in the United States - Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans. It is a survey of these groups' use of the Spanish language, often in combination with English, in order to express and interpret cultural symbolism. |
Indian languagesHindi-Urdu Phonemic Inventory: The Speech Accent Archive
Hindi-Urdu is one of the four most-spoken languages in the world. Hindi is the official language of India, and Urdu is the official language of Pakistan. At an elementary level, Hindi and Urdu grammar is the same. Hindi is written in Devanagari script, and Urdu is written in Perso-Arabic script, called Nastaliq. Hindi draws its vocabulary from Sanskrit while Urdu draws heavily from Persian and Arabic vocabulary. Both languages are widely understood across the South Asian countries, and are spoken by South Asian immigrants all over the world. |
Pacific Islander LanguagesMaori Phonemic Inventory: The Speech Accent Initiative
Māori language is the indignous laguage of New Zealand. Almost all Maori speakers are bilingual, speaking both English and Maori languages. Maori features one of the smallest phoneme inventories in the world and also simplified phonotactics8 both inherited from Proto-Polynesian (PPN). |
Asian LanguagesMandarin Phonemic Inventory: The Speech Accent Initiative
Genetically, Mandarin is a member of the Chinese branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. It is the major Chinese language in that (1) it is the native language of more than half of the people of China, (2) these native speakers inhabit about 75 percent of the land area of China, (3) it is the official language of both mainland China and Taiwan, and (4) the written language is structurally and lexically closer to Mandarin than to any of the other Chinese languages.Unlike English, Mandarin is a tonal language. There are four lexical tones in Mandarin: tone 1 (high-level), tone 2 (high-rising), tone 3 (dipping), and tone 4 (high-falling). Tone, like stress in English, can distinguish word meaning independently of segmental properties. |