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CASD 2231 Speech & Language Development: Introduction to speech, language, & communication

Open Educational Resource (OER) created for Professor Epstein's CASD 2231 course.

Introduction to speech, language, & communication

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Summary

  • The differences among speech, language, and communication.
  • Nonlinguistic, paralinguistic, and metalinguistic types of communication.
  • The primary characteristics of language.
  • Descriptions of the five domains of language.
  • Dialectal variations and how dialects develop.

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