Parts of Speech: The words that we use can be divided into these classes: noun - A noun is a type of word

of word that represents a person, thing, or place, like mother, apple, or valley. verb - A verb is a type of word that describes an action or a state of being, like wiggle, walk, run, jump, be, do, have, or think. pronoun - A pronoun is a substitute for a noun. Some pronouns are: I, me, she, hers, he, him, it, you, they, them, etc. adjective - An adjective is a word that describes something (a noun). Some adjectives are: big, cold, blue, and silly. One special type of adjective is an article, a word that introduces a noun and also limits or clarifies it; in English, the indefinite articles are a and an, the definite article is the. adverb - An adverb is a word that tells "how," "when," "where," or "how much". Some adverbs are: easily, warmly, quickly, mainly, freely, often, and unfortunately. preposition - A preposition shows how something is related to another word. It shows the spatial (space), temporal (time), or logical relationship of an object to the rest of the sentence. The words above, near, at, by, after, with and from are prepositions. conjunction - A conjunction is a word that joins other words, phrases, clauses or sentences. Some conjunctions are: and, as, because, but, or, since, so, until, andwhile. interjection - An interjection is a word that expresses emotion. An interjection often starts a sentence but it can be contained within a sentence or can stand alone. Some interjections are oh, wow, ugh, hurray, eh, and ah.

I'll (I will) Contractions A contraction is a shortened form of one or two words (usually verbs). Some contractions are: I'm (I am), can't (cannot), how's (how is), and Ma'am (Madam). Write Parts of Speech Write 5 words that belong to each part of speech in English. Parts of speech include: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Orgo to sample answers. Write Parts of Speech Write 10 words that belong to each part of speech in English. Parts of speech include: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Or go to sample answers. Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large (usually about 10,000 different words) 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. Most human speakers (polyglots) are able to communicate in two or more of them.[1] The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also provide humans with the ability to sing. For the human linguistic concept, see Speech perception. The display of the Speech Recognition screensaver on a PC, in which the character responds to questions, e.g. "Where are you?" or statements, e.g. "Hello." In computer science, speech recognition (SR) is the translation of spoken words into text. It is also known as "automatic speech recognition", "ASR", "computer speech recognition", "speech to text", or just "STT". Some SR systems use "speaker independent speech recognition" [1] while others use "training" where an individual speaker reads sections of text into the SR system. These systems analyze the person's specific voice and use it to fine tune the recognition of that person's speech, resulting in more accurate transcription. Systems that do not use training are called "speaker independent" systems. Systems that use training are called "speaker dependent" systems. Speech recognition applications include voice user interfaces such as voice dialing (e.g. "Call home"), call routing (e.g. "I would like to make a collect call"), domotic appliance control, search (e.g. find a podcast where particular words were spoken), simple data entry (e.g., entering a credit card number), preparation of

structured documents (e.g. a radiology report), speech-to-text processing (e.g., word processors oremails), and aircraft (usually termed Direct Voice Input). The term voice recognition[2][3][4] refers to finding the identity of "who" is speaking, rather than what they are saying. Recognizing the speakercan simplify the task of translating speech in systems that have been trained on specific person's voices or it can be used to authenticate or verify the identity of a speaker as part of a security process.

PARTS OF SPEECH
Different schools of grammar present different classifications for the parts of speech. Traditional grammarians, for example, base designations on a word's meaning or signification.

Example:

A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

Structural grammarians see parts of speech as often identifiable through their position in sentences.

Example:

Her _________ was on the table.

(noun)

Using valuable ideas from both groups, we may divide parts of speech into two major groups: 2 Classes: 1) content words (open class) 2) function words (closed class)

Content words are words that have meaning. They are words we would look up in a dictionary, such as "lamp," "computer," "drove." New content words are constantly added to the English language; old content words constantly leave the language as they become obsolete. Therefore, we refer to content words as an "open" class. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are content parts of speech. Function words are words that exist to explain or create grammatical or structural relationships into which the content words may fit. Words like "of," "the," "to," they have little meaning on their own. They are much fewer in number and generally do not change as English adds and omits content words. Therefore, we refer to function words as a "closed" class.

Pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners, qualifiers/intensifiers, and interrogatives are some function parts of speech.

Note the differences between content and function parts of speech:

Generally, we can use one or more of five signals to help us determine a word's part of speech designation: 1. function words (the, what, and) 2. inflectional morphemes (-s, -ed) 3. derivational morphemes 4. word order in sentence patterns 5. stress patterns (subJECT/SUBject, INsert/inSERT, IMprint/imPRINT)

History of Speech Communication

The tradition of speech communication as a field of study is 2500 years old. Its roots lie in the ancient study ofrhetoric. Modern speech communication research started in the United States and grew rapidly in the beginningof the 20th century. Nowadays, Speech Communication can be studied as a major subject in hundreds ofuniversities across the world. In Finland, the earliest tradition of Speech Communication goes together with the teaching traditions of oral interpretation and public speaking in the 17th century. Public education and oral interpretation traditions had a strong influence on the idea of rhetoric in the beginning of the 20th century. Education in rhetorics, and particularly in pronunciation, use of voice, and oral interpretation, merged into the so-called Finnish Language Movement. Education in oral interpretation and public speaking was spread into Finnish universities in the 1960s. The name Speech Communication was first used for this area of higher education at the University of Jyvskyl in the 1980s. Nowadays, the University of Jyvskyl is the center of speech communication research and professional education in Finland. Degree programs in the discipline started in 1980. The first doctoral thesis in SpeechCommunication in Finland, Aino Sallinens Finnish Communication Reticence, was published in 1986. By the summer of 2012, approximately 330 Masters of Arts have graduated from the University of Jyvskyl. Moreover, 24 Licentiates of Philosophy and 18 Doctors of Philosophy have completed their studies in SpeechCommunication.