Spoken Language Information
Spoken language is language produced in its spontaneous form, as opposed to written language. Many spoken languages have no written form. The term spoken language is sometimes used for oral language; however, sign language is also sometimes said to be 'spoken'.[1][2][3]
Children acquire as their first language whichever language is spoken around them, usually primarily from their mothers. Spoken language is much richer than written language; for example, transcripts of actual speech show numerous aspects of prosody which is left out of written forms of speech such as screenplays. Even from the point of view of syntax, spoken language usually has its own set of grammatical patterns which sometimes may be quite different from that in written language. In many languages, the written form is considered a different language, a situation called diglossia.
References
- ^ Nora Groce (1985) Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard
- ^ Harry Hoemann (1986) Introduction to American sign language
- ^ Brooks & Kempe (2012) Language Development
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