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Student Presentations: Tina, Michelle Writing Systems Wrap up, Applications presentations  

Tina & Jerry’s Presentation on Pragmatics: Pragmatics Sites about academic/social language skills: www.everythingesl.net/inservices/bics_calp.php Pragmatics: The interpretation of linguistic meaning in context. (according to the text; my own definition is that it is the study of how we do things with language. The … Continue reading →

Student Presentations Writing; The ABCs of Language The History of Writing Pictograms and Ideograms Petroglyphs: rock drawings found in caves like Altamira  Pictograms: image of an object Ideograms: pictogram that represents an idea Cuneiform Writing Old known form of writing, developed … Continue reading →

Semantics: the study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes, words, phrases, and sentences

Subfields of Semantics: lexical semantics: concerned with the meanings of words | phrasal or sentential semantics: concerned with larger syntactic units | There are more types which the text doesn’t cover Continue reading →

Abbas’ link to YouTube Interview with Noam Chomsky Phrase Structure Trees (also called constituent structure trees) Syntactic categories phrasal categories (NP & VP) lexical categories (Noun & Verb) functional categories (Det, Aux & Comp) Head & Complements – internal structure of … Continue reading →

Grammar page Abbas’ link to YouTube Interview with Noam Chomsky Syntax: a speaker’s knowdge of sentences and their structures Sequences of words that conform to the rules of syntax are well-formed or grammatical. Those that violate the rules are ill-formed or … Continue reading →

  Exercises (Expert Groups) May 3: Lyndsay & Laura: Language and the Brain4 May 8: Jennifer, Ashley, Rakhee: Phonetics (ppt) You Tube video of the mouth tool for teaching pronunciation May 15: Alicia, Mirna, Michelle D. SyntaxPresentation_Part 1 May 15 May 17: Angela, … Continue reading →

Key terms: phones: phonetic segments that occur in a language (these may not make a difference in meaning, however) phoneme: Significant sound contrast in a language that serves to distinguish meaning, as in minimal pairs. phonemics: The study of the … Continue reading →

To help with the homework: IPA Onliine Keyboard Articulatory Phonetics Let’s Learn IPA! Cool chart with spoken examples IPA “Sammy” See the places of articulation, manner, etc LIVE! How we produce sound: mostly through a pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism Other … Continue reading →

Linguistic Signs – arbitrary relationship between form & meaning Lexicon: mental database of roots, inflectional and derivational morphemes What does our morphological knowledge consist of? Morphemes (smallest units of meaning) Morphological Rules (howto combine morphemes) Types of morphemes: Free morphemes: … Continue reading →