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Linguistics
The difference between language acquisition and language learning is so profound that researchers who study neurolinguistics, which analyzes how language impacts the brain, have found out that the...
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Linguistics
Language changes because of people's exposure to other languages. English, for example, has added words from all over the world. This goes back to the various conquering of the British Isles, by...
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Linguistics
Louis Alvarez's 1988 documentary film American Tongues explores the diversity of accents in the United States and reflects on their origins. The Boston Brahmins are members of the traditional East...
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Linguistics
These familiar prefixes (micro=very small; macro=very large) differentiate two approaches to the study of languages. The micro-linguist is interested in how small changes in a distinct word or...
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Linguistics
In terms of linguistics, morphology is the study of words. It looks at how words are formed and the relationship that words have with other words. It also analyzes the structure and different parts...
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Linguistics
In phonology (linguistics), assimilation is a process of sound change in which a sound becomes similar to another sound in its immediate environment. Assimilation of sounds can happen within a word...
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Linguistics
Diachronic linguistics is the same thing as historical linguistics. Diachronic linguistics is the study of the changes in language over time. Synchronic linguistics is the study of the linguistic...
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Linguistics
The definition of science, according to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is: knowledge about the structure and behavior of the natural and physical world, based on facts that you can prove,...
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Linguistics
Functionalism is a reaction against the "formal" linguistics theories that began with Saussurean Structuralism in the early 1900s. While Structuralism let go of diachronic language study (language...
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Linguistics
Let's focus on the role of linguistics as part of the variables that naturally occur in sociolinguistics. As the word implies, the study focuses on how a specific cultural, ethnic, religious, or...
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Linguistics
The aspects of speech to which people pay the most attention vary with the individual, culture, circumstances, and content of the speech. Comprehension of speech involves a combination of...
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Linguistics
There are many ways in which culture influences language. The first example would be what words are considered taboo, and avoided or euphemized. For example, in Victorian England, sexuality was...
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Linguistics
L1, or first language, is what is referred to the native or indigenous language of the student. It is also referred to as the "natural language", or the "mother tongue". When it comes to language...
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Linguistics
Language is considered as a system primarily because it is made of linguistic units that are interdependent of each other. Since they are smaller units working within a whole system, by default,...
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Linguistics
Language is a dynamic ‘cognitive’ object and sociological phenomenon. Language change is natural and uncontrollable. Languages mainly change when they come in contact with other languages (read...
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Linguistics
Of the many subtypes of the study of linguistics – the study and description of word formation (as inflection, derivation, and compounding) in language, the most relevant to current social...
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Linguistics
Let us first explain what a morpheme actually is. A morpheme is a representative unit of grammar that cannot be broken down into smaller meaningful parts. A morpheme is to language what an atom is...
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Linguistics
The linguistic knowledge of phonics is essential for everyday life. it entails the three most important actions to make our brains understand the world, as we know it: recognition, reproduction,...
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Linguistics
In general, trends in scholarship (in social sciences) tend to be affected by changes in overall attitudes in society. This is true with respect to views on the idea of "women's English." In the...
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Linguistics
To my understanding, mathematical linguistics may include logical proofs as a part of its coverage, but the two are distinct entities and do not necessarily overlap academically or...
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Linguistics
Learning a foreign language is all about communication and real life. One can obtain or improve a number of skills when becoming involved with a foreign language, especially if in an organised...
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Linguistics
This is a good question and this word is often times defined so ambiguously. Syntax is the study of the principles that govern phrases, clauses, and sentence structure. Each language in the world...
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Linguistics
Sophisticated brain research, like fMRI and the even more sophisticated positron emission tomography, have shown that early theories of distinctly hierarchical divisions of brain function areas,...
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Linguistics
Linguistics is defined as "the scientific study of human language." It is not an exact science, but it could be considered a form of scientific study in a way. Linguists look at language...
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Linguistics
As its root suggests, morphology is the study of how words change—not historically (that is diachronic linguistics), but how the form of a word is changed by its inflections, it prefixes, its...
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Linguistics
No matter what language we speak, we all make adjustments to our speech, depending on audience and context. Sometimes we are more formal, for example, speaking to professors or managers, but...
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Linguistics
The concept of language as a system of systems is from an article by the same title, "Language as a System of Systems," by Mulder and Hervey (1975). Their work is taken from the previous work of...
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Linguistics
In brief, syntactic phenomena are a set of syntactical arrangements or functions that may occur across a wide spectrum of languages. An example is Wh-movement, also called A-movement. Let's break...
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Linguistics
The Direct , or Natural, Language Teaching Method (DM) is also known as the "Berlitz" Method. It is mainly a teaching tool for the acquisition of a second or foreign languages. This method was...
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Linguistics
a. *The students speak can Esperanto. Some auxiliary verbs and modals must agree with the tense feature (T) of the main verb in English and precede the verb phrase (VP) containing the head verb....
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Linguistics
First, let's describe the two hypotheses and then analyze for a conclusion. The Unitary System Hypothesis is quite interesting. It stems from the continuous debate on whether dual-language babies...
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Linguistics
The etymology of these words (pedantic and pedantical) is a little confusing because of the forms in which they entered English from Old French. PEDANTICAL: The original form from which pedantical...
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Linguistics
A lover of the 20's, I enjoy some of the phrases (or kennings for you Anglo-Saxon lit lovers) of the Roaring Twenties. Here are a few of my favorites which need to make a comeback: All wet, Bee's...
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Linguistics
Applied Linguistics, as a general definition, is the scientific study of language. The aspects of language that this field studies include a myriad of dimensions that show how complex human...
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Linguistics
Diglossia is a linguistic term that is also used in sociology. Diglossia is the coexistence of language codes that are either (1) two varieties of one language or (2) two distinct languages....
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Linguistics
A morpheme is a minimal linguistic unit that has a form as well as a function or some semantic basis (basically, a meaning). Let me explain this linguistic terminology. Traditionally, it was...
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Linguistics
A tonic syllable is the most important syllable in a tone unit; it is the syllable that is the main stress of that unit. That being said, an important distinction to understand here is that the...
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Linguistics
Human communication, namely, human language, has six unique traits which establish the huge contrast between our system of communication and the systems of communication among animals and other...
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Linguistics
In form and function, language varies widely across space and throughout time. That being said, six key properties of language have been described by linguists. These six features are...
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Linguistics
Most theories of second language acquisition, like those in the field of general education, are based on two schools of thought: the behavioral, or the cognitive school of thought. The behavioral...
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Linguistics
Morphology is the study of the words and their structure. Morphology focuses on the various morphemes that make up a word. A morpheme is the smallest unit of a word that has meaning. A morph is...
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Linguistics
The question was about the differences in the new grammar vs. the traditional grammar. The answer does not address that question at all. In "traditional" grammar sentences were "parsed"; that is,...
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Linguistics
The core of this answer is really about how the semantic meaning of the word changes after it has been altered. Inflectional morphemes don't undergo the same kind of drastic change that...
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Linguistics
When using the Monitor model for the teaching of L2 in the SLA classroom, one must first consider that there are 5 hypotheses included within the model. Each of the hypothesis shows a different way...
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Linguistics
Morphology is a subfield of linguistics that deals with the form and internal constituent structure of words of a given language. Since words are formed of morphemes, we can also say that...
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Linguistics
English has become a global language for a few different reasons. First, the British Empire visited, colonized, or began many of the populations over the world. Therefore, their language impacted...
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Linguistics
These concepts in linguistics are often confused, but they are quite distinct. A phoneme is a unit of sound that differentiates one word from another. For example, the phoneme “t“ in...
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Linguistics
Morphs and allomorphs are both ways to describe the phonetic expressions (that is, the actual sounds produced) of the smallest meaningful parts of language in the study of morphology: morphemes. A...
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Linguistics
A morpheme is a unit of language, but not necessarily a word. A morpheme might be a word, or might be part of a word. It is "a small unit of language that contains meaning." A morpheme that is...
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Linguistics
There is a subtle, but very important difference between these two ideas. You should think of linguistic relativity (Benjamin Whorf) as a subset of linguistic determinism (Edward Sapir)....