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Linguistics...? Linguistics Exercise Question Exercise 6 Mean Length Utterance of the child = total number of morphemes/total number of utterances = 41/28 = 1.4643 According to Brown, the child is in stage 1 of his language development. Question 2 Exercise 6.2 The parents’ responses are short and simple, and are made up of few words. The responses are also corrective, for example, the mother says ‘rice’ after the child says “an wice’. They also use questions to test the child’s ability to identify objects, and colors. Their interactional strategy can be described as one that goes down to the level of the child in establishing a communicative function. It is a form of child language. It is useful in child language acquisition as it...
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Linguistics...?Linguistics Unit Introduction In the world of English, Linguistics is considered as study of scientific language. At the centre of linguistics is the search of the unconscious knowledge, which human beings have on language. Additionally, it is structural understanding of knowledge and languages in terms of their differences. This can well be explained by, when one is born; one cannot be able to communicate with adults who are surrounding us, using their language. However, by the time we reach the age of six or seven, we are able to produce sounds, sentences, make rhymes, and understand jokes, among other activities. Therefore, one becomes a good speaker, in which we all have experiences...
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Linguistics...Linguistics - Structure and Meaning in Literary Dis Thesis ment: In literary dis context and meaning are interconnected in the sense that the context has great significance to a complete interpretation of the literary piece's meaning and the poem "Abraham to Kill Him" by Emily Dickinson illustrates this relation, where the literary context of the poem interprets the biblical story of Abraham's sacrifice differently from the traditional meaning.
Linguistic and Literary Issues 1: In stylistics, "a discourse is a context-bound act of communication verbalized in a text, and waiting to be inferred from it" and there is immense relation between context and meaning in a literary discourse. (Verdonk, 22)
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Creole linguistics...features of their source languages than others. The prototype hypothesis was a topic for contention.
Caribbean writer Kamau Brathwaite introduced the term creolisation and since then, both Caribbean and non Caribbean researchers have begun a quest for further studies. Rex Nettleford, Sidney Mintz and Sally Price are some of the persons who have made contributions. Creole has become field of study in linguistics and in the region as well.
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Creole linguistics...The acquisition of language is very phenomenal. There is much evidence of this phenomenon in pidgin and creole speakers. It has been suggested that the dominant language of a speaker may not be his mother tongue. There has to be some overwhelming conditions, however, that would propel someone into speaking another language more than his mother tongue. Apart from social conditions a bilingual person’s use of the dominant or other language is a reflection of his linguistic confidence and assertion.
Creole speaking has taken on more significance in contemporary times since more studies and researches have been dedicated to both creole and pidgin languages. Although there...
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LINGUISTICS - Discuss the role and status of pidgin and creole languages in post-colonial contexts... or five its function is impeded by the child’s increasingly sophisticated cognitive abilities” (p. 613). Hence, CPH postulates: There is an ideal period for easy SLA, as characterized by age; although language remains intact, as one ages, the learning capacity diminishes – this period is what Selinker (1992) referred to as fossilisation (cited in Byram, 2000, p. 218), wherein the linguistic characteristics of the target language (TL) has “become permanently established in the interlanguage of a SL learner in a form that is deviant from the TL norm and that continues to appear in performance regardless of further exposure to the TL” (Flexner and Hanck, 1988, cited in Gass & Selinker, 1994, p. 14).
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Linguistics...May 12, Perspectives on Early English Education With the increasing globalization the ability to speak other languages is becoming a necessary and an important factor for success in the present days. As a result many parents are encouraging their children to learn foreign languages from their younger years as it is widely believed that young children are able to learn languages more quickly and effectively. According to a recent statistical report from Korea, Korean parents spend about 10 billion dollars a year on teaching English language for their children (Kim). Many children are also admitted in private English speaking kindergartens where they are tutored by native speakers of the language, or go to English-speaking countries...
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Linguistics...Linguistics Question 5 a. The use of the slanted lines helps differentiate underlying form, which it represents fromits phonemic realization. /tajt/ is therefore the underlying form while the phonetic representation shows the placement of stress and the movement of the tongue.
b. Just as is the case with the first question, the slanted segment is the underlying representation. The pronunciation shows the stress placed in “e” and recognition of “t” since the letter influences the sound.
c. The same applies to the k in the brackets has a significant sound producing function thus the h mark. The : shows the elongated nature of the relationship between I and d.
d. In the last word, the pronunciation of r and a remains...
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Linguistics...(College) Linguistics What do you think about the of gender indexing in Japan, does this have anything to do with gendered language including politeness and honorification? Supposing all the educated Japanese are now bilinguals, would this affect the gender indexing in Japan? What effect does the youth language bring about on social life and how does it differ from other languages?
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Linguistics...PURE WORD DEAFNESS AND INDICATORS ON SPEECH PERCEPTION – A LITERATURE REVIEW Table of Contents Introduction 3 Pure Word-Deaf (PWD) Patients 3 Pure Word Deafness and Speech Perception 4
Speech Perception, Pattern in Speech Comprehension and PWD 5
Neurobiology of the Brain and Speech Recognition 7
Practical Application of PWD and Lessons for Speech Perception 9
Conclusion 11
References 13
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