Linguistics

what Fellows and Oakley (2014, pp. 54-56) call the pre-linguistic stage. The pre-linguistic stage begins from birth and lasts to when a child is around one year of age. It is important however, to consider both nature and nurture when designing learning environments to cater to cognitive and language development as environmental factors influence growth along with biological maturation (Fellows & Oakley, 2014, p. 46). A child in the pre-linguistic phase will by making vocal speech type noises…

language. It seems odd that a child can do this more easily than an educated student or adult and the reasoning behind this is what Chomsky called a critical period. Learning language is an innate value in children that gradually goes away. Cases of linguistic isolation like Genie, E.M. and _____’s research provide evidence for a critical period. In addition the fact that there is a trajectory that all children follow provides evidence that there is a critical…

Introduction Maine’s dialects are vividly depicted the very characteristics of Maine’s country folks that some people have not heard before. Many words are no longer used in today as much as in the past except for some old ancient folks live in rural areas. However, there are some words and phrases that do blend in today’s society to create the dialects that are more flexible, humor, and wisdom of the people speaking it. Syntactically, the word’s orders and idioms are sounded more humor and…

Stuttering exists across linguistic and cultural groups in both monolingual and bilingual speakers. In the United States, diversity is the new majority made up of a kaleidoscope of racial and ethnic minorities. Inherent in these cultural groups are personal attitudes toward disability, communicative disorders, and stuttering. Culture and language are closely intertwined as they represent ways in how individuals perceive, understand, and interact with the world. With this rise in ethnically…

Linguistics Self-Profile Step II Prior to taking English 370, I had never studied the English language in the way of linguistics. With this being said, I had little knowledge of how the language works and how I speak the language personally. Before this class and as a native speaker of the English language and growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I believed I spoke perfect American English with no accent. By taking this course, I learned many things about the language, but also myself of a…

Linguistic Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson INTRODUCTION Linguistic Analysis deals with the scientific analysis or study of language. It includes at the very least one of the five branches of linguistics: Phonology, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax and Pragmatics. Linguistic Analysis can be used to determine the historical connection between distinct languages from different locations of the world. But the fact that languages can vary vastly depending upon the region, and hence accurately…

classroom teachers have had to find new ways to support students from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds to succeed academically (Whyte, 2012). For us to effectively accommodate these students within the classroom we need to recognise them as individuals who have their own identities and culture (Ministry of Education, 2007). While there a number of different approaches that can support students’ cultural and linguistic diversity in the classroom, within the constraints of this…

It appears Amanda’s case is connected to Chomsky’s and Pinker’s Linguistic Innateness theory. The Linguistic Innateness theory emphasizes on the notion that language, or “universal grammar,” is innate and is executed through a language acquisition device (LAD) we are all born with (Wolf Nelson, pg. 59-60, 2010). Although the location of this device it is not specified in which area of the brain it is, it in within us. It assists us in acquiring and executing certain aspects language and, if it…

Another essential issue in the Systemic Functional Linguistics is the three aspects of context of the register. According to Thompson (2013:40), register is defined as “certain recognizable configurations of linguistic resources in contexts”. In Halliday’s view, tenor, field, mode are able to describe aspects of language within texts. There seems to be a slight correlation with the three metafunctions, as field is concerned with the topic of the discourse like experiential. In the previous…

Corpus Analysis In corpus linguistics, the recurrence of patterns of small fragments like phrases and words in sentences is analyzed using strategies that do not necessarily focus on the contextual meaning of the analyzed texts. In this case, the corpus consisted of written text data from thirteen files. The corpus was named Kurdish non native speakers corpus. Analysis for the use of Conjunctions The following three corpuses were used in the analysis of conjunction usage among Kurdish non native…