Linguistics

“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein. I came to realize this after I was influenced by many people. Specifically, after attending my language teachers classes, and understanding her view and passion about foreign languages. Also, I was inspired, and even more motivated into the world of different languages after watching an eight-minute video about a teenage hyperpolyglot. However, I only became fully engrossed in learning different languages and cultures…

The article “Why Do Language Die?” by Noah Tesch reminds me a conversation that I had with a Cherokee when I visited a Cherokee preservation festival several years ago. The young man I have talked with had told me that they are demanded from the government to adapt the endangered Cherokee culture into their everyday lives, which include their younger generations to learn Cherokee languages along with English. Languages are not only a way to communicate, they also represent different cultural…

modern methods used nowadays for English language learning and acquisition, it has a lot of benefits and merits, especially for elementary levels, that many teachers are still using it in their classrooms. She argues that some specialists in applied linguistics – such as Bright, Koch, Ruttenberg, and Terdy (1982) – had strongly stressed that reading aloud can be beneficial for elementary levels in ESL since it helps learners develop “an awareness of sound-symbol relationships” (Griffin, 1992).…

Spanglish is a term that describes the linguistic blend of English words with Spanish. Similar to an actual language, Spanglish has its cultural importance since it strongly influences the way in which bilingual individuals communicate and express ideas and opinions. In order to understand when and why bilingual individuals insert or switch words from English to Spanish or vice versa, I interviewed and recorded a conversation between my 18 year old cousin, Chave, and I. However, most of the…

refers to the Texas-US. Southwest/ Mexican border geographically. At the same time, it is used reputedly as an extended metaphor for all types of crossings: “sexual transgressions, social dislocations, and the crossing necessary to exist in multiple linguistic and cultural contexts” (Anzaldua 6). Through her poem, Anzaldua shows us the difficulty for hybridity to live…

because it is the author’s ethnic and racial identity, prompting the audience to have an increase in sympathy as they know that Chicanos have already had this characteristic insulted before. A majority of Chicanos and Chicanas are ashamed of their linguistic because it has been labeled as an illegitimate language. As the main threat of the enormous sizes of English and Spanish continues, it is revealed that Chicanos possess a large amount of shame because of its label as an illegitimate language…

The relationship between language and culture is known to be confusing with no clear distinction on how to separate the two. Language must be learned in order to communicate with the people who speak it as their native tongue, and culture must be understood in order to act in accordance with the social norms of society. But if multiple languages are learned without any cultural knowledge on the country where that language is spoken, is that language fully learned? And if multiple countries…

Adaptive Maneuvers Kamen, R. S., & Watson, B. C. (1991). Effects of long-term tracheostomy on spectral characteristics of vowel production. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 34(5), 1057-1065. Kamen and Watson (1991) completed a study on the effects long-term tracheostomy has on spectral characteristic of vowel production for children aged 39 to 60 months who underwent a tracheotomy in which they were cannulated between 15 to 42 months. Kamen and Watson (1991) examined 8…

Safie first hand using books to help her both speak, read, and write in French. The monster already knew some words from listening to the cottagers, like a child learning its first words, “When the child hears a sufficient number of instances of a linguistic construction (i.e. the third singular verb form), she will detect patterns across the utterances she has heard” (Lemetyinen). When Safie began to learn French, the monster learned from observing her progress and practicing alone, utilizing…

produce sounds it is one way in which humans communicate (Harrub, Thompson and Miller n.d.). Speech production mechanism involves different physiological structures that interact. Spoken language can be recognised through articulatory phonetics. Linguistic can be represented through articulator movements that in return make speech a way to transfer information. This can only happen with various parts of the chest, neck, and head. These various body parts are all part of the respiratory…