Linguistics

Brianna Taylor Professor Hyon Composition I October 12,2016 Why do Languages Die? My first year as a student of KSU, I was told to take the Freshmen Seminar. There were many to choose from politics to culture. However, the one I decided to take was Cultures and Languages. I had always been interested in languages and always wondered why it was one of the most important features to humanity. Around the middle of the semester, me and my classmates were tasked to work in groups to explain the cons…

INTRODUCTION 2 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 1) To study the language development in terms of speech of autistic children below the age of 12. 2) To study the language component of autistic children below the age of 12. 2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1) What are the defects of phonetics and phonological structures in the speech of autistic children? 2) What are the patterns in speech grammar and syntax of autistic children? LITERATURE REVIEW Language, in its broadest term, may only give a general level of…

The English language is a very complex language across all its forms. It means one thing to one person and something entirely different to another person even though the same words are spoken or written. Communication is the transfer from one person to another person of information and is open to individual interpretation which can lead to communication issues (Ferraro and Palmer, ND). Language and communication can generally be categorised as both verbal (spoken language) and non-verbal…

This literature review will discuss the alternate points of view on dialect and character by Thornborrow, Edwards, Weber and Horner, and their perspectives. The idea is to study, examine and demonstrate the distinctions and similitudes as spoken about by these author's, and state whether I concur or differ their work. Similarly, I will express why Tabouret– Keller's work varies in a way to deal with dialect and character. Dialect and personality is for the most part recognized as who and what…

1. What three questions are important to consider when examining a language development theory? Write out each question and provide a description of the major points of all three. There are three questions that are important to consider when examining a language development theory. The first question is: What do infants bring to the task of language learning? This refers to infants’ language abilities when they are born and how they acquire language as they age. This question is essentially…

When it comes to the topic of foreign language being taught at an early age to children beginning at the first school year of their elementary experience, most of us would readily agree that it shouldn’t be taught at an early age because, it prevents children from achieving more in their academic life. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of what are the benefits of teaching children a foreign language. Whereas some are convinced that a children’s brain can absorb a…

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a language impairment in children that is characterized by atypical language development with no presence of cognitive or neurological deficits (Parisse & Millart, 2009). Expressive language production is vital to academic performance and social communication. Language skills observed in children with SLI is substantially below that of typically developing peers. Due to the wide range of deficits in both receptive and expressive language in children with SLI…

Although the phenomenon of Dialect Levelling does not centre its attention on people we can say that it is correlated to the phenomenon of accommodation theory. Dialect Levelling occurs when the differences between regional varieties of two languages over time are reduced. This causes the disappearance of distinctive features while new features that emerge are adopted by speakers over the regional area. So this phenomenon focuses mainly on the variation between two languages of specific areas.…

being ignored when necessary. It is well-studied that the teacher should give feedbacks on errors that are systematic, inconsistent, no less than ones impeding communication. More importantly, the editing strategies assisting learners to greater linguistic accuracy in their writing and fostering their autonomy should be taken into account. It is needless to say that the teacher should devote a great deal of time and effort in editing, providing enough practice, closely connecting with students’…

Study background Translation is an art that requires both a skill and a knowledge. It is not just the mere conveying of words from a source language to a target language. It is more of a complicated process. Translation is the transferring of a language as well as a culture. According to Bassnett (2002), translation does not only involve the replacement of lexical and grammatical elements between two languages, but also requires conveying the cultural settings of the texts. Lefevere and…