Spoken language

Q .What is phonemic awareness? Explain the different assessment tools ? A. Phonemic awareness is the only aspect of reading that is essential for children to develop before they can begin learning to read. Based in oral language, Phonemic awareness serves as not only the foundation for reading but also the strongest indicator of a child’s potential for learning to read. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made up of phonemes(or) individual…

Languages around the world are important to make connections and communicate with other people. Some current languages today around the world can be altered in the future, can be created to benefit a society, and can influence on cultures as to how people will see the world. How these things happen will be explained as follows. According to McWhorter’s (2015) article, he believes that within time, the linguistic world will be different than what it is today. He states that the current 6000…

Proposition 227, three language ideologies, dominant language ideology, monoglot language ideology, and standard language ideology are present. Dominant language ideology corresponds to the idea that certain sets of presuppositions about a language might be specific to that certain language from others and are to be above the other languages, mainly used by the people of power (Hauck, Lecture; 11/9/2017). For example, in Proposition 227 it states that, “The English language...is spoken by the…

children learned language, and that person responded “Their parents teach them”, I would want to explain that although caregiver modeling is important, there are also other very important aspects. Children do need to be around and witness correct functional speech from his/her parents or caregivers, but there is some portion of language that is also inborn. This is shown by the universal grammar, such as each language having the parts of speech although the languages are spoken differently.…

A central notion is 'stratification', such that language is analysed in terms of four strata: Context, Semantics, Lexico-Grammar and Phonology-Graphology. Context concerns the Field (what is going on), Tenor (the social roles and relationships between the participants), and the Mode (aspects of the channel of communication, e.g., monologic/dialogic, spoken/written, +/- visual-contact, etc.). Systemic semantics includes what is usually called 'pragmatics'. Semantics is divided into three…

LANGUAGE AND THE BRAIN Introduction The brain is the most complex and important part of a human. It is a big hidden world. Thank to this vital organ, we can make sense of whole world. However, only a few information about the brain is known even though there are so many researches. When the brain is examined, it can be said that it has several parts which work for particular purposes. One of these purposes is about language. So, the brain is a topic of Linguistics because of its relationship…

Full ledged language is achieved by communicating and gaining experience with other humans. A study was done comparing parents of different social classes talking to their children and found that the wealthier the families were, the more they communicated with their kids. The psychologists, Betty Hart and Todd Risley Hart concluded: “With few exceptions, the more parents talked to their children, the faster the children’s vocabularies were growing and the higher the children’s I.Q. test scores…

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…

work surrounding children with autism. With regard to language, the main issue that children on the spectrum experience is difficulty with abstraction and symbolism. After all, language is an arbitrary representation of reality. Therefore, pictures rather than words have been shown to aid these children with comprehension. In particular, Narayanan (2014) developed a program called Avaz, which essentially converts sequenced pictures into spoken sentences. However, Avaz does not account for…

and seriousness of language endangerment there is a wide variety of scholarship on this topic; however several scholars find problematic the literature of language endangerment. One of the main critiques from anthropologist to linguists is that linguist focus on linguistic loss without having much concern for the community of speakers whose language is in danger. The authors Jane Hill (2002) and Peter Whitely (2003) make valid critiques of the popular academic trend that language endangerment…