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Link Blogging by Tian’ao Wang

 

                                                           Tian’ao Wang’s linguistic blog

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  • Language Change

    The appearance of a new word marks only the beginning of its existence. Once generally adopted as part of the language, the meanings and applications it has for speakers can shift dramatically, to the point of causing misunderstandings. For example, “villain” once meant a peasant or farmhand, but has come to imply a criminal individual in modern English.Read more

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  • Animal Communication

    Language is a cognition that truly makes us human. Whereas other species do communicate with an innate ability to produce a limited number of meaningful vocalizations (e.g. bonobos), or even with partially learned systems (e.g. bird songs), there is no other species known to date that can express infinite ideas (sentences) with a limited set of symbols (speech sounds and words).Read more

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    • Semantics

      Syntax highlighting and indent style are often used to aid programmers in recognizing elements of source code. Color coded highlighting is used in this piece of code written in Python.Read more。

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    • Linguistics

      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the field of study. For the journal, see Linguistics (journal). “Linguist” redirects here. For other uses, see Linguist (disambiguation) Read more

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    • Indian Languages

      Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses that constitute the Americas. These indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families, as well as many language isolates and unclassified languages.Read more

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    • Language and Culture

      The power of language to reflect culture and influence thinking was first proposed by an American linguist and anthropologist, Edward Sapir (1884–1939), and his student, Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941).Read more

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      • Phonetics VS Phonology

        Phonetics deals with the production of speech sounds by humans, often without prior knowledge of the language being spoken. Phonology is about patterns of sounds, especially different patterns of sounds in different languages, or within each language, different patterns of sounds in different positions in words etc.Read more

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      What is Morphology?

      Webster’s New World Dictionary offers several most frequently used senses of the word”language”,namely,human speech;the ability to communicate by this means;a system of vocal sounds and combinations of such sounds to which meaning is attributed,used for the expression or communication of thought and feelings;the written representation of such a system;any means of expressing or communicating,as gestures,signs,or animal sounds;Read more

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      Language Acquisition

      Semantics is een groep van gelijkgestemde individuen met een enorme passie voor talen, communicatie en coaching. Wij garanderen dynamische en begeesterende opleidingen met uitstekende resultaten, en putten hierbij uit een rijke pedagogische ervaring en business knowhow. Wij komen al uw behoeften tegemoet, helpen u uw doelstellingen te verwezenlijken en bouwen mee uw toekomst op.Read more

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    • Syntax

      Language storage and access studies how language is stored in our brain and how do we access it when we need it.The ability of human to speak and to understand speech requires an enormous amount of brain resources.Read more

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      Language Storage and Access

      A recent advertisement for Lockheed products claimed that if William the Conqueror had not had technological superiority when he invaded England in 1066, “this very ad might have been written in Anglo-Saxon”. What’s wrong with this picture? Two things: First, all living languages are always changing, so the Old English spoken by William’s adversaries would be greatly different from Modern English even if there had been no Norman conquest.Read more

    • Language Variation

      In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis, and description of the structure of a given language’s morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of speech, intonations and stresses, or implied context. In contrast, morphological typology is the classification of languages according to their use of morphemes, while lexicology is the study of those words forming a language’s wordstock. Read more

       

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Language Acquisition (English)

 

As a non-native speaker, who did not grow up in an environment surrounded by English speakers, learning English has been incomparably difficult.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130729000452

 

However, it is also true that there are still many people who do not give up learning because of their age. They always encourage me and keep me motivated.

http://education.kera.org/its-never-too-late-to-learn-says-85-year-old-student-learning-english/

 

In my university in Japan, I was taking a lot of English courses including writing, reading, listening and speaking. One of my professors suggested us to read news in English online and every class, we had to summarize the article and present in front of the class.

BBC Learning English    http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/

Voice of America English News http://www.voanews.com/

Breaking News English http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/mini_lessons.html

CNN Student News http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

 

To improve our listening skill, we also used internet sites to play English games. It made it easier for us to keep learning because we could have fun and study at the same time.

Lyrics Training http://lyricstraining.com/

Games to learn English http://gamestolearnenglish.com/

 

Even though we study and practice hard, one thing which I would say the hardest to acquire is the native accent. I have been told by many friends that I have some Japanese accent when I speak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECJRMBjX4PE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hO9V_gAs0M

 

The difference between British English and American English always confuses us as well. In Japan, since we’ve been taught American English in school, most students are not familiar with British accent and spelling. It takes a lot of practice for us to learn and to be able to understand British English because I sometimes sounds like a completely different language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsdhOKZv0uo

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/dialectsofenglish.html

Blog 5: Masterpost McGonigal

A Field of Links- By Julia McGonigal

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I’m planning on taking an ASL class while at SDSU. I would love to become fluent but it might be a bit hard if this is true

My parents have always pushed me to learn a language besides Spanish, and every time they do I like to pull out this bad boy !

I’ve always heard that once you speak one latin based language you can learn others easily.

Who know’s if that’s true though? It always seems that languages can be easily learned when you are a baby, not as a young adult

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Another suggested language that was suggested for me to try and learn is computer programming language. It seems a bit challenging to me, but I think it could be really cool if I was learning stuff like this 

I love that movie Avatar, and I’m totally going to geek out here but there’s tons of different ways to learn the language!

I’ve been trying to figure out if the language itself could be taught as an elective, I’m pretty sure some people have attempted it…

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But I mean I know that the individuals who created the Na’vi language studied many different linguistic aspects 

Some even go so far as to figure out the specific phonology of the language!

But enough about the already existing Na’vi language…I think it would be interesting to see what goes into developing your own language 

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It’s the strangest blog I’ve ever found…and yet it is extremely fascinating. I think if I were to create my own language it would just be a bit of confusion.

The best thing for me to do is to find a language that I find interesting, and follow a passion. In this case it’s definitely going to be the Na’vi language! And here’s how I’m going to learn it 

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Linguistic Variation (VLOG)

 

Just a short video in which we test the differences in our speech when we are at home or with our peers. A significantly longer version with in-depth discussion is on the way as well.

Shit White People Say (Vlog)

#vlog #shitpeoplesay

Accent Challenge/ Language Challenge

Group Members:

Aleena

Alanzo

Ding

Tiang’oa

Angela

In the first video clip two different native speakers, Chinese and North American, say a phrase in their language and the other student has to mimic it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKWXJsTlpCMFYtX2M/view?usp=sharing

In the Second video clip all group members mimic the accents spoken in four different regions;

the southern south mainly Texas, Spanglish, East Coast, and typical Southern California. however the southern Californian accent was broken into two parts because the guys and girls use completely different structure of language.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKSnR4dmczTGZYeFk/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKaklVc1lGRmtyZ28/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKd3ZvcUtJQldWOTA/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKYzcyeWh6OEV6Q0U/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKblRXZmpiTU5LZWc/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKNWFOXzc1dncwcFU/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKbFdEQW1FamFYU1k/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKWlV5UmQ3SklGN0U/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKMVpudmY3cVRrWUU/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKMVpudmY3cVRrWUU/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKMFdvMkNKMWNjV2M/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKLVdCdzRaRlVMSWM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKNll3VWlMTGVBNWs/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKMkZwSXJhTjhtM2M/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKdVEzVXViT3p2aTg/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKWnhRVlpKaVp0MEE/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKY1JPUzNZeGRYSGs/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ay7f8VqhWKZS1lM3FCZmNSQ1U/view?usp=sharing

Shit Freshman College Students Say

Paige Bowden

Katrina Chavez

Carl Spence

Accent Challenge by Two Asians

By Jia Wen Xu & Xiao Huang

Here is a link to our Tumblr Accent Challenge

Accent Challenge

Group members:

Kaitlyn De Jesus

Laura Kalmanson

Paula Soto

Kim Gonzalez

Kiara Grant

 

Here is a link to our video because the file was too large to upload to the blog. Hope you guys enjoy..

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnHF9_9w9E&feature=youtu.be

 

Shit Out-of-State Kids Say Vlog

Kat, Stellan, Sydnie, and Seth explore into the differences between the language of in-state and out-of-state students