CUNY Academic Commons | Dean Shehadeh | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/deanshehadeh/activity/ Activity feed for Dean Shehadeh. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 37718ef68d85365bdea4c525e5173c4b Dean Shehadeh wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=787 Tue, 14 May 2024 21:07:13 -0400 Blog Post #4For this assignment, I’m going to choose my mom. She was born in Palestine and came to America when she was 19. She has to learn from m […]

]]> ea422652bab2856ed794efcd09014889 Dean Shehadeh wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=681 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:35:24 -0400 Blog Post #3Proposition: I’m Palestinian Truth value: True. Truth conditions: In order for this to be true, my immigrant parents would have […]

]]> ed95087fcb0d3fb29947002eda5f5ecb Dean Shehadeh commented on the post, Discussion 5, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-215 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:08:51 -0400 I had a similar approach to what you said and I agree. You had a good explanation of what sense and reference means. I like how you brought up the color “green” and when explaining green. When it comes to […]

]]> 6ee2fc7a02779a318d9ac50949fabf74 Dean Shehadeh commented on the post, Discussion 5, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-214 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:02:14 -0400 What I found interesting in the reading, is sense and reference. I find these two very important in semantics because it helps you understand the meaning of linguistic expressions. Generally, sense means the […]

]]> 182861e1ecb0d9729855eb25818ff325 Dean Shehadeh commented on the post, For April 2nd, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/for-april-2nd/#comment-213 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:01:06 -0400 What I found interesting in the reading, is sense and reference. I find these two very important in semantics because it helps you understand the meaning of linguistic expressions. Generally, sense means the […]

]]> 22749d77971678207fc20883adf9de89 Dean Shehadeh wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=543 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:03:55 -0400 Blog post #2There are a lot of words that are borrowed. For instance, for cafe and coffee, the donor language is from France (Donor language), and […]

]]> 6c6f795d990005afc0822a8c1a9e39aa Dean Shehadeh commented on the post, Discussion 4: The Sounds of Language, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/20/discussion-4-the-sounds-of-language/#comment-153 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:09:58 -0500 I’d like you to apply this to your own experiences. Reflect on your own life or the life of anyone you know. When you were learning your first language, were there any particular speech sounds that you had t […]

]]> 1e4069642e22d0a4a5f093b69b7f1e70 Dean Shehadeh wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=336 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 22:57:38 -0500 Blog Post #1Back in middle school my grammar and wording were always corrected by the teachers. They corrected me about a lot of words that I […]

]]> 40c62203dd4200fce14d6a4a0472ad30 Dean Shehadeh commented on the post, Discussion 3: Descriptivism and Prescriptivism, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/13/discussion-3-descriptivism-and-prescriptivism/#comment-140 Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:59:40 -0500 The reason why Linguists favor descriptivism over prescriptivism is because there’s many requirements/rules to follow with prescriptivism rather than descriptivism. For example the word “funner” most people d […]

]]> 706077fcd5e637cfe3336f8892778418 Dean Shehadeh wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=221 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:37:47 -0500 February 13thHello everyone

]]> 59101217f0377da0f5a0769270a338af Dean Shehadeh commented on the post, Discussion 2: What is language?, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/06/discussion-2-what-is-language/#comment-115 Sat, 10 Feb 2024 04:34:26 -0500 In the early days of language and modern humans, things were different compared to the abundance of languages spoken today. Back in the early days language was much simpler, and our ancestors had spoken with such […]

]]> ce22c1fa1a25e21336d8b2c185ba9449 Dean Shehadeh commented on the post, Discussion 1, on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/01/27/discussion-1/#comment-62 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:53:17 -0500 What I hope to learn in this class is to learn how to be a better writer and reader. When I read a text I want to be able to understand the text and not have to read it 5 times to understand the reading.

]]> 747d75c7d5c4e7c5aae085f339df6cc7 Dean Shehadeh became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/973888/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:40:03 -0500