When I was younger I would have a hard time pronouncing the word “mommy” I couldn’t pronounce bilabial consonant sounds like the /mm/ sound in the word “mommy.” Whenever I would call my mom I would say “nani” […]
During our readings and in class discussions we learned about descriptivism and prescriptivism. Descriptivism is used by Linguists and is described as no rights and wrongs associated with using language, only what […]
Thinking back thousands of years ago to early days of modern humans and language. Many humans used facial gestures, hand gestures and did not communicate verbally however they (neanderthals, homosapiens and […]
