In this weeks reading I found the topic word reference to be very interesting. I think sometimes we could overcomplicate in a way. It really could be something so simple as a Teacher. A Teacher refers to a person […]
I also agree with you on how amazing it is that we start to visual before we can even think of the word. Our brain over time starts to create mental representations.
Growing up there were certain speech sounds I had trouble with. For me, it was pronouncing the word ice cream. My [e] in ice would sound like a [t]. When I was about 2-3 years old, I needed to get stitches on my […]
Prescriptive Grammar Pet Peeves In the past years of schooling, I remember my 2nd-grade teacher constantly reminding the class not to use the and then monster. We […]
Descriptivism is favored by linguists for many reasons. It comes to us naturally and is less structured compared to prescriptivism. From a young age, babies are introduced to language and it is instinctual to […]
Thinking back to the early days, our human ancestors used grunting and hooting as a form of communication and eventually, it gradually developed into the language we now use today. Further thoughts about language […]
