https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/melaniegomez/activity/ Activity feed for melanie gomez. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 a9db9cfc6f84732fbe1dcf48b8024177 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=770 Tue, 14 May 2024 18:12:29 -0400 Blog Post #4For this assignment I chose to speak with my mom about the different ways we use language together. She had told me that growing up she […]

]]> c027910163f07f911c8f11696b5b600d https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=611 Sun, 07 Apr 2024 02:51:20 -0400 Blog Post #3As we learned in class recently, propositions are claims expressed by a sentence, which either are true or false. Each proposition has […]

]]> 78c26a8a63e62f89572efa61bf518ad6 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-182 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:10:48 -0400 I liked how you included how certain words don’t have a set definition, but rather a mental image. Especially for someone who is blind or colorblind, it can be nearly impossible to define or form a mental image of […]

]]> 8665d1a629af285ec4ba44ca86c1e85f https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-181 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:52:36 -0400 One of the topics I found interesting in this weeks reading, was the concept of a sense and reference in linguistics. Sense is an abstract explanation of what a word means. While a reference is physical, being a […]

]]> 30dc62ea010d3aba3d564b3518bbfda5 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=471 Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:36:06 -0500 Blog Post #2When I had to study Spanish back in high school, I noticed a lot of Spanish words were similar to English. Most of the time, words […]

]]> ba3da1f4ca97ec8bbc724f00b9daa72a https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/20/discussion-4-the-sounds-of-language/#comment-158 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:52:19 -0500 As a child, when I was first learning how to speak I would have trouble pronouncing d and b correctly. For instance, much longer words that had the letters b and d in them would be a struggle for me. One example […]

]]> 1167daa9c435b47a53abfec5e547628d https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=326 Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:50:29 -0500 Blog Post #1Thinking back to when I was first learning the basics of grammar in elementary school, I would always struggle to use language in a way […]

]]> c5b9ba8b936fe529f0ac3a75777b7917 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/13/discussion-3-descriptivism-and-prescriptivism/#comment-134 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:30:33 -0500 Linguists tend to favor the descriptivist approach when it comes to understanding language. For instance, Descriptivism is the study of language as it is used. Along side, descriptive grammar focuses on the […]

]]> a055157bcb52a9a45dc8c6cf50d30bba https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=215 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:37:29 -0500 2/13/24test blog post

]]> 99503a0d42729bd91d9f833f53fc2d45 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/06/discussion-2-what-is-language/#comment-96 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:09:58 -0500 Thinking back to the early days of human civilization, our ancestors advanced from simple communication to language. One possible turning point for this could have been the development of grammar, which are the […]

]]> 70c671919108a92b7eda3930dab673e4 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/01/27/discussion-1/#comment-76 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:05:14 -0500 During this class, I hope to improve my writing and public speaking. I’m also excited to learn about Linguistics through the weekly readings/discussions and use these skills in the future.

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