CUNY Academic Commons | Medijana Tagani | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/mtagani24/activity/ Activity feed for Medijana Tagani. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 351ff3806d68cc8de4fe2d6db82d47a3 Medijana Tagani wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=556 Tue, 26 Mar 2024 01:32:42 -0400 Blog Post 2One example of a word borrowed from Japanese into English is “karaoke.” In Japanese, it is pronounced /ka.ra.o.ke/ with five syllables […]

]]> 2c79c573d3048ee98860f1dc4278c360 Medijana Tagani 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-173 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:07:50 -0500 When I was growing up, I never had any problems with learning languages and how to speak it despite being bilingual. I grew up speaking both English and Albanian. I never had a problem speaking both languages. I […]

]]> c1e145f931fab172c19dc8d8c421e6da Medijana Tagani 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-172 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:46:22 -0500 The descriptivist approach in linguistics emphasizes objectively observing and documenting language as it is naturally spoken and written, without prescribing or judging linguistic forms. Linguists favor this […]

]]> 97bd69ceb978ce7729898362bc673aa9 Medijana Tagani wrote a new post on the site Ling 201: Introduction to Language https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=397 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:21:55 -0500 Blog 1I vividly remember a moment when I confidently used the word “gonna” in my class presentation in fourth grade. I was sharing an […]

]]> 0c4b214f9e3d80777304ca480280bacd Medijana Tagani 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-111 Sat, 10 Feb 2024 03:42:12 -0500 The transition from basic animal communication to what is considered language by researchers like Rodman and Napoli likely occurred gradually over an extended period. The use of grammar helped people communicate […]

]]> 441991ca8fa9bb8000fe2a1254aaea2b Medijana Tagani 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-93 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 22:08:28 -0500 I hope to learn about the history of language and how language changes over time.

]]> 07acb42f977ec657a7f2a6c3cc8b7f0e Medijana Tagani became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/973904/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:43:47 -0500