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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Blog #4Today I spoke to my mom about differences she has noticed between the way her and I talk. Some of her responses were really funny and I […]

    1 year, 1 month ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Blog Post 3Proposition: I have four fish. Truth value: True. Truth conditions: In order for this to be true, I would need to actually have […]

    1 year, 2 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Olivia Savitz commented on the post, Discussion 5

    This can also relate to my response describing the color green. To describe it you point to something that is green. Just like the word tree. You can point to an oak tree.

    1 year, 2 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Olivia Savitz commented on the post, Discussion 5

    In this thread, please make a response sharing one of the topics from this reading that you found the most surprising or novel. (For instance, were you surprised to find that you have a mental image for very many […]

    1 year, 2 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Blog post 2A word that has been borrowed from the donor language, Greenlandic, into the borrowing language, English, is the word, “kayak.” In […]

    1 year, 3 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Olivia Savitz commented on the post, Discussion 4: The Sounds of Language

    When I was first learning language I don’t remember having trouble acquiring any speech sounds but I have been told by my family that instead of saying “speed bump” I would say “bee bump”. I am assuming I had a […]

    1 year, 4 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Blog Post 1Some of the prescriptive rules that I was taught in my life is that you can not use a double negative because it is “improper” and […]

    1 year, 4 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    February 13thhi

    1 year, 4 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Olivia Savitz commented on the post, Discussion 2: What is language?

    Thinking back thousands of years, to the early days of modern humans, and the early days of language, I think the turning point of communication to language would be when humans figured out that we have more […]

    1 year, 4 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Teststest

    1 year, 5 months ago
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    Ling 201: Introduction to Language

    Olivia Savitz commented on the post, Discussion 1

    In this class I hope to learn the background behind language and learn more about it because right now I don’t know anything about Linguistics.

    1 year, 5 months ago
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    1 year, 5 months ago

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