https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/samanthalaroccaa/activity/ Activity feed for samantha laRocca. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 fce73449b92f7e825bb97caae1577557 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=766 Tue, 14 May 2024 17:33:39 -0400 Blog post #4I talked with my mom about how English has changed from when she was growing up from how I grew up speaking and she explained to me […]

]]> 70857e55c7ddceb7499815918671c7dc https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=623 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:21:11 -0400 Blog Post 31. Proposition: I have black hair Truth value: False Truth conditions: For this to be true, I would need to have black […]

]]> 7d352355ab68b50aeeb9faa513e2aea8 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-191 Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:30:10 -0400 I also enjoyed learning about mental image. I knew it was a thing but I never really noticed how much I use mental image in every conversation. When trying to describe something I picture that thing in my head and […]

]]> 3b9068e656818a579a43117d6fdf5a40 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/03/26/discussion-5/#comment-190 Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:16:58 -0400 A topic that I found most surprising to learn about was mental image. I know when someone asks me “oh do you remember what happened here” or “do you remember when we did this..”, I always create a picture in my h […]

]]> 9067f828377877eab6a4d334a12a5172 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=477 Sat, 09 Mar 2024 17:52:24 -0500 Blog Post #2One word that I found that was interestingly borrowed from one language (the donor language) into another language (the borrowing […]

]]> 01174d6a085f19a50733b80b15d9c17b https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/20/discussion-4-the-sounds-of-language/#comment-160 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 01:47:39 -0500 Growing up english was my first language but I struggled speaking it. I attended speech once I started elementary school. There were so many words and phrases that I was unable to pronounce for example instead of […]

]]> 7aca93b05c7fcc4a824c83f919484534 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=300 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:38:41 -0500 Are these really words?I remember while growing up in elementary school I had this one teacher that wouldn’t allow the class to say words like gonna, wanna, a […]

]]> 17d208c87905eb3eaebc2a8be7984f3e https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/13/discussion-3-descriptivism-and-prescriptivism/#comment-126 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:43:23 -0500 Descriptivism focuses on the study of language used in the daily lives of individuals. It is able to provide structure and direction while creating a foundation for teaching language. Descriptivism is able to […]

]]> 00aa879057c9d8eb9a37e56cf836c00a https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=219 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:37:32 -0500 February 13hello

]]> c19c2f687c4be333b5259f0b270259fb https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/02/06/discussion-2-what-is-language/#comment-97 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:50:52 -0500 Language is not the same thing as communicating, language is what makes us human. According to Donna Jo Napoli, in order for a communication system to be identified as a language it must contain these five […]

]]> 4698673946f92730ad1ccc80d1799a43 https://ling201spr2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/01/27/discussion-1/#comment-80 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:00:12 -0500 In this class I hope to learn about language and how it is associated with culture and society. I would also like to learn about the structure of a language and how it can be described.

]]> f664a5b1ac6280ffc599e1761b665605 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/973934/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:51:57 -0500