The concept of mental images is fascinating and something we often take for granted. It’s interesting how our minds automatically conjure up images associated with words. For example, when someone mentions […]
The Week 9 reading talks about how we understand the meaning of sentences in a part of linguistics called Compositional Semantics. It explains that there are two main parts to understanding the meaning of words […]
When I was young and learning to speak, I had trouble saying some sounds and inflection’s, especially the ones where certain sound’s form in a similar manner. When I was a little kid I used to say “Car” like ” […]
When I was young and learning to speak, I had trouble saying some sounds and inflection’s, especially the ones where you put your tongue at the back of your mouth, like the sounds in “coffee” and “Guy.” I would […]
The descriptivist approach used by linguists is beneficial because it focuses on describing how people actually use language, rather than telling them how they should use it. This helps linguists understand […]
The idea behind communication and language that resides within humanity is a concept that I’ve struggled to grasp for a long time. The switch from animal talk to human language likely happened when early people […]
I hope to learn in the fundamental concepts of language as it has always fascinated me seeing all the different languages and the different dialect’s for these languages. I hope to learn about the history of the […]
