https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp Summary of Class Feb.16 en-us 2019-02-18 14:48:26 UTC 2026-03-11 03:40:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/357717566/dba683408122813bcd3493c9e40de5a6/sign_language_1.png ehernandezr21 https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/332358773 Systems that are used by deaf people are called sign language and linguists consider them to be real human languages. They´re basically the same as spoken languge with this one differences that they don´t use speech.]]> 2019-02-18 14:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/332358773 ehernandezr21 https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/332362025 People might somentimes lose their languge, they suffer from a medical condition called Aphasia, this is somenthing which usually hits people after they had a stroke. They will lose part of their language capacity because part of their brain no longer functions.
Exceptional Case
Genie was an American girl who was locked up in her room from when she was 20 months old until the age of 13, she didn´t have any human interaction. She didn´t learn any human language

]]> 2019-02-18 15:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/332362025 ehernandezr21 https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/333859413 Language is so complex that one cannot imagine it simply appearing form nothing in its final form, but that it must have evolved from earlier pre-linguistic systems among our pre-human ancestors.
Discontinuity-based:
Language is such a unique human trait that it cannot be compared to anything found among non-humans and that it must therefore have appeared suddenly in the transition from pre-hominids to early man.

]]> 2019-02-21 19:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/333859413 ehernandezr21 https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/333937962 Linguists don´t know, there´s just not enough information about the origins of language, and there are only theories about how our early ancestor forme their first words and sentences. In movies people give languages to their carachteres but this is not qualify as languages for liguistis. A linguistic cannot really make a languge. To be consider as a languge is that have to be learned by children, from a very early age. ]]> 2019-02-21 21:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/333937962 ehernandezr21 https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334235628 Language have been written for maybe, well 5,000 years or somenthing like that at a very short period. A 100,000 years ago when these migrations maybe started. Let alone the things of a 100,000 years ago, so it´s a nice idea that maybe there was a languge, a common language a 100,000 years ago.]]> 2019-02-22 17:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334235628 ehernandezr21 https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334241820 It´s actually difficult to decide, maybe it´s impossible to decide on real scientific criteria, there is many areas in the world where we simply don´t know which languages are spoken there, The most heard estimate is somenthing between 6 and 7,000 languages in the world. Ethnologue is a page that gives us information about countries,languages, languages families,etc.
in Ethnologue we can find that many languages are very small, fewer that say 1,000 speakers, and many of those languages are dying out.]]> 2019-02-22 17:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334241820 ehernandezr21 https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334247262 For instances, there are languages which seem to have around 20 different vowel sounds where as others may have only two or three. Some languages seem to put a lot of information in one long big word, others seem to have very short words and therefore, they have sentences with many words. But all human languages are built according to a similiar scheme because they´re all spoken by humans. We have all similar bodies. We have similar brains. And therefore, also our languges are similar.]]> 2019-02-22 17:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334247262 ehernandezr21 https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334317123 Her main focus is on sign languages used in Africa. She explains that in sing languge there´s not just one sign language that everybody uses and there is a lot of variation just like with spoken languages. Whereas spoken languages use sounds, sing languages use what we call parameters, that are articulated simultaneously and this parameters are the handshape, that is used to articulate the sing, the movement that the hand makes in the articulation of the sing, the location, where is the hand located,]]> 2019-02-22 19:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334317123 ehernandezr21 https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334351653 Sheets of Class Feb.16]]> 2019-02-22 21:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ehernandezr21/9gy37yhj7ygp/wish/334351653