What is Language? by SCARLETT MARINETH LEMUS MEJIA https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy Questions_Chapter 1 en-us 2021-06-12 01:20:03 UTC 2021-06-12 01:53:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f49c.png What do all language speakers need to know? scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602130720
  • We live in a world of language, but language is much more than speech.  Yet the ability to carry out the simplest conversation requires profound knowledge that most speakers are unaware of. The fact that we may know something unconsciously is not unique to language.

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602130720     What does the knowledge of the sound system of a language include? scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602131353
  • Knowing the sound system of a language includes more than knowing the inventory of sounds. It means also knowing which sounds may start a word, end a word, and follow each other. Beyond that we know that certain sequences of sounds signify certain concepts or meanings. 

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602131353     What does the knowledge of the meaning of words include? scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602131826
  • When you know a language, you know words in that language; that is, you know which sequences of sounds relate to specific meanings and which do not. If you don't know a language, the words (and sentences) in that language will be mostly incomprehensible, as the relationship between speech sounds and the meanings they represent is, for the most part, arbitrary.

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602131826     Explain what we mean when language is creative. scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602132915
  • It is a means of expressing an infinite number of thoughts and ideas and can react in an infinite number of ways to new situations. Not every speaker can create great literature, but anyone who knows a language create and understand new sentences.

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602132915     In what situation “learning a new sentence” is probable to occur? scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602134833
  • Knowing a language means being able to produce and understand new sentences never spoken before. This is the creative aspect of language. Our creative ability is reflected not only in what we say but also in our understanding of new or novel sentences.

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602134833     Explain the difference between linguistic knowledge and linguistic performance. scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602135644
  • Linguistic knowledge permits us to form longer and longer sentences by joining sentences and phrases together or adding modifiers to a noun. Also linguistic performance is the ability to produce and comprehend sentences in a language.

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602135644     Define “grammar” scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602136012
  • Is the knowledge speakers have about the units and rules of their language—rules for combining sounds into words (called phonology), rules of word formation (called morphology), rules for combining words into phrases and phrases into sentences (called syntax), as well as the rules for assigning meaning (called semantics).

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602136012     In what way is teaching grammar similar to prescriptive grammar? scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602136847
  • It is the traditional approach of grammar that tells people how to use the English language, what forms they should utilize, and what functions they should serve. Prescriptive grammar is essential as it helps people use formal English speech and writing. Also the teaching grammar can be helpful to people who do not speak the standard or prestige dialect, but find it would be advantageous socially to do so.

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602136847     Why is “American Sign Language” considered a language? scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602137302
  • Our knowledge, use and acquisition of language are not dependent on the ability to produce and hear sounds, but on a far more abstract cognitive capacity.

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602137302     Why do people say that animals possess a language? scarlettlemus https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602137733
  • Researchers say that animals, non-humans, do not have a true language like humans. However they do communicate with each other through sounds and gestures. Animals have a number of in-born qualities they use to signal their feelings, but these are not like the formed words we see in the human language.

    • ]]>     2021-06-12 01:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/scarlettlemus/9pwte46zw9c3dwgy/wish/1602137733