Chapter 1: What is language? by Nathaly Claudeth Ávila Zelaya https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd Student: Nathaly Avila Account Number: 20191001051 en-us 2021-06-11 05:09:44 UTC 2021-06-11 20:32:11 UTC hello@padlet.com 1) What do all language speakers need to know? nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600391184 When you are speaking a language, you have to be aware that you are able to understand and be understood by other people (that speaks the language that you are speaking) 
You need to know that language is not only words or sentences. Language is :  gestures, movements, sings, etc. 
]]> 2021-06-11 05:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600391184 2) What does the knowledge of the sound system of a language include? nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600407601 This system include: The capacity to know the sounds of our first language and the sounds that does not belong to our language. For example: we know that the Spanish language has 5 vowel sounds and the English language has 11, so the other 6 sounds does not exit in our language, and sometimes we cannot identify them]]> 2021-06-11 05:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600407601 3) What does the knowledge of the meaning of words include? nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600423534 It can include: the skill to know how to differentiate meanings because the sound system helps us in this task, It also includes the relation between form and meaning. The last feature that includes is the onomatopoeic words that imitates a sound, for example: ¨ujum¨that means yes without open our mouth ]]> 2021-06-11 05:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600423534 4) Explain what we mean when language is creative. nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600441800 Noam Chomsky was against to the point that language is a set of learned responses to stimuli. That means that we do not have a limit number of sentences for x stimuli we are able to create and understand an unlimited number of sentences, and it does not matter if sentences are logical or unlogical. We can add complexity to our speech because that is a universal capacity that humans have. ]]> 2021-06-11 05:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600441800 5) In what situation “learning a new sentence” is probable to occur? nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600458596 Occurs when we have never heard that sentence before, but we can understand it perfectly because as human beings we have the capacity to understand new sentences without heard them before at the moment that someone produce that new sentence.]]> 2021-06-11 06:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600458596 6) Explain the difference between linguistic knowledge and linguistic performance. nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600466307 The difference is that the feature in linguistic knowledge is we form the speech in our minds. We put every unit (such as nouns, verbs, pronouns, etc.) together before the linguistic performance takes place in our conversation. It means that its special feature to produce all these elements in oral way.]]> 2021-06-11 06:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600466307 7) Define “grammar” nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600486575 It is a complete system that helps us to give an order and coherence to our speech. It has specifics rules related with our language, rules that involves fields like: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Every speaker knows the target languages grammar. ]]> 2021-06-11 06:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1600486575 8) In what way is teaching grammar similar to prescriptive grammar? nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1601794805 Those grammars are similar because they use the correct style of the language, for example: prescriptive grammar expects that you speak the correct way of the language and teaching grammar teach you the standard language. So to these grammars it is not correct to use the popular style of the language because they want you to don't learn or say something wrong.]]> 2021-06-11 19:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1601794805 9) Why is “American Sign Language” considered a language? nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1601802129 This system uses gestures or movements in order to communicate something. Has its own grammatical rules (sings represents words as a spoken language) and able to comprehend and create lots of sentences. ]]> 2021-06-11 19:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1601802129 10) Why do people say that animals possess a language? nathalyclaudeth https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1601809807  Because some animals can produce sounds (like barking if we refer to a dog) when they want to communicate something. In the case of other animals that cannot produce sounds(spiders for example) they do movements of gestures. As I said before language is not only words and this is the greatest example. ]]> 2021-06-11 19:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nathalyclaudeth/igk4w48mb7y7nwvd/wish/1601809807