https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2017-08-09 23:08:17 UTC 2017-08-10 01:57:54 UTC hello@padlet.com lbrown0415 https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180539435 Phonology: every spoken language has basic sounds to it. Some are subtle and unique to it others more tonal in what they convey. There's also difference in emphasis in the mouth and throat for these unique sounds that maybe challenging for non-native speakers when learning. French is a very nasal language and a great many of their words are emphasized through the nose. German and English are very similar languages since they both have Germanic roots but a specific sound unique in English is the pronunciation of "th". My German teacher in college could not pronounce smoothies but instead said "smoo-sies" while native English speakers have littler trouble discerning the difference German speakers find it identical in sound often. 


]]> 2017-08-09 23:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180539435 lbrown0415 https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180545313 Morphology: This is about the sounds in a language that work as units or qualifiers of things that aren't words onto themselves. My Anatomy textbook is has several pages of prefixes, suffixes and combining forms at the beginning that lists common ones found in the medical community. A few examples would be -blast: fibroblast meaning producing cell, bud

-cide: meaning kill: bactericide

The video below is from the tv show Psych and while it's captioned semantics I believe more of the examples fall under morphology and a little syntax]]> 2017-08-10 00:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180545313 lbrown0415 https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180545417
Syntax: This is about the order in which words are formed so they make sense. In German you can say "Der Hund beißt den Mann" which shows by the nominative and akkusativ parts in their grammar before the words who is biting who. Even if you move the nouns around and said "Den Mann beißt der Hund" the sentence still conveys the dog is biting the man. This an example of the rules in the German language. English has similar rules that allows those listening or reading to understand the speaker or writer. There's a grammar book with a panda with a gun on it titled "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" It shows humorous cases where moving a period or a pause around can change the whole meaning of something.]]> 2017-08-10 00:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180545417 lbrown0415 https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180547575 Semantics: this is about the meaning of words and sentences in a language and how they are interpreted logically. Things can be said without violating any grammatical rules and still not make sense. 

The flower attacks the man. This sentence makes little sense. Flowers don't attack people.  They don't have arms. Someone hearing or seeing this would wonder if the speaker was talking about a dream or possibly an episode of Mario. ]]> 2017-08-10 00:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180547575 lbrown0415 https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180548713 Pragmatics: This is recognizing what is socially appropriate to say and how to say it. This can mean body language, volume and tempo of speech as well as types of questions asked and answers used in response.  This can be challenging for people brought up in one environment and being thrown into another. In the Air Force it is appropriate to stand at parade rest when addressing someone of a higher rank and saying "sir or ma'am" or their rank before speaking. Doing this outside of a military setting is kind of odd.]]> 2017-08-10 00:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180548713 lbrown0415 https://padlet.com/lbrown0415/nu6edu947alt/wish/180549049 Two-word utterances: 18-24 months, usually a verb and a noun such "me hungry" or "mommy up" the book referred to it as telegraphic speech

Birth-6 months: babies are learning to recognize sounds from all tongues. They can also cry from the moment their out of the womb as long as their healthy enough to. They begin to coo between 2-4 months. Around the fifth month they start recognizing when their name is being called.

6 months - a year: babies are learning specific sound patterns to the language their brain has chosen. They learn where certain sounds are more likely to occur and how often.  Being dropped in a foreign country feels similar to this.  Around 6 months babies start babbling.. at the end of the first year they've started pointing and gesturing between 7-15 months.  By 13 months they know about 50 words.


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