Questions_Chapter 1 by https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx Bessy Yaneth Mendez Mejía en-us 2021-06-13 22:49:24 UTC 2021-06-14 00:04:04 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. What do all language speakers need to know? bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603755904 All language speakers need to know that the ability to carry out the simplest conversation requires profund knowledge that most speakers are unaware of.

]]> 2021-06-13 22:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603755904 2. What does the knowledge of the sound system of a language include? bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603780125 The knowledge of the sound system of a language includes knowing the inventory of sounds. It means knowing which sounds may start a word, end a word, and follow each other.

]]> 2021-06-13 23:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603780125 3. What does the knowledge of the meaning of words include? bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603780859  The knowledge of the meaning of words include concepts, sounds related to specific meanings, and sounds symbolisms like onomatopoeic words.

]]> 2021-06-13 23:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603780859 4. Explain what we mean when language is creative. bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603781579 Language is creative when we are able to produce and understand new sentences never spoken before, it’s an ability that all humans have because languages permit their speakers to increase the length and complexity of sentences.

]]> 2021-06-13 23:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603781579 5. In what situation “learning a new sentence” is probable to occur? bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603782290 Our knowledge of language permit us to distinguish well-formed from ill-formed sentences, so in our brain we create new sentences and then we organize the words according to the rules of sentence formation of the language.]]> 2021-06-13 23:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603782290 6. Explain the difference between linguistic knowledge and linguistic performance. bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603783233 Our linguistic knowledge is when we form longer and longer sentences by joining sentences and phrases together or adding modifiers to a noun, and linguistic performance is how we use our linguistic competence in actual speech production and comprehension.

]]> 2021-06-13 23:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603783233 7. Define “grammar” bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603787110 The grammar is the knowledge speakers have about the units and rules of their language 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.

]]> 2021-06-13 23:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603787110 8. In what way is teaching grammar similar to prescriptive grammar? bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603791878 Teaching grammar gives the words and their pronunciations, and explicitly states the rules of the language, especially where they differ from the language of instruction, and prescriptive grammar tell to speakers what rules they should follow, so both of them use gramatical rules, that is the similitude.]]> 2021-06-13 23:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603791878 9. Why is “American Sign Language” considered a language? bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603797054 Because signed languages have their own grammatical rules and a mental lexicon of signs, all encoded through a system of gestures, and are otherwise equivalent to spoken languages. Some studies show that signed languages are organized in the brain in the same way as spoken languages, despite their visual modality.

]]> 2021-06-13 23:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603797054 10. Why do people say that animals possess a language? bessymendez74 https://padlet.com/bessymendez74/qy9p10ddayeis5sx/wish/1603801368 Because most animal species possess some kind of communication system, for example birds communicate vocally, their songs and calls communicate important information to other members of the species and sometimes to other animals, also bees have their own way to communicate by performing a dance and others animals like crabs have their own gestural language. 

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