Research Topic and 3 sources

TOPIC: Brain Injuries and Language ability

Source 1 : Chapter 12 in The Study of Languages

Source 2 : http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/tbi.htm Traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Source 3: http://www.aphasia.org/naa_materials/when_brain_damage_disrupts_speech.html When Brain Damage Distrupts Speech

Source 4: http://www.headinjury.com/rehabcognitive.html Cognitive Rehabilitation

BLOG #5

1) Word: Championship

etymology :championship 1825, "position of a champion," from champion + -ship. Meaning "competition to determine a champion" is recorded from 1893.

 

morphemes: Champ-      ion-                     ship

                     (stem)      (suffix)             (stem)

                     Free          bound                free

                    lexical      derivational        lexical

 

2) Sentimental

etymology: sentimental 1749, "pertaining to or characterized by sentiment," from sentiment + -al (1). At first without pejorative connotations; meaning "having too much sentiment" had emerged by 1793 (sentimentalist).

morphemes: sentiment-      al

                    (stem)            (suffix)

                    free                 bound

                  lexical               derivational

3)Babysitter

etymology:babysitter also baby-sitter, 1914, from baby (n.) + agent noun from sit. Short form sitter is attested from 1943.

morphemes: baby-          sitt-         er

                    (stem)        (stem)       (suffix)

                    Free            free           bound

                   lexical         lexical       derivational

4) Unpredictable

etymology: unpredictable 1857, from un- (1) "not" + predictable (see predict)

morphemes: Un-              predict-         able

                   (prefix)         (stem)            (suffix)

                   bound             free              bound

                  derivational     lexical         inflectional

5)Political

etyomology: political 1550s, "pertaining to a polity, civil affairs, or government;" from L. politicus (see politic (adj.)). Meaning "taking sides in party politics" (usually pejorative) is from 1749. Political prisoner first recorded 1860; political science is from 1779 (first attested in Hume). Political animal translates Gk. politikon zoon (Aristotle, "Politics," I.ii.9) "an animal intended to live in a city; a social animal."

morphemes: Politic-          al

                   (stem)            (suffix)

                   free                bound

                  lexical             derivational

BLOG #4

1.  In my opinion i feel social network affects our language alot. The reason i feel this is the fact that millions of peoples have cell phones and the internet at their finger tips. The reason i say cell phones can change our language is the fact that teens alone can send Average 2,270 text messages alone in a Month!! thats incredible. to believe that we onl;y used to send Letters maybe once a week if we were lucky. This is changing our language because we text and are in a hurry so we shorten words and use slang. Noone really speaks proper english on cell phones and its killing a language that is growing with us.
2.  In my honest opinion it is reducung the need to know English. When people talk online or through text messages like i said before, we kill words and only abviviate it to our true desire such as later, people type "L8R" or even say  i love you people write "ILY." The language we use today will never compare to the language our four fathers used before us. The language they used actually made you look professional and feel good about yourself. Todays language makes you dumber. Its a sad thing because i have a younger brother and to think this is the world he is going to grow up in and the knowledge he is going to learn, its not very pleasing at all! People around the world wont need to learn english because if they know the basics they just have to sound out the words and they will know what we are saying such as this"PPL", that abreviation means people. English language is being killed more and more each day!

BLOG#3

1. UNbalance 

 UNcompatible

 INcomplete

INdecent

 UNglorious

UNgratitude

ILlegal

ILliterate

IMmature

 IMperfect

 IMpossible

IRrational

 IRresponsible

 INsane

 DIStolerant

UNvariable

The reason some of the prefixes are different is because of there roots. Prefixes are simply the befores and an add on to these words but they are all different. This all has to do with there roots or base.

2. The Case of the Shifting Plural Suffix

The use of the plural -s has three different ways of pronunciation.

a. The plural sounds like /s/ for words like bat, book, cough, and ship.

b. However, it sounds like /z/ for words like cab, cave, lad, rag, and thing.

c. And the plural sounds like /ez/ for words like bus, bush, church, judge, and maze.

First, identify the phoneme that comes just before the plural in each of these words.

Now, can you discover what these sets of sounds (the final phoneme of the word and the phoneme for the type of plural it uses) have in common?

The one thing they have in common is the sound. They both make a word plural and have a /s/ or /z/ sound. These are both the phonetic styles but it works. Some actually sound more vocied with a /z/ and the rest are almost voicless with /s/.

HW Post #2

1 - CARLOS
    [K a r l o s]

2 - The first syllable of "Carlos" is "K" a voiceless alveolar velar with a stop. The next syllable is a vowel, an "a" which is Low, central. The next syllable is "r" a voiced, alveolar liquid. The next is a "l" which also is a voiced, alveolar liquid syllable. The next is a vowel "o" which is mid back. the last syllable is an "s" which is a voiceless alveolar fricatives. 


3 -  I would start by saying  "to say my name my name, you start by raising your tongue toward the alveolar in the front of the mouth to make an "k" sound and then make an "a" sound, then put your tongue towards the front of your mouth towards your alveolar and make a "r" sound with an "l" sound, then make a "o" sound, and finally let your tongue hit the alveolar and stopping the airstream, to make a "s" sound. Put it all together and you get "Kar-Los."

HW Post 1

Hey my name is Carlos Jr, my family is from Ecuador and Europe, the reason i only say Europe is because we are from all over and don't exactly know everywhere. the language i speak mainly is English but i understand Spanish as well. In high school i tried to learn Spanish and kind of did but didn't practice it so i barely used it. When I'm at home my father talks to me in Spanish and i can understand him. somehow i was able to pick up some words to the extent where i learned a lot. The language i use in school is the one i use everywhere. Like i said i understand Spanish but barely talk it.

The way i learn language or people learn language is just by picking up sounds and meanings. We all know words meanings changed over a course of years but we still use them today. To me Language "happens" just by feeling. One day someone will say a word having one meaning but to someone else it will mean a complete different thing. My hypothesis is that language happens to grow by dialects and slang. We all can learn a proper language but we also learn the slang. For example Spanish, Spaniards, people from Spain, speak proper Spanish like by the book, but people in South America like Ecuador speak a slang Spanish. Learning a second language is sort of difficult. I feel it is because for me i compare the words and compare the translation. It may not just be me, maybe others have this problem too but i have this issue. Only thing i wonder is how it forms? like what does a couple of letters put together make a word?

ELL101

HI