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One thing I noticed in Korean is that stress on different syllables doesn’t change the meaning of the word, making Korean sound flat compared to English. I notice this when I emphasize different places in a sentence in both English and Korean. This i
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I think for the most part, the Turkish language has a lot of the same sounds as English, they’re just structured differently. The letters and the way you represent the sounds is different, as letters like o and u and i don’t exist in the English alp
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Most of the words in Turkish are pronounced the way they are spelled, with the exception of loan words and some other anomalous cases. One peculiarity of Turkish is that there is a letter called yumuşak ge (ğ) that lengthens the sound of the precedin
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Aitchison's linguistics consists of phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Korean groups sounds differently than in English, and I already foresee this as an beginner in Korean. The article mentions that we must learn phonetics, pho
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Turkish has all of the linguistic structures mentioned in Aitchison's linguistics: phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Turkish is phonetically more straightforward than English, as each letter is associated with a distinct sound,
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When you use the word “structures,” I’m assuming you mean the dimensions of language that Crystal Din notes, like grammar, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, etc. If these are all common dimensions of language, then they should be present in
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In Figuring Foreigners Out and Hofsted's 6 Dimensions of Culture, I got a general roadmap of how cultures are framed. First is individualism versus collectivism, where individualism focuses on the individual's well-being and collectivism focuses on t
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Figuring Foreigners Out and the Hofsted Dimensions of Culture seem to be attempting to pinpoint some of the major differences between cultures. An ambitious task, as all cultures are different in varying ways and it is difficult to identify general
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Figuring Foreigners Out and Hofstede's Dimensions of Culture argued that culture is composed of different categories that make one culture different from another. Dr. Geert Hofstede initially identified four factors: power distance index, individuali
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I found the readings to be very informative and well-written. However, after finishing them, I did have several questions and ideas as to how these articles could apply to my own self-directed language learning experience.
One of the main questions
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Learning Turkish has been an exciting experience so far. The Turkish language is so different from any other language I’ve studied in the past, so it’s been a good challenge. I’ve enjoyed learning the different pronunciation of letters, as well as
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I am not a science person at all, so the first reading about how the brain handles language was interesting, but not particularly striking to me. Despite that, I did enjoy the portion that analyzed neurolinguistic processing and detailed just how co
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, September 29: Discussion Post #4 on the Ning
Due by 5pm on Sunday, September 29: Discussion Post #4 on the Ning
Describe the phonetic inventory of your target language. Are there sounds in your language that don’t exist in American English? If so, provide several words and their phonetic transc
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, October 20: Discussion Post #6 on the Ning
Due by 5pm on Sunday, October 20: Discussion Post #6 on the Ning
Reflect on the history of your target language. To what language family does it belong? What sounds, words, and structures exemplify periods of contact with other cultures? How do these
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, October 27: Discussion Post #7 on the Ning
Due by 5pm on Sunday, October 27: Discussion Post #7 on the Ning
Go back and watch the recording of your presentation of your learning plan on the class PanOpto collection on Blackboard. Comment briefly on how things are going. What has changed? How
Read more…Due by 5pm on Sunday, November 3: Discussion Post #8 on the Ning
Due by 5pm on Sunday, November 3: Discussion Post #8 on the Ning
How do languages go extinct? Respond to the readings, and reflect on what happens when a language dies? How can linguists help preserve a language? Can a ‘dead’ language ever be brought
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