Review for ENGL 3035

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Review for ENGL 3035

• Introduction to Linguistics

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Major Concepts

• linguistic knowledge (competence vs. performance)
• creativity in sentences
• prescriptivists approaches to grammar
• rule-governed grammar
• dialects
• social prestige
• standard dialect (linguistic profiling)
• universal grammar
• Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (linguistic determinism)
• language change

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Major Concepts

• meaning
• animal language
• Grammar
• language origin
• monogenetic theory of language origin

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Areas of Linguistics

• Neurolinguistics
• cortex
• corpus callosum
• left hemisphere
• aphasia
• critical period
• case studies (Genie, Chelsea, Christopher, Laura)
• anomia

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Areas of Linguistics

• Phonetics
• segments
• IPA
• articulators
• place of articulation
• voiced and unvoiced
• transcriptions

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Areas of Linguistics

• Sociolinguistics
• media
• dialect
• dialect leveling
• causes of dialects
• standards
• AAE, Latino, Appalachian English
• slang, euphemism
• pidgins and creoles (lexifier language)
• isogloss
• hypercorrection

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Areas of Linguistics

• Computational linguistics
• speech recognition and speech synthesis
• collocations
• corpus linguistics

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Language Myths

• Some languages have no grammar
• You shouldnt say It is me
• German is Ugly, Italian is beautiful
• Ebonics
• Women talk too much