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    Tausug: A Butuanon Language A RESEARCH PAPER Presented to Ma’am Hazel Hinay Of Arts and Sciences Program Father Saturnino Urios University In Partial Fulfillment of The Final Requirements for the Class INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS by Watson‚ Jonathan Allen May‚ 2015 Chapter 1 Introduction The Tausug language is one found amongst the Tausug people in three different countries; the Philippines‚ Malaysia‚ and Indonesia. When one thinks of such a language‚ they may be reminded of

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    1. I was so hungry that I even ate the plate. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? A) hyperbole B) metaphor C) personification D) simile 2. My father was the sun and the moon to me. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? A) hyperbole B) simile C) metaphor D) personification 3. The rain seemed like an old friend who had finally found us. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? A) onomatopoeia B) metaphor C) personification

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    How Language Abilities and Deficiencies Impact Language Development 1 Claytonia L. Butler Grand Canyon University ECH- 515 October 9‚ 2013 How Language Abilities and Deficiencies Impact Language Development 2 While searching for information on the topic‚ I found that language abilities and deficiencies does have a major impact in literacy development. Especially

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    Language plays an important role in human life. One tries to acquire‚ learn and use language as a means of communication‚ and simultaneously as social symbol of humanity. By using language someone could make statements‚ convey facts and knowledge‚ explain or report something‚ and keep social relations among the language users. These indicate that by means of language‚ people can express their ideas‚ feeling‚ information etc through communication. ‚ As one of language in the world‚ English is considered

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    There are many aspects of spoken language that I have used in my home. When I am speaking to a person with a higher position is society‚ I will greatly vary my speech in terms of my vocabulary and even reduce or abolish the use of less formal features such as fillers and acronyms. However whilst I am conversing with a person of my age or a similar position in society‚ I will greatly use informal features such as tag questions and ellipsis. In my informal conversation with the plumber‚ I have used

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    may be beneficial to their language development. After studying this article‚ the hypothesis of whether or not the parental second utterance duration and pause in child-parent turn-taking events differ according to the child’s vocabulary size appears to be supported by the findings of Marklund et al.

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    Language can be seen and heard; it can be diverse or standard. With this in mind‚ discuss the different roles that language can have in a child’s life. Language can be seen and heard‚ from the moment a child is born through cries‚ laughter and in inaudible sounds accompanied by gestures toddlers produce. These means of communication always convey meaning‚ and an interest in communication. Language is a set of social standards that shows comprehension of the meaning behind words. As a child‚ language

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    Sociolinguistics? Is the field which studies the relationship between language and society‚ including cultural norms‚ expectations and context on the way language is used. What is Language? Language is a means of communication‚ it is used to communicate meaning‚ as it is also used to maintain and establish social relationships. What do Sociolinguistics study? Sociolinguistics study the following: 1- They study the relationship between language and society. 2- They are interested in explaining why we

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    Community language learning (CLL) is an approach in which students work together to develop what aspects of a language they would like to learn. The teacher acts as a counsellor and a paraphraser‚ while the learner acts as a collaborator‚ although sometimes this role can be changed. The CLL method was developed by Charles A. Curran‚ a professor of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago.[1] This method refers to two roles: that of the know-er (teacher) and student (learner). Also the method

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    How did language begin? Words don’t leave artifacts behind—writing began long after language did—so theories of language origins have generally been based on hunches. For centuries there had been so much fruitless speculation over the question of how language began that when the Paris Linguistic Society was founded in 1866‚ its bylaws included a ban on any discussions of it. The early theories are now referred to by the nicknames given to them by language scholars fed up with unsupportable just-so

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