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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. It forms the foundation of our perceptions‚ communications‚ and daily interactions. By using language someone could make statements‚ convey facts and knowledge explain or report something‚ and keep social relations among the language users. It is a system of symbols by which we categorize‚ organize‚ and clarify our thinking. Language

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    Language and Mind – Spring 2013 – Second Practice Exam 1. Which of the following statements about parameters is FALSE? a. They specify the limits on possible differences between languages b. They do not belong to Universal Grammar # c. Their values must be “set” on the basis of experience 2. From the viewpoint of the principles-and-parameters theory‚ the process of language acquisition consists of: a. Setting the choice for each parameter that fits the language that is being acquired # b. Storing

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    PAPER 6 (DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS) Discuss synchronic and diachronic approaches to language. In opposition to the totally historical view of language of the previous hundred years‚ Ferdinand de Saussure emphasized the importance of seeing from two distinct and largely exclusive points of view‚ which he called "synchronic" and "diachronic". The word "chronic" has been derived from Greek word "chronos" which means time. Synchronic linguistics sees language as a living whole‚ existing as a state

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    Goals of Linguistic

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    Mr.1. Introduction 1.1. Approaching the issue The task of setting out (to use a neutral word) the goals of a human activity may be approached in a variety of ways depending on conditions such as who is involved in the activity and who has the power to determine the goals. In the case of the goals of a scientific discipline‚ the question may‚ in principle‚ be approached by established scientific methods: * Deductive approach: The highest and most general goal is taken as an axiom‚ more specific

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    to other branches of linguistics. Then‚ define yours. One of your reference should be “fundamentals of Pyscholinguistics by Fernandez and Cairns (2010)” Ø Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study in which the goals are to understand how people acquire language‚ how people use language to speak and understand one another‚ and how language is represented and processed in the brain. Psycholinguistics is primarily a sub-discipline of psychology and linguistics‚ but it is also related

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    matter of linguistics What is language? SET /REPERTOIRE TOOL MEANS OF INTERACTION KINESICS FLEXIBLE Creative Rule-governed Arbitrary Discrete To acquire Fully-fledged Sound /Phonetics /Phonology Word/Morphology Sentence/Syntax Meaning/Semantics Tacitly Gender Breach Finite set of rules / infinite Linguist To be under oath NEOLOGISM GURU SCHOOLS OF LINGUISTICS School /Trend /Approach /Frame of Thinking Principles / Underpinnings The History of Linguistics is split

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    Thinking Mathematically Short Essay: Understanding Mathematics and Linguistics How is Mathematics and Linguistics related with each other? Linguistics is the science of language. Linguists seek to understand the proper uses of natural human language. How languages are structured‚ how and why they vary and change‚ how they are acquired‚ and how people‚ in communicating use them. Mathematics on the other hand is the language of science. It is used to understand

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    Applied linguistics is an umbrella term that covers a wide set of numerous areas of study connected by the focus on the language that is actually used. The emphasis in applied linguistics is on language users and the ways in which they use languages‚ contrary to theoretical linguistics which studies the language in the abstract not referring it to any particular context‚ or language‚ like Chomskyan generative grammar for example. Interestingly even among applied linguists there is a difference of

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    thorough research for scientists of various fields‚ mixing languages had been‚ until the last few decades‚ cast aside as its defective by-product. However‚ recent linguistic studies show that intermingling languages should not be considered an ill-conceived overlapping tendency that implies carelessness and a improper use of language‚ but a linguistic phenomenon with its own intricate rules and purposes. The addition of objectivity towards this subject has enabled linguists to describe in length the downsides

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    The History of Linguistics

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    AND LITERATURE (PHD PROGRAM) LINGUISTICS DR VEYSEL KILIÇ ESMA ŞENEL Y1112.620021 HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS Linguistics as a study endeavors to describe and explain the human faculty of language. The history of linguistics is a branch of intellectual history‚ for it deals with history of ideas- ideas about language- and not directly with language itself (Law‚ 2003‚ p.2). Many histories of linguistics have been written over the last two

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