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Ecuadorian Quechua

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Allinta uyariyta yachaspaqa, allintatiqmi yachanki. If you listen and pay attention, you will learn well. Quechua Proverb  Quechua and Ecuadorian Kichwa Introduction Quechua, [ˈkɛtʃwə], is a family of languages spoken by over 7 million people primarily in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, and with more than one million speakers found elsewhere in the Andean Region of South America. Quechua … [Read more...]

Modern Persian (Farsi)

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Modern Persian      Did you know: Middle Persian is believed to be the language spoken between Marco Polo and Khubilai Kahn. Historical Background Modern Persian or Farsi (Parsi) is a member of the Indo-Iranian language family, a sub-group of Indo-European languages. Despite being currently written with a variant of the Arabic alphabet, Persian does not share language groups with Arabic, … [Read more...]

More on Semantics

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Semantics - The Study of Meanings That Are Unconsciously Understood Semantics is the study of meaning in terms of what speakers unconsciously know prescriptively (what language critics invoke during disagreements over word meaning and sentence interpretation) and descriptively (the way in which word and sentence meaning are encoded in a native language as part of mental grammar). Meaning is … [Read more...]

An Introduction to Semantics

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Semantics covers a very broad list of topics dealing mainly with meaning of and the relationships between words. Most introductory linguistics courses focus on three basic areas: lexical semantics (word meaning and relatedness), phrasal or sentential semantics (sentential meaning and relatedness), and pragmatics (meaning in the context of discourse). Lexical Semantics Semantic Features Lexical … [Read more...]

Features

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An Introduction to Features The most basic component of a speech sound is a feature, which can be described as the minimal specification that separates one phoneme from another. In fact, a phoneme can be described as a bundle of features, since all phonemes bear at least two or more. Articulatory features are defined in terms of the place and type of constriction of air as it travels through … [Read more...]

An Introduction to Phonology

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Phonology is where you put into practice all you’ve learned in phonetics. It is the study of how sounds are strung together (phonotactics), how they interact with each other, and the rules that account for these processes. The focus of phonology at an introductory level course can be categorized into the following areas. 1. The Distribution of Phonemes Phonemes are individual sounds described … [Read more...]

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