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"Linguisticsnetwork has been a terrific resource for me, helping carve difficult concepts down to manageable size. The exercises and tutorials have aided me in my Phonetics & Phonology and Psycholinguistics courses, and numerous classmates have talked about how much of an aid the glossary was through the Intro course. It is incredibly helpful to have all the information we need -- at the level … [Read more...]

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Welcome to our Student Rostrum!  We love our students and are offering all a quasi-professional platform for sharing research endeavors in preparation for various linguistics-related career paths.   We encourage all of you to post your work here for several reasons. 1. Knowing that your material will be read by others around the globe is a tremendous motivation to put forth your best work. 2. … [Read more...]

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Teaching Linguistics can be challenging, especially on an introductory level because many of the students have not yet had any previous experience with this type of material. Linguistics Network has been one of the most valuable learning tools for my students in Introduction to Linguistics.  For any course that involves the study of linguistics, practice is essential. Similar to a math class, the … [Read more...]

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LinguisticsNetwork is an amazing resource for all students pursuing any linguistically related field. Whether you are strictly linguistically focused or following the communication sciences route, the website is a critical resource. In the beginning stages of either major, we are all required to accumulate a linguistic background. Each course has a specific section on the website to further your … [Read more...]

We love linguistics

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We love linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of how humans 'do' language.   As a multidimensional discipline, linguistics is interrelated with other areas of study such as anthropology, neurology, psychology, sociology, computer science, and even advertising.  As a discipline in its own right, linguistics is generally thought to have two sub-fields: theoretical and applied … [Read more...]

Dependency Grammars

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In dependency grammars, there are no phrasal levels, nor branch nodes. In dependency grammars, all nodes are terminal. While dependency grammars will yield trees with less nodes than those created under PSGs, it is important to note that Dependency grammars do not reject the idea of constituency. In our dependency example above, boat still dominates the determiner ‘the’, to form the constituent … [Read more...]

Syntactic Constituency

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Although language seems to be spoken linearly, since the only way we can do language is by having one word follow another, sentences and phrases are actually formed by attaching constituents to each other in a hierarchical construct. Consider the following sentence. (1) Harriet mistakenly went home with her cousin’s jacket. We know intuitively who did what. Furthermore, we know that … [Read more...]

Scholarly Articles: Prosody

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Below is a list of our current scholarly articles pertaining to various aspects of prosody.  Although these articles are not the most current, they are some of the best-known scholarly works in this area. Prosody in the comprehension of Spoken Language. Cutler, Oahan , and van Donselaar (1997) The Use of Prosody in Syntactic Disambiguation. Price et al. (1991) Intonational Phrasing … [Read more...]

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