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...]
We love linguistics
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
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...]
Salasaca Kichwa Project
Here you can track the progress of our project. … [Read more...]
Phonetics: Practicing the Description of Vowels in Standard English 1.1
Quiz Is not Finished … [Read more...]
Language Universals, Yilmaz
Language Universals Demet Yilmaz Mersin University 0. Introduction When asked the question 'What may 'Universals of language refer to? the answer will most probably be 'the features that are common to all human languages in the world' which is true. As generally known all human beings speak and communicate by the use of a language that cannot be found in any of the other species. … [Read more...]
Chart Cs of English
Differences between the IPA and North American vowels
Differences between the IPA and North American vowels The IPA chart uses the terms open and close instead of low and high. The IPA chart has four height levels instead of three. The mid level in the tic-tac-chart is split into two levels in the IPA chart: tense mid is called close-mid lax mid is called open-mid [ɪ] and [ʊ] are demoted to second-class citizens (non-cardinal … [Read more...]
Phonetics: Vowels – ATR/Tense vs. Lax 2.1
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