1 It means that they are the variation of the same morpheme. They have the same meaning, but variant sounds. Green concludes that some cases of absent past tens markers are in AAE are actually a product of morphological factors rather than morphological ones, because he believes that when the past tense allomorphs [-t] and [-d] follow a stop that has the same voicing features of the allomorph (e.g., walked), zero marking of the past tense form is possible. He also believes that this effect for the context is considered a phonological constraint imposed by a consonant cluster reduction rule, rather than a zero marking rule at the level of morphology. Another reason is when [-t] and [-d] allomorphs follow vowels (e.g., cried) or are preceded by a non-stop consonant (e.g., kissed), zero marking is less likely to occur. So, if the past tense allomorphs are not following a stop sound but instead are following a vowel there won’t be a zero marking. This shows the phonological system of AAE that does not allow two stop consonants to be at the end of a word. Which clearly helps us to determine the feature as a phonological feature This distinction is an important one for Pruitt and Oetting, because they have done studies about past tense marking by elementary school children who are speakers of AAE and they believed that the cause for this feature is a morphological one rather than a phonological one rather than morphology. It is important for elementary school teachers as a considerable number of the students will be AAE students and knowing about what causes this feature is an important factor for the teachers to teach effectively and to help the students accordingly. These descriptive and quantitative data might be of a very use for th...
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...wing all these relations and components of semantics one can easily do semantic analysis of a sentence. It is important because dissecting words in a sentence level will provide ground for further analysis while breaking the codes and meanings of words, phrases and sentences. It’s really important to know semantics for a good linguistic analysis because the basic linguistic analysis of a sentence first starts by analyzing the largest unit which is words and knowing the components of semantics will really help to categorize these words in groups and subgroups and labeling their references by that semantics does the best job for linguistics by keeping the organization of meaning of the words. Knowing semantics is a basic human knowledge and it still contributes to linguistics and our every day speech. Without semantics non-of the linguistic analysis will be presesent.
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won 't come in.” Isaac Asimov, a Russian-born, American author and professor of biochemistry, penned these words. This quote best describes what should be done after hearing Chimamanda Adichie’s speech “The Danger of a Single Story.” Three elements that attracted attention to her speech were her humor, knowledge, and the fact that the "single story catastrophe" is everywhere.
Text 1 is an excerpt from Sonia Nazario’s book, titled “Enrique’s Journey” that serves the cultural context of Mexican immigrants who are mothers, who left their children to earn money from the city. The narrative text is targeted to individuals who are blessed with a good quality of life. Text 2 is “In Trek North, First Lure is Mexico’s Other Line”, an article by Randal C. Archibold with accompanying photographs by Rodrigo Cruz, published in The New York Times in April 6, 2013. Similarly, it serves the cultural context of determined workingwomen, intended for the American audience, specifically New Yorkers. Although both texts excludes the cultural context of men, but highly considers women, this social group is depicted differently; in the excerpt, women are represented as an inspiring, heroic character, which enables the audience to easily empathize with their struggles, whereas the article, with its intended purpose to inform the audience of the doubling number of illegal crossers, portrays women as a short-sighted romantic.
All in all, Running into offensive stereotypes is common among Arab Muslims. People will not stop making new stereotypes, and the only way to stop them from being spread is by correcting them. Stereotypes are basically wrong information based on an sophisticated perception. It is critical to deal with these situations with reason and intellectuality. People may have different ways to solve these kinds of problems, but it is important to make sure it is in a healthy and effective manner. Stereotypes are wrong information that needs to be corrected, so it is very important to educate society about the misunderstandings associated with the stereotypes.
Adichie goal throughout this passage was to inform people that they should not listen to one side of a story and run with it. That a person should not judge someone else but instead learn who a person is for themselves because there is never one story to every person. Furthermore, Adichie educated her audience by letting them know that everyone in their life judges someone but it is up to a person to change that. She wanted her audience to understand how dangerous a single story is; it can destroy a person and their intelligence but it can also change the worldview of countries. Her speech taught people that the world fails to give two sides of a story resulting in people making up stories about others and questioning who a person is.
Language is commonly held to be the province of humans, but other inhabitants of earth possess their own forms of communication. Birds, dolphins, and whales are some of those that have a language. Primates also use vocal communication with each other. Their utterances have varied uses and volumes, with each primate’s voice being distinct just as human voices are. These unique calls have given researchers insight into the social workings of primate groups. The very fact that primates have a language offers insight into the evolution of language and calls into question what the term human truly means.
In the film “Bordertown”, the protagonist, Johnny Ramirez ultimately finds solace, happiness and satisfaction in the aftermath of his own failure. If one were to believe the notion that we are all at a fixed station in both life and society, then the Mexican protagonist’s ambitions and their disastrous outcomes would only serve to bolster this opinion. This is, however, what the film “Bordertown” attempts to convey to its audience. As Johnny Ramirez ambitiously sets out, attempting to acquire material success, in the world outside of his neighborhood, he finds only offers of wickedness and corruption. His final retreat back into his barrio is where he finds goodness and love. This film, then, suggests that not only should Ramirez not have bothered in his undertaking, but that any venture outside of one’s own “station” or “place” would put that person out of his or her natural element. The results of this can be dangerous or disastrous. The film’s message is clear: Stay where you belong.
In conclusion media does have an action in promoting stereotypes by creating misassumptions they have on a certain race without knowing their ethnic religion or group that well. People will believe it from thinking that all things on TV or news are all true and should be listen to. Media that influence these stereotype are so bad that it makes people think that it is true and feel that they know everything about another race without knowing the real truth, but by contradictory thoughts whether it is true or not.
A single story is defined by Ngozi Adichie as “showing people one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become” (Adichie). She defined the single story in a TED Talk in 2009. During Adichie's talk, she explained how she was embarrassed of herself and her single story understanding of Mexican culture and people based solely on her experiences with American media and political coverage of Mexico. She had stereotyped the Mexican culture because the only story she had heard were negative representations of a impoverished people. Adichie exclusively categorized immigrants as Mexican, despite herself being an immigrant into America. However, only once she was presented with a different narrative; a narrative
In her TED talk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about the role of perception in her life and how it has affected her. Many times we have been through experiences that surprise us in regard to perception, such as the first time we meet someone from another culture. We have been inundated with stereotypes and preconceived notions since we were children, through stories, media, parents, teachers, and friends. Furthermore, these presuppositions that we carry are rarely, if ever, based on anything substantial, yet they show up in every part of our life. Adichie calls this notion of this one sided preconceived bias the “single story.” This “single story” is interesting due to the fact that even if we can overcome it, we are still affected by it. Adichie speaks about how even though she had become enlightened to this dilemma, she is still subject to it. As for her experience, she says this,
Throughout this semester we have had to write many types of essays. Although this is a college English class there is still room for improvement. I made much improvement during the semester of the class. I was able to identify my weaknesses. I learned how to make improvements to the areas I was having problems in. Although each essay we did was different I was able to begin with one essay and throughout the semester turn it into two other essays. I was able to change my style of writing to fit the type of audience I was working with. I will continue to work on my writing and keep improving it.
Semantics can be defined as the study of "meaning" of lexical words and expressions independently of context. Where pragmatics is the process of recognising the "invisible meaning" of lexical items and expressions; taking into account the speaker's/ addressee's intention, the status of hearer/ receiver and the actual situation.
People act the way they do because of these unifying principles that bind them together. These doctrines are sacred for the people, and they hold them in high regard. The complete knowledge about these cultures and religions is pivotal of one wants to form an authentic opinion about any group of people. It is only justifiable to become a religious or cultural critic if one actually understands what the people in questioning believe firmly and stand up for as one nation or religious sect. Without the real knowledge about a particular group, one ends up making assumptions purely based on their values and thoughts which end up in the formation of stereotypes; which is an overly simplified idea or image of a particular person, groups of people of thing.
we discussed a toddler may use wawa for water or nanna for banana. This could be difficult if someone has trouble pronouncing certain vowels or the individual may have a speech impediment. In the case of Javier and our interview, Javier did have some difficulty in this component. The first noticeable mistake line 27 was when Javier describes getting to his cabin. Javier was excited about explaining to us “we went nside the cabin. Javier did not include the I for in-side. Another noticeable example is line 28-29 when Javier is describing eating in the morning. “And this morning we went to breakfas”. Javier was excited about telling what came next in his story that the T at the end of breakfast is silent. The last occurrence comes in line 43
In the last few decades, the notion of language and brain has been highlighted in different scientific fields such as: neurology, cognitive science, linguistics biology, technology and finally education.
Syntax is the study of how words are combined to create phrases and causes in the sentences of a specific language (Freeman and Freeman, 2014). Syntax helps us to make clear sentences that “sound right,” where words, phrases, and clauses each serve their function and are correctly ordered to form and communicate a complete sentence with meaning. The rules of syntax combine words into phrases and phrases into sentences. Not only does it focus on the correct word order for a language, but it also helps show the relationship between the meaning of a group of words. Without proper syntax, a sentence can be meaningless. It is key to understand that while every language does have certain syntax, the syntax does vary from language to language. It