Many professors of Intro to Linguistics courses choose to begin the semester by launching into phonetics, much to the student’s dismay. The material is foreign, difficult to grasp (it doesn’t seem to relate to anything else in space and time), and is rarely representative of the rest of the semester. However, there is a good reason for starting off on such seemingly shaky ground. Phonetics is the … [Read more...]
Phonology: Distinctive Features Level 2
Phonology: Minimal Pairs 1.1
An Intro to Language Universals
Although a considerable amount of languages around the world seem to have nothing in common with each other on the surface, the majority of linguists propose that all languages share certain universal principles. These principles are a set of rules referred to as a Universal Grammar. It is true that the formation of sentences in Hungarian (an agglutinative language) seems to have very little, if … [Read more...]
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