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Welcome to LING/ANTH 106

Explore the fascinating world of linguistics and learn how languages work, analyzing their structures, patterns, and functions. Discover the similarities and differences between languages and their universal features. Gain knowledge on language acquisition and the impact of linguistics in various fields.

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Welcome to LING/ANTH 106

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  1. Welcome to LING/ANTH 106 Instructor: Clifton Pye (pyersqr@ku.edu) Office Hours: Wednesday 3:30-4:30 pm or by appointment GTA: Jonah Bates

  2. What is linguistics? • Linguistics analyzes the structures of languages • Linguists take languages apart and analyze how they work • Linguists search for regular patterns in language structure and function

  3. Language Patterns • Linguists look for patterns in language structure and language use • ‘All that glitters is not gold’  ‘Gold does not glitter’ • ‘Not all that glitters is gold’ • ‘All the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not put Humpty together again’

  4. What is linguistics? • Linguists look for similarities and differences between languages • The main goal is to identify the universal features of human languages that enable children to learn them

  5. What are some similarities? • All spoken languages have a contrast between consonants and vowels • All languages can express an infinite set of ideas • Children can acquire any human language without special instruction

  6. What are some differences? • Hawaiian has 8 consonants • Ekoka (ǃKung – Namibia) has 48 consonants • Mam (Mayan – Guatemala) has no pronouns • Fijian (Austronesian – Fiji) has 135 person forms • Hixkaryana (Carib – Amazon) word order is O V S

  7. More differences • Spanish (Romance) verb: ir-é go-future.1 ‘I will go’ • Mohawk (Iroquoian) verb: ų-ts-ya-kwa-nųhst-rų-ko-7 future-repetitive-1exclusive.agent-plural-corn-set-reversive-perfective.aspect ‘we will scrape the corn off the cob’

  8. Open Questions in Linguistics • What is meaning? • What is the relation between language and thought? • How do we perceive language sounds? • How are words stored in the brain? • How do we process sentences?

  9. Why is linguistics useful? • Linguists help people communicate • Linguists help people preserve their language • Linguists help computers communicate • Linguists help interpret legal language • Linguists decipher ancient writing

  10. What will you learn in this class? • How to analyze language sounds, words, meanings and sentence structure • How languages change over time • How language marks your identity

  11. What do I do? • I document how children acquire endangered languages • Mam – WEN (2;0.2) ke ’ixh. = n-chi skweela-n b’ixh. inc-B6 school-IV girl ‘The girls are in school.’

  12. What will you do in this class? • Attendance: 10% • Homework exercises: 15% • Written exercises: 15% • Exams: 60% • First exam 15% • Second exam 20% • Final exam 25% • Syllabus – pyersqr.org/classes/Ling106

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