Practice 2

Thursday, 11 October

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What is linguistics?

You might be asked

"What language do you study?" "So, you speak all the languages?" "You mean logistics?" "...what is that?"

Imagine Jorge is a linguist studying Croatian

English
Singular 1st 2nd I want You want Plural We want You want

Croatian
Singular Dual 1st elm elva 2nd el elta Plural elmo elte

Now Ana wants to study Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish Hacer Hablar Hoja Portuguese Fazer Falar Folha Latin Facite Fabulor Folium

Now Jorge is studying Turkish

Revani evni

Araba b

Nar

N__?

Essentially, linguistics is the scientific study of language

How do we study language?

Apply the scientific method

Insects vs. Language

Insects Species Individuals Dissection Language Individual languages Words? Sentences? Discourses? ?

In a group of three...
List how the scientific study of language could be analogous to the scientific study of insects

Insects vs. Language

Insects Species Individuals Dissection Observe behavior Language Individual languages Words? Sentences? Discourses? Examine parts of words or sentences Observe behavior Elicitation Record/transcribe language Run experiments Construct rules Build models

Run experiments Predict/Analyze

How can we use this?

Break apart individual words

ng ngki lkpaki t ske ng ngaki kwla nyke ng ngki kh nymu ke ng ngki keki l lnke ng ngki ma nymu kwla nyke ng ngki dzi nymu l lnke ng ngki kngbaki ke I eat rice with my hand I buy clothes with money I walk with my dog I sing a song with my voice I buy clothes with my mother I sing a song with my sister I walk with my legs

Break apart individual words

ng ngki lkpaki t ske ng ngaki kwla nyke ng ngki kh nymu ke ng ngki keki l lnke ng ngki ma nymu kwla nyke ng ngki dzi nymu l lnke ng ngki kngbaki ke I eat rice with my hand I buy clothes with money I walk with my dog I sing a song with my voice I buy clothes with my mother I sing a song with my sister I walk with my legs

Part 2: Break apart parts of words

ng ngki lkpaki t ske ng ngaki kwla nyke ng ngki kh nymu ke ng ngki keki l lnke ng ngki ma nymu kwla nyke ng ngki dzi nymu l lnke ng ngki kngbaki ke I eat rice with my hand I buy clothes with money I walk with my dog I sing a song with my voice I buy clothes with my mother I sing a song with my sister I walk with my legs

Words ending in ki are INANIMATE

Break apart parts of sentences

ng ngki lkpaki t ske ng ngaki kwla nyke ng ngki kh nymu ke ng ngki keki l lnke ng ngki ma nymu kwla nyke ng ngki dzi nymu l lnke ng ngki kngbaki ke I eat rice with my hand I buy clothes with money I walk with my dog I sing a song with my voice I buy clothes with my mother I sing a song with my sister I walk with my legs

Break apart parts of sentences

ng ngki lkpaki t ske ng ngaki kwla nyke ng ngki kh nymu ke ng ngki keki l lnke ng ngki ma nymu kwla nyke ng ngki dzi nymu l lnke ng ngki kngbaki ke I eat rice with my hand I buy clothes with money I walk with my dog I sing a song with my voice I buy clothes with my mother I sing a song with my sister I walk with my legs

In the field
All of these generalizations could be tested with further to formulate a rule ke is used to conjugate 1s verbs ki is used for inanimate words in prepositional phrases Word order for Yolmo is SOV

What can you do with linguistics?

Become a grad student Develop languages like Quenya or Klingon But actually... Cryptography Espionage Language documentation Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing Speech Pathology Translation