LING 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nasal Consonant, Linguistic Prescription, Cultural Learning
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Ice breakers and such for the rst few minutes. Attendence is important, you can be absent twice without a note. Tardiness with a doctor"s note or competition and so forth are allowed. 50 minutes in lecture, so reading assignment prep and video lecture assignments that are supposed to be done before lecture are very important. Fieldwork - need to talk to three di erent people and record their answers. Professor does not sound like obama or queen. However, when prof speaks africaans, i have no idea what he"s saying. It doesn"t even have to be spoken! (asl) we really can"t even de ne it. If someone knows a language, their brain is structured di erently than someone who does not know that language. Studying linguistics is often done as looking at one individual entity instead of looking at a community. If we do this, then the question who speaks correctly?" ceases to be important.
