LIN251H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Leonard Bloomfield, Simon Winchester, Multilingualism
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The professor and the madman by simon winchester (prof recommendation) Relationship: connect through lang, speak family"s l1. Personal: languages we can speak/feel comfortable speaking, unsure of their lang; use majority lang. Macro-sociolinguistic: study of langs and how they are distributed in (a) society. Micro-sociolinguistics: study of variable patterns in a lang or dialect. Phonetics: sound(acoustics) phonology (sound patterns/syllable structure) morphology (patterns of roots, prefixes and suffixes/word structure) syntax (sentence structure) pragmatics (discourse or conversational structure) We can see through census data regarding toronto residents, that ethnic origin differs greatly form mother tongue. The grandparents of a person may have emigrated out of italy to canada, hanging the likelihood of the original person to have italian as their native tongue. According to 2008 employment rates: in montreal, toronto and vancouver, it is most economically advantageous to be bilingual in french and english. Tiny gap in advantage for knowing french on top of english compared to only english in.
