L90 AFAS 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: American Dialect Society, Natural-Language Processing, Anthropological Linguistics

• School: WUSTL
• Department: African And African-American Studies
• Course: L90 AFAS 1002
• Professor: Toliver- Diallo

Document Summary

Linguists are interested in: differing languages, analysis of those languages/words/accents. Historical linguistics: one language branches out to many different languages through migration and splitting. Neurolinguistics: the organization of the human brain for language, practical uses: speech therapy. Google translate- machine translation: anthropological linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguisics. Language change and innovations in language use: word of the year: oxford english dictionary. 2015: *laughing emoji: word of year: american dialect society. 2000 languages spoken on the african continent. Tanzania: 120: less people speaking traditional languages than. Sheng: kinoki: street children, lamguage of outdoor advertising, kikar, 1900 nairobi, diaspora speak, urbanization, youth bulge, globalization, technology, tsotsitaal, iscantho, camfranglais, dakar wolof. Kenyan english: different vowel system, ~75% of population is under 30, want to make their own language/a single. No way, we are chilling (cid:523)abstaining(cid:524)(cid:499: (cid:498))t"s cool to chill(cid:499, sex is a very taboo subject in kenya, culturally insensitive to make the ads in english language dominant.