LING 220- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 51 pages long!)
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Trying to figure out how it"s possible that humans can acquire language. We can transfer complex information with simple means: talking and written language. How language evolved in the human species, how our language abilities differ from other species" communication abilities, implications for our understanding of the human mind. Like an english class, studying the language itself. Use language as a window to the mind, to understand it better. This is the one we use in this class. We can see if the mind of an english speaker differs from the mind of a spanish speaker, for example. Soda vs. pop, you guys vs. y"all shows dialect examples that show where you"re from http://www. spark. rstudio. com/jkatz/surveymaps. Google autocomplete results: why is ______ (cid:894)state(cid:895) so . Language also encodes our own personal beliefs and attitudes. Dis(cid:272)ou(cid:396)se a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sis: looki(cid:374)g at la(cid:374)guage use, (cid:272)a(cid:374) we . If language was easy, we would have built computers that can use and understand language.
