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linguisticalities · 1 year

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cavalryofwoah · 2 years

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Just found out the undergraduate linguistics conference I'm speaking at on Saturday is international. I assumed it was just gonna be students from my general area? I didn't think it was a big deal?

But there are student presenters from the Philippines, Beijing foreign studies university, Yale, and UW, among others. And I'm presenting last, from 4:40-5... but I have to be at stars on ice quite a drive away for 7:30 pm. Gonna be an interesting day!

I will be presenting original research on the age of acquisition of Spanish dental stop phonemes, and my research mentor gave feedback on my presentation slides and we had a practice session, so hopefully it'll go smoothly... even more nervous now tho.

Wish me luck, I'll need it!

#linguistics #spanish #child language acquisition #ive never even attended a conference as an observer and now im gonna present at one???#also im like 3...4? weeks from graduating and the rest of my classes still have assignments #le sigh

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todays-xkcd · 7 months

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My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'

Language Acquisition [Explained]

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[A child, drawn as a smaller Hairy, stands next to some blocks. Megan and Cueball stand to the right of him.] Child: Vocabulary update: I learned another word today, bringing my total to twelve.

#xkcd #xkcd 2839 #language acquisition #webcomics #child development #psychology #child psychology

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llevs-corner · 2 years

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Halliday's Speech Functions:

Michael Halliday (1978) proposed that there are 7 stages or functions of a child's speech. These are as follows:

Instrumental function - language that is used to fulfil a need, such as to obtain food, drink or comfort. This typically includes concrete nouns.

Regulatory function - language that is used to influence the behaviour of others including persuading, commanding or requesting.

Interactional function - language that is used to develop relationships and ease interaction. This could include phrases like "I love you mummy" or "Thank you".

Personal function - language that expresses personal opinions, attitudes and feelings including a speaker's identity.

Representational/Informative function- language that is used to relay or request information.

Heuristic function - language that is used to explore, learn and discover. This could include questions or a running commentary of a child's actions.

Imaginative function - the use of language to tell stories and create imaginary constructs. This typically accompanies play or leisure activities.

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#a level 2022 #a level english #english language #a level english language #language #a levels #linguistics #accent and dialect #CLA #child language acquisition #LAD #language acquisition #theorists #halliday #michael halliday

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desperatepleasures · 5 months

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funniest moment of vacation was my sister and I talking about autism to our (extremely autistic) dad and he said he didn't know anything about it and she was like "so you know how you're weird?" and he says "no" so then I say "you know how I'm weird?" and he says "no." absolutely iconic don't change a thing sir we're all normal in this family

#for context this is a man who (legend goes) as a child simply Did Not Speak for years after language acquisition #then one day out of nowhere says 'pass the ketchup' to his shocked family

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theenglishnook · 21 days

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The Neuroplasticity of Language Acquisition

Neuroplasticity is a foundational concept in neuroscience that highlights the brain’s remarkable adaptability. It refers to the brain’s ability to reorganize its neural pathways by forming new connections and altering existing ones throughout an individual’s life. This process allows the brain to adapt to changes in the environment, learn new skills, recover from injuries, and compensate for…

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merlinsear · 3 months

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Also I just found out this afternoon that I’m getting a new student tomorrow who just moved from Ecuador and does not know any English. This would be less of a concern if the ENL students in my class actually received ENL services as they are legally mandated to, but somehow there wasn’t any room in the schedule this year for the self-contained special ed classes to have ENL services. How interesting that compliance is so important until suddenly it’s not.

#the reasoning was that we typically have our students opted out of ENL when they start out in a small special ed class #because it’s always more of a speech delay than a language acquisition issue and they benefit more from being in the classroom #and my ENL students were all evaluated after kindergarten so they’d already been put in ENL #but this is a child who genuinely does not speak English where is his expert English as a new language teacher?#my life as a seventh year teacher

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bibliophile-bi · 6 months

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deadass just watched a cbeebies show in english, alevels are so serious

#like yeah its related to what we're doing (child language acquisition) but i cant help but find it stupidly funny #imagine a teacher who didn't know what the lesson was just walked in and a class of 16/17yr olds are just watching a show for 3yr olds #take alevel english language guys its so serious we even watched teletubbies a few weeks ago #bibliophile-bi

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giorgio52fan · 8 months

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Early Childhood Education and Development

Early childhood education and development play a pivotal role in shaping the future of individuals and societies. This critical phase of a child’s life, typically spanning from birth to age eight, lays the foundation for cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth. In this article, we delve into the significance, key components, and benefits of early childhood education and development,…

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lingthusiasm · 1 year

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Lingthusiasm Episode 77: How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting

Singapore is a small city-state nation with four official languages: English, Mandarin, Tamil, and Malay. Most Singaporeans can also speak a local hybrid variety known as Singlish, which arose from this highly multilingual environment to create something unique to the island. An important part of growing up in Singapore is learning which of your language skills to use in which situation.

In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch gets enthusiastic about how kids learn language in Singapore with Woon Fei Ting, who’s a Research Associate and the Lab Manager at the Brain, Language & Intersensory Perception Lab at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. We talk about how the rich multilingual environment in Singapore led Fei Ting and the lab to do language documentation while trying to figure out how kids learn to talk in Singapore, creating a dictionary of Red Dot Baby Talk (named after how Singapore looks like a red dot on the world map). We also talk about Singlish more generally, some words that Gretchen has learned on her trip, doing research with kids and parents via Zoom, and the role of a lab manager and other lab members in doing linguistic research.

Read the transcript here.

Announcements: Our liveshow is in just a few days!! Gretchen will be chatting to Dr Kirby Conrod (from our episode about the grammar of singular they) about language and gender on February 18th (Canada) slash 19th (Australia)! You can find out what time that is for you here. This liveshow is for Lingthusiam patrons and will take place on the Lingthusiasm Discord server. Become a patron before the event to ask us questions in advance or live-react in the text chat. This episode will also be available as an edited-for-legibility recording in your usual Patreon live feed if you prefer to listen at a later date. In the meantime: ask us questions about gender or tell us about your favourite examples of gender in various languages and we might include them in the show!

In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about what we've been up to in 2022 and what's coming up for 2023. We also talk about our favourite linguistics paper that we read in 2022 slash possibly ever: okay, yes, academic papers don’t typically do this, but this paper has spoilers, so we STRONGLY recommend reading it yourself here before listening to this episode, or check out the sample paragraph on the Patreon post. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 70+ other bonus episodes, as well as access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds, and get access to this weekends liveshow!

Here are the links mentioned in the episode:

Woon Fei Ting on Twitter

Lingthusiasm episode ‘What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles’, the prof whose lab Fei Ting works in

BLIP lab at NTU on Facebook

‘Creating a Corpus of Multilingual Parent-Child Speech Remotely: Lessons Learned in a Large-Scale Onscreen Picturebook Sharing Task’ by Woon Fei Ting et al

BLIP lab’s transcription protocol and FAQ

‘Little Orangutan: What a Scary Storm!’ Wordless picture book by Suzy Styles

‘Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to how Singaporeans communicate’ by Gwee Li Sui

Lingthusiasm episode ‘Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind’

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#language #linguistics #lingthusiasm #episode 77 #episodes #interviews #interview #singapore #multilingualism #woon fei ting #blip lab #ntu #nanyang technological university #child language acquisition #Malay #Tamil #Mandarin #Singlish #English

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linguisticalities · 8 months

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#neurolinguistics #child language acquisition

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rpfisfine · 1 year

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gritting my teeth while bleeding from my ears and eyes as i sit completely motionless in my bed and slowly read all the course materials i need to catch up on

#child language acquisition my beloved. dialect variation my worst worst enemy #mp

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km7474 · 2 years

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Noun modification phrases 😣💀

#I hate that this is something I’m struggling with #bc at the same time I’m taking a class on child language acquisition and they make it look so easy #and I get it cause their children #and this is not my first language since I do it all the time in English but #🙄🙄 NMC 🖕 pls #but I’m just prissy cause just spent an hour talking w sensei and ughhh #and I wanna be an English teacher?#I’ll understand bc language learning is fing hard #have the patience of shio sensei 🤞🏼#and hopefully figure out nmc before the test next week

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thisiswhereikeepdcthings · 7 months

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Fic things I will never have enough of/get over:

“Oh no, they’re hot.”

“Great, now there’s two of them.”

See above but with more swearing and feelings of dread and impending doom

BAMFs with swords

Old wise person causing 90% of the chaos

“They’ve never met in canon.” “Actually, they’re dating.”

“They’re mortal enemies.” “Actually, they’re married.”

The keeper of the braincell

Sharing one braincell but they lost it

The cinnamon roll goes feral

Tiny feral child and their supportive, enabling, non-parental background adults

“I’m your problem now”

“Welp, guess I’m a parent now”

Accidental world domination

Competence

Competence kink

Calmly sipping tea while everything behind them is on fire

Trying to be a good, supportive adult but you have no point of reference so you end up giving a sword to a ten-year-old

Time travel

Person A and person B start dating and when they tell everyone persons C-Q are confused because haven’t they been dating for like three years now and persons R-Z thought they were already married

*does something previously thought to be impossible* “What, like it’s hard?”

Platonic besties that will help hide the bodies

Fake dating

Accidental baby acquisition

Accidental baby acquisition but they’re a middle-aged to senior adult with like five thirty-something-year-olds that are now their children

Crossovers that shouldn’t work but do

“I need help” “I’ll grab the shovel” “Not that kind of help”

“I didn’t know where else to go.”

Well-written non-canon pairings for characters that have other firmly established canon pairings. Like, fully alters the entire story line non-canon pairings. But done in a way that feels like a reasonable possible outcome.

A protagonist with a million problems to solve still taking the time to be kind

Forehead kisses

Time traveller going apeshit and fixing everything preferably in as Mary-Sue a way as possible

OP character who is oblivious to the fact that they are indeed OP

Character who spouts off increasingly concerning details of their life while not realizing everyone else’s growing concern or the fact that they’re probably about to be mother-henned for the next decade

Character who chooses a parental figure and informs said parental figure of this new development with little to no forewarning

Strong, stoic character is actually the most chaotic one there

Everything in the chaotic portion of the alignment chart

Getting back at a bad guy in as petty a way as possible

Time travel with two or more time travellers who don’t realize they’re not the only time traveller

The guy everyone thinks is going to beat up all the bad guys sitting back and watching the person previously believed to be as strong as an uncooked noodle absolutely demolish them

Any situation where characters play hot potato with a position of great power. “Congrats, you’re king now.” “Not if you can’t catch me, I’m not.”

Unexpected language skills

Unexpected skills in general, particularly if they’re as niche as hell

Two extremely competent individuals who lose all brain cells when within a close proximity of each other

Fixing problems on accident

Fixing problems on accident while actively trying to cause problems on purpose

Surviving primarily due to spite

#a non comprehensive list #fics #fanfic tropes #ao3 #batman #batfam #and all the other fandoms I end up in #several of which I wake up in not sure how I got there #but then I stay for a little while #and then suddenly I’m invested #I think there are only two or three fandoms I’ve ever purposefully sought out #the other couple dozen just kinda happened

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yearoftheotpevent · 1 year

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Prompt List 2023 - alt text under the cut

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astrogre · 7 months

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People Represented in each House

Including niche examples

1H

Yourself, your persona. You as an individual. Your role models (projection of your ideal self)

2H

Business partners, business collaborators, acting/modelling/any agency you are under. Podcasters you listen to, literal social media influencers, salesman, your self esteem mentors,your real estate agent, your savings coach, your bank, your stockbroker

2H includes people who influence how you earn money. 2H represents people who can influence your personal values and your self esteem E.g a Ben Shapiro to a politically curious individual, the kardashians to a teenage girl. 2nd house can also represent people involved in the maintenance, acquisition and management of your possessions and finances

3H

Your siblings, your neighbours, your relatives like extended family, peers and acquaintances like the people in your class you know of but don’t talk to enough to say they’re your friend, peers, acquaintances, colleagues/coworkers, professors, educational teachers, speaking coach, language teacher

3H is related to intellectual pursuits, learning, just all forms of intellectual development, mercury sits well here. It’s about the people who you interact with daily as they influence your way of communication The individuals here would influence your communication style, interests and knowledge

4H

Your mother (mother figure if you don’t have a mother), your parents but particularly your mother figure, the collective of your whole family, ancestors, caregivers, people that live in your house like your flatmates, your housemates, housekeepers, butlers

4H represents the physical home, the mother, familial connections, nurturers etc. so the people here would be the ones living in it and those who have influence in your domestic life

5H

Your children, your inner child, you as a parent, your nieces, your nephews, romantic partners (short term), artistic partners E.g co-writers, collaborators, people involved in your projects, your students, your mentees, your investors, your hook up partners, people who you gamble or just play games with.

5H represents children, creativity, your mentoring to others, gambling, fun, joyful light love affairs, it’s also ruled by Leo. So we have these people involved with these themes

6H

Coworkers, colleagues, employees, staff (individuals who work under you or provide a service to you), your doctor, your contractors, your nurses, your teammates, your healthcare providers, your therapist, your career coach, your internship mentor, your assistants, your service providers, your pets, your gym colleagues, your fitness instructor, your nutritionist, your organiser, your HR department, your vet

6H represents work environment, daily routines, service, health and well-being, these are the people that you find under that setting

7H

Romantic partners, your spouse, life partner, your closest friends, confidants, allies, your supporters, your business partners, anyone you form a pact with, your clients, your customers (the kind you engage with in professional settings), your lawyers, your legal team, your competitors, your opponents, your matchmaker, your wedding planner, your relationship therapist

7H ruled by Libra represents all relationships that also includes bad ones btw, business relationships, marriage, 7H represents companions, partnerships, professional relationships, legal matters, professional representation so the people that fall under this house would be those that build relationships with you

8H

Financial partners/advisors, therapists, inheritors, beneficiaries (who you inherit from), occult teachers, your intimate long term sexual partners, your accountant, your councillors, your psychologist, your insurance agents, your estate planners, your morticians

8H is associated with death, sex, psychology, transformation, joint resources etc. and so these are the kind of people that 8H would represent

9H

Your professors, your teachers, your spiritual leaders, your priest, your pastor, your favourite scholars, your favourite philosophers, your lawyers, your judges, your legal advisors, your authors, your educational materials, your foreign friends, your foreign connections.

alike to 3H in education but 9H rules higher education so it’s an octave higher than 3H in terms of the teachers associated with it. 9H also represents justice and law so it would include people that work in this field that you encounter

10H

Your father, your boss, your mentor, your manager, people of authority, your parents (father in particular), influential figures you look up to, e.g your fave celebrities, government, politicians, your PR team, your publishers, you as a role model, your admirers like the people who look up to you, influencers, your business, icons

10H association with self-image and reputation and classic Saturn authority would include those who are involved in those themes

11H

Friends, peers. Social activists, humanitarians, philanthropists, inventors, forecasters, visionaries, leaders, community organisers, trendsetters

different from 3H in the sense that with 11H friends, you actually share the same goals and interests in mind whereas with 3H it’s mostly an exchange of communication about these parts of yourself and they are less as significant in your social life compared to 11H type of friends

12H

Spiritual beings, your religion, spiritual forces, your subconscious mind, artists, creative people, writers, hospital patients, prisoners, monks, religious people, volunteers, dreamers, charities.

12H represents those that can derive what is within their inner secluded world and bring it into reality. It’s associated with empathy, mental/spiritual state, seclusion and the bed. The people here would be those that would retreat, help others and tap into realms beyond the physical)

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