TASK 1 - INTRODUCTION TO MAIN TERMS

STUDENT:
Lina Fernanda Moreno Buitrago

TUTOR:
Vanessa Villarraga

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD

ESCUELA DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION –ECEDU
LICENCIATURA EN LENGUAS EXTRANJERAS CON ENFASIS EN INGLES-
LILEI
INTRODUCTIONS TO LINGUISTIC
SEPTEMBER 2021
What is language?
• Distinctive
• Essential
• Mysterious
• Practical

What concept is developed with the famous Noam Chomsky’s phrase

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”? Give 1 example.
as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical
The order of grammar does not guarantee understanding or comprehension of it, another
example is "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana" which mixes syntactic
confusion with semantic confusion and thus indicates the problems (again) of a purely
syntactical approach to parsing natural language without semantic context.

What is the basic explanation for the fact that a person speaks a foreign
language with a specific accent?
We generally keep our mother tongue. Each country and region has different accents, this
comes from a long process (since birth) in which we learn our language and our accent
when we learn a new language it is important to learn its accent as well.
Create three (3) original questions based on the video and answer them. Be
sure to share them in the forum for your e-mates to read.

Why is linguistics important?

Study linguistics is very important; it help us to
Programming computers
Treating language disabilities
Teaching foreign languages}
Understanding law, politics and literature

what study linguistics?

Linguistics studies:
1. How language works
Grammar
Phonology
Semantics
Pragmatics
2. How it is processed
3. How it is acquired
4. How it is computed

What do we understand by language?

is the way we communicate our thoughts.
 REFERENCIAS

An example of “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”

https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously

[Big Think]. (2012, October 6). Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to

Understanding the Brain https://youtu.be/Q-B_ONJIEcE