Guess the language family.
If you already know, shhhh!
Welcome to Linguistics Club
or, “what is linguistics, why am i even here”
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The scientific study of language.
But why
To connect with…
Branches
Don’t panic
Language lets you understand:
A trifecta sampling
Phonetics/Phonology
/p/
/b/
Voiceless bilabial plosive
Voiced bilabial plosive
Every language has a selection of phonemes out of a large chart - the IPA chart
Language geography
Isoglosses on the Faroe Islands
Syntax
Noam Chomsky
A set of rules decide how we structure our sentences!
(S A� (S (NP set of rules)� (VP decide� (SBAR (WHADVP how)� (S (NP we)� (VP structure� (NP our sentences)))))))�
Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
There’s more.
and/or come in and teach us something!
How to get started
NACLO Problem
http://nacloweb.org/resources/problems/2015/N2015-D.pdf
* In a normal NACLO open round you’d have at least 22 minutes to solve this.
More at
http://nacloweb.org/practice.php
Questions?