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this moves us into a very important legal and linguistic distinction: using a statement not for the truth of the matter asserted, but to show its effect on the listener.
In Legal Terms:
If someone says something that causes the witness to act, and that act is what matters — not whether the original statement was true — then it’s not considered hearsa... See more
In Legal Terms:
If someone says something that causes the witness to act, and that act is what matters — not whether the original statement was true — then it’s not considered hearsa... See more
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R, it turns out. Also, it’s really weird, and linguists love that.
Dan Nosowitz • The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letter
“Technically, an accent is defined as a distinction in pronunciation, while a dialect is defined as a distinction in pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary,” Schneider told Yahoo News.
Neia Balao • What’s the Viral ‘Influencer Accent’ and Why Is It So Popular Online?
la aproximación a este varía en función de la disciplina que se estudie: si nos dedicamos a la Gramática estaremos estudiando el lenguaje como un objeto del mundo natural, si optamos por la Sociolingüística, por ejemplo, nos aproximaremos a la versión más social de las lenguas.
Silvia Gumiel Molina • Por Qué Hacer Humanidades Es Hacer Ciencia
What is often singled out as being the true marker of a “native speaker” is accent .
Rebecca Ericson-Hua • Are Kids Really Better at Language Learning Than Adults?
A grammar is a description of how sentences go together in a language
CrashCourse • Syntax - Trees: Crash Course Linguistics #4
But Alexander Vovin, a linguist at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France, contends that language doesn’t always spread with agriculture. He points to the case of the Finno-Ugric language group, which includes modern Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian. The speakers of these languages, he says, were fishermen who likely spread
... See moreJoshua Rapp Learn • New Evidence for How Languages Spread 10,000 Years Ago
not all languages were spread by agriculture
1 The process of acquiring language is deeply affected by the process of becoming a competent member of society. 2 The process of becoming a competent member of society is realized to a large extent through language.