Linguistics Society
The Instagram Username for this club
What is @lsatgsu?
The study of sentence structure
What is Syntax?
p,t,k
What are voiceless stops?
The study of how language is shaped by social factors
What is Sociolinguistics?
A sociocultural theory that suggests that children learn language through social interaction and the environment
What is the Interactionist Theory?
The name of the mascot of the Linguistics Society
Who is Wuggy the Wug?
The study of meaning and formalizing it into a logical form
What is Semantics?
ŋ
What is a voiced velar nasal?
The practical application of linguistic theories (ie: language teaching, translation, language policy, and language planning)
What is Applied Linguistics?
A theory in linguistics that proposes that humans are born with an innate ability to acquire, develop, and understand language
What is the Universal Grammar theory?
The names of the E-board
Chiara, Briana, and Cydney
The study of how context contributes to meaning
What is Pragmatics?
ʔ
What is a glottal stop?
The examination of the historical development of languages and their relationships through time
What is Historical Linguistics
The process by which humans acquire the ability to comprehend and produce language, either as their first or second (third, etc.) language
What is Language Acquisition?
The official website to become a member
What is the Panther Involvement Network?
The study of words and how they are formed
What is Morphology?
ʒ
What is a voiced postalveolar fricative?
The combination of linguistics and psychology to explore how the brain processes and understands language
What is Psycholinguistics?
The process of decreasing proficiency in or losing a language
What is Language Attrition?
The name of our on-campus advisor
Who is Sharon Cavusgil?
The study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages.
What is Phonology?
f,θ,s,ʃ,h
What are voiceless fricatives?
The use of computer science and linguistic theories to develop algorithms and models for natural language processing
What is Computational Linguistics?
A theory that states that language is learned through conditioning and reinforcement, and by imitating others
What is the Behavorist Theory?