Caleb's Blog: Linguistic Thoughts and Other Musings

  Blog #6: Gender Bias in Linguistics A "businessman" resisting the changing societal hierarchy (Tobias, leonardo.ai )  Introduction Believe it or not, males and females use language differently. In fact, there is even gender-exclusive language used by both sexes. Pronunciation, intonation, vocabulary, our old friend syntax, manners, etc. are all aspects that gender a language, such as English. "Male and Female Gender Differences in Language" from Learnmate, "Teachers, what is gendered language?" by Jemma Prior, and "Gender Differences in Using Language" by Xiufang Xia are today's sources. Learnmate as a source was cited based on their visual image, as well as some of the information it provided. Xia's academic article was found using Google's scholarly article filter, and Prior's was found by simply searching for gendered language articles. Summary ♂♀ Gendered language is a bias "towards a particular sex or social gender...

 Blog #5: Language Acquisition (Lemetyinen). Introduction: Language acquisition is the process used to learn and comprehend a given language, either as our native tongue or as a second learned language, making one multilingual. This entry will explain language acquisition, the stages of this process, a couple of the theories behind language development and acquisition, as well as the statistics that inform this process. Sources include Alexa Romberg and Jenny Saffran's "Statistical learning and acquisition", "Language Acquistion Theory" by Henna Lemetyinen, and "Language Acquistion: An Overview" by Kristina Robertson and Karen Ford.  Robertson and Ford's article was one of the first articles available on Google and offers an overview on the topic of language acquisition. In contrast, Lemetyinen's article was found after searching through various web pages, but focuses on the theories behind the titular process. Finally, Romberg and Saffran'...

Blog #4: Pragmatics   Introduction👀 Don't get alarmed or scared by this one, folks. Pragmatics, in the wide wide world of linguistics, is just the study of how specific context contributes to a word's meaning. Piggybacking off of the last blog's topic with semantics, it only makes sense to explain and learn about pragmatics next. If semantics is the meaning of words and how we know what they're trying to convey, as well as the subcategories of semantics, what is pragmatics? With the help of the following sources, we'll find out: "15 Pragmatics Examples" by Chris Drew, "Pragmatics Gives Context to Language" by Richard Nordquist, and "Master Communication: Learn Pragmatic Language Skills" by Rajini D.  Chris Drew's article comes from HelpfulProfessor, a website that has been used in this blog previously, and is therefore, a trusted source. Actually, his article is the perfect companion to last blog's "18 Semantics Examples...