Origins of Language

  Morphology  The process of investigating basic forms in language. What seem to be single forms in many languages actually have a lot of "word-like" elements in them. For example, in Swahili, the form nitakupenda is written as I will love you in  English.   Morphemes   The terms use to describe elements within a “word forms”, also known as “a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function.”. For instance, English word forms such as talks, talker, talked and talking must consist of one element talk, and the other four elements -s, -er, -ed and -ing. This also include forms used to indicate past tense or plural. -Free and Bound Morphemes +Free morphemes: morphemes that can stand by themselves as single words, for example, new and tour. Can generally be identified as word forms such as basic nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. +Bound morphemes: forms that cannot normally stand alone and are typically attached to another form, exemplified as ...

  Chapter 5: The Word Formation Source: The Study of Language(book) Introduction:          Language , as a whole , never stops evolving and keeps on adding new contents to itself . English is no exception , adding new words as time goes on . The problem is words, new words as one and every word as whole , will need to be pronounced and wrote down at some points, but for now we will stress the pronounce part.  Neologisms         Around 1900, in New Berlin, Ohio, a department-store worker named J. Murray Spangler invented a device that he called an electric suction sweeper. This became very popular among people worldwide. And it could have been made a new entire set of words belonging to the " spangler " branch .  However, none of that happened. Instead, Mr. Spangler sold his new invention to a local businessman called William H. Hoover who later changed the previiuosly known "spangler" into the now known " hoover "...

Chapter 4: The Sound Patterns Of Language  Source: The Study of Language(book)      Talking about vocal tract, we wouldn't think of any large-sized person or tiny little guy specifically , they might sound different but of all possible producible voices , to pronounce the word "me" takes the same way as everybody else .         Phonology         -   Is the description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language. Phonology is concerned  with the abstract or mental aspect of the sounds in language rather than with the actual physical articulation of speech sounds.                  -   We think of the [t] sound in the words tar, star, writer, butter and eighth as a single one,  we can visualize that, in the phonology of English. In reality ,these [t] sounds physically different from each other.        ...

  Chapter 1: The Origins of Language  Source: The Study of Language(book)  Divine Source Many religions have received language as a gift from Higher Being- God. Meaning every religion has their own origin of language and their own theory to prove it + Bible context:  After God created the first human, Adam, God gave Adam the voice which we conceived as language. Adam afterward named every animal the name that we have come to know as it is today.   + Qur'an (Islam):  The language given to the Islam were believed to be directly given by their god-Allah. + Hindu beliefs:  originated from Sarasvati, the goddess of knowledge, arts, and wisdom. She is the wife of lord Brahma.   - Throughout the time, several experiments were conducted to understand the start of language. Mostly utilized the untouched minds of children to get a grasp of some information. Pharaoh Psammetichus (Egypt): two newborn babies raised under a mute shepherd with goats. They...