ASSIGNMENT | These links are additional resources that you might find interesting and are relevant to our discussion of language as a system this week.

These links are additional resources that you might find interesting and are relevant to our discussion of language as a system this week.

This link is a brief overview of how languages evolve.

Links from the International Literacy Association page. These links discuss the importance of phonetic and phonemic instruction for students.

The Role of Phonics in Reading Instruction – http://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/phonics-position-statement.pdf
Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading – http://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/phonemic-awareness-position-statement.pdf

English is weird! Spelling words in English can be really difficult which makes pronunciation equally difficult. This link shares poems written about Pronunciation Perils in English.

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At the Pasar Discussion-
This discussion will allow you to explore and manipulate the five aspects of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) that we have been reading about this week.

Please do the following:

1. Read the passage below.
2. In your initial post, write a definition for each of the italicized words – see the list below and feel free to paste the list into your thread. (Make your best guess; there are no correct or incorrect responses.)
3. Then, describe how you used some (or all) of the five aspects of language to write a definition for each word.

Example: “Ouch!” cried the little buki after falling off the slide.

buki – boy (or I could have chosen the word ‘girl’; just make your best guess)

Once upon a ping, there was a ngeng old man named Photak. He had three anak-anak named Phare, Bare, and Pare. He went to pasar with his anak-anak. However, he left his bini at home so she could water the sayor-sayor. He went to the pasar to sell sayor-sayor. He set up his stand and began to sell his sayor-sayor right away while they were fresh. An orang-ketchil came by and stopped in front of Photak\’s stall. He looked ngeng carefully at Phare. Then he saberchakap, \”What a kawaii looking anak that is!\”

\”Do you want to sell him?\”

Photak didn\’t laly berchakap to strangers, but he saberchakap, \”What are you, some kind of a kachang or something?\” Lepas itu, Photak took his anak-anak home for lunch, which by now his bini had prepared.

List of italicized words

ping

ngeng

anak-anak

pasar

bini

sayor-sayor

orang-ketchil

saberchakap

kawaii

anak

laly berchakap

kachang

lepas itu

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Linguistics The five aspects of language that include phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics form the foundation for communication. Phonology entails the study speech sounds particular to an individual language. Morphology is the study and understanding of words and meaningful units in the language such as suffixes and prefixes, hence enabling people to figure out the differences between those words. Semantics allows one to understand the meaning of sentences while identifying the concept in which those words were put together. Syntax is a branch of language that analyses the order in which people place their words with the aim of effective communication (Lumen, n.d.). Pragmatics seeks…