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    This document contains assignments for multiple homeworks on the topics of languages spoken in different countries, English as an official language, whether language uses symbolic or iconic signs, and the basic components and properties of human language. It discusses languages like Catalan, Guaraní, Javanese, Urdu, Punjabi, Persian, and Welsh and the countries where they are spoken. It also covers mediums of language transmission and key design features such as arbitrariness, displacement, cultural transmission, duality, productivity, and reflexivity. The final homework asks students to read chapters in a linguistics textbook and identify if the contents are already familiar or new to them.

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    Signs in human language; features of human language. Relationships between items.

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    The Human Language: Features

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    Darío Luis Banegas
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    Homework 1

    In what countries are these languages spoken?


    Show them on a world map.
    - Catalan: Spain (Catalonia, Andorra, Valencia) S
    of France
    - Guaran: NE of Arg & Paraguay
    - Javanese: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
    - Urdu: Pakistan & India
    - Punjabi: Pakistan & India (England & Wales)
    - Persian: Iran, Afghanistan & Tajikistan.
    - Welsh: Wales

    Homework 2
    In what countries is English an official
    language/predominant?Show them on a map.

    Homework 3

    Does language consist of


    symbolic and/or iconic signs?

    The human language


    Language as a sign system

    Symbolic signs in language

    tree
    (sign)

    Phonetic
    form

    /tri:/

    Orthographic
    form

    t+r+e+e

    Symbolic signs in language

    Phonetic
    form
    (sign)

    Orthographic
    form

    Iconic signs of language

    Relations between signs

    Her

    My

    last night.

    cooked lasagna yesterday.

    Put these signs in order


    Human beings

    to
    often
    complex
    sign
    meanings
    together
    many
    put
    convey

    So
    Syntagmatic relations: words follow one
    another in order.
    Paradigmatic relations: words that go in the
    sequence from a range of possible
    alternatives.

    Mediums of language

    Mediums of language

    Human
    language

    Auditoryvocal
    Visualinscribed

    But careful!
    How many vowels are there in English?

    Design features of human language


    Arbitrariness
    Displacement
    Cultural transmission
    Duality

    Productivity
    Reflexivity

    Homework
    For next Monday read
    pp. 3 15 from Linguistics
    (and bring it).
    Already familiar contents?

    New contents?

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