Linguistics Essays

The Influence of Accent Familiarity on Rater Behavior in L2 Speech Assessment
18th May 2020
Introduction: INTRODUCTION Rater training has long been considered the panacea for variance in speech assessment ratings. For decades, large-scale language testing organizations have used human raters...

Analyze the Public Speaking Skills of Presenters
18th May 2020
Introduction: Analyze the Public Speaking Skills of Presenters  This week assignment is based on analyzing two educational presentations that interested me.  I was able to view two ...

Stephen Krashen and Second Language Acquisition
18th May 2020
Introduction: Stephen Krashen and Second Language Acquisition Linguist Stephen Krashen was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1941. Krashen is well known for his second language acquisition theories. Accord...

Realisation of Vowel Sounds in Different Australian Languages
18th May 2020
Introduction: Describe how an aspect of grammar (eg. phonology, transitivity, tense, possession, noun classes) is realised in three Australian languages, comparing their similarities and differences. ...

Linguistic Case Study of Adriana
18th May 2020
Introduction: Introduction    The Spanish language is currently spoken by almost 500 million people. This includes native speakers and individuals that speak Spanish as a second-lan...

Language Teachers’ Conceptions of Assessment: A Chilean Perspective
18th May 2020
Introduction: Chapter One Introduction   The purpose of this chapter is to present the current study. This introduction has been divided into four sub-sections: overview, aims of the study, ...

Rhetorical Evaluation of President Trump’s Attack on the Four Congressional Women
18th May 2020
Introduction: Abstract  President Trump recently came under fire due to some controversial tweets made July 14, 2019, in which he insinuated that four Democratic Congresswomen of color, three of ...

Interlanguage & Developmental Sequence Analysis
18th May 2020
Introduction: Part 1: Developmental Sequence Developmental Sequence of Focus: Question Formation Line Statement Developmental Stage ...

Literacy and Discourse In Our Society
18th May 2020
Introduction: Literacy and Discourse In Our Society  Something often overlooked in the world around us is the effect literacy has on people’s lives. Literacy is often defined as someone’s...

Impact of Linguistic Imperialism
9th Feb 2020
Introduction: The imposition of the colonizers’ language on the natives has been instrumental in the colonial process. In this essay, my aim is to explore how the English language was intrinsic to the expans...

Study on Orthographic Markers at the Beginnings of Words
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Study on Orthographic Markers at the Beginnings of Words  Abstract The disyllabic verbs which have iambic stress and nouns which have trochaic stress in context of Australi...

The Origins of Human Language & Communication
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Language has been an ever changing tool used by animals, humans specifically, to communicate and express thoughts, desires, and notions throughout the world dating back to the earliest moments of...

Issues of Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE WAYS IN WHICH CA AND CDA FOCUS ON DISCOURSE AT A LEVEL THAT IS BEYOND THE CONTROL OF RHETORICAL AGENTS “Conversation Analysis (Sacks, 1995; Sacks, Schegloff, a...

Regional Differences in English Accents
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: INTRODUCTION Foreign learners of English go to the United Kingdom to practice their knowledge; but when they are there, they realize that it is not the same pronunciation they have learn...

Neuroprocessing, Linguistics, and Cognitive Approach to Deciphering Whistles
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Abstract Of the thousands of languages in the world, the whistling language is one of the most fascinating forms or langauge. The whistling langauge is an antient practice of communicati...

Garden-path Model Andlexicalist Constraints-based Model of Sentence Processing
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: What are the main claims of the Garden-Path Model and the Lexicalist Constraints-Based Model of sentence processing? How are these claims supported by empirical evidence? Introduction ...

Does Babbling Have a Linguistic Purpose?
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Babbling has no linguistic purpose and is merely motor activity resulting from the opening and closing of the mouth and jaw. Examine this claim in light of cross-linguistic evidence, paying parti...

Stuttering in Relation to Speech Production
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: IntroductionStuttering is a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is delivered in broken repetitions, abnormal stoppages, or prolongations. According to the Stuttering Foundation unu...

Comparison of South African and Jamaican English
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: This essay will give brief linguistic descriptions of two varieties of English, one that formed in the South of Africa and the other located in Jamaica. The English of South Africa start...

Treatment Methods of Auditory Comprehension in Individuals with Aphasia
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Understanding language is significant to social reciprocity within family, peer groups, professional settings, and everyday society. When an individual is diagnosed with aphasia, specifically Wer...

Nature and Nurture in Language Acquisition
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: NATURE AND NURTURE IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION INTRODUCTION         Researchers have studied how children acquire language. There is a consta...

Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Treatment of Individuals with Craniofacial Syndromes/Anomalies
8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Speech therapy that is successful for children with cleft lip and palate involves collaboration among the speech-language pathologist (SLP) (e.g., school, hospital, private clinic, etc.), the cle...

Basics of Hmong Phonology
23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Hmong is a language that has finite resources. With most of the linguistic studies done in the late ’80s and early ‘90s, there are a limited amount of studies done about the Hmong language. ...

Gender Differences in Word Processing
23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Gender Differences in Word Processing Abstract Word processing is essential for people to express and communicate their thoughts and feelings in order to establish social and i...

Creation of Humour through Non-Observance of Grice Maxims in Quite Interesting TV Show
23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Creation of Humour through Non-Observance of Grice Maxims in Quite Interesting TV Show. Language and pragmatic have always been a really interesting field in which some scholars and...