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Chapter 5 Language

Homework: Complete the Isogloss Survey (due Monday) Complete the Chapter 5 Language Questions (due Friday with Chapter 5 Packet). 80. Chapter 5 Work Packet 81. Language Cornell Notes 82. Using Language Trees 83. Diffusion Notes 84. Dialects and Isogloss 85. Language Questions.

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Chapter 5 Language

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  1. Homework: Complete the Isogloss Survey (due Monday) Complete the Chapter 5 Language Questions (due Friday with Chapter 5 Packet) 80. Chapter 5 Work Packet 81. Language Cornell Notes 82. Using Language Trees 83. Diffusion Notes 84. Dialects and Isogloss 85. Language Questions Chapter 5 Language EQ- How do geographers organize languages?

  2. What is language? Language is a set of symbols that allow people to communicate with one another. List the first ten languages you can think of on page 81 in your notebook. Why is language important? • NO other cultural trait more commonly binds people together. • Language allows for cultural transmission- the process of passing down culture from one generation to another

  3. How diverse is language? • Almost 7,000 different languages in the world • Words, symbols, sounds, mechanisms vary with each language • Westerners read from left to right • West Asia reads from right to left • East Asia reads from top to bottom • 11 different languages are spoken by at least 100 million people

  4. How are languages organized? • Step 1- Language Families- a group of languages with a shared, but very distant origin (before recorded history) • Step 2- Language Branch- a group of languages with a more recent shared history (within a few thousand years) • Step 3- Language Group- a group of languages with a relatively recent past and few differences in grammar and vocab • Step 4- Language- a language!

  5. Language Group Branch Family

  6. Complete the Using Maps sheet now!

  7. Diffusion of the English Language

  8. Name five countries where English is an official language. Why do you think English is spoken here?

  9. British v American Slang

  10. Diffusion Notes • Diffusion- the spread of a trait something outward from a hearth (ex: Language) • Dialect- a difference within the same language in vocabulary, sentence structure and pronunciation • At a national level- we often call these regional variants • Isogloss- a boundary map of word usage, used by geographers to identify dialect boundaries

  11. Dialects in the United States

  12. Record your answers on the first half of page 84 Listen to the sound of each speaker as they read the same passage. For each, label which region: Northern, Southern, or Middle American,you think the speaker is from. • http://accent.gmu.edu/searchsaa.php?function=detail&speakerid=79 • http://accent.gmu.edu/searchsaa.php?function=detail&speakerid=83 • http://accent.gmu.edu/searchsaa.php?function=detail&speakerid=146 • http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=detail&speakerid=62 • http://accent.gmu.edu/searchsaa.php?function=detail&speakerid=133

  13. What is your dialect? http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0 Take the survey and record your answers on the first half of page 84.

  14. Isogloss Survey • Record your answers on the 2nd half of page 84. Survey 25 people and ask them one of these questions: • What do you call a sweetened carbonated beverage? (soda, pop, coke, soft drink, etc.) • How do you refer to a group of two or more people? (you guys, yous guys, y’all, you, etc.) • You must also record where they are from and where their parents are from. (state is enough)

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