1. Review for ENGL 3035 Introduction to Linguistics

2. Major Concepts linguistic knowledge (competence vs. performance) creativity in sentences prescriptivists approaches to grammar rule-governed grammar dialects social prestige standard dialect (linguistic profiling) universal grammar Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (linguistic determinism) language change

3. Major Concepts meaning animal language Grammar language origin monogenetic theory of language origin

4. Areas of Linguistics Neurolinguistics cortex corpus callosum left hemisphere aphasia critical period case studies (Genie, Chelsea, Christopher, Laura) anomia

5. Areas of Linguistics Phonetics segments IPA articulators place of articulation voiced and unvoiced transcriptions

6. Areas of Linguistics Sociolinguistics media dialect dialect leveling causes of dialects standards AAE, Latino, Appalachian English slang, euphemism pidgins and creoles (lexifier language) isogloss hypercorrection

7. Areas of Linguistics Computational linguistics speech recognition and speech synthesis collocations corpus linguistics

8. Language Myths Some languages have no grammar You shouldn’t say “It is me” German is Ugly, Italian is beautiful Ebonics Women talk too much