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Download full textJackendoff, Ray; Birner, Betty, Ed. – 1999
This brochure discusses, in lay terms, how computers process language and why they may have difficulty in processing English. The brochure points out that English is a more difficult language to process than most people think, and that the brain is far more complex than the computer in its ability to decipher meaning. The examples of the word…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Role
Birner, Betty, Ed. – 1999
This brochure discusses, in lay terms, how languages change and how English in particular has gone through much alteration over the ages. It explains that languages change because: the needs of its speakers change; individual experience differs, and, therefore, the uses of language differ; new words are brought in from other languages or created…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, English, Grammatical Acceptability
Birner, Betty, Ed. – 1999
This brochure explains in lay terms what an accent is and how it occurs, focusing on how learners of English-as-a-Second-language come to have what is perceived as an accent. It begins with an explanation of two kinds of accent: that of a non-native speaker and that of a speaker from a particular region in which a language is spoken. The second…
Descriptors: Dialects, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Language Variation
