Introduction to linguistics: From पाणिनि to Čepeto

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• Introduction to linguistics: From पाणिनि to Čepeto

  The seminar will start with a question "What is language and how can You define it ?". Subsequently, we will see how men and women of past and present answered

  • is_parent 0. Initiation

    • is_parent Why & what

      What is linguistics ?:::What is language ?:::Why language ?:::Why linguistics ?

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    • is_parent How

      by observation:::by study:::by practice:::by reflection

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    • contains Formalities ·

      who am I who are You is this a course for You ? credits (2 ECTS for >75% attendance, +1 for referat/experiment) Hausarbeit possible need help ? (tutor: a.terzi
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      Each session will start with at least 30-min repetition / reactivation of already acquired knowledge. At each session there will be at least: 1 main question 1
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      • is_parent Phonetics & phonology ·
      • is_parent Morphology, Lexicology and Terminology ·
      • is_parent Grammar and Syntax ·
      • is_parent Developmental linguistics ·
      • is_parent Semantics, pragmatics, memetics ·
      • is_parent Computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing ·
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    • contains Precursors

      • is_parent पाणि

        Pāṇini (Devanagari: पाणिनि, pronounced [paːɳɪnɪ]) was a Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India variously dated between the 6th a

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      • is_parent [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ] ·

        Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant
      • is_parent Noam Chomsky ·

        Chomsky
      • is_parent Leonard Bloomfield ·

        Bloomfield
      • is_parent Michael Tomasello ·

        Tomasello
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    • contains Links ·

      Open Educational Resource (OER): knowledge unit "Art, Cognition, Education" of https://baumhaus.digital repository   Matrix room: #edu-linguistics:m3x.baum
    • contains Bye & thanks for all the fish ·

      see You in #edu-linguistics or in 2 weeks (same time, same place)daniel@udk-berlin.de / Sprechstunden Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00 R313 Medienhaus
  • is_parent 1. Sound

    • is_parent Repetitio ·
    • is_parent Questio :: What is speech ?

              Speech is intention-encoding sound produced by human vocal tract or its artificial Ersatz.

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    • is_parent Exercicio :: Sound production ·

      Look into mirror (or use https://udk.ai/facemesh/ ) and ... pronounce continuous AAAA , EEEE , IIII and OOOO waves put a finger in front of Your lips; start voi
    • is_parent International Phonetic Alphabet ·
    • is_parent Sanskrit

      The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely re

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    • is_parent Phone vs. Phoneme

      One of the most fundamental dichotomy in linguistics is the phone / phoneme dichotomy: a phone is any distinct speech sound regardless of whether the exact soun

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  • is_parent 2. Sign

    • is_parent [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ] ·

      Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant
    • is_parent Repetitio ·
    • is_parent Saussure's theory of sign ·

      --Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics The Nature of the Linguistic Sign Sign, Signified, Signifier Some people regard language, when redu
    • is_parent Saussure's dichotomies

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    • is_parent Sinn & Bedeutung ·

      In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an idea of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892 (in his
    • is_parent Lectio :: Mind's new science ·
  • is_parent 3. From morphemes to sentences

    • is_parent Repetitio ·
    • is_parent Morpheme ·

      basic (atomic) unit of expressed meaning (sense)
    • is_parent Grammar

      In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words.

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    • is_parent Formal Language Theory ·

      In the classic formalization of generative grammars first proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s,[ grammar G consists of the following components: A finite set N
  • is_parent 4. Language Acquisition

    • is_parent Repetitio ·
  • is_parent 5. As a large language model ...

    • is_parent The turning point

      With the advent of the Epoch, humanity mastered the art of quantifying the "meaning of the Word".

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    • is_parent Distributional Hypothesis

      "The DISTRIBUTION of an element is the total of all environments in which it occurs, i.e. the sum of all the (different) positions (or occurrences) of an elemen

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    • is_parent Questio: What features characterize word X ?

      Let's have a sentence: "Harfa, gitara a piano sú excelentné hudobné inštrumenty."What can the slovak word "hudobné" mean ? Wh

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  • contains Session structure ·

    Each session will start with at least 30-min repetition / reactivation of already acquired knowledge. At each session there will be at least: 1 main question 1
  • contains Sub-disciplines

    • is_parent Phonetics & phonology ·
    • is_parent Morphology, Lexicology and Terminology ·
    • is_parent Grammar and Syntax ·
    • is_parent Developmental linguistics ·
    • is_parent Semantics, pragmatics, memetics ·
    • is_parent Computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing ·
    • unfold further branches…
  • contains Precursors

    • is_parent पाणि

      Pāṇini (Devanagari: पाणिनि, pronounced [paːɳɪnɪ]) was a Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India variously dated between the 6th a

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    • is_parent [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ] ·

      Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant
    • is_parent Noam Chomsky ·

      Chomsky
    • is_parent Leonard Bloomfield ·

      Bloomfield
    • is_parent Michael Tomasello ·

      Tomasello
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  • contains Links ·

    Open Educational Resource (OER): knowledge unit "Art, Cognition, Education" of https://baumhaus.digital repository   Matrix room: #edu-linguistics:m3x.baum