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Morphology -- Verb-Noun Pairs Video + Paper
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February 11, 2020 in Languages
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SLS 4220: Structure
Instructor: Bretagne Whitford
Winter, 2019
Video, 6 Minutes 58 Seconds

Artifact Description and Requirements: This project was done while our ASL Structure class was studying Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. Students were allowed to pick a topic under one of those three subjects to study. The project included writing a paper and creating a video in which students would explain the topic to people who presumably know nothing about Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. I chose to study Morphology and verb-noun pairs and how they relate to ASL and English.

Reflection: This assignment was very interesting for me. Like the other projects in this class, I remember learning about Linguistics from our SLS 1000 class, but this class really let me re-learn the information. Without the many video lectures we had to watch, I am sure that I would not have understood the information my professors were trying to teach me. However, through watching the lectures multiple times and discussing the topics with my fellow classmates, I was able to retain the information regarding this topic for future use.

I chose to study the verb-noun pairs because I had already noticed a pattern in ASL Linguistics in my early classes of learning ASL, however, I had not known the specifics of the building blocks in ASL. Each language has a smallest meaningful unit and those units are used to build different meanings. In ASL, I recognize this happens in the five parameters: handshape, location, movement, non-manual features, and palm-orientation. In English, this happens by adding a pre-fix or a suffix to a word. These processes may be something we just come to know through learning a language, but after studying linguistics, we are given a reason for why ASL and English are the way they are. This is what an engineer must feel like after driving a car for years and not knowing about its mechanics until after he studied engineering.
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