Essays on Language and Linguistics

Noam Chomsky who is a noted linguist has contributed immensely to the field of linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, history and social criticism. He postulated the transformational generative grammar for which he obtained his PhD. His book titled, Syntactic Structures that was published in 1957 brought…

Noam Chomsky is an erudite scholar who has rendered enormous support in the field of linguistics, philosophy, history, and cognitive science with his groundbreaking innovations which include the theory of transformational generative grammar. Besides his contributions in academia, he is also a prominent author and…

“A stiff apology is a second insult … The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt” Gilbert K. Chesterton. The art of the apology is an extremely difficult art…

The challenges in bridging the gap of student alienation in school settings has been a hot topic in the media in recent years. Alienation can be defined as “a decreasing sense of belonging in terms of learning, teachers and classmates at school” (Hascher & Hadjar,…

In ENGL 1301, one of the first few concepts discussed was the importance of mastering rhetorical skills. The mastering of these skills can be done by making appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos. Using these appeals enables writers to reach their audiences from different angles,…

Bilingualism is hard to define as it relies upon the meaning of fluency. In its simplest form, bilingualism is defined as “knowing” two languages (Valdez & Figueroa, 1994). A more recent definition views the proficiency of learning multiple languages on a continuum (Harley, 2014). In…

Moving forward in the lifespan, it has been found that bilingual toddlers may develop theory of mind earlier than their monolingual peers (Goetz, 2013). This study gave monolingual and bilingual toddlers in two age groups false belief and level two perspective taking tasks in order…

Introduction Ensuring their child receives a quality education that is tailored to the child’s needs and abilities is a primary concern of all parents. Yet, when language learning is concerned, opinions are widely varied. This essay intends to argue the view that exposing children to…

Introduction The idea is to make computers understand human languages and develop a user friendly human computer interfaces (HCI). Making a computer appreciate speech, facial and human gestures are some steps towards it. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of interface between users and computers….

Introduction This research paper presents the details of converting audio signals to text using Google’s speech to text API. Then, using the semantics of Natural Language Processing we break the text into smaller understandable pieces which requires Machine Learning as a part. Data sets of…