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                                                                                             International Auxiliary  Language                                             By Delany Barrera  ENGL-3360-90L-Fall2023   \ Imagine every language you can think of combined into one. Maybe not every language but primarily English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Latin German, Russian and Spanish that have influenced its grammar and vocabulary"It is known  for its simplicity of acquisition, at least for speakers of Romance and other western Eu...

                                                                                     Accents  By Delany Barrera  ENGL-3360-90L-Fall2023    In this interview our author Maria Inês Teixeira interviewes  creator and administrator of the Speech Accent Archive, Professor Steven H. Weinberger. To start off with, when you talk to someone you can notice the  difference  in-between their vocabulary, body language, and accent of course. Like Weinberger says, "  It tells you a lot about the speakers’ native language." The way I see it is that the way a  person speaks can tell you a bit about their identity, character, and background. We all have an accent and there isn't a thing called th...

                                                             Tracking Psycholinguistics Experiments By Delany Barrera   ENGL-3360-90L-Fall2023                                                 What is psycholinguistics?                                                                                                                 ...

                                                                                               Language Diversity in Spain  By Delany Barrera  ENGL-3360-90L-Fall2023   There are over    8 languages spoken in Spain not just Spanish. While we have believed that every Spaniard speaks Spanish that is not accurate. There is a big diversity in the language spoken throughout Spain. Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Aráñese, Aragonese, Leonese, Asturian, and Bosque are all different languages that have created a more diverse in the county of Spain. Even some spoken Romance languages that have derived from other languages such as Moroccan and dialects from the Canary Islands.     “The exchange of culture and tradition t...

                                                                          GRAMMAR By Delany Barrera  ENGL-3360-90L-Fall 2023  Grammar has different sound elements that help build character to a language. Linguists have studied different gramatical traditions that have changed throughout history and regions. “It’s not about setting out the rules of a language and how it works for people. It’s reflects how a linguist analyzes how people are using that system.”     There is a variety in the way we speak English. From our speech, gestures, and pronunciation anything can make a different sounds in English words. In this podcast our hosts Lauren  Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch read different stories  and sentences   that mention how grammar structures ha...

                                                                                                 AI By Delany Barrera  ENGL-3360-90L-Fall2023         We have known that time is evolving. New technology that has improved our everyday life is now influencing our educational system settings. Technology has played a major role in education in the past years. From smart devices being used in a classroom to     installed software programing to help promote different learning abilities. As always there are a few pros and cons when adding the words     “AI” and “education” in one sentence                       ...