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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 European languages."         How did  Interlingua come to be? Created to  facilitate  international  communication. It also uses   simplified  structures and theoretical learnability by using 5 romance  languages and 6 European languages. As a  Spanish  speaking person, the "modern latin" to me sounds like my cousins that were born and raised in Mexico and speak perfect Spanish.Give it a try and I can  guarantee that you will know at least a

                                                                                     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 the perfect accent as well. Marc Silver/ NP                                      In this interview,  Teixeira asks  Weinberger how he created The Speech Accent Archive. The Speech Accent Archive is a website that allows for over 381  languages to be transcribed, read and recorded from   175 different

                                                             Tracking Psycholinguistics Experiments By Delany Barrera   ENGL-3360-90L-Fall2023                                                 What is psycholinguistics?                                                                                                                                                             It is the study of the relationship between linguistic behavior and psychological process including language acquisition.                               In this experiments we are going to look into two parts of the human body. The eyes and the fingers. Chua says, “ Psycholinguistic often like to take responses from people’s finger and eyes as cues to how linguistic units are stored in people’s heads.” In our integrated “response box” our brain captures the structures of how to move our fingers. Creating memorized functions that are stored and ready to use. Eye tracking or informative eye responses based on how long wo

                                                                                               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 that those languages engender that make it an interesting and dynamic place.”                          The importance of understanding the diversity and identity in languages that  can bring so much life and character to a beautiful country. Over 5 languages can be considered co-offic

                                                                          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 have evolved and influenced other languages.   Hindu grammar was the main study before European grammar had been developed through language studies that dated back to old Greek and Latin literature. Throughout the centuries Latin has influenced t

                                                                                                 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                        .                                                                        What is AI?  According to Británica AI is artificial intelligence, the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.            Erik J. Larson, William Hasselberger warns that in overestimating AI’s ability to mimic human intelligence we dev