THE NATURE OF THIS WORK This corpus contains a variety of information about Salasaka Kichwa, the Salasakas, their love and aspirations for their culture, history, and language. The contents reveal details about various individuals’ lives, thus, although all native participants have granted us permission to post their stories, recordings, etc., it is of utmost importance to […]| Linguistics Network
Salasaka Kichwa is an SOV language, meaning that the word order of any sentence will be ‘subject, object, verb’. It is an agglutinative language, which means that, rather than using many independent words to convey meaning and build sentences, suffixes are added to a root that change the meaning or part of speech of a […]| Linguistics Network
There are two types of subordinate or dependent clauses discussed in this brief tutorial: those headed by an adverbial subordinate conjunction and those headed by a relative pronoun (adjectival subordinate conjunction). Adverbial subordinate clauses modify, or give information about the verb in the main clause. Adjectival subordinate clauses modify a noun in the main clause. […]| Linguistics Network
Morphological Typology Languages can be classified into groups based on a number of different linguistic criteria. One such way to categorize languages is by the type and extent of morphology that they use. For example, some languages string many morphemes together while others languages tend to realize most words as independent or mono-morphemic segments. The latter type […]| Linguistics Network
Phonemic symbols are visual representations of the speech sounds (phonemes) that we produce as we speak. Although there are multiple alphabets of phonemic symbols, the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the most widely used in the fields of linguistics and speech-language pathology. Below is a chart of consonant phonemic symbols from the IPA. (From https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/full-ipa-chart) […]| Linguistics Network
Vowels Vowel features describe the height of the tongue in the oral cavity (high, mid, low), the part of the tongue (front, central, back), the degree of tension in the tongue and lips (tense/lax), which is sometimes correlated with the position of the root of the tongue (advanced tongue root – ATR) and (retracted tongue root – RTR), and the […]| Linguistics Network
Aspiration Aspiration is a secondary feature on specified obstruents, based on the language of use. The release of these obstruents is accompanied by a burst of air, which delays the onset of the vowel. This is referred to as ‘voice onset time’ (VOT). In languages such as Salasaka Quichua, an aspirated /ph/ as opposed to […]| Linguistics Network
Every language must adhere to universal principles as well as language-specific parameters, in all areas of its grammar. In the study of syntax, we learn that: phrases are built as hierarchical structures that consist of a head and all its constituents, i.e., modifiers, complements, etc. language-specific phrase structure rules stipulate a. the constituents that are […]| Linguistics Network
Innateness Hypothesis Consider the fact that any neurologically normal child born in any part of the world can learn any language natively. Many learn two or three languages simultaneously. In fact, studies have shown that infants are born with the ability to distinguish between all of the different sounds of any language. For example, infants […]| Linguistics Network
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A syllable (σ) is a phonological unit of sonority. Sonority can be described by the degree of airflow obstruction and voicing that occurs during phonation. Sonority is inversely correlated with constriction of the articulators in the oral cavity. Sonorous sounds have a more ‘sing-able’ quality, that is they are more prominent in amplitude and length than less sonorous sounds. Sonority shows the resonance of one sound segment in relation to another.| Linguistics Network