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The challenge of cognates. ... easy to write, hard to pronounce!. Guess the meaning and The challenge of cognates. LinkedUp Project: Creating a Language Learning Skills Continuum. What is a cognate:. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The challenge of cognates ...
... easy to write, hard to pronounce!
Guess the meaning and
The challenge of
cognates
LinkedUp Project: Creating a Language Learning Skills Continuum
What is a cognate: Linguistics . descended from the same
language or form: such cognate languages as French and Spanish.
Romance Family = French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Germanic =German, English, Dutch
1. geografía (Spanish)
2. cyclisme (French)
3. Garten (German)
4. musica (Italian)
5. abril (Spanish)
6. actrice (French)
7. Fußball (German)
8. cioccolato (Italian)
Can you use your language learning skills to work out the meanings of the foreign words below?
- geography
- cycling
-garden
-music
-April
-actress
-football
-chocolate
How close were you?
Which criteria did you use when deciding how to deduce the meaning of the words. (semantics)
Filing cabinet of patterns in other languages.
Context (pragmatics)
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•agent•rugby•prince•télévision•police•chocolat•dragon
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•Winter•Spanien•Hand•Hause•Februar•Juli•Mathe
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•inteligente•julio•diccionario•geografía•garaje•ciclismo•tranquila
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How close were you?
Which criteria did you use when deciding how to pronounce the words.
= sound inventory = looking for patterns of sound in other languages. (phonemes)
Syllables What are syllables?
- sound units in words
If intonation is the rythm of music what are syllables in sound production?
- melody
•agent•rugby•prince•télévision•police•chocolat•dragon Image from www.pdclipart.org
Let‘s break the following words down into syllables.
•a.gent•rug.by•pr.ince•tél.é.vi.sion•po.lice•cho.co.lat•dra.gon Image from www.pdclipart.org
Let‘s break the following words down into syllables.
•Win.ter•Span.i.en•Hand•Hau.se•Feb.ru.ar•Ju.li•Ma.the
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•in.tel.i.gen.te•jul.io•dic.cion.a.rio•ge.og.ra.fía•g.ar.aje•cic.lis.mo•tran.qui.la
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Project Produce your own pod cast or PPT
slide show to illustrate what phonology is:
Phonology = the sound system of a language
Intonation = rythmn Tone – Chinese 4 tones