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" c' a1 S( \4 w- B7 w(78) 语言学:第1篇---难度级别:$$. T$ k) S$ ~9 r- f# ^# M! }
I`m sure you realize that your research paper are (due) in six weeks. I`ve looked at your (proposed被提议的) topics and made comments about them. The most frequent problem was proposing too broad (a) topic---remember, this is only a fifteen-page paper.
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* k: C) L+ i- E' PAs (I) return your topic papers, I`d like to look over the <schedule> which (sketches草拟) out what we`ll do during the next two weeks. Today is Monday; by Friday, I want you (preliminary初步的) outline. Please be sure to incorperate the suggestions I`ve made on your topics in your outlines. Next week I`ll have a conference with each of you. I`ve (posted) a schedule on my office door---sign your name to indicate the time you`re <available> for an appointment. In the conference, we`ll discuss your preliminary outline. Then you can make the neccesary (revisions修正) and hand in your final outline, which is due two weeks from today.
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" O( J2 u, R U) X( z: `8 e/ XUse the outline style in your textbook and remember it should be no more than two pages long. Be sure to begin with a thesis statement---that is, with a (precise严谨的,精确的,明白的) statement of the point (you) intend to prove---and include a conclusion.
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% @& X" w. j0 S7 @Have you got all that? Your two-page prelimnary outlines are due at th end of this week and the final outlines are due after your conferences. Follow the textbook style and inlude a thesis statement and a conclusion.: X. p( a. |4 n) |1 F- o u. P
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(79) 语言学:第2篇---难度级别:$$半
0 m: F. V' g e2 Z. cWe`ve probably all wondered how a new word gets into the dictionary. Take the word “doofus,” for example, spelled d-o-o-f-u-s, meaning a stupid or <incompetent无能力的> person. This word which has been around since the late 1960`s in a slang俚语 (sense, made it into the Merriam-Webster`s Collegiate学院的 Dictionary) only in 1993.
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Why did it take so long? Well, first of all, dictionary editors like to wait at least three years to be sure a word is going to last, especially a slang word. They don`t want to put in a new word (prematurely过早地,贸然地) and then have to take it out in the next (edition). " @9 d! J8 ~6 H5 q; G4 {
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But even for words that aren`t slang, getting into the dictionary isn`t easy. New words have to pass a lot of <editorial> tests, including how difficult or easy they are to look up查询. There`s also a limit to how (thick) a dictionary can be or how small (its) type can get before people feel they don`t want to use it. Some words have to come out before others can go in. The Collegiate Dictionary adds about ten thousand words to every edition, but it takes out only a few hundred, so choises have to be made very carefully.
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(80) 语言学:第3篇---难度级别:$$$
6 z: u, ?* {4 a& N9 FYou`ll recall that in last week`s class I talked about how the sound made by animals, (though) sometime complex, are diffetent from human language. Only in humans (do these) sounds (represent) objects (and events). keep in mind that most animal can only repeat (their) limited (utterances) over and over again, while humans can say things that he never been said before. Today I want to focus on human language and how it developed./ a5 \% F* Y) N$ J( t/ l
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I doubt you`ll be surprised when I say that the evolution of language was slow and (laborious费力的).' U$ A+ M# v1 h: U% w6 D
There`s some reliable evidence that the human language began with early humans a million and a half years ago.
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