Prof. Gregory	Intro to Linguistics
Summer 2001	TIUA
Creating Your Own Language - Group Presentation

Working in groups, you should think creatively and develop your own, simple language system. Then, you will present this language system to the class in a group presentation on Tuesday, June 5. This project should include the following:

1. A simple phonetic system - vowels and consonants, with a description of their voicing, place and manner or articulation.

    

2. At least one phonological rule that indicates how one of your phonemes changes in a particular environment.

    

3. A description of what kind of syllables are allowed in your language.

    

4. A description of the lexical, functional, derivational and inflectional morphemes in your language system. If they are bound morphemes (derivational and inflectional), please indicate whether they are prefixes or suffixes.

    

5. You should use visual aids to explain your language system and also provide some kind of handout to the other students.

    

6. You need to provide some kind of short learning activity for the class to do that helps them learn something about your language.