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Read this New Yorker article (Links to an external site.) on how humans seem to process and produce nouns slower than verbs. Next, reflect upon your own language usage, particularly in your native language(s). Do you think about nouns more than verbs as you speak? In which ways, if any, do you notice a difference? Do you think it is the same for languages that you learned later in life? In which ways are there similarities and differences?
Instructions

Post your initial post by Thursday of this week. Your response should be 100-150 words in length, and you should connect the elements in the journal topic to our course in some way. You should also include your personal experiences, tying them into the course.

You won’t be able to see anyone else’s post before you write your own—and that’s on purpose. Use this time to reflect on your experiences. Remember that there are ‘no wrong answers’—so long as you use the information that we have learned thus far in the course to your work, then all is good!

Between Friday and Sunday, please reply to at least two of your colleagues’ posts. Useful comments include engaging in dialogue, reflection, or suggestion. If you find that you agree with a given response and have nothing else to add, then I challenge you to reply to someone who has a different perspective than yours, and explore the differences.
Optional: If you have any helpful resources, feel free to share them in your posts/replies.

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What an interesting finding! I haven’t really thought about whether I think about nouns more than verbs when I speak, as I usually just speak without much thought on my process of forming sentences. Also, if I were to observe myself it’d likely slow down my speech overall. Maybe I’ll ask my family to help observe my speaking to possibly find a significant difference in the time it takes for me to produce nouns as opposed to verbs. Although I can’t personally relate currently, the reasons behind the finding do make sense. The New Yorker Article references the case study, “Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages, which mentions that “speakers have been found to slow down their speech rate before complex, infrequent, or novel words”. While this could be confusing as verbs are generally more complex than nouns, and would logically require longer times to process, nouns usually represent new information that takes longer to form. This trend would likely carry over to languages that are learned later in life because when one is learning a new language, one has to focus on learning vocabulary before being able to form meaningful sentences. Overall, speech in a language that one is learning is likely to be way slower than speech in your native language, until you master it.
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I have never really thought about the nouns or verbs that I use. I usually don’t really pay much attention to the fact that I’m actually talking. I can hear myself and I know how I should respond but I don’t think about it often. It’s one of those things that we are so used to doing that we never really pay attention to it. If I do think about it then it is when I am transitioning from one language to the other. Sometimes I get stuck and forget how to translate certain words and I can not express myself properly. When learning a new language I think you would pay more attention because you want to be able to say things the right way.