Journal Entry 10: Discovery Journal Assignment Reflective Note

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Journal Entry 9–The History of English Podcast–Bonus Episode 2: History of the Alphabet

Fig. 1. Still from The History of English Podcast Website. This podcast episode from The History of English, hosted by Kevin Stroud, deals with looking at the core group of letters which have stayed constant since the Phoenician alphabet. Stroud explains that their shapes might have changed, but the sounds they make and their position in the alphabet shows the consistency of these letters for over 3000 years. Stroud also points out that the original alphabet only had consonants, so all of these letters were also consonants – which he calls Constant Consonants. He reminds us that the vowels present in our modern English language were added later by the Greeks. The Constant Consonants are: B, D, L, M, N, P, R, and T. Stroud further states these letters are still found in the same order as the original Phoenician alphabet, and besides their individual shapes and their modern English names...

Journal Entry 4–The World in Words Podcast–Where Does Language Come From?

Fig. 1. Still from The World in Words. Where does language come from? How did humans learn to speak? To find the answers, the hosts of The World in Words podcast looked into the structure of our throats. They discovered with the help of Philip Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist at Brown University, that we are the only animals on Earth who, “have a common pathway for food, liquid, and air, which allows us basically to choke to death.” In essence, the composition of our throats don’t allow us to breathe and swallow at the same time. It is because of the setup in our throat, consisting of the larynx and esophagus, that gives us the ability to make sounds and utter words. Because we developed a throat that can lead to our demise though, scientists believed there had to be something beneficial about the configuration of the throat that outweighed the dangers choking held. That something had to be speech. ...

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