How the Game Works
           Your goal is to form a language.
           Since we only have a class period, your language will use 
           a very limited world (i.e., shapes of varying size and 
           color) and a very limited set of phonemes (i.e., 5).
           To illustrate your competence as using your language, one 
           person should be able to describe a picture while another 
           person produces it.  Though this world is far less 
           complicated then ours, communication is still 
           complicated.
           Let’s try (in English).
                                         
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               Your “World”
                                
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                     Rules of the Game
           During the game, you can only speak with your groups’ 
           phonemes.  During “time-outs” you can speak English 
           but you can not talk to your group-mates about the game.  
           You can take notes (with English) to help reduce the 
           working memory demands of the game.  But do not show 
           anybody what you wrote.
           At the end of class, we’ll have each group showcase their 
           ability to communicate in the same way we just did with 
           English.
                                         
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                        Your Phonemes
          Your group gets to use 5 phonemes.  Each group has a 
          unique set.  Here’s a sample that does not match any 
          actual group:
          ch      chair, beach, nature    affricate
          u       soon, through, boot     monophthong
          This means you get the sounds /ch/ and /u/.  You do not 
          get the sound /t/ even though a ‘t” is in bold.  The words 
          in the middle illustrate the use of the phoneme.  The right 
          column tells you the type of phoneme; it’s how your 
          mouth, tongue, and vocal cords move. You can combine 
          your phonemes in any way.  For example, you might 
          create a word that sounds like, “chooch.”
                                         
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                 What are Phonemes?
              Phonemes are basic units of sound in a 
              language.  Everybody says particular phonemes 
              slightly differently, but when you say a different 
              phoneme, you say a different word.  (e.g, “ch” 
              is a different phoneme from “th” as “chug” is 
              different from “thug.”)
                                      
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