Crash Course Linguistics

  • Premiered: Sep 2020
  • Episodes: 16
  • Followers: 2
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • at 15
  • Documentary

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Season 1
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What is Linguistics?
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Sep 11, 2020
Language is everywhere. Linguistics is the study of language, but what does that even mean? In this episode of Crash Course Linguistics, we'll begin talking about some of the features .. show full overview
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Morphology
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Sep 18, 2020
What even is a word? Well… linguists don’t really know! But that’s ok! When linguists want to get super specific, we don’t even talk about words, we talk about morphemes instead. In this .. show full overview
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Syntax 1 - Morphosyntax
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Sep 25, 2020
Grammar sometimes gets a bad reputation, but we're actually doing grammar all the time! And we're pretty good at it! In this episode of Crash Course Linguistics, we'll begin our .. show full overview
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Syntax 2 - Trees
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Oct 02, 2020
There are many theories of syntax and different ways to represent grammatical structures, but one of the simplest is tree structure diagrams! In this episode of Crash Course Linguistics, .. show full overview
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Semantics
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Oct 09, 2020
If you want to know what a word means, all you have to do is look it up in the dictionary, right? Actually, it’s a little more complicated than that. This episode of Crash Course .. show full overview
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Pragmatics
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Oct 16, 2020
We don’t always say exactly what we mean, and yet we’re still pretty good at understanding each other. That’s because we don’t just use meaning to figure out what’s going on, we also use .. show full overview
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Sociolinguistics
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Oct 23, 2020
Language is an important part of our identities, and the ways we feel about how others use language is influenced by society. The study of the social element of language, and how it .. show full overview
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Phonetics 1 - Consonants
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Oct 30, 2020
The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. Lucky for us, linguists have tools to help understand and .. show full overview
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Phonetics 2 - Vowels
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Nov 13, 2020
In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! In this episode of Crash Course Linguistics, we’ll learn about .. show full overview
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Phonology
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Nov 20, 2020
All of the sounds or handshapes in a language can be pronounced differently depending on the context, but in different languages, these differences may be significant, or not. The study .. show full overview
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Psycholinguistics
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Dec 04, 2020
We couldn't have language without the brain, but our brains are a bit harder to study than other parts of the body that we use to make languages like our mouths and hands. In this .. show full overview
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Language Acquisition
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Dec 11, 2020
Babies have to learn a lot of language stuff before they can even say their first word. Exposure to language as infants doesn’t just help us say those first words but gives us the tools .. show full overview
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Language Change and Historical Linguistics
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Dec 18, 2020
Language is constantly changing. Today’s small changes could lead to entirely new dialects or languages in the future. We can’t predict how these changes will occur, but we can better .. show full overview
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World Languages
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Jan 08, 2021
If you ask a linguist “How many languages are there in the world?” the answer most will give you is “around 7000”. We say “around” because there are several factors that make it .. show full overview
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Computational Linguistics
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Jan 15, 2021
Computers are pretty great, and we use them for different language tasks every day. But teaching computers to understand language is surprisingly difficult! In this episode of Crash .. show full overview
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Writing Systems
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Jan 22, 2021
All societies have spoken or signed language, but not all languages have a written form. Since writing developed in different ways in different places, writing systems differ greatly .. show full overview

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