Skip to main content
Crash Course Linguistics

Crash Course Linguistics

Crash Course Linguistics

Welcome to Crash Course Linguistics! Linguistics is everywhere and is super useful for pretty much everyone. Over 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke will teach you all about language, from its structure, to the relationship between language and our identity, the brain, and computers, to writing, language acquisition, and the diversity of human languages!

Watch this show and many more anytime, anywhere on the free PBS App.

Stream to your TV
Support Provided By
Writing Systems
11:55
We learn about orthographies, the different components that make up a writing system.
Computational Linguistics
11:32
We learn about the process of programming computers to process human language.
World Languages
11:31
We explore factors to learn about world languages and linguistic diversity.
Language Change and Historical Linguistics
12:23
We learn about how and why languages change.
Language Acquisition
11:02
We learn about language acquisition and how the process differs for babies and adults.
Psycholinguistics
11:13
We learn about psycholinguistics - the field of study of language and the brain.
Phonology
11:49
We learn phonology and the different phonological systems we see in languages.
Phonetics 2 - Vowels
11:34
We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them.
Phonetics 1 - Consonants
11:16
We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds.
Sociolinguistics
11:32
Learn about the linguistic differences between languages based on various factors.
Pragmatics
10:07
We cover Grice’s Maxims and the different types of conversational styles.
Semantics
10:49
We learn about semantics and how words' meanings change over time.
Active loading indicator