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Crash Course Linguistics
What is Linguistics?
Season 1
Episode 1
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 and levels of structure of language, and introduce some of the other topics we'll be covering throughout this series.
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11:55
We learn about orthographies, the different components that make up a writing system.
11:32
We learn about the process of programming computers to process human language.
11:31
We explore factors to learn about world languages and linguistic diversity.
12:23
We learn about how and why languages change.
11:02
We learn about language acquisition and how the process differs for babies and adults.
11:13
We learn about psycholinguistics - the field of study of language and the brain.
11:34
We learn about 6 vowel letters and the numerous sounds we make when using them.
11:16
We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds.
11:32
Learn about the linguistic differences between languages based on various factors.
10:07
We cover Grice’s Maxims and the different types of conversational styles.
