Linguistics by CrashCourse
Offered By: CrashCourse via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
In 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke teaches you linguistics! The content is based on an introductory university-level curriculum, curated by a team of linguists: Lauren Gawne, Jessi Grieser, and Gretchen McCulloch.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand how linguists approach analyzing language, including our ethical responsibility to use our increased understanding of how language works to be more compassionate with language
- Identify and analyze the structural features of language, across different levels, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics
- Apply this structural approach to describe language as it is used, including its social functions, how people learn language, and how language is used in technology
- Recognize that there are thousands of spoken languages and hundreds of signed languages in the world
- Identify the International Phonetic Alphabet and understand the system behind how the IPA chart is organized
Syllabus
Crash Course Linguistics Preview.
What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1.
Morphology: Crash Course Linguistics #2.
Syntax 1 - Morphosyntax: Crash Course Linguistics #3.
Syntax 2 - Trees: Crash Course Linguistics #4.
Semantics: Crash Course Linguistics #5.
Pragmatics: Crash Course Linguistics #6.
Sociolinguistics: Crash Course Linguistics #7.
Phonetics 1 - Consonants: Crash Course Linguistics #8.
Phonetics 2 - Vowels: Crash Course Linguistics #9.
Phonology: Crash Course Linguistics #10.
Psycholinguistics: Crash Course Linguistics #11.
Language Acquisition: Crash Course Linguistics #12.
Language Change and Historical Linguistics: Crash Course Linguistics #13.
World Languages: Crash Course Linguistics #14.
Computational Linguistics: Crash Course Linguistics #15.
Writing Systems: Crash Course Linguistics #16.
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