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Introduction to Linguistics

Prof. Norvin W. Richards · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

This class provides some answers to basic questions about the nature of human language. Throughout the course, we examine a number of ways in which human language is a complex but law-governed mental system. Much of the class is devoted to studying some core aspects of this system in detail; we also spend individual classes discussing a number of other issues, including how language is acquired, how languages change over time, language endangerment, and others.

Lectures

Lecture Videos

  1. Lecture 2: Morphology, Part 1 Video
  2. Lecture 3: Morphology, Part 2 Video
  3. Lecture 4: Morphology, Part 3 Video
  4. Lecture 5: Phonetics, Part 1 Video
  5. Lecture 6: Phonetics, Part 2 Video
  6. Lecture 8: Phonology, Part 1 Video
  7. Lecture 9: Phonology, Part 2 Video
  8. Lecture 10: Phonology, Part 3 Video
  9. Lecture 11: Syntax, Part 1 Video
  10. Lecture 12: Syntax, Part 2 Video
  11. Lecture 13: Syntax, Part 3 Video
  12. Lecture 14: Syntax, Part 4 Video
  13. Lecture 15: Syntax, Part 5 Video
  14. Lecture 16: Syntax, Part 6 Video
  15. Lecture 17: Syntax, Part 7, and Semantics, Part 1 Video
  16. Lecture 18: Semantics, Part 2 Video
  17. Lecture 19: Semantics, Part 3 Video
  18. Lecture 20: Semantics, Part 4 Video
  19. Lecture 21: Semantics, Part 5 Video
  20. Lecture 22: Dialects Video
  21. Lecture 23: Historical Linguistics Video
  22. Lecture 24: Endangered Languages Video
  23. Lecture 25: Language Acquisition Video
  24. Lecture 26: Signed Languages Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Linguistics and Philosophy
Teacher
Prof. Norvin W. Richards
Term
Spring 2022
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Philosophy, Languages and linguistics
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Prof. Norvin W. Richards. Introduction to Linguistics. Spring 2022. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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