# Introduction to Linguistics

- 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](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/pages/syllabus/)
- Readings: [at the source](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/pages/readings/)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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

1. [Lecture 2: Morphology, Part 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/9884b7c5711f) (Video)
2. [Lecture 3: Morphology, Part 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/2d432de3767d) (Video)
3. [Lecture 4: Morphology, Part 3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/7a3a27d6e385) (Video)
4. [Lecture 5: Phonetics, Part 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/9b2bb2da0c8e) (Video)
5. [Lecture 6: Phonetics, Part 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/f3087728f561) (Video)
6. [Lecture 8: Phonology, Part 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/fb6dd550c212) (Video)
7. [Lecture 9: Phonology, Part 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/50eadae64c61) (Video)
8. [Lecture 10: Phonology, Part 3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/59e772166ede) (Video)
9. [Lecture 11: Syntax, Part 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/ba622b575400) (Video)
10. [Lecture 12: Syntax, Part 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/8e0348a6172e) (Video)
11. [Lecture 13: Syntax, Part 3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/7c68878f748b) (Video)
12. [Lecture 14: Syntax, Part 4](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/4a7cc631ba4f) (Video)
13. [Lecture 15: Syntax, Part 5](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/d458b3a082ce) (Video)
14. [Lecture 16: Syntax, Part 6](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/698953dc6090) (Video)
15. [Lecture 17: Syntax, Part 7, and Semantics, Part 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/cbead2ce2861) (Video)
16. [Lecture 18: Semantics, Part 2](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/2a7e4d18f409) (Video)
17. [Lecture 19: Semantics, Part 3](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/8cb3572a34c5) (Video)
18. [Lecture 20: Semantics, Part 4](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/78c0e90106e5) (Video)
19. [Lecture 21: Semantics, Part 5](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/b7b64b16365c) (Video)
20. [Lecture 22: Dialects](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/da9513ef01be) (Video)
21. [Lecture 23: Historical Linguistics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/1eb11789711e) (Video)
22. [Lecture 24: Endangered Languages](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/da5ad3f0441d) (Video)
23. [Lecture 25: Language Acquisition](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/f1de1ffb98f3) (Video)
24. [Lecture 26: Signed Languages](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/2080b1653ab9) (Video)