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More The 36 lectures of Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language—taught by acclaimed linguist, author, and Professor John McWhorter from the Manhattan Institute—are your opportunity to take a revealing journey through the fascinating terrain of linguistics. You focus on the scientific aspects of human language that were left out of any classes you may have taken in English or a foreign language, and you emerge from your journey with a newfound appreciation of the mysterious machinery built into all of us—an appreciation likely to surface time and again in your everyday life. Course Lecture Titles 1. What Is Linguistics? 2. The Sounds of Language—Consonants 3. The Other Sounds—Vowels 4. In the Head versus On the Lips 5. How to Make a Word 6. The Chomskyan Revolution 7. Deep Structure and Surface Structure 8. The On-Off Switches of Grammar 9. Shades of Meaning and Semantic Roles 10. From Sentence to Storytelling 11. Language on Its Way to Becoming a New One 12. Recovering Languages of the Past 13. Where Grammar Comes From 14. Language Change from Old English to Now 15. What Is an Impossible Language? 16. How Children Learn to Speak 17. How We Learn Languages as Adults 18. How You Talk and How They Talk 19. How Class Defines Speech 20. Speaking Differently, Changing the Language 21. Language and Gender 22. Languages Sharing the World—Bilingualism 23. Languages Sharing a Sentence—Code-Switching 24. The Rules of Conversation 25. What Is This Thing Called Language? 26. Speech as Action 27. Uses of Talk from Culture to Culture 28. Does Language Channel Thought? The Evidence 29. Does Language Channel Thought? New Findings 30. Is Language Going to the Dogs? 31. Why Languages Are Never Perfect 32. The Evolution of Writing 33. Writing Systems 34. Doing Linguistics—With a Head Start 35. Doing Linguistics—From the Ground Up 36. The Evolution of Language
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