Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics

Video Names Minutes

Introduction to Linguistics (Week 1)
Welcome to the Miracles of Human Language! 3
How to succeed in your online class? 2
Human Language and Animal Communication Systems 6
Human Language Versus Other 'Languages' 9
Discussion with Marten and Inge: Language Diversity 9
Language Diversity and Ethnologue 8
Discussion with Marten and Inge: What do Linguists do? 13
Interview with Dr. Victoria Nyst 10
Introduction language informants + introducing Han Hu, Speaker of Mandarin Chinese 4
Introducing Roberta D'Alessandro, speaker of Abruzzese 1
Introducing Khalid Mourigh, speaker of Tarifit Berber 1
Introducing Varun DeCastro-Arrazola, speaker of Basque 1
Introducing Beste Sevindik, speaker of Turkish 1
Introducing Enoch Aboh, speaker of Gungbe 1
Conclusion; language and dialect 2
The study of sound: Phonology and Phonetics (Week 2)
Distinguishing consonants 6
Production of speech sounds 7
Discussion with Marten and Inge: consonants of world languages 8
Sounds in systems 7
Discussion with Marten and Inge: sounds and language change 11
Interview with Prof. dr. Claartje Levelt 7
Introduction + Tarifit Berber 4
Gungbe 1
Turkish 1
Abruzzese 1
Mandarin Chinese 1
Basque 1 1
Conclusion; sounds and gestures 1
TOTAL TIME: 2 hrs 7 mins