24.900 Introduction to Linguistics (Spring 2022, MIT OCW). Instructor: Prof. Norvin W. Richards. This class will provide some answers t

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

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  • Lecture 02 – Morphology, Part 1 Unlimited
  • Lecture 03 – Morphology, Part 2 Unlimited
  • Lecture 04 – Morphology, Part 3 Unlimited
  • Lecture 05 – Phonetics, Part 1 Unlimited
  • Lecture 06 – Phonetics, Part 2 Unlimited
  • Lecture 08 – Phonology, Part 1 Unlimited
  • Lecture 09 – Phonology, Part 2 Unlimited
  • Lecture 10 – Phonology, Part 3 Unlimited
  • Lecture 11 – Syntax, Part 1 Unlimited
  • Lecture 12 – Syntax, Part 2 Unlimited
  • Lecture 13 – Syntax, Part 3 Unlimited
  • Lecture 14 – Syntax, Part 4 Unlimited
  • Lecture 15 – Syntax, Part 5 Unlimited
  • Lecture 16 – Syntax, Part 6 Unlimited
  • Lecture 17 – Syntax, Part 7, and Semantics, Part 1 Unlimited
  • Lecture 18 – Semantics, Part 2 Unlimited
  • Lecture 19 – Semantics, Part 3 Unlimited
  • Lecture 20 – Semantics, Part 4 Unlimited
  • Lecture 21 – Semantics, Part 5 Unlimited
  • Lecture 22 – Dialects Unlimited
  • Lecture 23 – Historical Linguistics Unlimited
  • Lecture 24 – Endangered Languages Unlimited
  • Lecture 25 – Language Acquisition Unlimited
  • Lecture 26 – Signed Languages Unlimited