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Introduction to Linguistics
15 videos

Welcome to the Miracles of Human Language!
How to succeed in your online class?
Human Language and Animal Communication Systems
Human Language Versus Other 'Languages'
Discussion with Marten and Inge: Language Diversity
Language Diversity and Ethnologue
Discussion with Marten and Inge: What do Linguists do?
Interview with Dr. Victoria Nyst
Introduction language informants + introducing Han Hu, Speaker of Mandarin Chinese
Introducing Roberta D'Alessandro, speaker of Abruzzese
Introducing Khalid Mourigh, speaker of Tarifit Berber
Introducing Varun DeCastro-Arrazola, speaker of Basque
Introducing Beste Sevindik, speaker of Turkish
Introducing Enoch Aboh, speaker of Gungbe
Conclusion; language and dialect

6 readings

Meet the instructor and his team
Leiden University: Facts and Figures
Community Guidelines
What is your learning path?
Registration Ethnologue
Required and optional readings

1 quiz

Test your knowledge 1

5 discussion prompts

Introduce yourself
Tell us your goals
Language and identity in groups
Language diversity is a diversity of minds?
In what ways are unrelated languages similar?

1 plugin

Discover The World at Leiden University
The study of sound: Phonology and Phonetics
13 videos

Distinguishing consonants
Production of speech sounds
Discussion with Marten and Inge: consonants of world languages
Sounds in systems
Discussion with Marten and Inge: sounds and language change
Interview with Prof. dr. Claartje Levelt
Introduction + Tarifit Berber
Gungbe
Turkish
Abruzzese
Mandarin Chinese
Basque
Conclusion; sounds and gestures

1 reading

Required and optional readings

1 quiz

Test your knowledge 2

1 discussion prompt

What was your first word?
The study of words and sentences: Morphology and Syntax
14 videos

Words and sentences
Morphology
Discussion with Marten and Inge: world of words
Syntax and word order (a)
Syntax and word order (b)
Discussion with Marten and Inge: world of word order
Interview with Prof. Noam Chomsky
Introduction + Basque
Tarifit Berber
Gungbe
Turkish
Abruzzese
Mandarin Chinese
Conclusion; structure beyond sentences

1 reading

Required and optional readings

1 quiz

Test your knowledge 3

1 peer review

World of word order

2 discussion prompts

Words, sentences and translation
On the nature of affixes
The study of meaning: Pragmatics and Semantics
13 videos

Layers of meaning
Semantics
Discussion with Marten and Inge: color and snow
Pragmatics
Discussion with Marten and Inge: changing the world with sentences
Interview with Barend Beekhuizen MA
Introduction + Abruzzese
Tarifit Berber
Turkish
Basque
Mandarin Chinese
Gungbe
Conclusion; untranslatable words?

2 readings

Required and optional readings
Quiz readings

1 quiz

Test your knowledge 4

2 discussion prompts

Having no fixed description, how do we recognize objects?
Unintentionally broken promises and Grice
Language in the Brain
11 videos

Introduction
Aphasia
Discussion with Marten and Inge: everyday mistakes and the Foreign Accent Syndrome
Reading in the brain
Visiting the lab
Interview with Prof. Dr. Niels Schiller
Introduction + Turkish
Tarifit Berber
Abruzzese
Basque
Conclusion; dyslexia

2 readings

Required and optional readings
Crowdfunding credits

1 quiz

Test your knowledge 5

2 discussion prompts

Everyday mistakes: blending
Reading and writing with Aphasia
Language in the Society
13 videos

Language change and variation
Social stratification
Discussion with Marten and Inge: social variables
Politeness
Discussion with Marten and Inge: examples of Face
Interview with Prof. Adele Goldberg
Introduction + Gungbe
Tarifit Berber
Turkish
Abruzzese
Mandarin Chinese
Basque
Conclusion; how personal are politeness strategies?

1 reading

Required and optional readings

2 quizzes

Test your knowledge 6
Final exam

1 peer review

Face and Politeness

2 discussion prompts

More on (the nature of) linguistic change
The case of linguistic variation and Esperanto

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