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MIT 24.900 Introduction to Linguistics, Spring 2022

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Instructor: Prof. Norvin A. Richards View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/ [Note: Due to technical problems with the recording, no video is available for lectures 1 and 7.] 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. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments .

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linguistics, morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, dialects, historical linguistics

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