Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics

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Introduction

Welcome to the Miracles of Human Language!

3 min

Meet the instructor & his team

5 min

Welcome to Leiden University

5 min

How to be succesful in this course

Study tips for studying online

5 min

Being succesful in an international virtual learning community

5 min

Behaving in an academic way

5 min

Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Introduce yourself

20 min

Introduction to Linguistics

Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Language and identity in groups

15 min

Human Language and Animal Communication Systems

6 min

Human Language Versus Other 'Languages'

9 min

Discussion with Marten and Inge: Language Diversity

9 min1st week.

Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Language diversity is a diversity of minds?

20 min

Language Diversity and Ethnologue

8 min

Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: In what ways are unrelated languages similar?

15 min

Discussion with Marten and Inge: What do Linguists do?

13 min

Interview with Dr. Victoria Nyst

10 min

Required and optional readings

30 min

Language informants

Introduction language informants + introducing Han Hu, Speaker of Mandarin Chinese

4 min

Introducing Roberta D'Alessandro, speaker of Abruzzese

48 seg

Introducing Khalid Mourigh, speaker of Tarifit Berber

51 seg

Introducing Varun DeCastro-Arrazola, speaker of Basque

1 min

Introducing Beste Sevindik, speaker of Turkish

1 min

Introducing Enoch Aboh, speaker of Gungbe

1 min

Concluding the module

Conclusion; language and dialect

2 min

Cuestionario: Test your knowledge 1

12 preguntas

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