Language is the most complex tool you own. It's time to Get the manual.
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What you’ll Learn:
The Foundations of Human Language: What you know when you know a language, the design features of language, and how the various modalities of human language are different from anything else we know of.
Sounds: Phonetics and Phonology — how we produce sounds, how we think about sounds, and how those don’t always line up neatly. The concepts of phonemes and allophones, and the underlying simple, elegant system our brains manipulate every time we use language.
Structure: Morphology and Syntax — how we build larger mental structures from smaller ones, building from words all the way to infinite complex sentences with infinite variations from a handful of building blocks and rules.
Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatics — how words and phrases mean things, and how we use them to do things socially. This touches on theory of mind, culture, and politeness.
Variation: Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Contact — How languages vary from person to person, place to place, and time to time, and what factors give rise to the tremendous variation we see, even in the same language spoken in different places and different times.
The Mind: Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition — What is really happening in the mind? Does the empirical evidence always line up with syntactic theorizing, and why or why not?
BONUS — Manipulating Text: Writing Systems, and Language & Computers — how writing is distinct from, but interacts with, language. What we can learn from writing. The digital revolution and LLMs.
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