01. What Is Linguistics

The 36 lectures of Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language taught by acclaimed linguist, author, and Professor John McWhorter from the Manhattan of linguistics. Course Lecture Titles: 1. What Is Linguistics? 2. The Sounds of LanguageóConsonants 3. The Other SoundsóVowels 4. In the Head versus On the Lips 5. How to Make a Word 6. The Chomskyan Revolution 7. Deep Structure and Surface Structure 8. The On-Off Switches of Grammar 9. Shades of Meaning and Semantic Roles 10. From Sentence to Storytelling 11. Language on Its Way to Becoming a New One 12. Recovering Languages of the Past 13. Where Grammar Comes From 14. Language Change from Old English to Now 15. What Is an Impossible Language? 16. How Children Learn to Speak 17. How We Learn Languages as Adults 18. How You Talk and How They Talk 19. How Class Defines Speech 20. Speaking Differently, Changing the Language 21. Language and Gender 22. Languages Sharing the WorldóBilingualism 23. Languages Sharing a SentenceóCode-Switching 24. The Rules of Co