Week 1.1 Knowledge of Language

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公開日: 2020年9月30日

This is the first lecture for PLIN0006 Introduction to Language. We introduce basic notions of linguistics and its object of study: language as a property of the human mind. We then discuss a number of universal and language specific features of human language.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Trailer
00:23 - Introduction
00:48 - What is linguistics?
01:24 - What linguists study
03:21 - Linguistics as a science
10:57 - What is Knowledge of Language?
12:05 - The Martian thought experiment
13:18 - Universal 1: Discreteness
15:23 - Universal 2: Infinite Embedding
16:13 - Universal 3: Creativity
17:49 - Language-specific Features 1: Phonotactics
18:50 - Language-specific Features 2: Word Order
27:55 - Language-specific Features 3: Word Meaning
30:05 - Summary

Credits:
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