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Pragmatics

Season 1 Episode 6
10:07
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Sociolinguistics

Season 1 Episode 7
11:32
Phonetics 1 - Consonants

Phonetics 1 - Consonants

Season 1 Episode 8
11:16
Phonetics 2 - Vowels

Phonetics 2 - Vowels

Season 1 Episode 9
11:34
Phonology

Phonology

Season 1 Episode 10
11:49
Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics

Season 1 Episode 11
11:13
Language Acquisition

Language Acquisition

Season 1 Episode 12
11:02
World Languages

World Languages

Season 1 Episode 14
11:31
Computational Linguistics

Computational Linguistics

Season 1 Episode 15
11:32
Writing Systems

Writing Systems

Season 1 Episode 16
11:55
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The Calling

Season 4 Episode 5
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Crash Course Linguistics

Semantics

Season 1 Episode 5

If you want to know what a word means, all you have to do is look it up in the dictionary, right? Actually, it’s a little more complicated than that. This episode of Crash Course Linguistics is all about semantics, or the area of linguistics concerned with meaning. We learn about different types of semantic relationships, and how different languages define these relationships.

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Syntax 1 - Morphosyntax
10:43
We start our discussion of syntax and how we morph words into questions and stories.
Morphology
10:28
We’re diving into the topic of morphology and what makes up these things we call words.
What is Linguistics?
11:19
Linguistics is the study of language, but what does that even mean?
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