Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language

*[1] What is linguistics? [2] Sounds of language, consonants [3] Other sounds, vowels [4] In the head versus on the lips [5] How to make a word [6] Chomskyan Revolution [7] Deep structure and surface structure [8] On-off switches of grammar [9] Shades of meaning 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 language 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 world, bilingualism [23] Languages sharing a sentence, code-switching [24] Rules of conversation [25] What is this thing called language? [26] Speech as action [27] Uses of talk from culture to culture [28] Does language channel thought? The evidence [29] Does language channel thought? New findings [30] Is language going to the dogs [31] Why languages are never perfect [32] Evolution of writing [33] Writing systems [34] Doing linguistics, with a head start [35] Doing linguistics, from the ground up [36] Evolution of language