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How Did One Language Evolve
into 6,000?
Language not only defines us as a species, it also intrigues us with its
endless mysteries. How did different languages come to be? Why isn’t
there just a single language? How does a language change? Professor
John Mc Whorter, one of America’s leading linguists and a frequent
commentator on network television and National Public Radio, shows
you the answers to these and other illuminating questions in The
Story of Human Language.
Throughout these 36 fascinating lectures, you learn how a single
tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000
languages used around the world today. You also explore some of the
burning issues in contemporary linguistics. An insightful tour of the
development of human language, this course will richly reward you
with its in-depth look into the origin and evolution of the marvelous
gift of speech.
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The Story of
Human Language
Taught by Professor John Mc Whorter
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1. What Is Language?
2. When Language Began
3. How Language Changes—Sound Change
4. How Language Changes—Building New Material
5. How Language Changes—Meaning and Order
6. How Language Changes—Many Directions
7. How Language Changes—Modern English
8. Language Families—Indo-European
9. Language Families—Tracing Indo-European
10. Language Families—Diversity of Structures
11. Language Families—Clues to the Past
12. The Case Against the World’s First Language
13. The Case For the World’s First Language
14. Dialects—Subspecies of Species
15. Dialects—Where Do You Draw the Line?
16. Dialects—Two Tongues in One Mouth
17. Dialects—The Standard as Token of the Past
18. Dialects—Spoken Style, Written Style
19. Dialects—The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar
20. Language Mixture—Words
21. Language Mixture—Grammar
22. Language Mixture—Language Areas
23. Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty
24. Language Interrupted
25. A New Perspective on the Story of English
26. Does Culture Drive Language Change?
27. Language Starts Over—Pidgins
28. Language Starts Over—Creoles I
29. Language Starts Over—Creoles II
30. Language Starts Over—Signs of the New
31. Language Starts Over—The Creole Continuum
32. What Is Black English?
33. Language Death—The Problem
34. Language Death—Prognosis
35. Artificial Languages
36. Finale—Master Class
The Story of Human Language
Course no. 1600 | 36 lectures (30 minutes/lecture)
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