TY  - GEN
AU  - McWhorter,John
ED  - Teaching Company
TI  - Understanding linguistics: the science of language 
T2  - The Great courses
SN  - 1598034774 
AV  - LB 14.6 M478u 2008
U1  - 370 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Chantilly, Virginia
PB  - The Teaching Company
KW  - Education.
KW  - Teaching
KW  - Educación
KW  - Enseñanza
KW  - Lingüística
KW  - Lenguaje y lenguas
KW  - Linguística histórica
N1  - Course No. 2270
Part 2 contains lectures 13-24 of set; 	Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1. What is linguistics? ; Lecture 2. Sounds of language, consonants ; Lecture 3. Other sounds, vowels ; Lecture 4. In the head versus on the lips ; Lecture 5. How to make a word ; Lecture 6. Chomskyan Revolution --
Disc 2. Lecture 7. Deep structure and surface structure ; Lecture 8. On-off switches of grammar ; Lecture 9. Shades of meaning semantic roles ; Lecture 10. From sentence to storytelling ; Lecture 11. Language on its way to becoming a new one ; Lecture 12. Recovering languages of the past. Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13. Where grammar comes from ; Lecture 14. Language change from old English to now ; Lecture 15. What is an impossible language ; Lecture 16. How children learn to speak ; Lecture 17. How we learn language as adults ; Lecture 18. How you talk and how they talk --
Disc 4. Lecture 19. How class defines speech ; Lecture 20. Speaking differently, changing the language ; Lecture 21. Language and gender ; Lecture 22. Languages sharing the world --
bilingualism ; Lecture 23. Languages sharing a sentence --
code-switching ; Lecture 24. The rules of conversation
N2  - Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by John McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, based on his courses in Linguistics
ER  -