LAN1388 Origins of Language
This course informs the student to the character, history and use of human language, speech and writing. Subjects will embrace the biological origin of human language, comparable techniques in other creatures, linguistic history, the “family tree” of languages. What makes languages the way they are and what makes them keep fluctuating over time? We will investigate the suggested descriptions for language development and their associations to language modification.
You will survey a huge range of world languages and extend a comprehension of the genetic and geographical connections among them. You can learn to value language as a target of methodical study and to employ your new knowledge to daily social exchanges in your own life and community.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Language may be investigated at numerous mechanical or operational levels. This course focuses concentration to stages of language also to mechanisms of language and society, language and the mind, etc. and to the affiliations between these constituents and language adaptation within and across individuals. By the end of this course, all students should:
- Increase a vocabulary for considering historical linguistic processes
- Connect with historical linguistic facts
- Grasp elementary rules of linguistic assumption
- Describe what is indicated by the term “language evolution”
- Comprehend that language is not rigid or independent, but linked to culture, social life, political relations, and personal experience
- Learn to revere all variations of language
- Become mindful of his/her opinions to assortments of English and other languages
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Based upon your HESEAP Application, you have received full-CLC for this course; therefore, this is a test-out course which does not include traditional education on the subject.
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- How Did Language Begin? Narrated by Arika Okrent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRtlH-3Asc
- Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain. By Steven Pinker.
- Part 1. (Video start point 0:00)
- Part 2. (Video start point 34:53) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ONJIEcE
- How languages Evolve. By Alex Gendler (4 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWDKsHm6gTA
- The Origins of English? By Claire Bowern (4:53 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEaSxhcns7Y (2017) Origin of Language. Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language
- (2017) Esperanto: Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
- (2015) The Origins of Human Language: One of the Hardest Problems in Science. Alicia McDermott. Ancient Origins Reconstructing the History of Humanity’s Past http://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-science/origins-human-language-one-hardest-problems-science-003610
- (2010) How Many Languages Are There in the World? Stephen R. Anderson. Linguistic Society of America. (PDF) http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/how-many-languages-are-there-world
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