Informações sobre o curso: Em todo lugar, todos os dias, todo mundo usa a língua. Nâo existe nehuma sociedade humana, nao importa quâo pequena ou isolada, que nâo emprega uma língua que seja rica e diversa. Esse curso vai te introduzir à Linguística, apresentando entrevistas com linguistas renomados e com falantes de várias línguas. Junte-se a nós para explorar os milagres da língua humana. Os Milagres da Língua Humana vai te introduzir ao multifacetado estudo de línguas que tem fascinado seres humanos desde o começo da História. Junto com falantes de várias línguas ao redor do mundo, assim como famosos linguístas como Noam Chomsky e Adele Goldberg, você vai aprender a entender e a analizar como a sua língua materna é ao mesmo tempo semelhante e diferente à outras línguas. Você vai aprender os conceitos básicos da linguística, conhecer algumas das características chaves de línguas grandes e pequenas e ganhar conhecimento no que linguístas fazem. Esse curso dá uma introduçâo ao estudo das línguas, o ramo da Linguística. Com o suporte da terminologia básica da linguística que é oferecido no curso, você vai em breve ser capaz de comentar igualmente na variedade entre línguas, assim como na estrutura interna da língua. Qualquer um que pretenda entender como línguas funcionam, e como elas nos ajuda melhor compreender a mente humana é bem vindo à participar. O curso é útil se você deseja uma introduçâo rápida em linguística, por exemplo se você está considerando estudá-la mais profundamente, ou porque vocé está interessado em matérias vizinhas como psicologia, ciência da computação ou antropologia. Além disso, o curso vai lhe ajudar a desenvolver suas habilidades analíticas. Se você está cusioso para entender como línguas funcionam e como melhor compreender a mente humana, então esse curso é definitivamente pra você!
Para quem é direcionado este curso: This course is free, and will remain free for participants. You can purchase a certificate.
Desenvolvido por: Universiteit Leiden, Meertens instituut (KNAW)
Ministrado por: Marc van Oostendorp, Prof. Dr
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| Nível | Básico |
| Idioma | Inglês, Legendas: Romeno, Búlgaro |
| Como ser aprovado | Seja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso. |
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Programa
SEMANA 1
Introduction to Linguistics
In this first week, we will try to determine what makes language human: why do (almost) all human beings have a language, and what makes human language different from animal communication systems? We will furthermore discuss the many different places where linguists work, and the many different methodologies that they use for conducting their research. You will moreover get to know all the other participants in this MOOC: my students Inge and Marten, as well as the speakers of six different languages. Finally, don't forget to watch our first expert interview: Marten and Inge have talked with Dr. Victoria Nyst of Leiden University, who has enlightened us in the fascinating world of sign languages! For the assignments with the support of Ethnologue, please make sure to study the instructions listed in 'required and optional readings' of this module.
14 videos, 7 leituras
- Reading: Meet the instructor & his team
- Reading: Welcome to Leiden University
- Reading: Study tips for studying online
- Reading: Being succesful in an international virtual learning community
- Reading: Behaving in an academic way
- Discussion Prompt: Introduce yourself
- Discussion Prompt: Language and identity in groups
- Vídeo: Human Language and Animal Communication Systems
- Vídeo: Human Language Versus Other 'Languages'
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: Language Diversity
- Discussion Prompt: Language diversity is a diversity of minds?
- Vídeo: Language Diversity and Ethnologue
- Reading: Registration Ethnologue
- Discussion Prompt: In what ways are unrelated languages similar?
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: What do Linguists do?
- Vídeo: Interview with Dr. Victoria Nyst
- Reading: Required and optional readings
- Vídeo: Introduction language informants + introducing Han Hu, Speaker of Mandarin Chinese
- Vídeo: Introducing Roberta D'Alessandro, speaker of Abruzzese
- Vídeo: Introducing Khalid Mourigh, speaker of Tarifit Berber
- Vídeo: Introducing Varun DeCastro-Arrazola, speaker of Basque
- Vídeo: Introducing Beste Sevindik, speaker of Turkish
- Vídeo: Introducing Enoch Aboh, speaker of Gungbe
- Vídeo: Conclusion; language and dialect
Nota atribuída: Test your knowledge 1
SEMANA 2
The study of sound: Phonology and Phonetics
In this module we will delve into what appear to be the smallest building blocks of spoken language: 'sounds'. As we will see however, all is not what it seems, as we will in fact encounter an even smaller building block of language, a true atom. Another interesting thing about this module is that as of this week our 6 informants will all only speak their own language. Naturally, there is also an interview with my very special friend Prof. dr. Claartje Levelt, whom I have announced before.
13 videos, 1 leituras
- Vídeo: Production of speech sounds
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: consonants of world languages
- Discussion Prompt: What was your first word?
- Vídeo: Sounds in systems
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: sounds and language change
- Vídeo: Interview with Prof. dr. Claartje Levelt
- Reading: Required and optional readings
- Vídeo: Introduction + Tarifit Berber
- Vídeo: Gungbe
- Vídeo: Turkish
- Vídeo: Abruzzese
- Vídeo: Mandarin Chinese
- Vídeo: Basque
- Vídeo: Conclusion; sounds and gestures
Nota atribuída: Test your knowledge 2
SEMANA 3
The study of words and sentences: Morphology and Syntax
In this module we will discuss words and sentences. All languages have them; but as I will illustrate, they can be organized in very different ways in different languages. I will furthermore demonstrate what cupcakes have in common with words in a sentence. This module's interview is with one of the most cited and re-knowned linguists alive, Prof. Noam Chomsky! Finally, our 6 language informants will provide us with information about the word order in their languages.
14 videos, 1 leituras
- Discussion Prompt: Words, sentences and translation
- Vídeo: Morphology
- Discussion Prompt: On the nature of affixes
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: world of words
- Vídeo: Syntax and word order (a)
- Vídeo: Syntax and word order (b)
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: world of word order
- Vídeo: Interview with Prof. Noam Chomsky
- Reading: Required and optional readings
- Vídeo: Introduction + Basque
- Vídeo: Tarifit Berber
- Vídeo: Gungbe
- Vídeo: Turkish
- Vídeo: Abruzzese
- Vídeo: Mandarin Chinese
- Vídeo: Conclusion; structure beyond sentences
Nota atribuída: Test your knowledge 3
Nota atribuída: World of word order
SEMANA 4
The study of meaning: Pragmatics and Semantics
This module deals with a topic which many of you find very interesting: meaning. How do we determine what a word means? To what extent does our language influence our thinking? How can we change the world with language? As usual, we also have an additional interview with an expert of the current module's theme: in this module Barend Beekhuizen talks to Inge and Marten about his work as a Leiden PhD student in computational linguistics.
13 videos, 2 leituras
- Vídeo: Semantics
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: color and snow
- Discussion Prompt: Having no fixed description, how do we recognize objects?
- Vídeo: Pragmatics
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: changing the world with sentences
- Discussion Prompt: Unintentionally broken promises and Grice
- Vídeo: Interview with Barend Beekhuizen MA
- Reading: Required and optional readings
- Vídeo: Introduction + Abruzzese
- Vídeo: Tarifit Berber
- Vídeo: Turkish
- Vídeo: Basque
- Vídeo: Mandarin Chinese
- Vídeo: Gungbe
- Vídeo: Conclusion; untranslatable words?
- Reading: Quiz readings
Nota atribuída: Test your knowledge 4
SEMANA 5
Language in the Brain
This module features all of the well-known parts of the current MOOC. Informants tell us about speech errors in their native tongue, I discuss everyday mistakes with my students Marten and Inge, and we have an interview with Prof. Niels Schiller of Leiden University. He discusses with us his own research among others. We moreover go on a little outing, to see linguists in their natural habitat! Furthermore, thanks to our friends at 'Babel, -The Language Magazine' we have some interesting reading for you. For example, linguist Jörg Schwyter tells us all about how he had to deal with aphasia, and how that has influenced him as a multilingual speaker.
11 videos, 2 leituras
- Vídeo: Aphasia
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: everyday mistakes and the Foreign Accent Syndrome
- Discussion Prompt: Everyday mistakes: blending
- Vídeo: Reading in the brain
- Discussion Prompt: Reading and writing with Aphasia
- Vídeo: Visiting the lab
- Vídeo: Interview with Prof. Dr. Niels Schiller
- Reading: Required and optional readings
- Reading: Crowdfunding credits
- Vídeo: Introduction + Turkish
- Vídeo: Tarifit Berber
- Vídeo: Abruzzese
- Vídeo: Basque
- Vídeo: Conclusion; dyslexia
Nota atribuída: Test your knowledge 5
SEMANA 6
Language in the Society
In the previous modules we have dissected the structure of languages, but now we will study language in its real context: how does language change? How do people use language to be polite? Our informants are demonstrating their acting skills, and furthermore we have an interview with Prof. Adele Goldberg! She presents us with an alternative view of language, compared to the one as previously discussed by Prof. Chomsky in the third module.
13 videos, 1 leituras
- Discussion Prompt: More on (the nature of) linguistic change
- Discussion Prompt: The case of linguistic variation and Esperanto
- Vídeo: Social stratification
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: social variables
- Vídeo: Politeness
- Vídeo: Discussion with Marten and Inge: examples of Face
- Vídeo: Interview with Prof. Adele Goldberg
- Reading: Required and optional readings
- Vídeo: Introduction + Gungbe
- Vídeo: Tarifit Berber
- Vídeo: Turkish
- Vídeo: Abruzzese
- Vídeo: Mandarin Chinese
- Vídeo: Basque
- Vídeo: Conclusion; how personal are politeness strategies?
Nota atribuída: Test your knowledge 6
Nota atribuída: Final exam
Nota atribuída: Face and Politeness
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Classificações e avaliações
This is a challenging course, but if you are truly interested in linguistics this is an excellent choice. Certainly the best one available in a MOOC. Thank you for the effort.
The lectures are extremely easy to follow even for somebody who has never heard of linguistics before. The required readings and suggested bibliography were extremely interesting and will give me something to work on even now that I have completed the course. Thanks for creating this great course!
Very interesting course, well-made videos, interesting interviews and reading materials. Would definitely recommend this course to people who want to know more about different aspects of language.
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I failed to see what the quizzes had to do with the lectures. There were errors, apparently, and I couldn't see the connection between the foreign language informants and what we were supposed to do in the quizzes. I was thankful that the discussions and peer assignments/ reviews were not required. If it were not for the mentors who helped with some of my trouble spots, I'm not sure what I would have. Even some of the questions on the final were barely discussed in the lesson. The professor Marc made it interesting and at times funny, and thus he did a great job, but because of the quizzes I nearly qu