Linguistics Courses

Leiden University

Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics

88 reviews

There is no human society, no matter how small or how isolated, which does not employ a language that is rich and diverse. This course introduces you to linguistics, featuring interviews with well-known linguists and with speakers of many different langu…

• Coursera
• 23 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 14th Nov, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Linguistic Diversity, What for?

1 review

In this course we approach linguistic diversity and multilingualism not only from a theoretical point of view, but also from a perspective oriented to help understand and manage various contexts that emerge from diversity in different environments of soc…

• Coursera
• 15 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 28th Nov, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Leiden University

Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

31 ratings at Coursera

Build your knowledge of Indo-European languages, how they changed through time, and how to reconstruct ancient languages. Every language belongs to a language family; a group of languages that are genetically related to each other. Indo-European is the n…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 28th Nov, 2022
• Free Online Course (Audit)

CrashCourse

Linguistics by CrashCourse

2 reviews

In 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke teaches you linguistics! The content is based on an introductory university-level curriculum, curated by a team of linguists: Lauren Gawne, Jessi Grieser, and Gretchen McCulloch.

• YouTube
• 3-4 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Ted-Ed

Playing With Language

1 review

Syllabus: Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi. How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston. One of the most difficult words to translate... - Krystian Aparta. How interpreters juggle two languages at once - Ewandro Magalhaes.…

• YouTube
• 2-3 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

NPTEL;  IIT Madras

Introduction to Modern Linguistics

This course aims at creating an awareness of the system underlying the structure of language. It will introduce concepts and tools in the study of Modern Linguistics. The course will include all the principal levels of structure of language, such as, Pho…

• YouTube
• 32 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

NPTEL;  IIT Madras

Principles and Parameters in Natural Language

This course offers a view of human language as a rule-governed system. It will show how language is learned and how the human mind stores the structure of language. This course will introduce components of linguistics theory in a generative framework.

• YouTube
• 34 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

NPTEL;  IIT Madras

Appreciating linguistics: A typological approach

This course appreciates linguistics as an academic discipline that focuses on the understanding of what is natural language and what does systematicity of language comparison deals with. Following the typological approach, this course investigates both t…

• YouTube
• 24 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Serious Science

Linguistics

Syllabus: Brain Language Research — Friedemann Pulvermüller / Serious Science. Language Acquisition in Children Ben Ambridge. Theories of Language Acquisition Ben Ambridge. Plasticity in Speech Perception Sophie Scott. Speech Processing Sophie Scott. N…

• YouTube
• 3-4 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

TrevTutor

Translating ENGLISH into PREDICATE LOGIC - Logic

Syllabus: - [Establishing Keys]. - [Sentences with Constants]. - [Universal Quantifier (for all)]. - [Existential Quantifier (for some)]. - [Practice Sentences 1-4 (easier)]. - [Practice Sentences 5-7 (harder)].

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

TrevTutor

Introduction and Core Concepts | Morphology Linguistics

Syllabus: Introduction. Morphemes. Defining Orthographic and Phonological Words. Lexemes and Grammatical Words. Word Categories. Nouns and Verbs. Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions. Word Category Practice. Free and Bound Morphemes. Affixation…

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

TrevTutor

Morpheme Based Model and Word Based Model | Morphology Linguistics

Syllabus: Introduction. Affixation and Compounding. Morpheme Based Model. Lexical Entries in the Morpheme Based Model. Ambiguous Words (unlockable). Word Tree Practice (redepartmentalization). Base Modification. Word Based Model with One Variable.…

• YouTube
• Less than 1 hour of material
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Lancaster University

Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation

5 reviews

Offers a practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in social sciences and humanities

• FutureLearn
• 8 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Language in the real world

This free course, Language in the real world, explains and illustrates why a knowledge about how language works (i.e. ‘linguistics’) is helpful – some might say essential – for different aspects of...

• OpenLearn
• 6 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate

Language, notation and formulas

Communication is as vital in mathematics as in any language. This free course, Language, notation and formulas, will help you to express yourself clearly when writing and speaking about mathematics...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours worth of material
• On-Demand
• Free Certificate