Linguistics Courses

LEI

Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics

85 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
• 25th Jul, 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
• Today
• Free Online Course (Audit)

CrashCourse

Linguistics by CrashCourse

2 reviews

Syllabus: Crash Course Linguistics Preview.What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1.Morphology: Crash Course Linguistics #2.Syntax 1 - Morphosyntax: Crash Course Linguistics #3.Syntax 2 - Trees: Crash Course Linguistics #4.Semantics: Crash Cours…

• YouTube
• 3-4 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• 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
• Self paced
• 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
• Self paced
• 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
• Self paced
• 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
• Self paced
• 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
• Self paced
• 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
• 1 month from now (19th Sep)
• Free Online Course (Audit)

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

This free course, A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis, is an introduction to the history of writing, and the key role it plays in human communication. It tracks this history ...

• OpenLearn
• 5 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Form and uses of language

In this free course, Form and uses of language, we will consider how language can be used in different ways for different purposes. To do this we will use the theme of memorial and commemoration. ...

• OpenLearn
• 4 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Language and creativity

This free course is an introduction to the relationship between language and creativity, to the roles that linguistic creativity plays in culture and society, and to the different approaches to its...

• OpenLearn
• 8 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

Language and thought: introducing representation

How does what you say come to mean something? Does what you say inherently represent what you, the speaker, think it means, whatever that might be, or does what you say carry its own meaning, ...

• OpenLearn
• 20 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Certificate

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
• Self paced
• 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
• Self paced
• Free Certificate