Linguistics Courses

Leiden University

Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics

89 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
• 9th Jan, 2023
• 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
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Leiden University

Introduction to Comparative Indo-European Linguistics

33 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
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Oralpha: Literacy for new citizens, a course for trainers

You are interested in welcoming processes of migrants and refugees? You want to dedicate yourself to teaching lamguage and literacy? The objective of this course is to get to know the simultaneous process of literacy and language learning in the host soc…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

IIT Madras;  NPTEL

Basics of language Science

Language is an integral part of our identity in the sense that it defines our being. This course offers answers to most of the curiosities that comes to our mind when we think about how we acquired the capacity of language as a child. This course leads u…

• Swayam
• 12 weeks long
• 22nd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course

IIT Guwahati;  NPTEL

Phonetics and Phonology: A broad overview

This course will provide the foundation for the development of a student’s knowledge on phonetics and phonology. A proper introduction of the theoretical underpinnings and conceptual framework of the scientific study of sound systems and its analys…

• Swayam
• 8 weeks long
• 22nd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course

CrashCourse

Linguistics by CrashCourse

3 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

1 review

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