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1.1 Linguistics is Science Check Yourself Video Script Linguistics is one of those subjects that not many people have heard of, so you might well be wondering exactly what it is. The simplest definition of Linguistics is that it’s the science of language. This is a simple definition but it contains some very important words. First, when we say that linguistics is a science, that doesn’t mean you need a lab coat and safety goggles to do linguistics. Instead, what it means is that the way we ask q

Chapters

• 1.1 Linguistics is Science
• 2.1 How Humans Produce Speech
• 2.4 IPA symbols and speech sounds
• 2.5 Sonority, Consonants, and Vowels
• 2.6 Classifying Consonants
• 2.7 Classifying Vowels
• 2.8 Diphthongs
• 3.2 IPA for Canadian English
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• 3.7 Articulatory Processes: Assimilation
• 3.8 Other Articulatory Processes
• 3.10 Transcribing Vowels in Canadian English
• 4.4 Natural Classes
• 4.5 Phonological Derivations
• 4.6 Phonological Derivations in Everyday Speech
• 6.3 Inflectional Morphology
• 6.5 Inflectional Morphology in Some Indigenous Languages
• 6.6 Creating New Words
• 7.1 Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives: Open Class Categories
• 8.8 Adjuncts
• 8.9 Move
• 8.1 Tree Diagrams
• 8.10 Wh-Movement
• Practice Time
• 9.5 Neurolinguistics and Second Language Learning
• 9.6 Children Learning Syntax
• 10.1 Elements of Word Meaning: Intensions and Extensions
• 10.2 Intensions in the Mind
• 10.3 Psycholinguistics of Word Meanings
• 10.5 Pragmatics and the Cooperative Principle

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