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Watch The Story of Human Language live

Watch The Story of Human Language live

TV-14 â€¢ Family â€¢ TV Series â€¢ 2004
The development of human language; the story of how a single tongue spoken ...
The development of human language; the story of how a single tongue spoken 300,000 years ago may have evolved into the estimated 7,000 languages used ...
The development of human language; the story of how a single tongue spoken 300,000 years ago may have evolved into the estimated 7,000 languages used worldwide today; why linguistics has been one of the most exciting fields in the social sciences.
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  • Finale-Master Class thumbnail
    S1 E36 · Finale-Master Class
    Dec 20, 2004
    Professor McWhorter concludes with an etymological sampling of the Eng...
  • Artificial Languages thumbnail
    S1 E35 · Artificial Languages
    Dec 20, 2004
    There are many attempts to create languages for use by the whole world...
  • Language Death-Prognosis thumbnail
    S1 E34 · Language Death-Prognosis
    Dec 20, 2004
    There are many movements to revive dying languages; exploring the reas...
  • Language Death-The Problem thumbnail
    S1 E33 · Language Death-The Problem
    Dec 20, 2004
    Just as there is an extinction crisis among many of the world's animal...
  • What Is Black English? thumbnail
    S1 E32 · What Is Black English?
    Dec 20, 2004
    Using insights developed in the course to this point, Professor McWhor...
  • Language Starts Over-The Creole Continuum thumbnail
    S1 E31 · Language Starts Over-The Creole Continuum
    Dec 20, 2004
    Just as one dialect shades into another, "creoleness" is a continuum c...
  • Language Starts Over-Signs of the New thumbnail
    S1 E30 · Language Starts Over-Signs of the New
    Dec 20, 2004
    Creoles are the only languages that lack or have very little of the gr...
  • Language Starts Over-Creoles II thumbnail
    S1 E29 · Language Starts Over-Creoles II
    Dec 20, 2004
    Creoles do not have as many frills as older languages, but they do hav...
  • Language Starts Over-Creoles I thumbnail
    S1 E28 · Language Starts Over-Creoles I
    Dec 20, 2004
    Creoles emerge when pidgin speakers use the pidgin as an everyday lang...
  • Language Starts Over-Pidgins thumbnail
    S1 E27 · Language Starts Over-Pidgins
    Dec 20, 2004
    How human ingenuity spins new languages out of old through the creatio...
  • Does Culture Drive Language Change? thumbnail
    S1 E26 · Does Culture Drive Language Change?
    Dec 20, 2004
    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis proposes that features of one's grammars ch...
  • A New Perspective on the Story of English thumbnail
    S1 E25 · A New Perspective on the Story of English
    Dec 20, 2004
    Tracing English back to its earliest discernible roots in Proto-Indo-E...
  • Language Interrupted thumbnail
    S1 E24 · Language Interrupted
    Dec 20, 2004
    Generally, a language spoken by a small, isolated group is much more c...
  • Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty thumbnail
    S1 E23 · Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty
    Dec 20, 2004
    A great deal of a language's grammar is a kind of overgrowth, marking ...
  • Language Mixture-Language Areas thumbnail
    S1 E22 · Language Mixture-Language Areas
    Dec 20, 2004
    When unrelated or distantly related languages are spoken in the same a...
  • Language Mixture-Grammar thumbnail
    S1 E21 · Language Mixture-Grammar
    Dec 20, 2004
    Languages also mix their grammars; for example, Yiddish is a dialect o...
  • Language Mixture-Words thumbnail
    S1 E20 · Language Mixture-Words
    Dec 20, 2004
    The first language's 6,000 branches not only diverge into dialects but...
  • Dialects-The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar thumbnail
    S1 E19 · Dialects-The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar
    Dec 20, 2004
    Understanding language change and how languages differ helps in seeing...
  • Dialects-Spoken Style, Written Style thumbnail
    S1 E18 · Dialects-Spoken Style, Written Style
    Dec 20, 2004
    People often see the written style of language as how it really "is" o...
  • Dialects-The Standard as Token of the Past thumbnail
    S1 E17 · Dialects-The Standard as Token of the Past
    Dec 20, 2004
    When a dialect of a language is used widely in writing and literacy is...
  • Finale-Master Class thumbnail
    S1 E36 · Finale-Master Class
    Dec 20, 2004
    Professor McWhorter concludes with an etymological sampling of the Eng...
  • Artificial Languages thumbnail
    S1 E35 · Artificial Languages
    Dec 20, 2004
    There are many attempts to create languages for use by the whole world...
  • Language Death-Prognosis thumbnail
    S1 E34 · Language Death-Prognosis
    Dec 20, 2004
    There are many movements to revive dying languages; exploring the reas...
  • Language Death-The Problem thumbnail
    S1 E33 · Language Death-The Problem
    Dec 20, 2004
    Just as there is an extinction crisis among many of the world's animal...
  • What Is Black English? thumbnail
    S1 E32 · What Is Black English?
    Dec 20, 2004
    Using insights developed in the course to this point, Professor McWhor...
  • Language Starts Over-The Creole Continuum thumbnail
    S1 E31 · Language Starts Over-The Creole Continuum
    Dec 20, 2004
    Just as one dialect shades into another, "creoleness" is a continuum c...
  • Language Starts Over-Signs of the New thumbnail
    S1 E30 · Language Starts Over-Signs of the New
    Dec 20, 2004
    Creoles are the only languages that lack or have very little of the gr...
  • Language Starts Over-Creoles II thumbnail
    S1 E29 · Language Starts Over-Creoles II
    Dec 20, 2004
    Creoles do not have as many frills as older languages, but they do hav...
  • Language Starts Over-Creoles I thumbnail
    S1 E28 · Language Starts Over-Creoles I
    Dec 20, 2004
    Creoles emerge when pidgin speakers use the pidgin as an everyday lang...
  • Language Starts Over-Pidgins thumbnail
    S1 E27 · Language Starts Over-Pidgins
    Dec 20, 2004
    How human ingenuity spins new languages out of old through the creatio...
  • Does Culture Drive Language Change? thumbnail
    S1 E26 · Does Culture Drive Language Change?
    Dec 20, 2004
    The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis proposes that features of one's grammars ch...
  • A New Perspective on the Story of English thumbnail
    S1 E25 · A New Perspective on the Story of English
    Dec 20, 2004
    Tracing English back to its earliest discernible roots in Proto-Indo-E...
  • Language Interrupted thumbnail
    S1 E24 · Language Interrupted
    Dec 20, 2004
    Generally, a language spoken by a small, isolated group is much more c...
  • Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty thumbnail
    S1 E23 · Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty
    Dec 20, 2004
    A great deal of a language's grammar is a kind of overgrowth, marking ...
  • Language Mixture-Language Areas thumbnail
    S1 E22 · Language Mixture-Language Areas
    Dec 20, 2004
    When unrelated or distantly related languages are spoken in the same a...
  • Language Mixture-Grammar thumbnail
    S1 E21 · Language Mixture-Grammar
    Dec 20, 2004
    Languages also mix their grammars; for example, Yiddish is a dialect o...
  • Language Mixture-Words thumbnail
    S1 E20 · Language Mixture-Words
    Dec 20, 2004
    The first language's 6,000 branches not only diverge into dialects but...
  • Dialects-The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar thumbnail
    S1 E19 · Dialects-The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar
    Dec 20, 2004
    Understanding language change and how languages differ helps in seeing...
  • Dialects-Spoken Style, Written Style thumbnail
    S1 E18 · Dialects-Spoken Style, Written Style
    Dec 20, 2004
    People often see the written style of language as how it really "is" o...
  • Dialects-The Standard as Token of the Past thumbnail
    S1 E17 · Dialects-The Standard as Token of the Past
    Dec 20, 2004
    When a dialect of a language is used widely in writing and literacy is...
  • Dialects-Two Tongues in One Mouth thumbnail
    S1 E16 · Dialects-Two Tongues in One Mouth
    Dec 20, 2004
    Diglossia is the sociological division of labor in many societies betw...
  • Dialects-Where Do You Draw the Line? thumbnail
    S1 E15 · Dialects-Where Do You Draw the Line?
    Dec 20, 2004
    Dialects of one language can be called languages simply because they a...
  • Dialects-Subspecies of Species thumbnail
    S1 E14 · Dialects-Subspecies of Species
    Dec 20, 2004
    The first of five lectures on dialects probes the nature of these "lan...
  • The Case For the World's First Language thumbnail
    S1 E13 · The Case For the World's First Language
    Dec 20, 2004
    Despite the hostility of most linguists to the Proto-World hypothesis,...
  • The Case Against the World's First Language thumbnail
    S1 E12 · The Case Against the World's First Language
    Dec 20, 2004
    A few linguists claim to reconstruct words from the world's first lang...
  • Language Families-Clues to the Past thumbnail
    S1 E11 · Language Families-Clues to the Past
    Dec 20, 2004
    The distribution of language families shows how humans spread through ...
  • Language Families-Diversity of Structures thumbnail
    S1 E10 · Language Families-Diversity of Structures
    Dec 20, 2004
    Semitic languages assign basic meanings to three-consonant sequences a...
  • Language Families-Tracing Indo-European thumbnail
    S1 E9 · Language Families-Tracing Indo-European
    Dec 20, 2004
    Linguists reconstruct the proto-language of the Indo-Europeans by comp...
  • Language Families-Indo-European thumbnail
    S1 E8 · Language Families-Indo-European
    Dec 20, 2004
    The first of four lectures on language families introduces Indo-Europe...
  • How Language Changes-Modern English thumbnail
    S1 E7 · How Language Changes-Modern English
    Dec 20, 2004
    As recently as Shakespeare, English words have meanings different enou...
  • How Language Changes-Many Directions thumbnail
    S1 E6 · How Language Changes-Many Directions
    Dec 20, 2004
    The first language evolves into 6,000 because language change takes pl...
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