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What is Language?
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ANTH& 207: Linguistic Anthropology: What is Language?
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What is Language?
Non-human Language/Linguistic evolution
Universal Grammar vs. Linguistic Relativity
Language and Gender
Language & Politics, Media, Power
Language Death, Revitalization, & Evolution
Researching the Final Project
Scholarly Journals in Linguistics/Social Sciences
Citing your Sources
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Articles & Web Resources
"A Linguistic Big Bang" / NY Times
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Global Language Hotspots
Information, maps, and a glossary from Swarthmore
Global Hotspots from Living Tongues
"Why Australia is home to one of the largest language families in the world" / Science
All In The Language Family: A Guide To The Language Families Of The World / Babbel
Scholarly Articles: Steven Pinker
"Out of the Minds of Babes" / Science
"Rules of Language" / Science
"Survival of the Clearest" / Nature
"Talk of Genetics and Vice Versa" / Nature
"The Cognitive Niche: Coevolution of Intelligence, Sociality, and Language" / PNAS
"The Logic of Indirect Speech" / PNAS
"The Reality of a Universal Language Faculty" / Behavioral and Brain Sciences
"Words and Rules in the Human Brain" / Nature
Videos
Understanding Language / Jeff Elman
How Language Began / Dan Everett
Kinetic Typography: Language / Stephen Fry
Let There Be Words
In the Land of the Deaf
How the Mind Works with Steven Pinker
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