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The Ling Space
Добавлен 1 июл 2014
An educational channel all about linguistics. Because language is awesome. Videos uploaded every Wednesday.
How Does "If" Work? The Semantics of Conditionals
What's in our minds when we throw an if/then sentence out there? How do we work out what worlds we may be talking about? In this week's episode, we talk about the semantics of conditionals: what an "if" looks like logically, why a simple logical arrow isn't enough to capture the complexities of conditionals, and how we change what possibilities we allow ourselves to think of based on what our "if" clause holds.
This is Topic #95!
This week's tag language: Kyrgyz!
Related videos:
How Logical is Language? ruclips.net/video/lw4ykgRtv3Q/видео.html
How Do We Capture the Truth of Beliefs? Type Theory: ruclips.net/video/CWE9ycOxCEQ/видео.html
Can we define "must"? Modality: ruclips.net/video/vtYdrzdU2...
This is Topic #95!
This week's tag language: Kyrgyz!
Related videos:
How Logical is Language? ruclips.net/video/lw4ykgRtv3Q/видео.html
How Do We Capture the Truth of Beliefs? Type Theory: ruclips.net/video/CWE9ycOxCEQ/видео.html
Can we define "must"? Modality: ruclips.net/video/vtYdrzdU2...
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How Do We Understand Missing Words? Ellipsis
Просмотров 9 тыс.5 лет назад
What can silence tell us about the syntax of a sentence? How do we know what meaning to fill in when words are missing? In this week's episode, we talk about ellipsis: what rules are at work to tell us how to use it, how sentence structure plays into what words we can leave out, and whether words are even missing at all, or just hiding. This is Topic #94! This week's tag language: Scots Gaelic!...
More People Have Learned about Linguistics than I Have: The Comparative Illusion
Просмотров 9 тыс.6 лет назад
How do some sentences trick us into thinking they're good, when really they're not? And what can that tell us about how we process language? In this week's video, we take a look at the comparative illusion, a tricky kind of sentence that seems meaningful, but falls apart when we consider it further. And then we look at what exactly it is about them that confuses our minds. This is a shorter for...
Who Is She? The Syntax and Semantics of Pronouns
Просмотров 8 тыс.6 лет назад
How do we know who "he" is? And how does "he" differ from "himself" when we interpret it? In this week's episode, we talk about the syntax and semantics of pronouns: how we can place them in sentences, how they link up to variables, and the role of context in how we interpret them. This is Topic #93! This week's tag language: Macedonian! Related videos: Referential Treatment: The Syntax of Bind...
How Do We Match Verbs and Times? Event Semantics
Просмотров 6 тыс.6 лет назад
How do events factor into our mental linguistics? How can we adjust our logic to capture different sentence permutations? In this week's episode, we take a look at event semantics: what problems they're meant to solve, how they help us limit time and place in our sentences, and what evidence we have that events are real. This is Topic #92! This week's tag language: Tswana! Related videos: Meani...
The Evolution of Language: An Interview with Dr. Tecumseh Fitch
Просмотров 9 тыс.6 лет назад
We were really excited to get a chance to talk with Dr. Tecumseh Fitch! Dr. Fitch is an evolutionary biologist and cognitive scientist who received his PhD from Brown University, and is now a professor in the Department of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna. He’s published extensively on the evolution of speech, language, and music, and is the author of the 2010 book The Evolution of...
How Do We Bend the Truth? The Linguistics of Propaganda and Censorship
Просмотров 10 тыс.6 лет назад
How do we try influencing what other people think about the world? What techniques get used for bending the truth? In this week's episode, we take a look at some of the linguistics around propaganda and censorship: what people can try beyond just outright lying, how using conversational rules can get you to think things that aren't said, and how we can use bias to influence people's views. This...
Can We Define "Must"? The Semantics of Modality
Просмотров 9 тыс.6 лет назад
How do we capture the meaning of "may" or "can"? What kinds of linguistic math do we need to understand them? In this week's episode, we take a look at modality: where words like "must" fit in our meanings; how we consider many ways the world could be to account for their semantics; and how the same string of sounds can have a lot of flavours. This is Topic #90! This week's tag language: Cornis...
How Can Sentences Work Like Adjectives? The Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clauses
Просмотров 6 тыс.7 лет назад
We can put whole clauses inside other phrases, but what does that do to their structure and their meaning? In this week's episode, we take a look at the syntax and semantics of relative clauses: how these clauses kind of look like adjectives; how using them creates islands from which words can't escape; and how moving things around in them throws semantic variables into the sentence setup. This...
Interview with Sali Tagliamonte
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.7 лет назад
We're really excited to have gotten to interview Sali Tagliamonte at the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January! Dr. Tagliamonte is a full professor at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She's written a bunch of books and articles about sociolinguistics, and how languages shift and vary over time. You can find out more about her and her work at ind...
How Do Verbs Cause Things? Splitting the Verb Phrase
Просмотров 8 тыс.7 лет назад
How do verbs like "give" and "put" juggle more than one object? Is there an element that lets verbs cause things to happen? In this week's episode, we talk about splitting up the verb phrase: how our basic syntactic theory has a hard time with verbs with more than one object; how the syntax of causation shows us why we should expand our trees; and how once we break the phrase up, we can capture...
Thinking vs. Knowing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Presuppositions
Просмотров 21 тыс.7 лет назад
What's the difference between "thinking" and "knowing"? What rules do we follow for adjusting our conversational worlds? In this week's episode, we delve into the semantics and pragmatics of presuppositions: which words come equipped with them, how presuppositions depend on the situation and our mental worlds, and what antipresuppositions can tell us about the mechanics of interpreting sentence...
How Do We Put Clauses Inside Other Clauses? Complementizer Phrases
Просмотров 8 тыс.7 лет назад
How do sentences fit inside other sentences? Where can we put words like "that", "whether", and "if"? In this week's episode, we take a look at complementizer phrases: what exactly they are, how they account for embedded sentences and questions, and what they can let us do to capture word order in languages like German and Dutch. This is Topic #86! This week's tag language: Tok Pisin! Related v...
How Do Babies Build Sentences? The Stages of Child Syntax
Просмотров 20 тыс.7 лет назад
What kinds of sentences do we hear from babies and toddlers? How much grammar can we find in their language use? In this week's episode, we take a look at child syntactic stages: what characteristics kids display as they progress from one to two to many words, whether their grammars are similar to those of adults, and how their linguistic interpretation may tell us more than just their speech. ...
Interview with Anne Charity Hudley
Просмотров 3,9 тыс.7 лет назад
We're really excited to have gotten to interview Anne Charity Hudley at the Linguistic Society of America meeting in January! Dr. Charity Hudley is an associate professor at the College of William and Mary, and the inaugural William and Mary Professor of Community Studies. She's co-authored two books on English language variation in classroom settings, and also wrote the section on language and...
How Can We Tell What Roles Nouns Play? Case Theory
Просмотров 10 тыс.7 лет назад
How Can We Tell What Roles Nouns Play? Case Theory
How Do We Capture the Truth of Beliefs? Type Theory
Просмотров 11 тыс.7 лет назад
How Do We Capture the Truth of Beliefs? Type Theory
The Language Conservancy - Project for Awesome 2016
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.7 лет назад
The Language Conservancy - Project for Awesome 2016
What Constraints Are There on Linguistic Sounds? Optimality Theory
Просмотров 38 тыс.7 лет назад
What Constraints Are There on Linguistic Sounds? Optimality Theory
What Could Alien Languages Look Like?
Просмотров 15 тыс.7 лет назад
What Could Alien Languages Look Like?
What Do Nasal Sounds Look Like? Sonorant Acoustics
Просмотров 22 тыс.7 лет назад
What Do Nasal Sounds Look Like? Sonorant Acoustics
What Does Possession Tell Us About Syntax? Determiner Phrases
Просмотров 6 тыс.7 лет назад
What Does Possession Tell Us About Syntax? Determiner Phrases
What Do You Start with in a Third Language? L3 Acquisition
Просмотров 15 тыс.7 лет назад
What Do You Start with in a Third Language? L3 Acquisition
What Makes a Basic Sentence? A History of Clauses
Просмотров 8 тыс.7 лет назад
What Makes a Basic Sentence? A History of Clauses
How Do We Stack Up Our Nouns? Compound Nouns
Просмотров 6 тыс.7 лет назад
How Do We Stack Up Our Nouns? Compound Nouns
How Do We Signal What's Important When We Talk? Information Structure
Просмотров 10 тыс.7 лет назад
How Do We Signal What's Important When We Talk? Information Structure
Keep going 🎉
Thanks sir 🎉
Slowly please, not all of us are Americans
I can be looking at her talking for hours.
Thanks for this video!
Great channel!
I was watching HIMYM before this video lol
After 5 years I'm still waiting for more videos. Please do them. Cheers from Spain Basque Country.
And now, the word 'meat' has another totally different meaning nowadays
Hiya! Is there any ranking of the the contraindications for which just a vowel (V) wins out (as opposed to CV, CVC, VC)
I wanna learn so much but that Nana shirt is just the highlight for me.
I feel like this "5 vowels" argument falls apart though because English does NOT have 5 vowels. It has 5 vowel LETTERS but a lot more vowel PHONEMES, similar to other European languages. English is non phonetic so those letters often do double duty.
by the way the first thing I interpreted this as is people have been to Montreal longer than I have
Like my favourite sentence in German that I made up and it's only half a sentence: (e.g. Es besteht kein Zweifel), dass das das Das das *das* Das ist ist. Or rather: Es besteht kein Zweifel, dass dies jenes Das ist, welches das besagte Das ist.
I think this is what I'm looking for? conlaning
I'll need this later, maybe.
It's the 2020s, I'm watching these on 1.5 times speed
The moment man devoured the fruit of knowledge, he sealed his fate... Entrusting his future to the cards, man clings to a dim hope. Yes, the arcana is the means by which all is revealed.
⚠ أحاديث ﻻتصح عن رمضان 🚫 (رمضان أوله رحمة، وأوسطه مغفرة، وآخره عتق من النار) 📚[ ضعيف الجامع: 2135 ] 🚫 (لو يعلم العباد ما في رمضان لتمنت أمتي أن تكون السنة كلها رمضان) 📚 [ ضعيف الترغيب والترهيب: 302 ] 🚫 (اللهم بارك لنا في رجب وشعبان وبلغنا رمضان) 📚[ ضعيف الجامع: 4395] 🚫 (من أفطر يوماً في رمضان في غير رخصة رخصها الله له لم يقض عنه صيام الدهر كله وإن صامه) 📚 [ ضعيف الجامع: 5462] 🚫 (من أدرك رمضان بمكة فصامه وقام منه ما تيسر كتب الله له مائة ألف شهر رمضان فيما سواه) 📚[ضعيف الترغيب: 1/294] 🚫 (إن شهر رمضان معلق بين السماء والأرض؛ لا يرفع إلا بزكاة الفطر) 📚 [ ضعيف الجامع: 1886] 🚫 (صوموا تصحوا) 📚 [ ضعيف الجامع: 3504 ] 🚫 (نوم الصائم عبادة) 📚[ ضعيف الجامع: 5972 ] 🚫 (قصة المرأتين اللتين وقعتا في الغيبة، فقال الرسول ﷺ : إن هاتين صامتا عما أحل الله وأفطرتا على ما حرّم الله عز وجل) 📚 [ الضعيفة: 519] 🚫 (أحب عبادي إلي أسرعهم فطراً) 📚[ الموسوعة في الأحاديث الضعيفة: 12/11] 🚫 (إن الجنة لتبخر وتزين من الحول إلى الحول لدخول شهر رمضان فتبرز الحور العين) 📚[ ضعيف الترغيب: 594] 🚫 (إن الله ينظر إلى تنافسكم فيه فأروا الله من أنفسكم خيراً) 📚 [ ضعيف الترغيب: 492 ] 🚫 (إن لله في كل ليلة من رمضان (600) ألف عتيق من النار فإذا كان آخر ليلة أعتق الله بعدد كل من مضى) 📚[ ضعيف الترغيب: 598 ] 🚫 (ذاكر الله في رمضان مغفور له وسائل الله فيه لا يخيب) 📚 [ ضعيف الترغيب: 600 ] 🚫 (الصائم في السفر كالمفطر في الحضر) 📚[ ضعيف الترغيب: 643 ] 🚫 (رمضان بالمدينة خير من ألف رمضان فيما سواها من البلدان) 📚[ ضعيف الترغيب: 1/382 ] 🚫 (إذا صمتم فاستاكوا بالغداة ولا تستاكوا بالعشي) 📚 [ السلسة الضعيفة: 401 ] 🚫 (من اعتكف عشراً في رمضان كان كحجتين وعمرتين) 📚 [ السلسلة الضعيفة: 518]
Thank you for the explanation!
I love the obvious HIMYM references ❤❤❤❤😂
Why do American men use so much falsetto?
9 years later, this is still fascinating, and very well explained!!
I’m just here for the shirt
That's great but where can I find a list of these? Also you will notice the onomatopoeia for horse hooves is actually a pattern of four syllables with one sound repeated at least twice. Every language you mentioned followed this pattern.
Attention is all you need and all you need is wug
This hasn’t aged well. I would argue with the claim that Chomsky is the father of modern linguistics. He is the originator of one linguistic theory, which has been very influential, arguably too influential. Recent computer models based on generalised neural networks have achieved a remarkable success in language production and translation. That a generalised model can do this is strong evidence against the idea of a detailed language model in the human brain. It is evidence that grammar is a feature of language, not the brain. Given how bad academic language tuition is, witness school and university teaching, I struggle to accept much of modern linguistic theory when it comes to second language acquisition.
Why isn't there a maxim of speed? Cause if there were, this guy is definitely flouting it.
that would probably be the maxim of manner since it refers to the clarity of his speech but this was still a bit funny icl 😭😭😭
Thanks for thiseffective information
Did you stop making videos? Do you still post content anywhere?
your videos got me through my bachelor's degree 8 years ago! i've graduated with a master's degree three years ago. now i'm rewatching these videos to brush up on basics to prepare for my application for a phd. so basically, THANK YOU so much. linguistics forever. 🥰
The sound [b] has the Distinctive Feature matrix is [+labial, +stop, +cons]. Whats the distinctive feature matrix por the labial implosive [ɓ]?
So.. Rosemary's Baby= has Ms. Rose as an agent? And what was theta role again?
ok
is it just me or does everytime he says "t" it sounds like a "ch"
for example 0:01 "meat"
wug is all you need
I am studying for the subject of Psycholinguistics and my teacher recommended this video to review the topic of garden path. You explain it all so well. Thank you!!
How i met your mother
I was pleasantly surprised by Moti's fluent Indonesian phrase at the end of the video--"Sampai jumpa!" Didn't see it coming. 😁
Thank you brother's
This man was arrested. I can't believe it.
source?
great
hi! where can i read more about this phenomenon?
Astute content, indeed. A book I read on similar topics was an eye-opener. "Galaxies United" by Olivia Whitestone
why is there a strawberry jam in the bookshelf ?
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日本語にもともとvの音は無いので、 表記上はve(ヴェ)になっていても、実際はbe(ベ)と発音されることが多いですね
Your videos are great. I love looking at the changing bookshelves. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and The House of Leaves are on my shelves as well. ♥
In Korean, it's very similar to Japanese. 누구를 언제 어디서 만났는지 기억하는가? Whom when where met do you remember? ...... Do you remember meeting whom when where? It's interesting that in English, Wh- words can't be put side by side.
you tubes! :)