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Introduction: What is language?
  • 1 - dolphins & whales
  • 2 - chimps
  • 3 - nature vs. nurture
  • 4 - bow-wow
  • 5 - math & aptitude
  • 6 - kids & learning
  • 7 - foreign languages
Language & the Brain: How do we produce and process language?
  • 8 - language & snow
  • 9 - culture & snow
  • 10 - thought & words
  • 11 - left brain right brain
  • 12 - ASL & BSL
  • 13 - bilinguals & brain damage
Language & the World: How diverse are the world's languages?
  • 14 - language & dialect
  • 15 - language families
  • 16 - Chinese writing
  • 17 - Yoda & word order
  • 18 - King Arthur spoke English
  • 19 - Shakespeare in America
Language & Society: How does language reflect our identities?
  • 20 - Cletus speaks bad
  • 21 - the media kills accents
  • 22 - everyone has an accent
  • 23 - if I were vs. if I was
  • 24 - language is deteriorating
  • 25 - women talk more
  • 26 - men interrupt more
  • 27 - Black English
  • 28 - English spelling
  • 29 - creole, mon
The Ecology of Language: How is language a living system?
  • 30 - multilingualism
  • 31 - bilingual ed
  • 32 - official English
  • 33 - English vs. Chinese
  • 34 - endangered languages
  • 35 - language death
Language & Culture: How does language reflect human culture?
  • 36 - taboos & swearing
  • 37 - advertising
  • 38 - government
  • 39 - the Internet
  • 40 - universal translator
Unit EL: The Ecology of Language: How is language a living system?

28. English spelling is arbitrary and illogical.

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