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Start: instructions
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Introduction: What is language?
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- 1 - dolphins & whales
- 2 - chimps
- 3 - nature vs. nurture
- 4 - bow-wow
- 5 - math & aptitude
- 6 - kids & learning
- 7 - foreign languages
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Language & the Brain: How do we produce and process language?
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- 8 - language & snow
- 9 - culture & snow
- 10 - thought & words
- 11 - left brain right brain
- 12 - ASL & BSL
- 13 - bilinguals & brain damage
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Language & the World: How diverse are the world's languages?
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- 14 - language & dialect
- 15 - language families
- 16 - Chinese writing
- 17 - Yoda & word order
- 18 - King Arthur spoke English
- 19 - Shakespeare in America
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Language & Society: How does language reflect our identities?
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- 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
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The Ecology of Language: How is language a living system?
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- 30 - multilingualism
- 31 - bilingual ed
- 32 - official English
- 33 - English vs. Chinese
- 34 - endangered languages
- 35 - language death
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Language & Culture: How does language reflect human culture?
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- 36 - taboos & swearing
- 37 - advertising
- 38 - government
- 39 - the Internet
- 40 - universal translator
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