Everything a Linguistics Major Learns (in Under 4 Minutes)

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does that include sign languages?

wow, i wish i had majored in linguistics!

Very informative. I have two degrees in a field related to linguistics (Japanese Studies) and I think this video summarizes pretty well the basics. It's worth sharing!

Proud prescriptivist here.

subscribed! great content

This is a fantastic video!

If I could learn this stuff maybe I can get my dad to reply to my texts

I thought this was going to be a meme, but this was honestly entirely accurate to my experience getting a B.S. in Applied Linguistics.

audio needs normalizing otherwise wonderful video!!<3

oh, Noam Chomsky. I dont know if he is the most well respected linguist. I sure dont.

Fantastic!!!

Are there any sounds that are inherent to being human/driven by instinct? The word "God" comes to mind: seeing something all-powerful would produce a tightening of the muscles for "g", then an opening of the mouth for the vowel, etc.

Yup linguistic discrimination is real. Furthermore it's inevitable. So if you want to set your students or children up for failure teach them to believe that all dialects have equal worth

Chomsky 💀

The concepts of phonetics and phonology also apply to sign languages – meaning that it does not Only apply to sound, but also the gestural components of signs. (I really think that at least some sign language sound be part of a all linguistic education, as the difference between spoken and signed languages is quite informative.)

Interesting I thought something was up when Latin was becoming a dead language. When people often talk about the past and twist words. When at times you can go to the source and the meaning of the word at the time. As we all seen in our own lifetime how much the meaning of words have changed and be stretched to make them unhelpful in any context.

Nice video, I hope it's informative to people who know very little about linguistics. My only gripe is calling Chomsky the most respected linguist. He really isn't! The ratio of people praising him and criticising him is shifting more and more towards the critical side. And for very good reason.

Me trying to review for finals

What point is there of preserving !Xóõ when we will all speak American in 1 million years.

"probally not ! but maybe..?." 😂, you´re too funny and informative, subscribing right now

mfw being autistic caused me to learn almost all of this without even majoring in linguistics

Subtitles pls 😭

i think you know what you''re sayin''

Indeed, that's the mind-and-soul-deadening stuff they indoctrinate trusting youths with.

Good 👍
But Noah Chomsky? No 👎 Overrated. I do know older Ph.D. holders in linguistics who agree 👍 with my claim.

why hasnt chomksy come up yet. isnt he god after all?

the dogmatic prescriptivism of linguistic descriptivism (oh the irony)

so nothing

Cool video! I will say that although I'm not a linguist, I don't think Noah Chomsky is unanimously considered the most respected linguist. Highly influential, yes, but there are definitely people that take issue with what he says, most notably how many dismiss his idea of an inborn universal grammar as pseudoscientific or a post-hoc justification based on observations of existing languages.

Also structuralism and functionalism, postmodernism and deconstruction, meaning and semiotics, and semantics.

No language is better than another? Really? Can we say that some languages sound prettier than others?

Information theory and all of computer science is built on top of linguistics!

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Wait is this all?

If I had unlimited time and money I would've loved to get a degree in linguistics as well.

That sounds about right.

I liked your video! But the "but" at colonialism damage to indigenous languages kinda hurt :p

I speak a half dozen foreign languages fluently. Chomsky is wrong and i am sooo glad i did not study linguistics.

so is a linguistics major worth it? I know these are just the basics but would any of this be helpful in after graduating? can someone tell me what jobs you can get with a degree in linguistics? confused teenager here please help 😄

this is barely 1 semester of sociolinguistics. you should be given your money back. also noam chomsky lol this is early 2000s high school myths, dont tell me thats what they still teach you in college in the US????!!!!

What are the outcomes of this major? Currently I’ve been taking biomedical science; I loved biology and I’m miserable. I’ve been learning Japanese for 3 years now, and I wrote a paper on the bilingual brain last semester, and it was the most fun I’ve ever had. I don’t know what to do

So let's assume that one gets a major in Applied Linguistics, being a native speaker of English. And then an employer appears, demanding that you take a "language proficiency" test, which proves that the level of your English (!) proficiency can be estimated as "somewhere between pre - intermediate and intermediate". Yup, having your language proficiency tested by someone, who have had NOTHING to do with linguistics/philology in their life sucks like a vacuum cleaner.

Really? The people at L’académie française aren’t linguists?
Prescriptivist linguistics is a kind of linguistics. It’s bad and harmful, but it’s linguistics.

By what metric is Noam Chomsky the most well-respected linguist in the world?

this encapsulates everything I've learned for the past three years in my undergrad hahahaha