Lecture 2: Morphology, Part 1

[@samhmmmm]

Prof. Richards, your ability to hear your students questions and compassionately understand what they are trying to ask you is absolutely incredible. I can say that I never experienced this while studying and its been an eye opener to see an intelligent, capable professor leading a lecture series with active listening and comprehensive knowledge sharing first. Thank you.

[@jay_wright_thats_right]

He won't be reading this.

[@christian1294]

I'm an EFL teacher in Spain - really enjoyed this. Supplements my knowledge from my Cambridge Delta course Very well presented (good fun too) and I learnt some morphological facts about foreign languages. Will watch them all.

[@Trucmuch]

Linguist: so, in the made-up language I've created, the word for Linguist is "cool dude"...

[@doclime4792]

Martian: first contact never goes perfectly planned and what later conversations revealed to us was that he was neither a linguist by profession or "cool..." this will be the start of a 4-part lecture series on what we now know the terrestrial apes call a "dude."

[@EvTheBadConlanger]

Conlangers have done similar things, funnily enough

[@oguzz1274]

For the first in months I enjoyed a Linguistics lecture. I used to think Ling was boring but Prof Richards changed my way of looking to the subject.

[@MrCosinuus]

concerning plural-s in English and backformation of words: 100 years ago, there were some british people in Germany selling "cakes". The word was first adapted in spelling "Keks" but also considered singular, so it's "1 Keks". When you have two in German, you add the typical German plural ending und you get "2 Kekse"

[@Eyezick-l5z]

Interesting. I wonder when the meaning in german shifted from the american style of cake to more of the biscuit it refers to now

[@classicalfandom8219]

Instead of questioning why they are wearing masks, it would be better if you people appreciate that they are sharing knowledge with you.

[@mother.95]

​​​​@@ryanorourke589 Only a true degen**erate would talk about something trivial as mask. Edit: never mind, you are one. Eew, what a disgusting face. You should definitely wear a mask.

[@missmo3451]

You people can question whatever you like without you other people telling you what to question

[@sharonlima8913]

Covid time perhaps

[@2894031]

Who needs the wisdom of someone who covers his mouth with ideology?

[@tom_demarco]

​@@2894031 My friend js immunocompromised, and still has to wear a mask. How is that an ideology?

[@davidjazay9248]

Prof. Richards is an excellent lecturer - thank you!

[@chloemihalic8047]

This video is so helpful im so grateful for this free knowledge

[@harshchad]

Thanks MIT for the lectures. ♥️ Can you please provide lecture notes of lecture 1 and 7 if videos aren't recorded. That'll help a lot.

[@mitocw]

There are lecture notes for 1 and 7. See the course materials on MIT OpenCourseWare at: ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/pages/lecture-notes/. Best wishes on your studies!

[@hlibushok]

Martian is probably the best constructed language out there.

[@shy_dodecahedron]

30:37 weeeell the word "cat" is quite short. And I have a gut feeling that it means that the word is used commonly, or whatever, which feels like it suggests some sort of practical value of the idea, I have another hypothesis: the reason why common words are short is optimisation by natural selection and whatever mechanisms inside our brains.

[@janavanrossum6174]

On the differing words for frog calls: different frog species also make different sounds. E.g. "ribbit" is the sound of one particular American frog species

[@Aadil_here]

If you understand this lecture without pause and captions well its more than enough

[@lucajasso1482]

Thanks MIT for the lectures. Can you provide the solutions to the problem sets? I would like to check my own solutions.

[@mitocw]

Sorry, the instructor did not provide solutions.

[@alparslan1441]

Would you please share the lecture 1 .

[@FKLinguista]

Notes on the website say that lectures 1 and 7 weren't actually recorded, due to technical problems.

[@emirergun5942]

Thank you so much! Can you please add lectures 1 and 7 as well?

[@mitocw]

Note: Due to technical problems with the recording, no video is available for lectures 1 and 7.

[@ansarziarawan2332]

@@mitocw Thank you for sharing! When do you upload? And do you record again?

[@mitocw]

@@ansarziarawan2332 We upload randomly and record frequently. 😉

[@pancakeeatinginarow]

@@mitocw This means you are not systematic

[@prkba]

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[@mitocw]

About affording tuition: a little know fact is that MIT is one of only seven colleges in the U.S. that is need-blind and full-need. This means that your ability to pay does not affect your admission chances and, if accepted, MIT will make sure you can afford tuition. Even if it means that MIT will need to pay all of your tuition. sfs.mit.edu/undergraduate-students/the-cost-of-attendance/making-mit-affordable/

[@Defiant185]

First of All, I am honored and blessed that I am one of the luckiest who's got the Opportunity to attend the MIT online/ virtual lecture. I have done BS(Hons) in English, I am doing MS(Applied Linguistics) I have completed course work, I want to proceed my research from MIT, If it's not possible then I'm also ready to start MS/M.Phil or any course from MIT. Can u plz provide the details or information. Thanks

[@AvinoUtkarsh]

Hey, seems like you have studied the English language quite well, can you please help me in learning it as well, I basically want to know all the grammar of English till grade 12 please.

[@spectator352]

I've been studying with a native of the Nuosu language, my experience is a lot like what he described with destroyed hypotheses haha!

[@dumplingsuwu6691]

Thank you MIT

[@sasaadrian7483]

22:40 - 23:40 most filipinos who are in middle class to rich level have advantage of learning faster in english, the rest people need years of hardwork need to be fluent in english in PH, and i don't know what was goin on in ph, they are only became fluent when the national language day is nearing ( IN PHILIPPINES) SORRY ABOUT MY GRAMMAR.

[@Blacksenbonzakura]

Jabberwicky is really a nice touch

[@lemagnificent7553]

A linguist making a language in which the word "linguist" sounds like "cool dude"

[@sternbach-software]

Leep-lept, Sweep-swept, Keep-kept, Dream-dreamt, Weep-wept, Deep-depth?

[@manuelmejia4481]

Great video thanks for the knowledge

[@fionapple]

his tagalog accent is quite good!

[@LadySinovera]

Lol. Linguist in "martian" is "kuulduud"... cool dude... I'm finding this more amusing than it should be.

[@24Deutschmark]

Thank you for these videos!

[@bayeyimam284]

That the Chaha don't cook meat because they eat it raw is wrong as far as I know. There are parts they may eat raw. The rest of it is cooked but not necessarily by only women.

[@poojabahl6217]

WHERE CAN WE FIND LECTURE 1 THIS VIDEO IS LECTURE 2

[@thematureneuro468]

kuuulduud

[@doctormohsinmehmood]

Where is Lecture 1?

[@indrajeetkumar2221]

May i get lecture notes?

[@mitocw]

The lecture notes are available on MIT OpenCourseWare at: ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/. Best wishes on your studies!

[@indrajeetkumar2221]

@@mitocw thanks

[@purpleguyfromfnaf0]

i LOVE that their professor has roblox on his taskbar

[@blasthf]

Where's the first lecture

[@mitocw]

Note: Due to technical problems with the recording, no video is available for lectures 1 and 7. There are lecture notes for 1 and 7. See the course materials on MIT OpenCourseWare at: ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/pages/lecture-notes/. Best wishes on your studies!

[@mochan5671]

Thank you for the videos!

[@niche657]

Are answers to the problem sets provided?

[@jasonplayer9047]

The materials we have do not provide answers. To see what we do have, visit the course on MIT OpenCourseWare at: ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/. Best wishes on your studies!

[@Sergiao2024]

Awesome !

[@ichigo_husky]

where is Lecture 1😊

[@mitocw]

Note: No video is available for Lecture 1. There are lecture notes for lecture 1 on MIT OpenCourseWare at: ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/. Best wishes on your studies!

[@abdulhakimalhadid2048]

Voice is very low

[@sabitozaktan5765]

❤

[@SphereofTime]

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[@liquidmantle]

Hello, are the students in this class using a textbook? If so, may I have the title, author and edition please?

[@mitocw]

There is no textbook for this course. If you would like to have a textbook, a pretty good one is: O’Grady, William, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, and Janie Rees-Miller (2017). Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s. For more course info and materials visit MIT OpenCourseWare at: ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-spring-2022/. Best wishes on your studies!

[@jeavoncampbell4575]

😕

[@weqe2278]

I believe that he blatantly made this up.

[@spagussy]

the weird mask comments are a quick reminder that MIT is in america 😂

[@caholz33]

Really? Maybe not so weird, considering how mask-wearing impaired language acquisition for kids. And that this was 2022.

[@leem2155]

@@caholz33mask wearing? wouldn’t it make more sense to say it was the quarantines that isolated people from one another, that affected language acquisition?

[@meowwwww6350]

Why are they still wearin' masks?

[@purpleguyfromfnaf0]

they r smart

[@tiffanybinkley5719]

This was recorded back in Spring of 2022.

[@2894031]

What was so special at that time to wear them? You believe there were more viruses around than right now?

[@meowwwww6350]

@@2894031 👍

[@Ben-xj6su]

Lmao ofcourse MIT is still wearing masks. 🤣

[@joshcreegan8816]

This is from a year ago

[@24Deutschmark]

Because they're educated.

[@Ben-xj6su]

@@24Deutschmark what a lollipop answer

[@John-qo9hw]

Lmao ofcourse anti-vaxxers not fact checking and falling prey to their own biases as expected.

[@Ben-xj6su]

@@John-qo9hw haha you're pathetic

[@afreespiritpoetandking261]

His voice is so god damn boring it immediately sends me into a state of sleeping.

[@aestheticdegen]

So don't watch it, problem solved

[@afreespiritpoetandking261]

@@aestheticdegen ah what a darkness proceeds from your mouth both light and truth. You speak from the mouth of that it is my responsibility to be disinterested in tonality and expression. It is my own only response that I should be intertwined with what is elusive. I do not like elusive interest, but that was what is not. I like what is. Thereby I am not from my mistake. It is yours to speak.

[@aestheticdegen]

@@afreespiritpoetandking261 k.

[@afreespiritpoetandking261]

@@aestheticdegen More educated than you believed aren't you?

[@niche657]

@@afreespiritpoetandking261 You really butchered that little spiel didn't you? Mustn't be educated enough to know where :)

[@SphereofTime]

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