Johns Hopkins CTY – Linguistics: The Science of Language
An online Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth course analyzing language as both biological instinct and cultural artifact, covering phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics along with subfields like psycholinguistics and computational semantics.
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