Crash Course Linguistics

Computational Linguistics

We learn about programming computers to process human language, which is called computational linguistics, or natural language processing. We look at the types of language tasks computers can and can’t do, how natural language processing works, as well as the different types of biases that exist in machine learning.

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Writing Systems

We learn about orthographies, the different components that make up a writing system.

World Languages

We explore factors to learn about world languages and linguistic diversity.

Language Change and Historical Linguistics

We learn about how and why languages change.

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