Language and the Mind.

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Call Number: DVD 401 La Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Wide screen.
"Course No. 1623"--Container.
24 lectures (30 min. each).
Disc 1. Language in mind -- Language as a system -- Eleven linguistic universals -- Communication in the animal kingdom -- Genes, brains, and evolution -- How the brain created language. Disc 2. Gesture and the origins of human language -- Development: a mind under construction -- Specializing in speech sounds -- Navigating a world of words -- Learning to play the game of language -- Mastering the structure of language. Disc 3. The brain as a window into the mind -- How the brain comprehends language -- How the brain produces language -- Dancing brains: the social side of language -- How writing transformed the mind -- Sign language: language in our hands. Disc 4. Embodied language: mind in body-body in mind -- The multilingual mind -- Does language shape thought? -- Does culture shape language? -- The benefits of bilingualism -- How language makes us human.
Spencer Kelly, Colgate University.
What is the species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of the past achievements and those still aspire to is language. Learn why language is the ultimate invention, one that has allowed changing the physical and social world around people in every conceivable way, and one that has fundamentally changed them, as well.
DVD.

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