The Story of Human Language

How Language Changes: Building New Material

Special Interest

S1, E4: Language change is not just sound erosion and morphing, but the building of new words and constructions. This lecture shows how such developments lead to novel grammatical features.

2004 · 30m

Information

Released
2004
Run Time
30 min
Rated
TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AAC), English (United States)

Subtitles

English (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.