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Introduction: Lesson Book and Course Design Rationale (complete)
Table of Contents
1. Lesson 1: What is a Conlang?
2. Lesson 2: What is Language?
3. Lesson 3: Where Did Human Language Come From?
4. Lesson 4: What is Language's Form? Oral or Written
5. Lesson 5: How Do We Build Worlds?
6. Lesson 6: How is Language Biological? (has activity)
7. Lesson 7: How is Language Physical? (has activity, but spacing is clunky!)
8. Lesson 8: How are Language and Culture Related? (has activity)
9. Lesson 8: How Does Language Vary Within (and among) Communities? (has activity)
10. Lesson 10: How Does Language Change Over Time?
11. Lesson 11: How Do People Acquire Languages?
12. Lesson 12: Why Is It Not "Just Semantics"? (has activity)
13. Lesson 13: Syntax--How do languages organize phrases and sentences? (complete lesson--pending self-check questions)
14. Lesson 14: Morphology-How Do We Build Words? (has activities)
15. Lesson 15: How Do We Build Meaning in Nouns and Verbs? (has activity)
16. Lesson 16: How Do We Know Which Sounds Are Meaningful? (has activity)
17. Lesson 17: How Do Sounds Interact? (has activity)
18. Lesson 18: How Does What We Say Differ From What We Think We Say?
19. Lesson 19: How Do Parts of Words and Sounds Interact?
20. How Do Sound/Word Interactions Impact The Surface of Language?
21. Putting it All Together: A Conlang Project for Teaching Beginning Linguistics (has project stages 1 and 2)
Appendix
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