Snap Language

Etymology and surprising origin of words explains what etymology is. It also explores the influence of the reconstructed, theoretical language, Proto-Indoeuropean (PIE), in the formation of modern languages.

Contronyms are also known as antagonyms. Learn about these words, which are are antonyms of themselves!

5 reasons English is (supposedly) weird explores, from a linguistic perspective, the true nature of inconsistencies and irregularities of English and how pop linguists improperly analyze features of English to concluse that it is “weird.”

COURSE Misconceptions about linguistics clarifies some common beliefs about what linguistics is and what linguists actually do.

Accents and idiolects: There is more to what an “accent” is than just a way that people sound. Both accents and idiolects have social and cultural components with several implications.

Sociolinguistics (and the basics of language attitudes): what sociolinguistics is and some of the language-related phenomena sociolinguists study. It includes a discussion of how language varieties trigger stereotyped perceptions and attitudes.

Stereotyped perceptions of accented, grammatically non-standard speakers: Learn how listeners extract relevant social information from phonological, syntactical, and lexical speech cues in a process that triggers stereotyped perceptions of speakers.

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