As a big computer and math nerd, the more I learn about language, the more I realize that programming and mathematics are themselves much more linked to language than I could ever imagine
im ending my first year of it and im struggling to not get expelled because its so far just been pointless subjects unrelated to linguistics, and whatever is related to linguistics was taught so poorly that i immediately lost interest. I just failed my latin exam lol......
@@catritonixI hope you’re fine with a random stranger saying this but I believe in you. You’re human, which means that you will experience setbacks and failures galore. But it also means that those failures have absolutely nothing on you. Because as long as you are alive, you’re winning.
The cool thing about semantics to me is how semantic ambiguity is almost the core of philosophy. People use loaded terms like 'justice' and 'freedom' quite haphazardly for rhetorical means, when obviously most people have different ideas of what 'justice' and 'freedom' means. Politics and philosophy can almost literally be considered a 'semantics of loaded terms'.
linguistics student here! to add to what the otter (i agree with everyone that the otter is indeed cute) has said: - there are many ways to study syntax beyond syntax trees! syntax trees mostly follow the theorizing of noam chomsky
Love this being my degree. Great video getting people into this! I'm personally focused on dialectology, language change, and sociolinguistics, but I'm also currently doing a lot of phonetics and phonology.
Dude, thanks. I watch millions of language related videos but for some reason never actually sat down and figured out what all the linguistics terms meant. I had a rough understanding by context but this was a fucking GREAT video. You nailed it.
I'm trilingual (English, Hebrew, Russian), and have noticed a lot of interesting things, thus leading my down the linguistics rabbithole. Interesting video, and I really like your channel, keep it up! :))
I definitely find sociolinguistics most interesting. I've always enjoyed researching how words meanings have changed throughout time and space. And when I finally began using slang frequently in high school it was a whole new world to explore the meaning and societal impact on language
If only every career path had someone explain the pathways and options with a cute otter. Seriously though this was a fun and informative video that makes me wish I would’ve looked more into taking linguistics as a major.
Fantastic video, very clear and concise. Great to see so many new linguist content creators (especially Chicanos!). Sociolinguistics is always my favorite branch. Keep up the great work, guey.
im just finishing up my masters degree in linguistics so i already knew all of this but i stayed for the cute otters anyway ❤️ love what you're doing, keep it up!! it's always great to see people passionate about the field and eager to bring others in
One emerging subfield that's great is Revivalistics/Language Revival! In a way strongly linked to socioling, it tries to understand and explain language endangerment case by case and how these languages can be saved by their communities It's quite new, and so not really a subfield yet ig, but very important
This was perfect! I've always been interested in linguistics but never really went into the basics, oddly enough, so this video has been so helpful! It's so concise and you explain everything so well. Thank you!
I really like how this video looks and how informational it is. You should keep this style for your longer videos like this, and use the other style for the shorts and tiktoks.
These videos of yours are very well made and I really can't wait to see you post more! I'm also planning on making a similar type of content on a separate channel and would like to hear any tips on doing so from you or anyone reading this comment
yo this kinda helped me a lot 😭 im sort of freaking out because i wanna do something in the future that involves languages in college- either translating or becoming a speech therapist- so its good to know that i have some other options
There’s also a podcast called The Linguistics Careercast, which is all about applied linguistics, IE linguistics that isn’t just pure academia. There are SO many applications out there, translation and speech language pathology like you said, but also things like language policy, revitalization work, and more
Second Language Acquisition or Historical Linguistics are definitely the most interesting to me as I’ve been learning Spanish for a couple years at this point and I’ve seen a variety of teaching methods and seeing which ones work and which ones don’t as well as learning all new techniques.
I think History Linguistics is also my favourite. I live in pacific country and linguists who came here a long time ago around the time of Captain Cook were able to figure out that my Melanesian people were related to people in South East Asia through Austronesians language. Wayyyyy before DNA testing was a thing and that's why its awesome 😁
8:47 "We finally have reached the last subfield that I wanted to talk about in this video" - "finally" is way incongruous here, you could go another 10 minutes and I'd be very happy with it.
Awesome! By the way, you wrote "underserving" but pronounced it as if you thought it was "undeserving" which is a different meaning and pronunciation from "under-serv-ing".
Based on the description given for phonology, what are phonotactics? I previously heard a language's phonology was what phonemes a language uses, but I'm open to be proven wrong!!
So, Phonotactics is a subcategory of Phonology. Since this is a beginner's guide, I didn't wanna go too complicated on the topic, so I just made a generalization of what Phonology is all about
I am a linguistics major myself, so perhaps I can add to this. Broadly speaking, phonotactics is a branch of phonology that deals with the restrictions a language applies to combinations of phonemes/sequences of segments. These restrictions on combinations of phonemes/sequences of segments themselves are called phonotactic constraints. They are primarily based on syllables and vary from language to language. For example, in the English language, two stops cannot begin with a syllable. In a second example, the Twi language, a word can only end in a vowel or a nasal consonant.
I have 2 ideas in minds: 1. I assume you know Japanese or more due to your examples, I want to know if Japanese linguistics is similar to English lingustics. Of course its different but how different, how similiar between them, and can a different part that linguistics be applied to English? If not Japanese than others maybe cool to talk about. 2. The computing one, I know Nature Language Processing (NLP) that show how ChatGPT works, is both in linguistics and computer science field. I want to know how much more, other than this guide, we CS should know in linguistics in order to test NLP. I heard many linguists want to do it only need to know basic coding and theories about how AI works, while computer scientists know programming, math and AI, but dont know anything about NLP, would have to learn lingustics from scratch. 😢😅
For question 2 it really depends on the type of work you're interested in. The vast majority of ML (machine learning) and NLP work can be done without linguistics knowledge. I studied linguistics and was disappointed that little of my background in the field was applicable; my math and CS knowledge was way more relevant/useful. It can be helpful to have a base understanding of the main fields of linguistics when doing multilingual work, but I'd still say it isn't entirely necessary. If anything I'd say linguistics is helpful for CS and math folks because it teaches you how to think about and analyze things in a way you may not have been taught/considered previously.
The only other major fields of linguistics you left out that I can think of are Linguistic Anthropology, which I had a class in as an undergraduate, linguistics major; and also classes dealing in the intersection of linguistics and philosophy. I’ve forgotten if this branch of linguistics has its own special name. Linguistics has so many sub fields, and reaches into so many different disciplines; I used to think that no matter what area of academic study you could think of, there would be an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics to complement it.
With Praat, you have to do phonetic transcription manually. I don't think we are at the point yet where automatic phonetic transcription is viable. One of the main reasons is that each research project has their own guidelines on how to annotate words. Also, when you begin studying phonetics, you realize just how much phonemes blend with one another, making it really hard to make solid segmentations. For example, sounds like /j/ blend really well into a vowel so a researcher will have to decide how they want to segment the two phonemes depending on the goals of their study
@@TheLingOtterSomeone on linglist just said they have an automatic transcriber (to GenAm IIRC), and it comes with examples of its work that look pretty impressive. It’s not public, and looks like they’ll be charging it as a service unfortunately when it is, so that sucks
Wait, am I the only one thinking "barks the dog" still makes sense? I know in French books in order to have a little bit of "langage soutenu" (yeah can't remember the word in English) we can use that word order after dialogue tags but still
"A" is actually made up of two sounds. /e/ and /ɪ/ which makes /eɪ/. But, it is true that in some languages there can be a morpheme that consists of one phoneme, like in Spanish, where "y" is a morpheme that has the one sound /i/
Well... I'm interested in both computer science and linguistics, but I'm not interested (very much) in the AI used today due to the whole black box thing going on. Sucks for me, I guess!
As a big computer and math nerd, the more I learn about language, the more I realize that programming and mathematics are themselves much more linked to language than I could ever imagine
The cute otter is the only reason I can focus 😭
ADHD vibes.
@@kakahass8845 Trueeee
I need this Otter to teach me everything now
@@Salikino Reallll an APEuro ottewr would be my savior
Wut
Perfect timing LingOtter, I'm going into my first year of college to study linguistics!
Good luck!!!
im ending my first year of it and im struggling to not get expelled because its so far just been pointless subjects unrelated to linguistics, and whatever is related to linguistics was taught so poorly that i immediately lost interest. I just failed my latin exam lol......
@@catritonixI hope you’re fine with a random stranger saying this but I believe in you. You’re human, which means that you will experience setbacks and failures galore. But it also means that those failures have absolutely nothing on you. Because as long as you are alive, you’re winning.
@@TikSkygd thx.,....
oh to be young again.
The cool thing about semantics to me is how semantic ambiguity is almost the core of philosophy. People use loaded terms like 'justice' and 'freedom' quite haphazardly for rhetorical means, when obviously most people have different ideas of what 'justice' and 'freedom' means. Politics and philosophy can almost literally be considered a 'semantics of loaded terms'.
0:24
The word ‘praat’ is the Dutch word for ‘talk’
Oh wow, I had no idea! That makes so much sense since the creator of Praat is a linguist from The Netherlands
it's the same in Afrikaans too! 🇿🇦
@@matt9999makes sense, since afrikaans comes from dutch due to their colonization
@@TheLingOtter u said it in dutch like pret with a english r
Is this word the source of the English word "prattle"?
This man is two things:
- A great expert in linguistics
- A really cute otter, who is probably a gay furry behind the scenes
Great video!
the perfect combination
linguistics student here!
to add to what the otter (i agree with everyone that the otter is indeed cute) has said:
- there are many ways to study syntax beyond syntax trees! syntax trees mostly follow the theorizing of noam chomsky
Phonetics = the study of the physiological production of speech sounds.
Phonology = the study of the psychological perception of speech sounds.
This video has the best otter so far
I've always seen linguistics as boring, but this channel's _actually_ made me interested in this topic. Very cool
Love this being my degree. Great video getting people into this! I'm personally focused on dialectology, language change, and sociolinguistics, but I'm also currently doing a lot of phonetics and phonology.
posted in just perfect time .. im getting back into linguistics again
Dude, thanks. I watch millions of language related videos but for some reason never actually sat down and figured out what all the linguistics terms meant. I had a rough understanding by context but this was a fucking GREAT video. You nailed it.
I'm trilingual (English, Hebrew, Russian), and have noticed a lot of interesting things, thus leading my down the linguistics rabbithole. Interesting video, and I really like your channel, keep it up! :))
Welcome to the linguistics rabbit hole! I assure you your fascination with how the world connects through linguistics won't stop any time soon
שלום!!
thus leading “me” down - slow down!
Speaking satans language
@@ravinmarokefJEW!!!! GET HIM!!!!
I definitely find sociolinguistics most interesting. I've always enjoyed researching how words meanings have changed throughout time and space. And when I finally began using slang frequently in high school it was a whole new world to explore the meaning and societal impact on language
I’ve always had a soft spot for linguistics. Thank you for the amazing video!
cool animation, frequent posting, good topics with good, simple explanations, cute otter; you've got a new sub!
I love to see SLP mentioned. I’m studying it and because of that got interested in linguistics. Love this video and love to see more 💕
If only every career path had someone explain the pathways and options with a cute otter. Seriously though this was a fun and informative video that makes me wish I would’ve looked more into taking linguistics as a major.
Fantastic video, very clear and concise. Great to see so many new linguist content creators (especially Chicanos!). Sociolinguistics is always my favorite branch. Keep up the great work, guey.
Fantastic video, absolutely loved it. Your content is AMAZING and you deserve a lot more subscribers & views!
Thank you so much!
The quality of this video is astonishing, keep it up
please keep making videos you are amazing
im just finishing up my masters degree in linguistics so i already knew all of this but i stayed for the cute otters anyway ❤️ love what you're doing, keep it up!! it's always great to see people passionate about the field and eager to bring others in
Adorable doodles and a very comprehensive view on the basics of the field! Thank you :)
This is a video I'd actually recommend for those unfamiliar to linguistics. You earned a like.
2:24 The dog is named Barks.
One emerging subfield that's great is Revivalistics/Language Revival! In a way strongly linked to socioling, it tries to understand and explain language endangerment case by case and how these languages can be saved by their communities
It's quite new, and so not really a subfield yet ig, but very important
This was perfect! I've always been interested in linguistics but never really went into the basics, oddly enough, so this video has been so helpful! It's so concise and you explain everything so well. Thank you!
Omg i love that otter it is soo cute!!!!
I really like how this video looks and how informational it is.
You should keep this style for your longer videos like this, and use the other style for the shorts and tiktoks.
This channel is a gem.
These videos of yours are very well made and I really can't wait to see you post more! I'm also planning on making a similar type of content on a separate channel and would like to hear any tips on doing so from you or anyone reading this comment
Your voice is soo soothing
yo this kinda helped me a lot 😭 im sort of freaking out because i wanna do something in the future that involves languages in college- either translating or becoming a speech therapist- so its good to know that i have some other options
There’s also a podcast called The Linguistics Careercast, which is all about applied linguistics, IE linguistics that isn’t just pure academia. There are SO many applications out there, translation and speech language pathology like you said, but also things like language policy, revitalization work, and more
Thank you. i've accidentally started learning four languages at the once for the last few years and I've honestly been looking for something like this
Second Language Acquisition or Historical Linguistics are definitely the most interesting to me as I’ve been learning Spanish for a couple years at this point and I’ve seen a variety of teaching methods and seeing which ones work and which ones don’t as well as learning all new techniques.
Ive been learning more languages besides Japanese and Trad Chinese, so this channel really helps😂
Also love the otter btw x3
I think History Linguistics is also my favourite. I live in pacific country and linguists who came here a long time ago around the time of Captain Cook were able to figure out that my Melanesian people were related to people in South East Asia through Austronesians language. Wayyyyy before DNA testing was a thing and that's why its awesome 😁
Barks, the dog.
Phonetics 0:08
Phonology 1:02
Syntax 2:02
Semantics 2:40
Pragmatics 3:44
Historical linguistics 4:38
Typology 5:15
Language development 5:48
Psycholinguistic 6:38
Please never stop uploading 🙏
8:47 "We finally have reached the last subfield that I wanted to talk about in this video" - "finally" is way incongruous here, you could go another 10 minutes and I'd be very happy with it.
Great explanation, clear and fast-paced. This would have been useful in my first months of university 🤣.
When you was explaining pragmatics I instantly thought of Japan, and then you put it on screen😂
Awesome! By the way, you wrote "underserving" but pronounced it as if you thought it was "undeserving" which is a different meaning and pronunciation from "under-serv-ing".
I'm pretty sure he wrote undeserving and then un-deserv-ing
@prywatne4733 Look again, starting at the 1:46 point. It's written as "underserving" and then as "un-derserv-ing."
You're surprisingly the first person to notice that mistake,,,I hadn't seen it until now lol
4:32 “Nice job!” Could also mean a way of earning money is nice
Historical linguistics for me. Who doesn't want to crack them stringy writings?!
you use an otter take my sub
I'm gonna have to go with pragmatics as the most interesting to me :) linguistics is amazing
Got this in my recommended, love the otter ❤
Beautiful snake, buddy
6:17 One wug. Two wugen.
Barks, the dog. Like, that's his name. Makes perfect sense.
Which ciao did you use? Chao, Ciao, or Tchao?
This is an awesome video, I’m 12 and have always loved linguistics. I’m Brazilian, so I would say Tchao.
Welcome back!
Can you make guides going in deeper and a guide for making conlangs?
Based on the description given for phonology, what are phonotactics? I previously heard a language's phonology was what phonemes a language uses, but I'm open to be proven wrong!!
So, Phonotactics is a subcategory of Phonology. Since this is a beginner's guide, I didn't wanna go too complicated on the topic, so I just made a generalization of what Phonology is all about
I am a linguistics major myself, so perhaps I can add to this.
Broadly speaking, phonotactics is a branch of phonology that deals with the restrictions a language applies to combinations of phonemes/sequences of segments. These restrictions on combinations of phonemes/sequences of segments themselves are called phonotactic constraints. They are primarily based on syllables and vary from language to language.
For example, in the English language, two stops cannot begin with a syllable. In a second example, the Twi language, a word can only end in a vowel or a nasal consonant.
Despite how many videos about this topic are out there, I always would love to see an otter one
Comparative, etymology, writing systems +
I have 2 ideas in minds:
1. I assume you know Japanese or more due to your examples, I want to know if Japanese linguistics is similar to English lingustics. Of course its different but how different, how similiar between them, and can a different part that linguistics be applied to English? If not Japanese than others maybe cool to talk about.
2. The computing one, I know Nature Language Processing (NLP) that show how ChatGPT works, is both in linguistics and computer science field. I want to know how much more, other than this guide, we CS should know in linguistics in order to test NLP. I heard many linguists want to do it only need to know basic coding and theories about how AI works, while computer scientists know programming, math and AI, but dont know anything about NLP, would have to learn lingustics from scratch. 😢😅
For question 2 it really depends on the type of work you're interested in. The vast majority of ML (machine learning) and NLP work can be done without linguistics knowledge. I studied linguistics and was disappointed that little of my background in the field was applicable; my math and CS knowledge was way more relevant/useful. It can be helpful to have a base understanding of the main fields of linguistics when doing multilingual work, but I'd still say it isn't entirely necessary. If anything I'd say linguistics is helpful for CS and math folks because it teaches you how to think about and analyze things in a way you may not have been taught/considered previously.
I came here for the otter
This was such a good video
Great video!
Thank you, I love your videos!
wow, Praat takes me right back. cool they still use it, i mean its free after all. Used it in my university too.
is 1:54 supposed to be undeserving? bc otherwise underserving would be broken down by under-serv-ing
Thank you so much
wow a full video
I clicked on this instead of an entire crash course because of the cool diagram
Historical linguistics is not necessarily just diachronic it can be synchronic too.
You are my only hope for this English semester
I do conversation analysis, so sociolinguistics is my favorite^^
You need to do merch, I need the otter
I’m an archaeologist who is interested in historical linguistics, i’d love to incorporate the two fields somehow
2:22 Barks the dog: nevermore!
Cool
you forgot lexicology (and other, related branches such as dialectics)
The only other major fields of linguistics you left out that I can think of are Linguistic Anthropology, which I had a class in as an undergraduate, linguistics major; and also classes dealing in the intersection of linguistics and philosophy. I’ve forgotten if this branch of linguistics has its own special name.
Linguistics has so many sub fields, and reaches into so many different disciplines; I used to think that no matter what area of academic study you could think of, there would be an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics to complement it.
Can Praat do (or, be augmented to do) automatic phonetic transcription, then? Or, is it used in making phonetic transcriptions?
With Praat, you have to do phonetic transcription manually. I don't think we are at the point yet where automatic phonetic transcription is viable. One of the main reasons is that each research project has their own guidelines on how to annotate words. Also, when you begin studying phonetics, you realize just how much phonemes blend with one another, making it really hard to make solid segmentations. For example, sounds like /j/ blend really well into a vowel so a researcher will have to decide how they want to segment the two phonemes depending on the goals of their study
@@TheLingOtterSomeone on linglist just said they have an automatic transcriber (to GenAm IIRC), and it comes with examples of its work that look pretty impressive. It’s not public, and looks like they’ll be charging it as a service unfortunately when it is, so that sucks
Today I learnt that the Official Linguistics Post's (a linguistics-themed blog on Tumblr) profile picture is actually the logo of Praat, lol
as a dialectologist I feel sad, great video btw
Wait, am I the only one thinking "barks the dog" still makes sense? I know in French books in order to have a little bit of "langage soutenu" (yeah can't remember the word in English) we can use that word order after dialogue tags but still
Any good book recommendations on Linguistics?
genuine question, how does your description of phonology differ from phonotactics?
Bro this video was so helpful which 4 menaces disliked it
this is cool video
are you studying linguistics in uni?
Yes! I'm about to graduate actually
@@TheLingOtter yooo congrats !!
you should make a vid about uh what wrote to graduate. your paper? thesis? whats it called?
Nice video I like it
Otters are my favorite animal
This is succesfly video for beginners .
I should get a degree in phonology some day.
is etymology considered as a part of linguistics?
what about etymology?
What other things does computational linguistics do, besides AI / LLM?
Where is Ethymology?
Dont you mean etymology
@@ellotheearthling yeah ignore the h
Might go in with historical linguistics
"Pratt" oo my sterre😭
i just imagined barks the dog, then i was right of what would be the order Ö
im pretty sure barks the dog can be gramatically correct
No, it can't. Neither 'barks' nor 'barks the' can be a subject, nor can 'barks,' 'barks the,' or 'barks the dog' be a predicate
@@rowboat10"woof woof woof" barks the dog
@@yarnmisery '"Woof, woof, woof," barks the dog.' is a complete sentence. 'Barks the dog.' is not.
Is the word "A" as in A cat, considered an exception to the rule of morphemes or is it just something else
"A" is actually made up of two sounds. /e/ and /ɪ/ which makes /eɪ/. But, it is true that in some languages there can be a morpheme that consists of one phoneme, like in Spanish, where "y" is a morpheme that has the one sound /i/
@@TheLingOtter that's cool! I was unsure cause I pronounce A more like ə so when I say something like A cat it comes out like (ə kæʔ)
A cute gay otter teaching linguistics...
I think I finally found my spirit animal 😁
Well... I'm interested in both computer science and linguistics, but I'm not interested (very much) in the AI used today due to the whole black box thing going on. Sucks for me, I guess!
0:23 it's a Dutch program innit, or maybe a South African one
under-serv-ing
un-deserv-ing