Building a Better Vocabulary Season 1 Episode 28 Specialty Words for Language

  • TV-PG
  • January 30, 2015
  • 30 min

Over the years, linguists and language scholars have organized and categorized words in a number of different ways. In this lecture, explore many of these linguistic categories, including spoonerisms, phrases that give us a unique insight into how our minds plan out our speech.

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  • First Aired
    January 30, 2015
  • Content Rating
    TV-PG
  • Runtime
    30 min
  • Language
    English
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