UCTV Resources
UCTV–University of California Television has lots of back programs online, via YouTube or podcasts. Here are a couple of interesting ones:
http://uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=11187
Grey Matters: Understanding Language
(#11187; 58 minutes; 7/19/2006)
Why are humans the only species to have language? Is there something special about our brains? Are there genes that have evolved for language? In this talk, Jeff Elman, UCSD professor of cognitive science and co-director of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, discusses some of the exciting new research that helps us understand what it is about human language that is so different from other animals’ communication systems, and what about our biology might make language possible.
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http://uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=11986
CCIS: Language Politics & Immigration Policies (#11986; 55 minutes; 11/13/2006)
UCSD Sociologist April Linton describes how the politics of language have become part of the national debate over immigration in this talk sponsored by the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California San Diego.