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Multimedia Links

• Video: Khan Academy’s take on the relationships between thought and language.
• Video: Linguist Dan Everett’s research with an Amazonian tribe, the Pirahã, who do not have words for exact numbers (1, 2, 3), perhaps because they do not have a need for them in their thinking and existence. Smithsonian Channel. This language also does not have recursive syntactic structures. New Scientist.
• Video: Lera Boroditsky on how languages shape the way we think. 
• Video: Sheldon Cooper working on sarcasm. There are many other examples, of course. Big Bang Theory
• Video: swearing on TV and in the media, and the FCC’s regulations. CBS, Today
• Video: code switching between dialects or registers of language; focusing on AAVE, Black English. WHROTV