MIT OpenCourseWare
Introduction to Linguistics
Art: Italian illuminator, Boethius initial consolation philosophy, 1385 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. David Pesetsky
- Term
- Fall 2012
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 4 exams · 6 lecture notes · 1 reading · 8 other files · 6 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 24.900 · Spring 2022 · Study here
- 24.900 · Fall 2012 · Study here (this version)
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 24.900 Introduction to Linguistics, Fall 2012, Prof. David Pesetsky — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
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Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Summaries
10 files
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Notes: Historical Change Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Notes: Historical Linguistics Summary Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Notes: Language Acquisition Summary Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Notes: Morphology Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Notes: Phonology Summary Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Notes: Syntax Summary Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Slides: Dialects Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Slides: Semantics Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics Lecture Slides: Writing Systems Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics: Acoustic Phonetics (Speech Perception) Summary Download
Assignments
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics: Writing Assignment 1 Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics: Writing Assignment 2 Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics: Writing Assignment 3 Download
- 24.900 Intro to Linguistics: Writing Assignment 4 Download
Exams
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. David Pesetsky, 24.900 Introduction to Linguistics, Fall 2012.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2012 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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