Branches of Microlinguistics

• Phonetics - the study of

  the sounds of language. It deals with

  the way sounds are produced,

  transmitted and perceived by human

  beings.
• Articulatory phonetics -deals with the study of articulation of speech

  sounds
• Acoustic phonetics - studies the

  physical properties of sounds as

  transmitted from mouth to air and then

  received by ear drum,
• Auditory phonetics -deals with the

  study of perpetual response to speech sounds as mediated by ear, nerve, and brain
• Phonology - is the study

  of how sounds are arranged in each

  language as organized units of

  speech.
• Morphology -deals with the forms of words, use of words and construction of words by small letters.
• morphemes- It studies how words are formed into small meaningful units.
• Semantics - is the study of

  meaning in a language.

  • It focuses on studying the structure

  of meaning of words and making a

  sentence that is meaningful.
• Pragmatics - also deals

  with the meaning of language but it

  focuses on meaning in context rather

  than individual word meanings.
• Syntax - is the study of phrase

  construction, clauses and sentences

  in a language. It deals with basic word

  order followed in any language.
• Microlinguistics - refers to the study of

  small-scale linguistic phenomena

  within a specific language or

  languages. It focuses on detailed

  analysis of fundamental properties of

  languages and linguistic elements

  such as phonemes (distinctive

  sounds), morphemes (smallest units

  of meaning), syntax (sentence

  structure), and semantics (meaning of

  words and sentences).