Linguistics

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  • Linguistics is the study of language and its structure in different levels
  • Linguistics studies the history, usage, and effects of language in culture or heritage
  • Language is the non-instinctive method of communication in order to project ideas, emotions, and desires by means of voluntary symbols or gestures
  • phonetics is the area of linguistics that studies sound production
  • phonetics studies how sounds are produced using the physical body
  • phonology studies the sound patterns that make up of letters and probable meaning and representations of each
  • morphology studies word structures and combination of different letters that make up words with specific meaning
  • syntax studies the sentence patterns that communicates the idea
  • syntax studies the arrangement of words to create well-formed sentences in a language
  • enumerate the four branches of linguistics
    phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax
  • psycholinguistics is a branch that draws upon psychology and linguistics and is interested on how the brain processes, comprehends, and produces language
  • sociolinguistics is the branch that studies the connection between language and society and how they entwine
  • anthropological linguistics is the relationship between language and culture; language as a cultural resource and practice
  • computational linguistics is the branch that combines computer science, linguistics, and ai; they analyze model natural language using computational methods
  • computational linguistics include chatbots, speech recognition, grammar checking
  • enumerate the four branches of linguistics
    psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, computational linguistics
  • "lingua"

    tounge, language
  • father of linguistics
    ferdinand de saussure