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Friday, September 23rd, 2011
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Wikipedia article: Linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics (100)
· Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context.
· Phonetics is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds and nonspeech sounds, and how they are produced and perceived.
· Language in its broader context includes evolutionary linguistics, which considers the origins of language; historical linguistics, which explores language change; sociolinguistics, which looks at the relation between linguistic variation and social structures; psycholinguistics, which explores the representation and function of language in the mind; neurolinguistics, which looks at language processing in the brain; language acquisition, how children or adults acquire language; and discourse analysis, which involves the structure of texts and conversations.
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