Perspectives & Approaches Flashcards

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Phonetics

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Speech as a physical process (pronunciation)

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Phonology

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Systems of linguistic sound structure (pronunciation)

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Morphology

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The structure of words (words & sentence structure)

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Syntax

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The structure of phrases and sentences (words & sentence structure)

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Semantics

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The meaning of words and phrases

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Pragmatics

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How speakers and writers use language to communicate (conversational styles)

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Lexicon

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the inventory of morphemes and words and fixed phrases

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Theoretical linguistics

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Basic principles; distinguished by focusing not on any external topics, but rather on the nature of the linguistic system in and of itself

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Historical linguistics

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Language change and the reconstruction of linguistic history

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Psycholinguistics

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Psychology of language; language learning and language processing

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Computational linguistics

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Algorithms for computer analysis of text and speech

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Sociolinguistics

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Language in society

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Dialectology

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Geographical and social variation in language

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Morphosyntax

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sentence structure

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Morphophonology

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word-related effects on sound structure

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First set of categories (phonetics-pragmatics)

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Each category focuses on a different level of description and analysis

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Second set of categories (Theoretical-Dialectology)

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Tells us about problems we use linguistic analysis to engage

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Language

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Pattern of human speech, and the (implicit) systems that speaking and listening rely on