Perspectives & Approaches Flashcards
Phonetics
Speech as a physical process (pronunciation)
Phonology
Systems of linguistic sound structure (pronunciation)
Morphology
The structure of words (words & sentence structure)
Syntax
The structure of phrases and sentences (words & sentence structure)
Semantics
The meaning of words and phrases
Pragmatics
How speakers and writers use language to communicate (conversational styles)
Lexicon
the inventory of morphemes and words and fixed phrases
Theoretical linguistics
Basic principles; distinguished by focusing not on any external topics, but rather on the nature of the linguistic system in and of itself
Historical linguistics
Language change and the reconstruction of linguistic history
Psycholinguistics
Psychology of language; language learning and language processing
Computational linguistics
Algorithms for computer analysis of text and speech
Sociolinguistics
Language in society
Dialectology
Geographical and social variation in language
Morphosyntax
sentence structure
Morphophonology
word-related effects on sound structure