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What is Linguistics? Flashcards

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How are linguistics defined?

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The study of language

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What is the purpose of linguistics?

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To understand how languages work, their structure, how they change over time, usage in communication

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What are phonetics and phonology?

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The study of speech sounds and their production

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Analyzing vowel and consonant sounds are examples of what?

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Phonetics/phonology

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What is morphology?

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The analysis of word structure and formation

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Breaking down word components like prefixes and suffixes would be under which field of linguistics?

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Morphology

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What is the study of syntax?

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The study of sentence structure and word arrangement

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Rules governing word order in sentences falls under which area of linguistics?

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Syntax

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9
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What is the study of semantics?

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Exploring the meaning in language

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What field of language studies how words and sentences convey meaning?

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Semantics

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What are pragmatics?

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The study of language use in context

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Studying how politeness norms affect communication is under what field of linguistics?

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Pragmatics

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What are sociolinguistics?

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The study of examining language variation in different social groups

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When researching regional accent and dialects, what area of linguistics should one use?

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Sociolinguistics

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What is the study of psycholinguistics?

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The study of understanding how language is processed in the mind

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Understanding how we comprehend and produce speech requires understanding in what linguistic field?

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Psycholinguistics

17
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What does historical linguistics involve?

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Investigating language change and evolution

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When tracing the development of English over centuries, what type of linguistics is being used?

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Historical linguistics

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What is computational linguistics?

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The application of technology in language analysis

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When working with natural language processing (NLP) and machine translation, what field is involved?

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Computational linguistics

21
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What are linguists?

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Specialists in linguistics that advance understanding of language and communication

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