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What does linguistics entail?
What does phonetics study?
Which area of linguistic analysis corresponds to the meaning of words?
Which subdiscipline of linguistics studies the psychological factors in human language?
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Before the 20th century, what was linguistics closely associated with?
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Study Notes
Introduction to Linguistics
- Linguistics is a broad field that entails the scientific study of language, including its structure, acquisition, and evolution.
Phonetics
- Phonetics is a subfield of linguistics that studies the physical properties of speech sounds.
Semantics
- Semantics is the area of linguistic analysis that corresponds to the meaning of words and phrases.
Psycholinguistics
- Psycholinguistics is a subdiscipline of linguistics that studies the psychological factors in human language, including language acquisition, language processing, and language production.
History of Linguistics
- Before the 20th century, linguistics was closely associated with philology, the study of language in relation to literature and history.
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Test your knowledge of linguistics with this quiz covering traditional areas of linguistic analysis, theoretical and descriptive study of language, applied fields of language studies, and the evolution of linguistics. See how well you understand the interlinking of linguistics with literary study and its transition to employing scientific methods in the 20th century.
