Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of syntax (the structure of sentences), morphology (the structure of words), phonetics (the study of speech sounds), phonology (the sound patterns of language), semantics (the study of meaning), and pragmatics (the study of language in context). Linguistics also encompasses other subfields, such as sociolinguistics, which explores how language is used in society, and historical linguistics, which examines how languages change over time. Linguists investigate the underlying principles and patterns that are shared by all human languages and seek to understand the nature of language as a fundamental aspect of human cognition and communication.
- syntax
- morphology
- phonetics
- phonology
- semantics
- pragmatics
- psycholinguistics
- social linguistics
- computational linguistics
- applied linguistics
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