branches of linguistics
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BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS
By
Ashish Prasad & Apurv Verma
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WHAT IS LINGUISTICS?
Scientific study of human language.
Aims of linguistic theory: What is knowledge of language?
(Competence) How is knowledge of language acquired?
(Acquisition) How is knowledge of language put to use?
(Performance/language processing)
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LANGUAGE
“Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols.”--Edward Sapir (1884-1939):Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (1921)
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“From now on I will consider language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements.”
--Noam Chomsky (1928- ): Syntactic Structures (1957)
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IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE
The most important tool ever invented. Distinguishes us from other creatures. Provides a medium to think effectively,
communicate interpersonally and collaborate with other people in work.
Impossible to imagine a world without language.
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LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD
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MAIN BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS
Phonetics Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics
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PHONETICS
Phonetics studies speech sounds, including Production of speech, that is how speech sounds
are actually made : Articulatory Phonetics Transmission and receipt of speech : Acoustic
Phonetics and Perception of the transmitted sound by human
brain : Auditory Phonetics.
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PHONOLOGY
Studies the sound system of languages. Distinctive sounds within a language, Nature of sound systems across the languages.
Phoneme (from the Greek: φώνημα, phōnēma, "a sound uttered") is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances.
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MORPHOLOGY
Studies the formation of words from smaller units called morphemes.
Morpheme: minimal meaningful language unit.
Phoneme(s): smallest linguistically distinctive units of sound) in spoken language.
Grapheme(s): written symbol to represent speech.
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SYNTAX
Rules that govern the formation of sentences from words.
Syntactic phrases include: Noun Phrase : a tall man, the bus Verb Phrase : roam around, hit the ball Prepositional Phrase : in the class, at the club Adjective Phrase : Very good, nice girl
The Grammatical Rules: SOV: eg. Hindi SVO: eg . English
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GRAMMAR
The syntax of a language deals with the grammatical structure of a language.
Grammar is the structural foundation of our ability to express ourselves. Descriptive grammar : structure actually used
by speakers and writers. Prescriptive grammar : structure that should
be used.
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HIERARCHY OF LANGUAGE: STRATIFICATION
PhonemesSyllablesMorphemes WordsPhrasesClausesSentences/utterances Texts/discourses
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SEMANTICS
Study of language meaning.
Concerned with not only the meaning of words, but also that of morphemes and of sentences.
Lexical semantics study how and what the words of a language denote.
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SEMANTIC RELATIONS
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EXAMPLES
Pretty and attractive are synonyms. Good and bad are antonyms. Animal is a hypernym of mammal which is a
hypernym of dog. Dog is a hyponym of mammal which is a
hyponym of animal. Bark is a meronym of tree which is a
meronym of forest. Forest is a holonym of tree which is a
holonym of bark.
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PRAGMATICS
Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context.
How language is used to communicate rather than how it is internally structured.
Govern a number of conversational interactions, such as sequential organization, repair of errors, role and speech acts.
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REFERENCES
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
en.citizendium.org/wiki/Linguistics
Lecture Slides
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