Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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acoustic phonetics

Language; Linguistics

A subfield of phonetics which deals with acoustic aspects of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics investigates properties like the mean squared amplitude of a waveform, its duration, its fundamental ...

A branch of linguistics which studies the systematic organization of speech sounds. It has traditionally focused largely on study of the systems of phonemes in particular languages, but it may also ...

morphology

Language; Linguistics

A brach of linguistics which studies the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of ...

pragmatics

Language; Linguistics

A branch of linguistics which studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches ...

syntax

Language; Linguistics

The branch of linguistics which studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.

obligatory contour principle

Language; Linguistics

Principle in phonology, originally proposed for tones, by which identical units are not associated independently with two successive prsitions on a skeletal tier. Since extended to units of other ...

optimality theory

Language; Linguistics

A linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints. OT models grammars as systems that provide mappings from inputs to ...