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Parent topics

• Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation ^[e]
• Social Sciences [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Language [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. ^[e]

Subtopics

Subdisciplines

Core areas

• Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. ^[e]
• Syntax [r]: The study of the rules, or 'patterned relations', that govern the way words combine to form phrases and phrases to form sentences. ^[e]
• Morphology [r]: The study of word structure; the study of such patterns of word-formation across and within languages, and attempts to explicate formal rules reflective of the knowledge of the speakers of those languages. ^[e]
• Semantics [r]: The subfield of the study of language which focuses on meaning. ^[e]
• Pragmatics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in use or the study of meaning as it arises from language occurring in context. ^[e]
• Phonetics [r]: Study of speech sounds and their perception, production, combination, and description. ^[e]

Fields of linguistics

Language acquisition [r]: The study of how language comes to users of first and second languages. [e] Cognitive linguistics [r]: School of linguistics that understands language creation, learning, and usage as best explained by reference to human cognition in general. [e] Grammar [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Grammar (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed. Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e] Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. [e] Language evolution [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Language evolution (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed. Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. [e]

Neurolinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Generative linguistics [r]: School of thought within linguistics that makes use of the concept of a generative grammar. [e] Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e] Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. [e] Anthropological linguistics [r]: The study of language through human genetics and human development. [e] Computational linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics and computer science that seeks to understand the nature of language through computer modelling, as well as develop natural language processing to improve human-computer interaction. [e] Writing systems [r]: Add brief definition or description

Applied linguistics

• Applied linguistics [r]: The application of linguistic theories to practical issues and problems, such as language learning. ^[e]
• Clinical linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

History of linguistics

• History of linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Contextual linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Descriptions of language

Linguistic typology [r]: Add brief definition or description Descriptive linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Historical linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Comparative linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Linguistic variation [r]: Add brief definition or description Corpus linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

Communication and discourse

• Communication [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Stylistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Discourse analysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paralanguage [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Speech Recognition [r]: Add brief definition or description

Attitudes to language and linguistic study

• Linguistic prescriptivism [r]: Add brief definition or description

See also

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• Noam Chomsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cognitive science [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Communication [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Critical period [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Language attrition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lexis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Multilingualism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Orthography [r]: Add brief definition or description