Linguistics Prelim (reviewer)

It studies speech sounds, including production of speech, that is how speech sounds

are actually made.

• Phonology

• Phonetics

• Semantics

• Morphology

It studies the sound system of languages, distinctive sounds within a language,

nature of sound systems across the languages.

• Morphology

• Phonetics

• Phonology

• Syntax

·Studies the formation of words from smaller

units called morphemes.

• Semantics

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Phonetics

It is the minimal meaningful language unit.

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Morphology

• Grapheme

The smallest linguistically distinctive

(units of sound) in spoken language.

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Grapheme

• Morphology

It is written in symbols to represent speech.

• Morpheme

• Morphology

• Grapheme

• Phoneme

It is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger

units such as phrases and sentences.

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Phonetics

• Semantics

It is the study of language meaning - concerned with not only the meaning

of words, but also that of morphemes and of sentences. Studies how and what

the words of a language denote.

• Semantics

• Phonetics

• Pragmatics

• Phonology

Refers to the study of meaning in context - how language is used to communicate rather

than how it is internally structured.

• Pragmatics

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Morphology

The study of language and mind: the mental structures and processes which are involved in the acquisition, comprehension and production of language.

• PSYCHOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS

• APPLIED LINGUISTICS

• NEURO LINGUISTICS

• DISCOURSE ANALYSIS