LIN 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phonetics, Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics
Linguistics
Layers of Linguistics:
• Language is a hugely multifaceted entity
• The structure of language may be separated into many different layers.
• On the surface utterances are constructed out of sequences of sounds.
• The study of the production and perception of these sounds is known as phonetics.
• These sounds pattern differently in different languages.
• The study of how they group and pattern is known as phonology.
• These groups of sounds then combine to create words, which is morphology.
• Words must be ordered in specific ways depending on a language's syntax.
• The literal meaning assigned to words and sentences is the semantic layer and the
meaning of sentences in context is known as pragmatics.
• Each of these may be considered a branch of theoretical linguistics, which studies the
structure of models of language.
• Various topics of inquiry which apply our linguistic knowledge of these layers to solve
real-life problems, a pursuit known as applied linguistics.
• Branches of applied linguistics include: computational linguistics.
• Pronouns like me, him, her, etc.-objective pronouns
• Linguistics can also be broken down it the basics of sounds, syllables, and functions or
placement of the tongue’s location in the mouth
• Also, the difference with the Nasal words and if the throat vibrates or not
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