LIN 1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics
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Introduction: language, allows share complicated thoughts, negotiate agreements, make communal plans, language as technology. For example, one could study respected authorities: we would go to the writings of the founding sage of danish, for example, and to the writings of the sage"s immediate disciples, to find out the original intent, much as. In other words, these authorities were themselves scientific linguists of a sort: they observed language users and tried to describe their behavior. Inquiring mind to do original linguistic research of your own: but you need not start from scratch generations of linguists before you have laid a fairly stable groundwork. In literate cultures, it is common to have a tradition of language instruction. Part 2: the study of the production and perception of speech sounds is a branch of linguistics called phonetics, studied by phoneticians. It is usually divided into the three branches: articulatory, acoustic, auditory phonetics.
