Forms of language
The smallest meaningful unit of language.
What is Morpheme?
The study of meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure.
What is semantics?
The study of social aspects of language.
What is sociolinguistics?
The study of speech sounds in their physical aspects
What is phonetics?
The study of language use.
What is pragmatics?
The study of the psychological aspects of language.
What is psycholinguistics?
The appropriateness of sentences.
What is prescriptive grammar?
The study of speech sounds in their cognitive aspects.
What is phonology?
The scientific study of language and its structure
What is linguistics?
The study of the function of the brain in language processing.
What is neurolinguistics?
Principles of language that are shared by every human language.
Universal grammar.
The study of the formation of words
What is morphology?
The study of language using computers.
What is computational linguistics?
How people actually speak.
What is descriptive grammar?
The study of the formation of sentences.
What is syntax?