Hebrew
א
aleph
בּ
beth
study of the sounds of language
phonetics
a small number of sounds makes many words which makes infinite sentences
double articulation
the man who revived Hebrew from being a dead language
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
ה
hey
ט
how sounds form words
morphology
arbitrariness
study of how sounds are organized
phonology
כּ
kaph
ל
lamed
how sentences are formed
syntax
some aspects of language are taught by culture after birth, not innately learned
cultural transmission
language can produce new sentences that have never been spoken before
productivity
פ
pe
שׁ
shin
study of large units of text
text linguistics
language can refer to things that are not present or do not exist
displacement
meanings of words and sentences
semantics
ר
resh
ח
kheth
study of how language is used in context
pragmatics
a person may be a speaker or a hearer
interchangeability
צ
tsade