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Parent topics

• Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation ^[e]
• Social science [r]: Any of a number of academic disciplines which study human social behavior, institutions and relations. ^[e]
• Language [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. ^[e]
• Language Evolution (book synopsis) [r]: Synopsis and commentary on book by M.H. Christiansen and S. Kirby, essays on language evolution by multiple authors (2004) ^[e]
• What is language? [r]: The definition of language - what counts as a language and what doesn't - is a difficult philosophical topic, deserving an article in its own right. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Grammar (linguistics) [r]: The structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any language; alternatively, the system of language itself, i.e. the principles common to all languages. ^[e]
• Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. ^[e]
• Biolinguistics [r]: An interdisciplinary field that explores human natural language’s fundamental properties, development in individuals, use in thinking and communicating, brain implementation, genetic underpinnings, and evolutionary origins. ^[e]

Subdisciplines

Core areas

• Morphology [r]: The study of word structure; the study of such patterns of word-formation across and within languages, and attempts to explicate formal rules reflective of the knowledge of the speakers of those languages. ^[e]
• Phonetics [r]: Study of speech sounds and their perception, production, combination, and description. ^[e]
• Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. ^[e]
• Pragmatics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in use or the study of meaning as it arises from language occurring in context. ^[e]
• Semantics [r]: The subfield of the study of language which focuses on meaning. ^[e]
• Syntax [r]: The study of the rules, or 'patterned relations', that govern the way words combine to form phrases and phrases to form sentences. ^[e]

Fields of linguistics

Cognitive linguistics [r]: School of linguistics that understands language creation, learning, and usage as best explained by reference to human cognition in general. [e] Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. [e] Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e] Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics that concerns itself with how the human faculty of language evolved; multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others. [e] Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. [e] Neurolinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Generative linguistics [r]: School of thought within linguistics that makes use of the concept of a generative grammar. [e] Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. [e] Anthropological linguistics [r]: The study of language through human genetics and human development. [e] Computational linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics and computer science that seeks to understand the nature of language through computer modelling, as well as develop natural language processing to improve human-computer interaction. [e] Writing system [r]: A set of signs used to represent a language, such as an alphabet, or a set of rules used to write a language, such as conventions of spelling and punctuation. [e] Lexis [r]: Add brief definition or description Multilingualism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Language acquisition

• Language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• First language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Second language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Language attrition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Critical period [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Critical period hypothesis [r]: Add brief definition or description

Applied linguistics

• Applied linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Clinical linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Linguists

Notable figures

Leonard Bloomfield [r]: Add brief definition or description Franz Boas [r]: Add brief definition or description Noam Chomsky [r]: Add brief definition or description David Crystal [r]: Add brief definition or description Paul Grice [r]: Add brief definition or description Ray Jackendoff [r]: Add brief definition or description Roman Jakobson [r]: Add brief definition or description

Otto Jespersen [r]: Add brief definition or description Kenneth Lee Pike [r]: Add brief definition or description Steven Pinker [r]: Add brief definition or description Edward Sapir [r]: Add brief definition or description Ferdinand de Saussure [r]: Add brief definition or description B.F. Skinner [r]: Add brief definition or description Benjamin Lee Whorf [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other researchers

• Martha Young-Scholten [r]: Add brief definition or description

History of linguistics

• History of linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Contextual linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Descriptions of language

Linguistic typology [r]: Add brief definition or description Descriptive linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Historical linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Comparative linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Linguistic variation [r]: Add brief definition or description Corpus linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Attitudes to language and linguistic study

• Linguistic prescriptivism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Cognitive science [r]: Add brief definition or description

Communication and discourse

• Communication [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Stylistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Discourse analysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paralanguage [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Speech Recognition [r]: Add brief definition or description

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