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Ashish Prasad & Apurv Verma
WHAT IS LINGUISTICS?
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LANGUAGE
“Language is a purely human and
non-instinctive method of
communicating ideas, emotions and
desires by means of voluntarily
produced symbols.”
--Edward Sapir (1884-1939):
Language: An Introduction to the
Study of Speech (1921)
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“From now on I will consider
language to be a set (finite or
infinite) of sentences, each
finite in length and
constructed out of a finite set
of elements.”
--Noam Chomsky (1928- ):
Syntactic Structures (1957)
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IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE
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LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD
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MAIN BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
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PHONETICS
Phonetics studies speech sounds, including
Production of speech, that is how speech sounds are
actually made : Articulatory Phonetics
Transmission and receipt of speech : Acoustic
Phonetics and
Perception of the transmitted sound by human brain :
Auditory Phonetics.
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PHONOLOGY
Studies the sound system of languages.
Distinctive sounds within a language,
Nature of sound systems across the languages.
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MORPHOLOGY
Studies the formation of words from smaller
units called morphemes.
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SYNTAX
Rules that govern the formation of sentences
from words.
Syntactic phrases include:
Noun Phrase : a tall man, the bus
Verb Phrase : roam around, hit the ball
Prepositional Phrase : in the class, at the club
Adjective Phrase : Very good, nice girl
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GRAMMAR
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HIERARCHY OF LANGUAGE: STRATIFICATION
Phonemes
Syllables
Morphemes
Words
Phrases
Clauses
Sentences/utterances
Texts/discourses
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SEMANTICS
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SEMANTIC RELATIONS
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EXAMPLES
Pretty and attractive are synonyms.
Good and bad are antonyms.
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REFERENCES
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
en.citizendium.org/wiki/Linguistics
Lecture Slides
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THANK YOU
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