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Areas2

Ax, ex, ics, and ologies

A division into areas, with each one the subject of strenuous debate about its boundaries.

SoundMeaning2

Linguistics

The attempt to study speech and language scientifically

Semantics2

Semantics

The meaning of words in phrases and sentences

Biolinguistiics

Biolinguistics

Linguistics as a branch of biology

Pragmatics2

Pragmatics

Language in circumstances

Syntax2

Syntax

Making meanings exact, and nonsense

Moprhology2

Morphology

Building words

Phonetics

Phonetics

The sounds of speech or 'phonemes'

Phonology

Phonology

The organisation of the speech sounds as a system

Phonotactics4

Phonotactics

Combining the speech sounds

Psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics

Linguistics by numbers

Metalinguistics-image

Metalinguistics

Pairing sounds and meanings and recognising it

Grammar

Grammar

Used here to include syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, the phonotactics, and syllable structure.

Building blocks5R

The architecture

Not just words but where the words go.

Loans

Loans / imports

By conquest, trade, culture, sport, entertainment, slavery, friendship.

Lexicon

Lexicon / vocabulary

Words with meanings

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