Linguistics

Linguistics = German language - study of the structure of language

Language acquisition:

• process begins very early 
• by the age of 4 most children have learnt a language - not tied to intelligence

• Phonetics - individual units of sound e.g. articulatory
• Phonology - combining different sounds - sound systems
• Morphology - formation of words - combination of morphemes
• Syntax - where words are placed in clauses - word order
• Semantics - meaning of linguistic structures
• Pragmatics - context / language in use 

Phonology: voiced or unvoiced

Morphemes = stem 

Derivational morphology - 2 morphemes or more added together making a word with new meaning 

Inflectional morphology - a morpheme and something else e.g. a suffix to create a new word with a new meaning e.g. singular to plural

Syntactic catagories - nouns, verbs, adjectives