Phonology: Sounds
The study of the sounds of language is called phonology. The sounds of human language are special because they are produced by a set of organs, the speech organs, that belong only to the human species.
Morphology: Word Structure
Morphology, the study of how words are put together, developed as a subfield of linguistics as soon as linguists realized that the rules they had devised to explain sound patterns in language could not explain the structure of words.
Syntax: Sentence Structure
A third component of language is syntax, or sentence structure. Linguists began to study syntax when they discovered that morphological rules alone could not account for certain patterns of morpheme use.
Semantics: Meaning
Semantics, the study of meaning.
Shultz, emily. (2013) oup.components of language. Recovered by
http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195189766/student_resources/Supp_chap_mats/Chap10/Components_of_Language
The study of the sounds of language is called phonology. The sounds of human language are special because they are produced by a set of organs, the speech organs, that belong only to the human species.
Morphology: Word Structure
Morphology, the study of how words are put together, developed as a subfield of linguistics as soon as linguists realized that the rules they had devised to explain sound patterns in language could not explain the structure of words.
Syntax: Sentence Structure
A third component of language is syntax, or sentence structure. Linguists began to study syntax when they discovered that morphological rules alone could not account for certain patterns of morpheme use.
Semantics: Meaning
Semantics, the study of meaning.
Shultz, emily. (2013) oup.components of language. Recovered by
http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195189766/student_resources/Supp_chap_mats/Chap10/Components_of_Language