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  Linguistics - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Historical linguistics, the study of languages whose historical relations are recognizable through similarities in vocabulary, word formation, and syntax.
Sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and linguistic anthropology are where the social sciences that consider societies as whole and linguistics interact.
For linguistic research that uses the methods of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, written language is often much more convenient for processing large amounts of linguistic data.
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 Linguistics - Wikipedia
Linguistics studies all aspects of language and includes such diverse subfields as phonetics, semantics, syntax, etymology, lexicology, lexicography, theoretical linguistics, and historical-comparative linguistics.
Theoretical linguistics studies diverse questions: how certain languages managed to communicate, what properties all languages have in common, what knowledge a person must have to be able to use a language, and how children acquire language.
Linguists generally see language as having several layers, and assume that all natural languages have the same number of layers.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linguistics   (1098 words)

  
 Wikipedia:Basic topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(2) Pick out topics in that area that are, in your opinion, among the most important and add them to the appropriate "basic topics" page.
We'll discover a lot of exciting topics that no one has touched yet, and get to work on them.
Astronomy and Astrophysics basic topics - Biochemistry basic topics - Biology basic topics - Chemistry basic topics - Earth Sciences basic topics - Mathematics basic topics - Philosophy basic topics - Physics basic topics - Statistics basic topics
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_topics   (225 words)

  
 Linguistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Whereas theoretical linguistics is concerned with finding and describing generalities both within particular languages and among all languages, applied linguistics takes the results of those findings and applies them to other areas.
Applications of computational linguistics in machine translation, computer-assisted translation, and natural language processing are extremely fruitful areas of applied linguistics which have come to the forefront in recent years with increasing computing power.
Sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and linguistic anthropology are social sciences that consider the interactions between linguistics and society as a whole.
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Linguistics   (1810 words)

  
 Linguistics - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Linguists often divide the study of language into a number of separate areas, to be studied more or less independently.
Most cognitive linguists, for example, would probably find the categories "semantics" and "pragmatics" to be arbitrary, and nearly all linguists would agree that the divisions overlap considerably.
Linguists can be broadly divided into those that study language at a particular point in time (usually the present) and those that study how language changes through time, sometimes over centuries.
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 Language - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This resulted in the academic discipline of linguistics, the founding of which is attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure.
Quine, and Jacques Derrida have disputed the possibility of such a rigorous study of language by questioning many of the assumptions necessary for such a study, and have put forth their own views on the nature of language.
The writer, linguist and Star Trek actor James Doohan devised the original vocabularies of Vulcan and Klingon speech which have been developed by others into full languages.
open-encyclopedia.com /Language   (710 words)

  
 CONK! Encyclopedia: Linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist.
Given these dichotomies, scholars who call themselves simply linguists or theoretical linguists, with no further qualification, tend to be concerned with autonomous, theoretical synchronic linguistics, which is acknowledged as the core of the discipline.
A Preliminary Field Guide to Linguists, Part One: A humorous overview of the various branches of linguistics and their practitioners.
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 LINGUISTICS FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Whereas theoretical linguistics is concerned with finding and describing generalities both within particular languages and among all languages, applied_linguistics takes the results of those findings and ''applies'' them to other areas.
Sociolinguistics, anthropological_linguistics, and linguistic_anthropology are social sciences that consider the interactions between linguistics and society as a whole.
For linguistic research that uses the methods of corpus_linguistics and computational_linguistics, written language is often much more convenient for processing large amounts of linguistic data.
www.whereintheworldisbush.com /Linguistics   (1815 words)

  
 Linguistics
Topics in the architecture of a theory of sound structure.
Topics include precise characterization of the impairment, distinct subtypes of SLI, cross-linguistic variation in SLI, changes in the symptoms of SLI over time, and recent theoretical models of the impairment.
Topics include collection and organization of linguistic data, basic field methods, use of language corpora and databases.
www.yale.edu /bulletin/html/grad/ling.html   (1792 words)

  
 English 391 Topics in Applied Linguistics
Linguistics is the science of language; language is fundamental in children's education in a variety of ways.
Linguists have made great strides in understanding how children acquire their native language in the pre-school years, and have also extensively studied how children and adults acquire additional languages.
This course is designed to introduce you to several topics crucial to your future as a teacher, and which the state of California requires future teachers to study.
cla.calpoly.edu:16080 /~jrubba/391   (537 words)

  
 Linguistics
The emphasis is on the relevance of this research to the study of the human mind and on the importance of theoretical linguistics as a tool of psycholinguistic investigation.
Topics include the innate sensorimotor link and imitation; articulatory gestures as primitives of the phonological system; phonology as a system for combining gestures into coordinated structures; parallels to self-organization in other combinatoric systems; the role of universal principles, language-particular tuning, and the developing lexicon in the emergence of phonological structures.
Topics include word order, case markers, nominalizers, the postpositional marker nun, and five sentence structures in which nun appears: generic, topic-comment, contrastive, logophoric, and negative sentences.
www.yale.edu /bulletin/html2003/grad/ling.html   (1750 words)

  
 Language - Wikipedia
A useful listing of 4000 languages and dialects (grouped by their relationships), with the numbers one through ten in each language can be found at Mark Rosenfelder's Metaverse.
In Mathematics and the theory of computation, a formal language, or language, is a set of finite strings of symbols.
The mathematical study of languages has important applications in computer science and linguistics.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language   (262 words)

  
 24.919 Special Topics in Linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This course does not assume any previous course in linguistics, though one pre-requisite is the enthusiastic desire to learn in class some basic tools for linguistic analysis, mostly in the domain of "morphology" (i.e., word structure) and "syntax" (i.e., sentence structure).
The Creole languages spoken in the Caribbean are linguistic by-products of the historical events triggered by colonization and the slave trade in Africa and the "New World".
Through a sample of linguistic case studies using Haitian Creole and other Caribbean Creole languages, we will explore creolization from a cognitive, historical and comparative perspective, and we will evaluate various hypotheses about the development of Creole languages and about the role of first- and second-language acquisition in such development.
www.mit.edu /~linguistics/24.919   (347 words)

  
 Linguistics Courses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A basic survey of the effects of geography, society, and politics on language families.
A survey of theory, methods and findings of linguistic research: the relation between sound and meaning in human languages; social variation in language; language change over time; universals of language; the mental representation of linguistic knowledge.
Topics include the evolution of the human language capacity; the principles of historical language change including reconstruction of Indo-European and Native American language families; writing systems; linguistic forms such as Pidgins and Creoles arising from languages in contact; the interaction between language and political systems, the struggle for human rights, gender, ethnicity, and ethnobiology.
vm.uconn.edu /~regcat03/ling.htm   (550 words)

  
 A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Traditionally, anthropological linguists have aimed to document and study the languages of indigenous cultures, especially North American ones.
The overall objective of A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics is to show how the technical methodology of linguistic analysis can help students gain a deeper understanding of language as a strategy for classifying the world.
Marcel Danesi is Professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
www.cspi.org /books/a/anthropological.htm   (347 words)

  
 Wikipedia:Linguistics basic topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These should be the most basic topics in the field--topics about which we'd like to have articles soon.
When were the basic concepts first described and by whom?
Beginnings of modern linguistics in the 19th century
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linguistics_basic_topics   (162 words)

  
 Proseminar Topics - UCLA Linguistics Department
Topics will likely include the logic of modifiers, implicit and explicit talk about events, perception sentences (small clauses), events versus facts, events versus states, unaccusative verbs, causative verbs, thematic relations, states underlying nouns and adjectives.
The topic is Binding by Verbs and Adverbs: Modal and Tense Semantics.
Linguistics 204 covers acoustics and perception, and this course treats production, which is an area of specialization for our lab.
www.linguistics.ucla.edu /general/ProseminarTopics.htm   (10634 words)

  
 Syllabi 2004-2005 B-KUL-F9XC1A Dutch linguistics III: special topics B
With aid of topics from the (internal) history of Dutch the students are familiarized with the most important sorts of linguistic change, the relation between change and structure of the language, and between changes in related languages, and the methods to research these.
Basic schooling in Dutch Linguistics: The student is well familiar with the content of the courses Dutch Linguistics 1 and 2.
The students are willing to think about difficult and irregular morphological procedures and to actively cooperate with the professor to come to an optimal analysis and explanation of these.
www.kuleuven.ac.be /onderwijs/aanbod2004/syllabi/F9XC1AE.htm   (455 words)

  
 NTU Info Centre: Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Many languages use [[gesture]]s, [[sound]]s, [[symbol]]s, or [[word]]s, and aim at [[communicationcommunicating]] concepts, [[idea]]s, [[meaning]]s, and [[thought]]s, though the problem of linguistic [[vagueness]] often rears its head when we try to distinguish between these aspects.
Philosophers such as [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[W. Quine]], and [[Jacques Derrida]] have disputed the possibility of such a rigorous study of language by questioning many of the assumptions necessary for such a study, and have put forth their own views on the nature of language.
The writer, linguist and [[Star Trek]] actor [[James Doohan]] devised the original vocabularies of [[Vulcan (Star Trek)Vulcan]] and [[Klingon LanguageKlingon]] speech which have been developed by others into full languages.
www.nowtryus.com /article:Language?source=true   (759 words)

  
 language
The study of language as such a code is called linguistics, an academic discipline introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure.
Those who speak or otherwise use a language are deemed (by the self-appointed linguists) to be part of that language’s theoretical linguistic community
Linguistics examines different theoretical perspectives on human language in detail.
www.findthelinks.com /Arts/language.htm   (553 words)

  
 Linguistics Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Synchronic vs Diachronic: Synchronic study of a language is concerned with its form at a given moment; Diachronic study covers the history of a language (group) and its structural changes over time.
popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Linguistics   (2077 words)

  
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As with any complex, emergent concept, language is somewhat resistant to definition; however, most would agree that language is a system of
academic discipline of linguistics, the founding of which is attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure.
Quine, and Jacques Derrida have questioned the possibility of such a rigorous study of language by questioning many of the assumptions necessary for such a study, and have put forth their own views on the nature of language.
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 Encyclopedia: Linguistics basic topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 List of cognitive science topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 LINGUISTICS - Honours - Advanced Topics in Phonology: Optimality Theory : homepage
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the central premises of Optimality Theory (OT) and the conceptual and empirical results that follow from its application to phonology, particularly to prosodic structure.
Assigned reading for the week is to be done before the lecture (except for Week 1).
Other reading materials will be made available in the Linguistics Department Common Room.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /~mits/teaching/adphon   (225 words)

  
 NTU Info Centre: Linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nevertheless, each sub-area has core concepts that foster significant scholarly inquiry and research.
Some study language pertaining to a whole speech community, such as the language of all those who speak Black English Vernacular ("Ebonics").
They might describe it simply as "idiosyncratic", or they may discover a regularity (a rule) that agitates the prescriptivists.
www.nowtryus.com /article:Linguistics   (1560 words)

  
 Linguistics Courses
The analysis of sound patterns in language within a generative framework: distinctive features, segmental and prosodic analysis, word formation, the theory of markedness.
The analysis of form and meaning in natural languages in a Chomskyan framework: surface structures, deep structures, transformational rules, and principles of semantic interpretation.
Students design and conduct a study using a computer database of child speech.
www.catalog.uconn.edu /ling.htm   (485 words)

  
 the sum of my parts » basic linguistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
i have been considering topics for several days now and this post is kind of a rough sketch as to where i am at… assumptions: we create our online selves textually […]
i had to compare two forensic linguistic books (from a list of many) in less than 1000 words.
Forensic linguistics is, academically, a relatively new subset […]
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