The Areas of Linguistics
- Phonetics - the study of speech sounds in their physical aspects.
- Phonology - the study of the sound system of languages; pronunciation of words, and pitch, loudness, tempo and rhythm – the ‘music’ of speech.
- Morphology - the study of the formation of words
- Syntax - the study of the formation of sentences
- Semantics the study of meaning
- Pragmatics - the study of language use