Language Aquisition and Development
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- etymology
- study of history and origin of words
- sociolinguistics
- study of language as it relates to society, including race, class, gender, age
- historical and political influences of lang acquisition
- every language as dialect of older communication form (eg romance languages dialects of Latin) Also, political relationships (eg Great Britain and US)
- French (1/2 of words), Greek/Latin (scientific), Spanish (terms originating in SW US)
- Other major influences in English Language
- parts of etymology
- language origin, affixes/prefixes/suffixes, compound words, slang, common words that become slang, portmanteau, taboo words that become euphemisms
- morphology
- the admissible arrangement of sounds in words; study of structure of words
- syntax
- study of structure of sentences
- phonetics
- study of sounds of language and their physical properties; the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
- pragmatics
- role of context in the determination of meaning
- Anglo-Saxon
- Where English is derived from
- semantics
- study of meaning in language
- portmanteau
- words that have been melded together (smoke + fog = smog)
- phonology
- analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect; the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
- ethnolinguistics
- study of language as it relates to culture, freq assoc with minority linguistic groups w/in larger culture
- psycholinguistics
- study of language as it relates to psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to learn language
- euphemism
- an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive (eg ladies room for toilet)