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    Levels of Linguistic Analysis

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    Language can be studied at different levels of linguistic analysis, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. [1] Phonetics is the study of speech sounds and how they are produced, transmitted, and received. [2] Phonology analyzes how sounds are organized and combine into syllables and larger speech units in a language's system. [3] Morphology looks at the smallest meaningful units (morphemes) and how they combine to form words.

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    Language can be studied at different levels of linguistic analysis, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. [1] Phonetics is the study of speech sounds and how they are produced, transmitted, and received. [2] Phonology analyzes how sounds are organized and combine into syllables and larger speech units in a language's system. [3] Morphology looks at the smallest meaningful units (morphemes) and how they combine to form words.

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    Language can be studied at different levels of linguistic analysis, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. [1] Phonetics is the study of speech sounds and how they are produced, transmitted, and received. [2] Phonology analyzes how sounds are organized and combine into syllables and larger speech units in a language's system. [3] Morphology looks at the smallest meaningful units (morphemes) and how they combine to form words.

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    Levels of

    Linguistic
    Analysis
    Language Structure

    – Language has a hierarchical structure


    – Made up of units
    – It has a layered system
    – Language can be studied only in an analytical or systematic way
    – Based on the different levels, we have therefore different branches of language
    study:
    - Phonetics
    - Phonology
    - Morphology
    - Syntax
    - Semantics
    - Discourse
    Phonetics

    – Study of the production, transmission and reception of speech sounds


    – Studies language at the level of sounds
    – How sounds are articulated by the human speech mechanism and received by
    the auditory mechanism
    – How sounds can be distinguished and characterized by the manner in which
    they are produced
    – Most basic level of language
    Phonology

    – Study of the selection and organization of speech sounds in a language


    – Analyses the arrangement of speech sounds of particular languages
    – Studies the combination of sounds into organized units of speech, formation of
    syllables and larger units
    – Describes the sound system of a particular language and the combination and
    distribution of sounds that occur in that language
    Morphology

    – Study of morphemes- the smallest meaningful units in the language structure


    – Looks at how morphemes are organized into words
    – Studies the patterns of formation of words
    – Deals with the rules of combination of morphemes to form words, as suffixes or
    prefixes are attached to single morphemes to form words
    – Studies the changes that take place in the structure of words (eg.the morpheme
    ‘take’ changes into ‘took’ or ‘taken’, signifying a change in tense)
    – Morphological changes often involve changes at the level of both sound and
    meaning (i.e. phonological and semantic levels)
    Syntax

    – Level at which we study how words combine to form phrases, phrases combine
    to form clauses and clauses join together to form sentences
    – Syntactic study looks for the principles of sentence construction in a language
    – Involves therefore the description of the rules of positioning of elements in the
    sentence
    – Syntax also attempts to describe how the various elements function in a
    sentence (their roles)
    – Rules of syntax should be comprehensive enough to explain how meaningful
    and grammatical sentences are constructed
    Semantics

    – Study of meanings
    – Attempts to analyse the structure of meaning in a language (how words similar
    or different are related)
    – Inter-relationships are shown through categories
    – Tries to give an account of both word and sentence meaning
    – Attempts to analyse and define what is considered to be abstract
    – An extension of semantics is pragmatics, which deals with the contextual
    aspects of meaning in particular situations by considering utterances made by
    speakers
    Discourse

    – Study of language chunks- units bigger than a sentence


    – At this level we analyse inter-sentential links that form a connected/ cohesive
    text
    – By studying these elements of cohesion, we can understand how a piece of
    connected language can have greater meaning that is more than the sum of the
    individual sentences
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