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Parent topics

• Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation ^[e]
• Social science [r]: Any of a number of academic disciplines which study human social behavior, institutions and relations. ^[e]
• Language [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Grammar [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Grammar (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. ^[e]

Linguists

Notable figures

Leonard Bloomfield [r]: Add brief definition or description Franz Boas [r]: Add brief definition or description Noam Chomsky [r]: American linguist, MIT professor and political activist. [e] David Crystal [r]: Add brief definition or description Paul Grice [r]: Add brief definition or description Ray Jackendoff [r]: Add brief definition or description Roman Jakobson [r]: (October 11, 1896 – July 18, 1982) Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language, poetry, and art. [e]

Otto Jespersen [r]: Add brief definition or description Kenneth Lee Pike [r]: Add brief definition or description Steven Pinker [r]: (b. 18 September 1954) Canadian experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science, known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. [e] Edward Sapir [r]: Add brief definition or description Ferdinand de Saussure [r]: Add brief definition or description B.F. Skinner [r]: Add brief definition or description Benjamin Lee Whorf [r]: American amateur linguist who created the '[Sapir]-Whorf hypothesis' on the relationship between language and thought. [e]

Other researchers

• Martha Young-Scholten [r]: linguist specialising in the phonology and syntax of second language acquisition (SLA); senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. ^[e]

Subdisciplines

Core areas

• Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. ^[e]
• Syntax [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Morphology [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Semantics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pragmatics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Phonetics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Fields of linguistics

Cognitive linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Creolistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Sociolinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Psycholinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Neurolinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Generative linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Psycholinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Anthropological linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Computational linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Writing system [r]: Add brief definition or description Lexis [r]: Add brief definition or description Multilingualism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Language acquisition

• Language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• First language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Second language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Language attrition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Critical period [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Critical period hypothesis [r]: Add brief definition or description

Applied linguistics

• Applied linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Clinical linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

History of linguistics

• History of linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Contextual linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Descriptions of language

Linguistic typology [r]: Add brief definition or description Descriptive linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Historical linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Comparative linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Linguistic variation [r]: Add brief definition or description Corpus linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Attitudes to language and linguistic study

• Linguistic prescriptivism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Cognitive science [r]: Add brief definition or description

Communication and discourse

• Communication [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Stylistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Discourse analysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paralanguage [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Speech Recognition [r]: Add brief definition or description