What is morphology?
The study of word structure.
Who were early Greek philosophers interested in language?
Plato, Aristoteles, Stoics, Dionysius Thrax.
What is the IPA?
The International Phonetic Alphabet, a system to represent pronunciation.
What did Aristoteles add to word classification?
A third class: Syndesmoi (conjunctions).
What does syntax analyze?
The arrangement of words into phrases and sentences.
What are the three branches of phonetics?
Articulatory, Acoustic, and Auditory phonetics.
What is phonetics?
The study of human speech sounds.
What is Linguistics?
The scientific study of language.
How is phonetics different from spelling?
Phonetics is about sound; spelling is about writing.
What are the sub-fields of linguistics? Mention 3
Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics.
What were Plato’s two-word classes?
Onoma (noun) and Rhema (verb)