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Types of Linguistics
- Applied Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
studies language structure (grammar), and meaning (semantics). The study of grammar
encompasses morphology (formation and alteration of words) and syntax
(the rules that determine the way words combine into phrases and sentences).
Phonology ,which is the system used to represent language through abstract
'sounds', also forms part of this field.
Applied Linguistics
Puts linguistic theories into practice in areas such as foreign language teaching,
speech therapy, translation and speech pathology.
Many areas of applied linguistics today involve the explicit use of computers. Speech
synthesis and speech recognition use phonetic and phonemic knowledge to provide
voice interfaces to computers. Applications of computational linguistics in machine
translation, computer-assisted translation, and natural language processing are
extremely fruitful areas of applied linguistics which have come to the forefront in
recent years with increasing computing power.