Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics studies how the mind acquires, produces and understands language.
Key topics
First and second language acquisition, speech perception, sentence processing, reading and the mental lexicon.
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Readings that connect linguistics with cognitive science, neuroscience and education.
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Applied Linguistics
Applied linguistics uses what we know about language to solve real problems in teaching, learning, translation, assessment and communication.
Phonetics and Phonology
Phonetics studies how speech sounds are produced, transmitted and perceived. Phonology studies how languages organise sounds into systems.
Syntax and Semantics
Syntax studies how words combine into sentences. Semantics studies meaning in words and sentences.