Study Guide for Contemporary Linguistic Analysis

Language: a preview
Phonetics: the sounds of language
Phonology: contrasts and patterns
Morphology: the analysis of word structure
Syntax: the analysis of sentence structure
Semantics: the study of meaning
The classification of languages
Historical linguistics: the study of language change
Indigenous languages in Canada
First language acquisition
Second language acquisition
Bilingualism and bilingual acquisition
Psycholinguistics: the study of language processing
Brain and language
Language in social contexts
Writing and language