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Linguistics (Phonetics and Phonology (Phonetics (Divided in 3 areas…
Linguistics
Phonetics and Phonology
Phonetics
Phoneticians strive to find ways of describing and analysing the sounds human use in lenguage in an objective way.
Draws heavily on other scientific disciplines including anatomy, physiology, neurology and physics
Delas with production, properties and perception of speach sounds of human lenguages
Divided in 3 areas
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Acoustic phonetics: concerned with the physical properties of speach sounds as they travel in the air between a speaker´s mouth and a listener´s ear
Auditory phonetics: focuses on the effect those sounds have when they reach the listener´s ear and brain
Phoneticians are also interested in the precise activity of the speach organs, physical properties of speach and the activity of the body parts involved in speach perception
Phonology
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Phonologists investigate which function a sound has in a lenguage and which sounds can be combined and which cannot.
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It is concerned with what speakers and listeners know and children and second lenguage speakers should learn in order to competently use and understand spoken lenaguage.
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Discourse
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In general, a discourse is a behavioural unit which has a pre-theoretical status in linguistics, it is a set of utternances that constitute any recognizable speech event.
Lenguage
It refers to the concrete act of speaking, writing or signing in a given situation
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