Perhaps you are interested in accents, dialects, or slang, or you are a good learner of languages, or you are intrigued by how language changes over time, or you wonder how humans manage to learn and produce language. Linguistics often appeals to students who are curious about language as one of the most fascinating aspects of human knowledge and behaviour. Some make computational models of speech and language based on collections of spoken and written language. Many linguists investigate how languages vary across speakers, social groups and geographic regions, and some are involved in the documentation and maintenance of endangered languages. Some investigate how people acquire their knowledge about language and what this tells us about how the mind works. They study everyday language use, how it varies and changes geographically, socially and across time, and how children acquire language.Įven when they investigate specific languages, linguists are often trying to shed light on language in general. Linguists explore all these areas and more. Language is fundamental to nearly every aspect of human experience: how we communicate, our sense of identity, how we interact socially, how we think. Linguists investigate how language works how patterns of sounds, words and sentences combine to convey meaning. Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
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