linguistics 101

what is linguistics?

- phonology

- phonetics

- morphology

- syntax

- semantics

- pragmatics

- typology

typology

- correlation to difficulty of acquisition

- dominant order

- analytic vs synthetic

- isolational, agglutinative, and fusional

- noun classes

- binary, trinary, etc

- noun cases

- understanding syntax

phonetics

- IPA

- POA

- MOA

- vowels

phonology

- contrast

- phonemes

- allophones

- contextual allophony

- free variation

- phonotactics