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