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Click on the [r] after the first definition below to edit this list of transcluded subtopics.

• Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]

• Grammar (linguistics) [r]: The structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any language; alternatively, the system of language itself, i.e. the principles common to all languages. ^[e]
• Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. ^[e]
• Biolinguistics [r]: An interdisciplinary field that explores human natural language’s fundamental properties, development in individuals, use in thinking and communicating, brain implementation, genetic underpinnings, and evolutionary origins. ^[e]

Subdisciplines

Core areas

• Morphology [r]: The study of word structure; the study of such patterns of word-formation across and within languages, and attempts to explicate formal rules reflective of the knowledge of the speakers of those languages. ^[e]
• Phonetics [r]: Study of speech sounds and their perception, production, combination, and description. ^[e]
• Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. ^[e]
• Pragmatics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in use or the study of meaning as it arises from language occurring in context. ^[e]
• Semantics [r]: The subfield of the study of language which focuses on meaning. ^[e]
• Syntax [r]: The study of the rules, or 'patterned relations', that govern the way words combine to form phrases and phrases to form sentences. ^[e]

Fields of linguistics

Cognitive linguistics [r]: School of linguistics that understands language creation, learning, and usage as best explained by reference to human cognition in general. [e] Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. [e] Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e] Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics that concerns itself with how the human faculty of language evolved; multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others. [e] Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. [e] Neurolinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Generative linguistics [r]: School of thought within linguistics that makes use of the concept of a generative grammar. [e] Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. [e] Anthropological linguistics [r]: The study of language through human genetics and human development. [e] Computational linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics and computer science that seeks to understand the nature of language through computer modelling, as well as develop natural language processing to improve human-computer interaction. [e] Writing system [r]: A set of signs used to represent a language, such as an alphabet, or a set of rules used to write a language, such as conventions of spelling and punctuation. [e] Lexis [r]: Add brief definition or description Multilingualism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Language acquisition

• Language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• First language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Second language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Language attrition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Critical period [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Critical period hypothesis [r]: Add brief definition or description

Applied linguistics

• Applied linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Clinical linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Linguists

Notable figures

Leonard Bloomfield [r]: Add brief definition or description Franz Boas [r]: Add brief definition or description Noam Chomsky [r]: Add brief definition or description David Crystal [r]: Add brief definition or description Paul Grice [r]: Add brief definition or description Ray Jackendoff [r]: Add brief definition or description Roman Jakobson [r]: Add brief definition or description

Otto Jespersen [r]: Add brief definition or description Kenneth Lee Pike [r]: Add brief definition or description Steven Pinker [r]: Add brief definition or description Edward Sapir [r]: Add brief definition or description Ferdinand de Saussure [r]: Add brief definition or description B.F. Skinner [r]: Add brief definition or description Benjamin Lee Whorf [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other researchers

• Martha Young-Scholten [r]: Add brief definition or description

History of linguistics

• History of linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Contextual linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Descriptions of language

Linguistic typology [r]: Add brief definition or description Descriptive linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Historical linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Comparative linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description Linguistic variation [r]: Add brief definition or description Corpus linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Attitudes to language and linguistic study

• Linguistic prescriptivism [r]: Add brief definition or description

What can I write about?

• There is a list of linguistics articles at Core Articles - Linguistics, consisting of Wikipedia-sourced articles in need of editing, 'micro-stubs' (articles in need of expansion) and articles yet to be written. You can start, restart or expand any of these - and get credit for it! The list is copied below,.

• Please also find below a longer list of suggested linguistics-related article titles, which may or may not have a Citizendium page. Perhaps you'd like to start one from scratch or upload and modify the Wikipedia version. Some of these are also 'Core Articles'.

• If you can write in other languages, you might also like to declare which one(s) at CZ:International.

• Articles on languages are titled so as to include the word 'language', in order to avoid confusion: e.g. English language not just English. This was officially recommended by the Editorial Council in December 2010.

Core articles

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Clinical linguistics: Add brief definition or description Theoretical linguistics: Add brief definition or description Universal grammar: Add brief definition or description Ferdinand de Saussure: Add brief definition or description Linguistic relativity: Add brief definition or description Neurolinguistics: Add brief definition or description Optimality Theory: Add brief definition or description Poverty of the stimulus: Add brief definition or description Structuralism: Add brief definition or description Adjective: Add brief definition or description Adverb: Add brief definition or description Anaphor: Add brief definition or description Article (linguistics): Add brief definition or description Autosegmental phonology: Add brief definition or description Bengali language: Add brief definition or description Cantonese language: Add brief definition or description Chinese language: Add brief definition or description Conjunction: Add brief definition or description Case: Add brief definition or description Clinical linguistics: Add brief definition or description David Crystal: Add brief definition or description Definiteness: Add brief definition or description Deixis: Add brief definition or description Dialectology: Add brief definition or description Discourse analysis: Add brief definition or description Endangered languages: Add brief definition or description Forensic linguistics: Add brief definition or description Illocutionary act: Add brief definition or description Implicature: Add brief definition or description Interlanguage: Add brief definition or description International language: Add brief definition or description

Ray Jackendoff: Add brief definition or description Language family: Add brief definition or description Lexical phonology: Add brief definition or description Locutionary act: Add brief definition or description Markedness: Add brief definition or description Minimality: Add brief definition or description Morpheme: Add brief definition or description Morphographic writing system: Add brief definition or description Polish language: Add brief definition or description Pitch-accent language: Add brief definition or description Preposition: Add brief definition or description Presupposition (linguistics): Add brief definition or description Prosodic hierarchy: Add brief definition or description Edward Sapir: Add brief definition or description Sapir–Whorf hypothesis: Add brief definition or description Sense: Add brief definition or description Semiotics: Add brief definition or description Semitic languages: Add brief definition or description Sino-Tibetan languages: Add brief definition or description Speech acts: Add brief definition or description Stress (linguistics): Add brief definition or description Stress-accent language: Add brief definition or description Stylistics: Add brief definition or description Syllabic writing system: Add brief definition or description Tone language: Add brief definition or description Translation (linguistics): Add brief definition or description

Alphabetical article list

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Accent (linguistics): Add brief definition or description Adjective: Add brief definition or description Adverb: Add brief definition or description  Alphabet: Add brief definition or description Anaphor: Add brief definition or description  Anthropological linguistics: The study of language through human genetics and human development. [e]  Applied linguistics: Add brief definition or description  Arabic language: Add brief definition or description Article (linguistics): Add brief definition or description Autosegmental phonology: Add brief definition or description Bengali language: Add brief definition or description Benjamin Whorf: Add brief definition or description Cantonese language: Add brief definition or description Case: Add brief definition or description Chinese language: Add brief definition or description  Claude Lévi-Strauss: Add brief definition or description Clinical linguistics: Add brief definition or description  Cognitive linguistics: School of linguistics that understands language creation, learning, and usage as best explained by reference to human cognition in general. [e]  Communication: Add brief definition or description  Comparative linguistics: Add brief definition or description  Comprehension approach: Add brief definition or description Computational linguistics: Branch of linguistics and computer science that seeks to understand the nature of language through computer modelling, as well as develop natural language processing to improve human-computer interaction. [e] Conjunction: Add brief definition or description  Connectionism: Add brief definition or description  Corpus linguistics: Add brief definition or description Creole language: Add brief definition or description  Critical period: Add brief definition or description David Crystal: Add brief definition or description Definiteness: Add brief definition or description Deixis: Add brief definition or description  Descriptive linguistics: Add brief definition or description Dialectology: Add brief definition or description Discourse analysis: Add brief definition or description Edward Sapir: Add brief definition or description Endangered languages: Add brief definition or description  English language: Add brief definition or description  Esperanto: Add brief definition or description Ethnolinguistics: Add brief definition or description  Etymology: Add brief definition or description Ferdinand de Saussure: Add brief definition or description Foreign language: Add brief definition or description Forensic linguistics: Add brief definition or description Formal language: Add brief definition or description  French language: Add brief definition or description Functional grammar: Add brief definition or description  Generative linguistics: School of thought within linguistics that makes use of the concept of a generative grammar. [e]  Geneva School: Add brief definition or description  German language: Add brief definition or description Grammar: Add brief definition or description  Hindi language: Add brief definition or description Illocutionary act: Add brief definition or description Implicature: Add brief definition or description Interlanguage: Add brief definition or description International language: Add brief definition or description  Japanese language: Add brief definition or description Kenneth L. Pike: Add brief definition or description  Korean language: Add brief definition or description

Language (general): Add brief definition or description  Language acquisition: Add brief definition or description Language family: Add brief definition or description Latin: Add brief definition or description  Letter (alphabet): Add brief definition or description Lexical phonology: Add brief definition or description  Lexical semantics: Add brief definition or description Lexicon: Add brief definition or description Lexis: Add brief definition or description Linguistic prescription: Add brief definition or description Linguistic relativity: Add brief definition or description  Linguistic typology: Add brief definition or description  Linguistics: The scientific study of language. [e] Locutionary act: Add brief definition or description Markedness: Add brief definition or description Michael Halliday: Add brief definition or description Minimality: Add brief definition or description Monitor Theory: Add brief definition or description Morpheme: Add brief definition or description Morphographic writing system: Add brief definition or description Morphological typology: Add brief definition or description  Morphology (linguistics): The study of word structure; the study of such patterns of word-formation across and within languages, and attempts to explicate formal rules reflective of the knowledge of the speakers of those languages. [e]  Multilingualism: Add brief definition or description  Natural language: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e] Neogrammarian: Add brief definition or description Neurolinguistics: Add brief definition or description  Noam Chomsky: Add brief definition or description Optimality Theory: Add brief definition or description Optimality theory: Add brief definition or description  Orthography: Add brief definition or description  Paleolinguistics: Add brief definition or description  Phoneme: Add brief definition or description  Phonetics: Study of speech sounds and their perception, production, combination, and description. [e]  Phonology: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. [e]  Pidgin (language): Add brief definition or description Pitch-accent language: Add brief definition or description Plato's Problem: Add brief definition or description Polish language: Add brief definition or description Portuguese language: Add brief definition or description Poverty of the stimulus: Add brief definition or description  Pragmatics: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in use or the study of meaning as it arises from language occurring in context. [e] Prague linguistic circle: Add brief definition or description Preposition: Add brief definition or description Presupposition (linguistics): Add brief definition or description Prosodic hierarchy: Add brief definition or description Prototype theory: Add brief definition or description  Psycholinguistics: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. [e] Punjabi language: Add brief definition or description Ray Jackendoff: Add brief definition or description  Roman Jakobson: Add brief definition or description  Russian language: Add brief definition or description  Sanskrit: Add brief definition or description Sapir–Whorf hypothesis: Add brief definition or description  Second language acquisition: Add brief definition or description Second language: Add brief definition or description Semantics: Add brief definition or description Semiotics: Add brief definition or description Semitic languages: Add brief definition or description Sense: Add brief definition or description Sign (linguistics): Add brief definition or description  Sign language: Add brief definition or description SIL International: Add brief definition or description Singlish: Add brief definition or description Sino-Tibetan languages: Add brief definition or description  Sociolinguistics: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e]  Spanish language: Add brief definition or description Speech acts: Add brief definition or description Speech perception: Add brief definition or description  Spoken language: Add brief definition or description Stratificational linguistics: Add brief definition or description Stress (linguistics): Add brief definition or description Stress-accent language: Add brief definition or description Structuralism: Add brief definition or description Stylistics (linguistics): Add brief definition or description Stylistics: Add brief definition or description Syllabic writing system: Add brief definition or description  Syllable: Add brief definition or description  Syntax (linguistics): The study of the rules, or 'patterned relations', that govern the way words combine to form phrases and phrases to form sentences. [e] Systemic linguistics: Add brief definition or description Theoretical linguistics: Add brief definition or description Tone language: Add brief definition or description Transformational grammar: Add brief definition or description Translation (linguistics): Add brief definition or description Universal grammar: Add brief definition or description Unsolved problems in linguistics: Add brief definition or description Word (language: Add brief definition or description}  Writing system: A set of signs used to represent a language, such as an alphabet, or a set of rules used to write a language, such as conventions of spelling and punctuation. [e]  Writing: Add brief definition or description  Written language: Add brief definition or description