Computational Linguistics
The statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective.
Contact Linguistics
The study of the ways in which languages influence one another when people speaking two or more languages (or dialects) interact.
Descriptive Linguistics
The work of analyzing and describing how language is spoken.
Historical Linguistics
The study of language change.
Language Acquisition
The study of the acquisition of language.
Morphology
The study of morphemes, the smallest units of grammatical meaning, such as inflection and affixes.
Phonetics
The study of the sounds of human speech.
Phonology
The study of the sound system of a specific language.
Pragmatics
The study of the ability of natural language speakers to communicate more than that which is explicitly stated.
Prosody
The study of the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech.
Psycholinguistics
The study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language.
Semantics
The study of aspects of meaning, as expressed in language or other systems of signs.
Sociolinguistics
The study of the effect of any and all aspects of society on the way language is used.
Syntax
The study of the rules that govern the structure of sentences, and which determine their relative grammaticality.
Typology
The study of the classification of languages according to their structural and functional properties.
