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of Interest/Specialisation Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman Tonology (including phonetic correlates), Phonological Typology, Language Documentation, Language Contact, Sound Change |
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Kristine A. Hildebrandt Assistant Professor English Language & Literature Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 2227 Peck Hall Edwardsville IL 62026 U.S.A. office phone: 618 650-3380 khildeb 'at' siue.edu |
| Linguistics is the study of language systems, including the structural and functional-usage patterns that identify language as a species-unique system of communication. Sub-disciplines of linguistics include phonetics (speech sound production and perception), phonology (the cross-language and mental patternings/organizations of sounds as they contribute to meaning), morphology (word formation, structure, and word histories), syntax (word combinations into larger units), semantics (meaning at morphological and syntactic levels), pragmatics (meaning as part of larger communicative contexts), discourse analysis (language use), typology (cross-linguistic comparison and the search for/testing of universals), sociolinguistics (the interaction of linguistic and social variables), linguistic anthropology (the interaction of language and culture), historical linguistics (the historical development, including birth and death, of languages), evolutionary linguistics (language origins), first and second language acquisition (in children and adults), language documentation & description, and neurolinguistics/psycholinguistics (language and the brain). That's all...or is it? |