Pragmatics

Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication.

Social changes can often bring about language changes.

Linguistics

The study of meaning in language is known as semantics.

The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology.

Chomsky defines “competence” as the ideal user’s k（）of the rules of his language.

General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole.

Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences.

Syntax