Resume Kelompok 1&2 Linguistic

    Language plays an important role in human life. One seeks to acquire, learn and use the language as a means of communication, and social as well as a symbol of humanity. By using the language a person can make statements, convey facts and knowledge, explain or resport something, and maintaining social relationships between the users of the language. This shows that by using language, people can express their ideas, feelings, etc. of information through communication. 

 

What is Linguistic?

     Linguistic is the scientific study of human language. Linguistic (experts in linguistics) work on spesific languages, but their primary goal is to understand the nature of language in general by asking questions. 

Linguistics investigate how people acquire their knowledge about language, how this knowledge interacts with other cognitive processes, how it varies across speakers and geographic regions, and how to model this knowledge computationally. They study how to represent the structure of the various aspects of language (such as sounds or meaning), how to account for different linguistic patterns theoritically, and how the different components of language interact with each other.

    The main process of study linguistics in an academic environment is the advancement of knowledge. However, because of the centrality of language in human interaction and behavior, the knowledge gained through the study of linguistics has many practical consequenses and uses.

Linguists study language structure (such as sounds and meanings), linguistic patterns, how components of language interact with one another, how people gain knowledge of language, the way knowledge of language interacts with other cognitive processes and how language varies.

Provides analyses of the grammars of languages such as ‘Indo-European-linguistics,’ ‘Romance linguistics,’ African linguistics,’ refer to studies of particular languages and language families, from both historical and synchronic points of view.

Phonetics is the study of speech sounds and Phonology is the study of sound system. Phoneticians study both the production of speech sounds by the human speech organs (articulatory phonetics) and the properties of the sounds themselves (acoustic phonetics).

 

What is Phonetics?

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and preceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.

There are three type of the study of the sounds of language.

1.     Acoustic Phonetics

The study of the physical properties of sounds.

2.     Auditory Phonetics

The study of the way listeners perceive sounds.

3.     Articulatory Phonetics

The study of how the vocal tracts produce the sounds.

 

What is Phonology?

Phonology is about patterns of sounds, especially different patterns of sounds in different languages, or within each language, different patterns of sounds in different positions in words etc.

Phonology can be related to many linguistic disciplines, including psycholinguistics, cognitive science, sociolinguistics and language acquistion. Principles of phonology can also be applied to treatments of speech phatologies and innovations in technology. In terms of speech recognition, systems can be designed to translate spoken data into text. In this way, computers process the language like our brains do. The same processes that occur in the mind of a human when producing and receiving language occur in machines. One example of machines decoding language is the popular intelligence system, Siri.

                                                                      

Phonology vs. Phonetics – the key differences

Phonology is concerned with the abstract, where as phonetics is concerned with the physical properties of sounds. In phonetics we can see infinite realisations, for example every time you say a ‘p’ it will slightly different than the other times you’ve said it. However, in phonology all productions are the same sound within the language’s phoneme inventory, therefore even though no two ‘p’s are the same, they represent the same sound in the language.