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What are the Levels of Linguistics?

There are three basic levels of linguistics. First is  Phonetics means the speech sounds. Phonetics is the branch of linguistics. English has 45 phonemes sounds.

Five vowels have 21 sounds. And twenty four has a consonants sounds or phonemes. The second level of linguistics is morphology. It's a study of words. The third one is the Syntax. Syntax means the study of a sentence. The last one is semantic. Since the early linguistics says that semantics is not a level of linguistics. But modern linguistics says it is also a level of linguistics.
Now I discussed them elaborately.

Phonetics


Phonetics and phonology two basic levels of linguistics are concerned with the investigation, analysis, description, and exemplification of speech sounds. Every language has four basic skills listening, speaking, reading and writing. Listening and speaking learned naturally in the natural setting are called the primary skills since language is primarily speech produced by the speaker and received by the listener. Phonetics a level of linguistics scientifically studies analysis of speech sounds is called phonetics. The subject matter of phonetics is not limited to the production, transmission, and perception of vowels and consonants. Phonetics is a science of speech sounds. Moreover, a Phonetic unit is transcribed between square brackets.

Morphology


The term morphology is Greek and constricted of morph standing for shape or form and ology suggesting the study of something. In linguistic morphology is a level of linguistic analysis and dissemination and covers the scientific study of forms and structure of words in a language is called morphology. The traditional concern of morphology is the identification of morphemes that is the smallest meaningful and indivisible grammatical units of language.

Semantics


Language is not simply patterns of noise. No matter how systematic noise is, it cannot be language until it has been given a meaning. The term, which is commonly used in the study of meaning, is semantic. Semantics may be defined as the study of meaning. Modern linguistics is the discipline, which developed in the twenty century. Semantics is one of the basic level or branches of linguistics. Which focuses on the study of meaning. Semantics is closely linked to pragmatic. Pragmatic is another level or branch of linguistics. Which is also broadly speaking the study and analysis of meaning.

Syntax


Language can be described at various levels. It can be described and analysis at the level of sound, word, sentence, and meaning. The description of language at the sentence and meaning level is called Syntax.  We also study Syntax to develop set rules and constraints in the language. The syntax is defined as a fundamental level of linguistics that studies sentence construction and helps us to understand and apply the rules for framing a correct sentence in a particular language. The investigation of the possible combinations of words in a language. The basic unit of syntax is the sentence which minimally consists of a verb and a subject and maximally of a string of clauses, possibly in a specific relationship to each other. Like other levels of language, the syntax is governed by rules of well-formedness which specify which combinations are permissible and which not. It is the task of a syntactic theory to determine these rules.

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