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Levels of Language 6 Levels of Language

Levels of Language Aspect of language are often referred to as 'language levels'. To look carefully at language To see how it works There are various different aspects of language structure which need separate consideration. These are often referred to by linguists as the different levels of language. If we just think of a single sentence for the moment, we would need at least the following levels:

1) Phonetics & Phonology Phonetics: – The study of Production, Transmission and Perception of speech sounds – Articulatory Phonetics – Acoustic Phonetics – Auditory Phonetics Phonology – The study of use and patterning of speech sounds

Phonetics & Phonology The music of language is contained in the system of sounds which the human mouth is able to sing or say. Spoken language has a body and a breath to it. The set of possible human sounds (as used in the 3-5,000 languages) can be represented in print by the forty-six units of the international phonetic alphabet (IPA). However, each language has peculiar dialects (subsystems of sounds) and each individual voice can be recognized as a unique expression of the possible phonemes.

PHONEME The smallest minimal contrastive unit of speech is known as phoneme. English 44 Phonemes: 24 Consonants and 20 Vowels 26 Alphabets

CONSONANTS

VOWELS

NATURAL CLASSES OF PHONEMES consonants: nasal, voiced, labial, sibilant, etc. vowels: high, low, back, rounded, tense, etc.

PHONOLOGY Intonation Word Stress Phrase Stress Sentence Stress

2) MORPHOLOGY The study of how morphemes can combine in a given language to form words falls under the rubric of morphology. Consider this pluralizing '-s'. Clearly this conveys meaning, but it doesn't qualify as a word. What it qualifies as is a morpheme, along with 'cat', 'dog', and '-ing'. The study of how morphemes can combine in a given language to form words falls under the rubric of morphology.

MORPHEME The smallest minimal contrastive unit of word is known as Morpheme. Morpheme PrefixSuffix Root

Examples Wait-ingUn-usual-ly ing Wait unly usual

3) SYNTAX The study of grammatical rules of a language is known as syntax. We put words together into sentences according to the rules of syntax, what most people mean by the word grammar. This small number of rules is learned in early childhood and results in a small array of possible sentence patterns (see The Patterns of the Sentence). Syntax is the primary level of creativity in speaking and writing because from those few patterns of phrase and sentence an infinite number of sentences can be generated.

Examples of Syntax NOUN PHRASE: The pretty girl VERB PHRASE: Have been doing work SENTENCE: Its too cold in here.

4) Semantics

Semantics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the study of meaning, changes in meaning, and the principles that govern the relationship between sentences or words and their meanings. It is the study of the relationships between signs and symbols and what they represent. An understanding of semantics is essential to the study of language acquisition (how language users acquire a sense of meaning, as speakers and writers, listeners and readers).

Example “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”

5) Pragmatics The study of language in use Kempson (1986) is of the view that the study of pragmatics is concerned with the general principles necessary for retrieving information from a specific utterance based on the context.

Process of Successful Communication Speaker (uses language) Needs appropriateness Listener (retrieves language) Needs to comprehend

Even after extracting a set of literal meanings from sentences, there is still the level of pragmatics. Language is usually and a cooperative process between at least two people, and conversations involve a subtle interplay of assumptions, requests, and expectations on the part of each speaker. Having said something, how can you be sure the other person understands? What should you say first? How do you keep from repeating yourself? When is it the other person's turn to talk? Does this person really want to know if I have a watch, or does she really want to know what time it is? These kinds of problems are hard enough for humans to work out, and to date no computer program even approaches human capabilities at this level.

Examples Peter : Do you want some coffee ? Mary : Coffee would keep me awake

6) Discourse The study of language above the level of sentence. Discourse includes everything. It can be both written and spoken. “Discourse is an identity kit” (James Paul Gee).

Examples Each unit of language generally has a form that governs the whole. This piece of writing is a web page, a piece of instruction in expository prose. Just a minute ago, I was interrupted by a telephone conversation, a special form of speaking dependent on the technology and governed by certain expectations of form and content. All the literary genres are kinds of discourse units in the literary sphere of culture

SUMMARY LEVELS OF LANGUAGE Phonetics and Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics Discourse