1. 1 Phonetics Study of the sounds of Speech Articulatory Acoustic Experimental

2. 2 Phonology The study of the sound patterns in languages Phonemes (vowels and consonants) Prosody (stress, rhythm and intonation)

3. 3 Morphology The study of the structure of words

4. 4 Syntax The study of the ways in which words combine into units such as Phrase, Clause and Sentence

5. 5 Semantics The study of the meaning of words and sentences, their denotations, connotations, implications and ambiguities

6. 6 Pragmatics Anything relating to the way in which people communicate that cannot be captured by conventional linguistic analysis, includes discourse analysis

7. 7 Structure UsePragmatics Meaning (semantics) Grammar Medium of Transmission PhoneticsPhonologyMorphologySyntaxLexiconDiscourse Structure of Spoken Language (from Crystal 1997)