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[Music] hey welcome to for Education I'm Phil I'm Arena and I'm Christian and this is our Series in linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language and we're going to give you an overview here and first of all in this series we'll focus on theoretical Linguistics where we try to formalize the properties of human language and so basically we want to build a formal system and we'll do this in a bottom up way so we first look at small units and then
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successively build bigger and bigger Parts phonetics and phology studies the individual speech sounds morphology then studies the minimal meaningful units constructing words syntax studies how words are combined to form sentences then semantics studies how sentences receive their meaning and finally Medics studies what speakers mean and actually try to achieve with their utterances in a particular context we will also get into topics that interest us personally
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I'm especially interested in language acquisition and bilingualism I'm fascinated by how the human language is processed in the brain and quite similarly I'm intrigued by how the formal system underlying human language is implemented in the human mind and brain so if you don't want to miss our next episode please subscribe we are for education and we'll see you next time time
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