About Linguistics

The three branches of phonetics are articulatory, acoustic, and auditory. This beginner's guide explains what each branch studies, with examples.

These are the ways in which some knowledge of linguistics can help you in your language learning journey.

There is infinite richness in how we can combine sounds, words, and phrases to express almost anything we can think of.

Language changes gradually, through repetition, and mostly unconsciously. Let's have a look at how it happens.

Garden Path sentences guide you towards a certain interpretation, however that interpretation ends up being incorrect.

Dialects appear due to: geographic isolation, linguistic contact, social identity, historical shifts, and the way languages change over time.

Auditory illusions in speech perception are perceptual errors where your brain hears something different from the sounds produced.

It's remarkable how some words can mean one thing at one point in time and, years later, mean the complete opposite.

'Awkward silence' is what we call a longer than usual gap in the flow of speech between two or more people.

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