My Linguistics Masterpost
Hej! I’m Espen and I’m a master’s student in linguistic studies. This is my masterpost about all the linguistic topics i made posts about:
-> 💬 Linguistics Challenge 📚 - January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November
-> The Big Lingblr Community Challenge
What the linguistic branches mean and what they analyse
Linguistic abbreviations, consonants, and vowels
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Pronunciation of English consonants & vowels
Phonetics #1: Basic Acoustics
Phonetics #2: Types of Sounds
Speech Production & Voicing
Phonological Assimilation
Allomorphs of {-s} and {-ed}
How new words are created
Word classes (sentence structure #1)
Phrases (sentence structure #2)
Clause elements & clause types (sentence structure #3)
Ferdinand de Saussure: Sign, Signifier & Signified
Components of Meaning & Componential Analysis
What is a ‘lexical item’?
Cooperative Principle & Gricean Maxims
Text types, text forms, and text form variants
Dialects & accents, pidgins & creoles (language varieties #1)
Style and Register (language varieties #2)
AAVE (African American Vernacular English)
Australian English & New Zealand English
South African English (SAE)
Characteristics of Human Language
How do animals communicate?
How did languages emerge? (Continuity vs. discontinuity hypotheses)
Linguistic Relativity vs. Linguistic Universalism
Language Acquisition - how do children learn languages?
First Stages of Speech Production in Children
The periods of the English language (History of English #1)
Diachronic vs. synchronic (History of English #2)
Proto-Languages (History of English #3)
Language Families (History of English #4)
Old English: 450 (700) - 1100
Middle English: 1100 - 1500
Early Modern English: 1500 - 1700
What happened in the year 1066 and why it was so important for the English language
Why is English such a global language?
Association/Consociation vs. Dissociation
Processes of Meaning Change
Loan words in the English language
English tenses #1 - present tense
English tenses #2 - past tense
English tenses #3 - some differences between the tenses
English tenses #4 - future tenses & expressions with future meaning
Kachru’s Model of World Englishes
Analytic vs. Synthetic Language
Translations: Functional Analysis of the Source Text
What is a 'hapax legomenon’?
Book/film recommendations for language enthusiasts & advanced linguistic topics
Recommendations for Reading/Activities before starting Linguistic Studies
Sources for Research on English Linguistics, Literature, and Culture
-> you can find all my answered asks by searching for #ask, #ask response or #request