Introduction to Linguistics of Linguistic Terminology

An introduction to linguistic nouns explained as follows:

1. Symbols: marks that refer to other things.

2. Combination relationship: Symbols and symbols are combined to form a higher-level structure. Each symbol in a higher-level structure is called a component of the structure, and the relationship between each component is called a combination relationship.

3. Aggregation relationship: If some language symbols or larger units can be replaced with each other in a certain link of the combined structure and the structural relationship will not change after replacement, then these symbols have the same meaning in the structure. function, they naturally gather in groups. Their relationship with each other is called an aggregation relationship.

4. Phonetics: The study of phonetics of all human speech from a natural perspective.

5. Phonology: starting from social attributes, studying the role of speech in a specific language system.

6. Phoneme: In a phonetic system, the smallest phonetic unit with distinctive meaning is a sound category summarized from the perspective of meaning discrimination.

7. International Phonetic Alphabet: The symbols used to record phonemes are called phonetic symbols. The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic notation published by the International Phonetic Association in 1888 that can record the pronunciation of various languages ??and dialects around the world.

8. Phoneme variation: Phonemes that are in a complementary relationship and are similar have no different meanings from each other. They can be regarded as representatives of the same phoneme in different positions and are variations of the same phoneme. Called allophone.

9. Distinctive features: The pronunciation features that have the function of distinguishing phonemes in a specific language are called the distinguishing features of the language.

10. Speech flow sound changes: When phonemes and phonemes are combined, different temporary changes may occur due to the difference in speed, pitch, strength during speaking and the influence of adjacent sounds. This change is called Speech flow and pronunciation change.

11. Morphology (morphological changes): In some languages, the form of words changes when words are combined. The same word and different word combinations have different changes. These changes form an aggregation, which is called word change, or morphology.