inguistics is a relatively new science which few people know about. A linguist is not a polyglot, who speaks a lot of different languages. A linguist studies the structure of language and the way we learn it and use it in discourse. If you are among the curious, this is the place for you. This page is your entree to a wide range of information about linguistics. Each page deals with a different fundamental subdiscipline of linguistics: historical linguistics, phonology (the study of sounds), syntax (the study of sentence structure), semantics (the study of meaning). Stay tuned; there is more to come in the future.
- The Collected Works of the Phantom Linguist
- Historical Linguistics
- Phonology (Linguistic Sounds)
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Morphology - Syntax (Phrase Structure)
- Semantics (Meaning)
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Slithy
Toves of Chimpanzees
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Psycholinguistics:
Language Acquisition
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The
Linguistic Olympics are Here!
- The Third English Word Ending on -gry
- Cross-Word Puzzles
- Excite Word Games
- Merriam-Webster's Word Game of the Day
- Write your name in . . .
The Longest Place Name in the World
What does a hippo have in common with a feather?
How do you pronounce ghoti . . . and why?
But there ARE no such Things as Words!
Rim ember us poke in cent tense all mow stall ways con deigns word snot in ten did
Can colorless green ideas sleep furiously?
Can Psychologists Make a Monkey out of Me?
Mama Teached Me Talk?
. . . with a picture to prove it.
Try the linguistic mind-twisters at the bottom of the page.
A bad riddle run amuck.
(Use the cross-word puzzle dictionaries on the dictionary page)
Word-based mind-teasers--real linguistic fun.
Building your vocabulary can be fun.
More Linguistic Fun
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