Fields of Study these are some of the branches Applied linguistics students studies: Phonology Sociolinguistics Morphology and Syntax Discourse analysis Second language acquisition Speech therapy Phonology is the study of sound patterns (sound system) and acoustic features, from the oral cavity down to the larynx that contains the vocal cord, and the physical procedures the vocal cords go through in order to produce a single sound. Sociolinguistics the study of how society and linguistics interact, how social variables influence language, and how cultural issues provide challenges. Morphology and Syntax Morphology studies words by breaking them down into smaller units known as morphemes, morphology examines word structures, their meaningful components, and how each component might contribute meaning to the sentence. However, the study of syntax concentrates on grammar and the way words are used in certain word locations by combining them to ...
