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Uploaded by Shoshana Berleant at 4:04 am on 15 Apr 2009.
- What is UnderLings?
Underlings is the undergraduate linguistics club at The Ohio State University. - What is linguistics?
The scientific study of language. There are a number of subfields including Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics. - So … how many languages do you speak?
It’s a common misconception that a linguist is a person who speaks many languages. The term for that is actually “polyglot”. Some linguists are only fluent in their own native language. Some have a passable knowledge of two or three other languages. Others speak several languages fluently and have extensive knowledge of even more. There’s a whole spectrum of second language skill. Knowledge of foreign languages is helpful, but not requisite to the job of a linguist.
