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Linguistics
is the study of language. Like other rapidly developing
fields, linguistics resists simple classification into
one of the traditional categories of academic disciplines.
As one of the humanities, linguistics is concerned with
the historical development of a particular language or
language family. As a social science, linguistics may
be related to anthropology in describing language as
part of culture; or it may be related to psychology in
describing phonetics; it may even be considered a natural
science, related to the physical science of acoustics
and the biological sciences of anatomy and physiology.
As an applied science, linguistics has found many applications
in fields as far apart as language pedagogy, speech therapy,
and computer programming. Finally, linguistics may be
considered a formal science in its own right, related
to mathematics and logic.
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