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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It observes how language is acquired and used through scientific methodology like experiments and hypothesis testing. As a science, linguistics is influenced by both natural sciences like biology which study the human physiology involved in language, and social sciences which consider how language depicts social interactions and cultural values. While continuing to progress with more technical approaches, linguistics remains an interdisciplinary field between natural and social sciences in its examination of language.

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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It observes how language is acquired and used through scientific methodology like experiments and hypothesis testing. As a science, linguistics is influenced by both natural sciences like biology which study the human physiology involved in language, and social sciences which consider how language depicts social interactions and cultural values. While continuing to progress with more technical approaches, linguistics remains an interdisciplinary field between natural and social sciences in its examination of language.

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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It observes how language is acquired and used through scientific methodology like experiments and hypothesis testing. As a science, linguistics is influenced by both natural sciences like biology which study the human physiology involved in language, and social sciences which consider how language depicts social interactions and cultural values. While continuing to progress with more technical approaches, linguistics remains an interdisciplinary field between natural and social sciences in its examination of language.

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    Name: MAhnoor Soomro

    Roll No: EN- 0219-044

    Class: MA (Previous) Linguistics

    Subject: General Linguistics

    Topic: How Linguistics is the scientific study of


    language

    Submitted To: Sir Muhammad Ikhlaq Maliq


    2

    Linguistics ( The Scientific study of language)


    Linguistics is derived from the Latin word lingua means tongue and istics
    means knowledge or science so we can say that linguistics is the scientific
    study of language

    OR
    Linguistics is a science which “Studies the origin, organization and natural
    development of a language. It can formulate general rules and regulations of
    grammar.

    OR
    Linguistics can be defined as the scientific or systematic study of language. It
    is the science in sense that it scientifically study the rules , systems and
    principals of human languages

    GOALS OF LINGUISTICS
     Understand how linguistic knowledge is represented in mind.

     Understand how language is acquired.

     Understand how language is perceived and used.

     Understand how language relates to other components of cognition.


    3

    SCIENTIFIC METHOLOGY IN LINGUISTICS

    As we know that linguistics is scientific study of language. The approach and


    methodology of linguistics is scientific. like a scientist a linguistic observes his
    data. Linguist uses by observing simple listening and phonetic transcriptions
    and uses various instruments like oscilograph, endoscope, laryngoscope etc.A
    linguist has his own language laboratory too. Like a scientist a linguist
    develops hypothesis makes generalized statement in the favor of fact of
    language. When linguist makes his statement about language he makes it on
    the basis of observation. First he observes linguistics events he finds some
    similarities and contrast on the basis of which he makes sounds. Like any
    scientific discipline linguistic too is not static. View points and theoretical
    method in the field change even in fundamental ways from time to time.

    SCIENTIFIC METHOD
    Research is based on scientific method in any field of science. It comprises on
    following steps:

     Observation

     Hypothesis

     Experiments

     Results

     Generalization

     Verification of results

     Theory
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    RELATION OF LINGUISTICS TO NATURAL AND


    SOCIAL SCINCE
    Finally closeness of linguistics with other natural sciences like biology,
    physiology, anatomy, etc. it is another proof of its scientific nature Linguistics
    is getting more and more technical and sophisticated day by day. Yet it is not a
    pure science its position is between the natural science and social
    sciences…….In case of natural science it is impossible to produce language
    without use of internal and external structures of the human mouth…also
    their physiology is included in phonetics, so it is related to natural sciences.
    And in case of relation with social sciences, languages usually depicts the
    behavioral aspects of a language, the values, social interactions with different
    societies…

    CONCLUSION
    By discussing the scientific and methodological approaches that are used in
    linguistics along with certain principles and theories it is believed that
    linguistics is a branch of science. Now a days it is progressing day by day and
    students of linguistics are much more concerned about understanding the
    deep physiology and method by which sounds are uttered instead of just
    uttering sound. Linguistics is now become vast subjects both technically and
    academically…

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