ABSTRACT
This appendix is a reference section containing some guidance on linguistic analysis and is aimed at readers with no prior experience of the subject.
Many linguistic descriptions are based around the concept of systems working at different levels. It is possible to begin the study of language at the level of individual sounds (this is called phonetics), or to look at which sounds are significant in forming differences between words in a language (phonemics). Turning from sounds to the structure of words it is possible to describe the parts of words which make them work differently from one another, for example in English the -s which is typically added to words when they are plural (the study of this is called morphology).
