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= Levels of Language = Levels of language is a base term used in Structural linguistics. Language, over the past two centuries, has been modeled as layers arranged in a method where phonology was classified as the base, followed by morphology above, which was then combined to syntactical units, summarized by semantics as the top layer. In today’s age, the term has come to mean one of the many layers mentioned, instead of the multiple layer’s summation. Linguists avoid using the vertical ‘layer cake’ model in favor of a horizontal model with syntactic components, meshed between phonological and semantic components. The center of this mesh are the syntactical components due to the fact that they link sound and meaning.

Phonetics
Phonetics is the study and classification of the speech or musical sounds created by humans. This involved different sounds, tunes, music and well enunciated speech and in case of sign language, considers the equivalent aspects of sign.

Phonology
Phonology is the study of patterns of sounds, notes, equivalent signs in sign languages etc. in different patterns of sounds, in multiple languages or within the same language. Phonology, as a study, works inclusive or exclusive of phonetics as an arrangement of sounds. Examples can be seen in day to day words with suffices and prefixes.

Morphology
Morphology is the study of minimal forms of things in language, containing phonetics, used to create words which will eventually be a part of a Lexicon. Morphology, in certain terms, would be an amalgamation of grammar and syntax.

Syntax
Syntax is the study of meanings of words within Permutations & Combination of each other, to form an understandable sentence. It studies the differences of meanings when the positions of words are shifted in sentences. It deals with analysis of ambiguous sentences.

Semantics
Semantics is the study of meanings of syntax and implications of morphology. Semantics involve going through an understanding of all other levels of languages, in addition to grammatical and lexical. It’s a relationship between Signifiers, such as words, signs, with Symbols.

Pragmatics
Pragmatics is the study of language in it’s context. The meaning of sentences and phrases change as per abstract form and practical usage. Pragmatics relies heavily on analyses on speech act concerned with actual performance of the language, as compared to it’s written implication. This involves the notion of proposition and the intent and effect of an utterance.