linguistics

/lɪŋgˈwɪstɪks/

the scientific study of language

Chinese meaning: 语言学

She decided to major in linguistics because she was fascinated by how languages evolve over time.

她决定主修语言学，因为她对语言如何随时间演变着迷。

Modern linguistics uses computational methods to analyze large text corpora.

现代语言学使用计算方法分析大型文本语料库。