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Linguistics is paradoxically both a very old and a very new discipline. It’s very old because its physical and physiological basis is the science of Phonetics (the study of how the sounds of human speech are produced and perceived), which was founded in ancient India about 2500 years ago, roughly the same time the Periclean Golden Age was happening in Athens.
