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-	In linguistics, a '''synchronic analysis''' is one that views linguistic phenomena only at one point in time, usually the present, though a synchronic analysis of a historical language form is also possible. This may be distinguished from [[diachronics]], which regards a phenomenon in terms of developments through time. Diachronic analysis is the main concern of [[historical linguistics]]; most other branches of linguistics are concerned with some form of synchronic analysis.	+
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-	Synchronic and diachronic approaches can reach quite different conclusions. For example, a [[Germanic strong verb]] like English ''sing - sang - sung'' is [[regular verb|irregular]] when viewed synchronically: the native speaker's [[neurolinguistics|brain processes]] these as learned forms, whereas the derived forms of regular verbs are processed quite differently, by the application of productive rules (for example, ''walk - walked''). This is an insight of [[psycholinguistics]], relevant also for [[Second language acquisition|language didactics]], both of which are synchronic disciplines. However a diachronic analysis will show that the strong verb is the remnant of a fully regular system of internal vowel changes; historical linguistics seldom uses the category "[[irregular verb]]".	+
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-	== See also ==	+
-	*[[Contrastive linguistics]]	+
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