Major branches of traditional linguistics are 

One of the special branches of linguistics that deals with the study of meaning, reference, and truth.

The branch of linguistics deals with the study of words, their formation, and their relationship with other words within the same language. 

.... is a branch of linguistics that focuses on the production and classification of  speech sounds. 

The study of how we put words together to form sentences. 

It studies how context helps to determine whether a particular utterance is appropriate or inappropriate, as well as how changes to context alter sentences’ meanings.

Aspects associated with this subfield of linguistics include elements such as affixes, prefixes, suffixes, and circumfixes.

The study of acoustic results of different articulations.

This branch of linguistics leverages computer science to analyse, model, and produce speech.

The study of how listeners perceive and understand linguistic signals.

It studies the relationship between psychological processes and linguistic behaviour. 

It determines universal principles for studying languages and describes the general features of the language.

It studies  language used by different geographical and socio-cultural communities,

e.g., regional dialects.

The study of sounds made with the articulators.

This branch is associated with identifying similarities and differences between languages that have a common origin.

... deals with general production, transmission and reception of all human speech sounds.

It involves the practical use of linguistics to solve real-life problems, e.g, foreign language teaching.

It examines the relationship between the grammatical structure of a language at both the word and sentence levels.

This subfield studies how languages change over time, as well as the history of specific languages and language families.

It studies the structure of texts or utterances longer than one sentence. It takes into account both their linguistic content and their sociolinguistic context.

The study of how words combine to form sentences and the rules which govern the formation of sentences.

... refers to the patterns of speech sounds or phonemes of a language and the rules for combining them.