Linguistics

The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology.

Chomsky defines “competence” as the ideal user’s k（）of the rules of his language.

Social changes can often bring about language changes.

General linguistics, which relates itself to the research of other areas, studies the basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicable in any linguistic study.

Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences.

General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole.

In the study of linguistics, hypotheses formed should be based on language facts and checked against the observed facts.

A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time.

Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication.