ethnic dialect

locutionary act

Only when a maxim under Cooperative Principle is blatantly violated and the hearer knows that it is being violated, do conversational implicatures arise.

The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is （）.

A general difference between phonetics and phonology is that phonetics is focused on the production of speech sounds while phonology is more concerned with how speech sounds distinguish meaning.

Give the description of the following sound segments in English.[k];[z];[w];[u:];[i]

The pair of words “l(fā)end”and “borrow”are（）.

“It is raining hard” is a one-place predication sentence.

In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of （）.

acculturation