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

registers

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.

The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as（）.

The sentence “The baby smiled.” is a（）.

locutionary act

What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?

What the element ‘-es’ indicates is third person singular, present tense, the element ‘-ed’ past tense, and ‘-ing’ progressive aspect. Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also（）.

All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.

What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning （）is considered.