The compound word "bookstore" is the place where books are sold. This indicates that the meaning of a compound is the sum total of the meanings of its components.

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.

In modern linguistic studies, the written form of language is given more emphasis than the spoken form for a number of reasons.

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

locutionary act

Componential analysis is based on the belief that the meaning of a word cannot be dissected into meaning components, called semantic feature.

As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior,it is said to be （）.

In English, “pill” and “bill” are （）.

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

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