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（）.

registers

acculturation

“John killed Bill but Bill didn’t die” is a (n) （）.

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

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

All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.

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.

protolanguage