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.

inflectional morphemesn

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

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

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

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

What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?

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 （）.

Duality

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.