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

ethnic dialect

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

“The student” in the sentence “The student liked the linguistic lecture”, and “The linguistic lecture” in the sentence “The linguistic lecture liked the student.” belong to the same syntactic category.

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

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

Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established, and until recently the most highly developed, is（）phonetics.

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.

What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?

Describe the process of language perception，comprehension and production.