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.

protolanguage

locutionary act

Duality

acculturation

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

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

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

The relationship between the embedded clause and its matrix clause is one of a part to the whole.

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