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.

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

“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.

What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?

Describe the process of language perception，comprehension and production.

locutionary act

According to the ways antonyms differ, how many groups can we classify antonyms into?

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（）.

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

In English, “pill” and “bill” are （）.