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“It is raining hard” is a one-place predication sentence.

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 terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of （）.

All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.

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

Duality

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 （）.

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（）.

What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?