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

Duality

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

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 （）.

acculturation

What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?

The sentence structure is （）.

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

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