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.

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 （）.

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All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.

What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?

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

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

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

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

The sentence “The baby smiled.” is a（）.