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.

acculturation

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

inflectional morphemesn

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

locutionary act

What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning （）is considered.

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 （）.

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

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