Human capacity for language has a g（）basis, but the details of language have to be taught and learned.

Chomsky defines “competence” as the ideal user’s k（）of the rules of his language.

Langue refers to the a（）linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community while the parole is the concrete use of the conventions and application of the rules.

The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology.

A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time.

Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.

Language is p（）in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its users. In other words, they can produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences which they have never heard before.

Phonology

Phonetics

Pragmatics