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?

Only when a maxim under Cooperative Principle is blatantly violated and the hearer knows that it is being violated, do conversational implicatures arise.

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

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

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.

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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 （）.

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

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