In English, “pill” and “bill” are （）.

protolanguage

Why do we say tree diagrams are more advantageous and informative than linear structure in analyzing the constituent relationship among linguistic elements Support your statement with examples?

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

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

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

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

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

locutionary act

registers