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.

The pair of words “lend”and “borrow”are（）.

The compound word "bookstore" is the place where books are sold. This indicates that the meaning of a compound is the sum total of the meanings of its components.

In English, “pill” and “bill” are （）.

“John killed Bill but Bill didn’t die” is a (n) （）.

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 sentence structure is （）.

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

The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is （）.