The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as（）.

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

“The student” in the sentence “The student liked the linguistic lecture”, and “The linguistic lecture” in the sentence “The linguistic lecture liked the student.” belong to the same syntactic category.

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 pair of words “l(fā)end”and “borrow”are（）.

acculturation

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.

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

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

locutionary act