Modern linguistics regards the written language as primary, not the written language.

Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.

D（）is one of the design features of human language which refers to the phenomenon that language consists of two levels: a lower level of meaningless individual sounds and a higher level of meaningful units.

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

Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication.

Linguistics

The discipline that studies the rules governing the formation of words into permissible sentences in languages is called s（）

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

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.

Language