Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society.

Linguistics is generally defined as the s（）study of language.

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

Phonology

General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole.

Social changes can often bring about language changes.

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

The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology.

A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time.

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