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What is the study of individual speech sounds?
Phonetics
Which field studies the relationship between words like "dog" and "dogs"?
Morphology
What is the study of sentences and phrases?
Syntax
Which field is interested in the meaning of sentences and words?
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What is the study of how the context of a sentence contributes to its meaning?
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Which field involves the study of phonemes, the speech sounds of an individual language?
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Phonetics is the study of words and other meaningful units of language like suffixes and prefixes.
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Morphology is the study of sentences and phrases.
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Syntax is the study of underlying rules of language grammar.
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Semantics is only concerned with the meaning of individual words.
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Pragmatics is a narrow field that only studies the context of a sentence.
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Phonology is the study of individual speech sounds.
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True or false: Phonetics is the study of individual speech sounds and phonology is the study of phonemes.
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True or false: Morphology is the study of words and other meaningful units of language like suffixes and prefixes.
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True or false: Syntax is the study of underlying rules of every language's grammar.
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True or false: Semantics is most generally about the meaning of individual words.
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True or false: Pragmatics is a narrow field that studies only how the context of a sentence contributes to meaning.
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True or false: All languages have underlying rules of semantics.
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