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  3. We have seen that the mere phonetic framework of speech does not constitute the inner fact of language and that single sound of

We have seen that the mere phonetic framework of speech does not constitute the inner fact of language and that single sound of

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问题     We have seen that the mere phonetic framework of speech does
not constitute the inner fact of language and that single sound of
articulated speech is not, as such, a linguistic element at all. For
all that, speech is so inevitably bound up with sounds and its【S1】______
articulation that we can hardly avoid giving the subject of phonetics
some general consideration. Experience has shown that neither the
purely formal aspects of a language or the course of its history can be【S2】______
fully understood without reference with the sounds in which this form【S3】______
and this history are embodied. The feeling that the average speaker
has of his language is that it is built up, acoustically speaking, of a
comparatively small number of distinctive sounds, each of which is【S4】______
rather accurately provided for in the current alphabet by one letter
or, in few cases, by two or more alternative letters. As for the【S5】______
languages of foreigners, he generally feels that, aside from a few
striking differences that cannot escape even the critical ear, the【S6】______
sounds they use are the same as those he is familiar with but that
there is a mysterious " accent" to these foreign languages, a
certainly unanalyzed phonetic character, apart from the sounds as【S7】______
such, that gives them their air of strangeness. This naive feeling is
largely illusory on all scores. Phonetic analysis convinces one that【S8】______
a number of clearly distinguishable sounds and the tiny differences【S9】______
of sounds that are habitually employed by the speakers of a language
is greater than they by themselves recognize.【S10】______
【S9】
选项
答案a—the
解析 冠词误用。a number of意为“许多……”；the number of意为“……的数量”。根据后文中出现的greater一词可推断此处应该指“数量”。因此应该把a改为the。本句意为“语音分析使人确信；可被清晰辨别的声音的数量以及语言使用者习惯使用的声音之间细微差别的数量都比他们自己意识到的多很多。”
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