試題詳解

20. According to linguistic theories, which of the following is true?
(A) Linguists do not consider animal communications to be “language,” because only humans have writing.
(B) Since writing is less subject to the constraint of time and is better organized than speech is, the study of linguistics is more concerned with writing rather than speeches.
(C) Spoken language is acquired, whereas writing must be taught.
(D) Linguistics is the scientific study of language. When linguists study languages, they take written languages as their best source of data.