The syntactic rules of any language are ______ in number.

Fromthesociolinguisticperspective,aspeechvarietyisnomorethanadialectalvarietyofalanguage.

Werefertothelimitedrangeofsoundsasthephonicmediumoflanguageandindividualsoundswithinthatrangeas______.

Accordingtothe"principles-and-parameters"theory,"principles"refertohighlyabstractpropertiesofgrammarwhichareappliedtolanguageingeneralandwhichgeneratephrasesandatthesametimerestrainthepowerofMovea,while"parameters"allowgeneralprinciplestooperateincertainrestrictedways,accordingtowhichparticulargrammarsofnaturallanguagesvary.

We refer to the limited range of sounds as the phonic medium of language and individual sounds within that range as ______.