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— PAGE PAGE 2 欢迎下载 Chapter 2 Phonology 1. What are the two major media of communication? Of the two, which one is primary and why? Two major media of communication are speech and writing, Of the two, speech is primary. The reasons are as follows. From the point of view of linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing. The writing system of any language is always “invented’ by its users to record speech when the need arises. In everyday communication, speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed. Speech is alwa