______is the study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

A．great animosity.
B．excessive concern.
C．much inducement.
D．reasonable pretext.

[A] Norman French in vocabulary and grammar.
[B] Greek and Latin because of the European renaissance movement.
[C] Danish languages because Denmark placed a king on the throne of England.
[D] the Celtic people who were the first inhabitants of England.