The branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription is called ______.

A．truthful
B．musical
C．creative
D．historic

A．The golden gates at Florence were built by Michelangelo.
B．Americans have done poorly with what Nature has offered them.
C．It would be very difficult to teach people to appreciate art.
D．Education without art being its essential part would be a failur