In Philip’s French class, the students are learning how to pronounce closed vowels and open vowels. The students are most likely studying French __________.

Closed and open vowels are differences in speech sounds. The study of the sound system of a language includes phonemes, which are its distinct speech sounds. So the students are studying French phonemes, not syntax (sentence structure), semantics (meaning), or morphemes (meaningful word parts).

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