-According to the passage, Melville Bell……………

A)was the man who invented the telephone

B)inspired his son, Alexander Graham Bell, to invent the telephone

***C)advanced the scientific study of speech in the 19th century

D)made several discoveries in the areas of vision and human anatomy

E)was the sole creator of the current international phonetic alphabet

***A)the sounds of almost every known language could be reproduced

B)subjects could be approached with scientific thoroughness

C)a language spoken by the whole world has been created

D)people who spoke different languages were able to communicate with each other

E)scholars were able to learn more about the languages spoken by their ancestors