英语语言学概论试卷

C. parole

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D. competence

2. Vowels can be classified in terms of each

课程名称

《

英语语言学概论

》

of the following ways EXCEPT _______.

任课教师签名

程建山

A. position of the tongue

出题教师签名

程建山

审题教师签名

王婉华

B. openness of the mouth

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C. manner of articulation

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级英语专业

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II

III

IV

V

D. shape of the lips

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3. In terms of manner of articulation, the

English consonants

［

s

］

and

［

z

］

are

classified as ______.

A. liquids

B. affricates

C. stops

D. fricatives

4. There are _______ morphemes in the

word “frightening.”

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 5

I. Directions: Read each of the following

statements carefully. Decide which one of

the four choices best completes the

statement and blacken the corresponding

letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER

SHEET. (2%×

10=20%)

1. According to Saussure, _______ refers to

the abstract linguistic system shared by all

the members of a speech community, the set

of conventions and rules which language

users all have to abide by.

A. language

B. langue

5. Semantically, the sentence “I regret

stepping on your book” ______ the

sentence “I stepped on your book.”

A. presupposes

B. entails

C. contradicts

D. is synonymous with

6. According to John Austin’s speech act

theory, a(n) ______ act is the act performed

by saying something.

A. prelocutionary

B. locutionary

C. illocutionary

D. perlocutionary

7. All the following words EXCEPT

______ are the examples which can be used

to illustrate semantic narrowing.

A.

aunt

B.

wife

C.

hound

D.

fowl

8. In many cultures, words relating to sex,

sex organs, and natural bodily functions

make up a larger part of ______ vocabulary.

A. gender

B. euphemism

C. slang

D. taboo

9. Speaker A:

I

’

m out of petrol

.

Speaker B:

There

’

s a garage round the

corner.

Speaker B is violating the maxim of

_______.

A. quantity

B. quality

C. relation

D. manner

10. A typical example of a _______

community is an ethnic ghetto where most,

if not all, of its inhabitants are either

immigrants or children of immigrants.

A. diglossic

B. bilingual

C. pidginized

D. creolized

II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of

the following statements with one word,

the first letter of which is already given

as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE

word only, and you are not allowed to

change the letter given. (1%×

10=10%)

11. Cultural t

refers to the fact that

the details of the linguistic system must be

learned anew by each speaker, and they are

not simply biologically passed on from

generation to generation.

12. The phonemic features that occur above

the level of the segments are called s

features, which are the phonological

properties of such units as the syllable, the

word, and the sentence.

13. D

affixes are added to an

existing form to create a word. This is a

very common way to create new words in

English.

14. A c

sentence contains two or

more clauses, one of which is incorporated

into the other.

15.

If we say “The baby is crying,” we

must be talking about a certain baby crying

in a certain situation; the word “baby”

means a baby known to both the speaker

and the hearer, which is the r

of

the word “baby” in this particular situation.

16. The relationship between the words in

such pairs as “buy” and “by,” “stationary”

and“stationery” can be labeled as h

_____.

17. In an a

process, successive

sounds are made identical, or more similar,

to one another in terms of place or manner

of articulation, or of haplology.

18. In sociolinguistic studies, a pidginized

dialect may expand and eventually become

the native language of a certain population,

which is known as c

.

19. A linguistic t ______ refers to a word or

expression that is prohibited by the “polite”

society from general use.

20. Speech v_________ refers to any

distinguishable form of speech used by a

speaker or group of speakers.

III. Directions: Judge whether each of

the following statements is true or false.

Put a T for true or F for false on the

Answer Sheet. If you think a statement is

false, you must explain why you think so

and then give the correct version.

(2%×

10=20%)

21. Speech and writing are the two major

media of communication. In linguistic

evolution, however, speech is prior to

writing, therefore, the spoken language

rather than the written should be given

priority in modern linguistics.

22. There are two ways now available to

transcribe speech sounds: broad

transcription and narrow transcription, of