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级英语专业《英语语言学概论》期末试卷
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题型
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I
10
II
10
III
20
IV
10
V
10
VI
20
VII
20
总分
100
I
．
Decide whether
the following statements are True (T) or False
(F). (10 points, 1
point each)
1.
Articulatory
Phonetics studies the physical properties of
speech sounds.
2.
Adjectives
belong to open class words.
3.
John Austin made the distinction
between a constative and a performative.
4.
What essentially distinguishes
semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study
of
meaning the context of use is
considered.
5.
English is a
typical intonation language.
6.
Phones in complementary distribution
should be assigned to the same phoneme.
7.
Pragmatics treats the meaning of
language as something intrinsic and inherent.
8.
There
are
words
of
more
or
less
the
same
meaning
used
in
different
regional
dialects.
9.
Transformations are the rules which can
change the meaning of sentence.
10.
Sense and reference are two different
notions of semantics, and they are related to
each other.
II. Fill in the following blanks. (10
points, 1 point each)
1.
The word “
and
” is
a c____________ conjunction.
2.
Linguistic
c__________ is a native speaker’s linguistic
knowledge of his language.
3.
The
relationship between the sound and the meaning of
a word is a________.
4.
A m________ is the smallest linguistic
unit that carries meaning.
1
5.
A
sentence
is
formed
by
phonological
rules,
m______
rules,
syntactic
rules
and
semantic rules.
6.
The most
recognizable difference between American English
and British English are
in p________
and vocabulary.
7.
Speech v________refers to any
distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker
or
a group of speakers.
8.
P ____ refers
to the realization of langue in actual use.
9.
Linguistics is
generally defined as the s ____ study of language.
10.
As a type of
linguistic system in L2 learning, i_______ is a
product of L2 training,
mother
tongue
interference,
overgeneralization
of
the
target
language
rules,
and
learning and
communicative strategies of the learner..
III. Mark the choice that
can best complete the statement. (20 points, 1
point each)
1. Which of the following
branch of linguistics takes the inner structure of
word as its
main object of study?
A. Phonetics.
B. Semantics.
C. Morphology.
D. Sociolinguistics.
2.
________refers
to
a
marginal
language
of
few
lexical
items
and
straightforward
grammatical
rules, used as a medium of communication.
A. Dialect
B. Idiolect
C.
Pidgin
D. Register
3.
Which of the following is a voiceless bilabial
stop?
A.
[w].
B. [m].
C. [b].
D. [p].
4. The phenomenon
that words having different meanings have the same
form is called
________.
A. hyponymy
B. synonymy
C. polysemy
D.
homonymy
5. Which of the
following words is NOT formed by blending?
A. Smog.
B. Botel.
C. Brunch.
D. Edit.
6. What phonetic
feature distinguishes the [p] in
please
and the [p] in
speak
?
A.V
oicing
B. Aspiration
C. Roundness
D. Nasality
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7. The word
boyguard
is a ______.
A. compound word
B. complex word
C. derivational word
D.
free morpheme
8. All words
contain a _________.
A. root
B. bound
morpheme
C.
prefix
D. suffix
9. Of the following sound combinations,
only ______ is permissible.
A. kibl
B. hkil
C. ilkb
D. ilbk
10.
Where is the primary stress of the word
phonology
?
A.
pho
.
B.
no
.
C.
lo
.
D.
gy
.
11.
Conventionally a ________ is put in slashes.
A. allophone
B. phone
C.
phoneme
D. morpheme
12.
The plural affix in the word
tables
is a(n) _______.
A. inflectional
suffix
B. derivational suffix
C. free morpheme
D. root
13.
Language is tool of communication. The symbol
“
highway
closed
”
serves___.
A. an expressive function
B. an informative function
C. a performative function
D.
a persuasive function
14. Which of the
following groups of words is a minimal pair?
A. but/pub
B.
wet/which
C. cool/curl
D. fail/find
15. Whorf believed that speakers of
different languages perceive and experienced the
world differently, that is relative to
their linguistic background, hence the notion of
______________.
A.
linguistic determination
B.
linguistic relativism
C. linguistic
nativism
D. linguistic
behaviorism
16. What are the dual
structures of language?
A. Sounds and letters.
B. Sounds and meaning.
C. Letters and
meaning.
D. Sounds and
symbols.
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17.
The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme
is _______.
A. lexical
B. morphemic
D. semantic
C.
grammatical
18. According to Krashen
______ refers to the gradual and subconscious
development
of ability in the first
language by using it naturally in daily
communication.
A. learning
B. competence
C. performance
D. acquisition
19. Which of the following is one of
the core branches of linguistics?
A. Phonology.
B. Psycho-
linguistics.
C. Sociolinguistics.
D. Anthropology.
20. The relationship be
tween
“flower” and “tulip” is _________.
A. homonymy
B. hyponymy
C. polysemy
D. synonymy
IV
. Translate the following
linguistic terms: (10 points, 1 point each)
A. From English to Chinese
B. From Chinese to English
1. acoustic phonetics
6.
应用语言学
2. closed class words
7.
格语法
3. componential analysis
8.
积极迁移
4. distinctive features
9.
历史语言学
5. Critical Period Hypothesis
10.
声调语言
V
. Draw a tree diagram for
the following sentence by applying TG Grammar. (10
points)
The man saw a horse.
VI. Answer the following questions
briefly. (20 points)
1. Define
phoneme
. (4 points)
2. Explain
complementary
distribution
with an example.(5 points)
3. What are the four criteria for
classifying English vowels. (4 points)
4.
Analyze
the
following
conversation
by
applying
the
Cooperative
Principles.(7
points)
4
A:
Teheran is in Turkey,
isn
’
t it,
teacher?
B:
And
London is in France, I suppose.
VII. Do the following analysis. (20
points)
1. Write the one proper
description from the list under B for the
underlined part of each
word in A. (5
points, 1 point each)
A
B
(1) terroriz
ed
a. free root
(2)
un
civil
ized
b. bound root
(3)
terror
ize
c. inflectional
suffix
(4)
luke
warm
(5)
im
possible
d.
derivational suffix
e. inflectional
prefix
f. derivational
prefix
2. Consider the following
sentences in Swahili, and anwer the questions:(15
points)
mtu
amelala
The
man has slept.
mtu
analala
The man is sleeping.
mtu
atalala
The man will sleep.
watu
wamelala
The
men have slept.
watu
wanalala
The
men are sleeping.
watu
watalala
The men will sleep.
visu
vinaanguka
The knives are falling.
kikapu
kimeanguka
The
basket has fallen.
watoto
watafika
The children
will arrive.
1)
toto
in Swahili means ______
in English.
2)
The meaning of the morpheme
wa-
in Swahili is
_______.
3)
______
in Swahili means
“
sleep
”
in
English.
4)
Translate
mtoto anaanguka
into English.
5)
Translate
vikapu
vimefika
into English.
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