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莆田学院期末考试试卷
（
A
）卷
2009
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2010
学年第
一
学期
课程名称：
英语语言学
适用年级
/
专业：
06
级英语专业（师范
/
商务）
试卷类别
开卷（
）闭卷（√
）
学历层次
本科
考试用时
120
分钟
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I.
M
ultiple choice
(1
point
×
25=25
points)
Directions:
Read
each
of
the
following
statements
carefully.
Decide
which
one
of
the
four
choices best completes the statement and put the
letter A, B, C or D in the answer
sheet.
(
) 1. According to F. de
Saussure, ____ refers to the abstract linguistic
system shared by all
the members of a
speech community.
A. parole
B. performance
C.
langue
D. Language
(
)2. Language is said to be arbitrary
because there is no logical connection between
____
and meanings.
A. sense
B.
sounds
C.
objects
D. ideas
(
)
3. We are born with the ability to acquire
language ___.
A. and the details of any
language system are genetically transmitted
B. therefore, we needn’t learn the
details of our mother tongue
C. but the details of language have to
be learnt.
D. and the details are
acquired by instinct
(
)
4.
________
are
often
thought
to
be
the
smallest
meaningful
units
of
language
by
linguists.
A. Words
B.
Morphemes
C. Phonemes
D. Sentences
(
)
5. A(n)_____ is a phonological unit of distinctive
value. It is a collection of distinctive
phonetic features.
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A. phone
B. allophone
C. phoneme
D.
sound
(
) 6. The
distinction between vowels and consonants lies in
__.
A. the place of
articulation
B. the obstruction of air stream
C. the position of the tongue
D. the shape of the lips
(
) 7. Which of the following
groups of words is a minimal pair?
A.
but-tub
B. lip-slip
C. kill-mill
D. smile-simile
(
) 8. The syntactic rules of
any language are ____ in number.
A. large
B. small
C. finite
D. infinite
(
)
9. English consonants can be classified into
stops, fricatives, nasals, etc. in terms of __.
A. manner of articulation
B. openness of
mouth
C. place of
articulation
D. voicing
(
) word transistor is
formed through ___.
A. back
formation
B. blending
C. clipping
D.
derivation
(
)
11. All words contain a ___.
A. root morpheme
B. bound
morpheme
C. prefix
D. suffix
(
) morpheme
–ed in the word
“worked” is a(n) _____morpheme.
A. derivational
B.
inflectional
C. free
D. word-forming
(
) 13. The sentence
structure is ___.
A. only
linear
B. only hierarchical
C. complex
D. both linear and
hierarchical
(
) 14
.
“
above
” and
“
below
” are
___.
A. gradable
antonyms
B. relational
opposites
c. complementary antonyms
D. none of the above
(
) 15. The
Semantic Triangle Theory was proposed by___.
A. Grice
B. Plato
C.
Saussure
D. Ogden and Richards
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(
)16.
____
is
a
way
in
which
the
meaning
of
a
word
can
be
dissected
into
meaning
components, called
semantic features.
A.
Predication
analysis
B.
Componential
analysis
.
C . Phonemic analysis
D. Grammatical analysis
(
)
17.
The
meaning
of
language
was
considered
as
something
_______
in
traditional
semantics.
A. contextual
B. behaviouristic
C. intrinsic
D.
logical
(
)
18
. “John married a blond heiress.”____
“John married a blond.”
A.
is synonymous with
B.
is inconsistent with
C. entails
D. presupposes
(
)
19.
In
semantic
analysis
of
a
sentence,
the
basic
unit
is
called
_____,
which
is
the
abstraction of the meaning of a
sentence.
A. utterance
B. reference
C.
predicate
D.
morpheme
(
)
20.
If
we
think
of
a
sentence
as
what
people
actually
utter
in
the
course
of
communication, it becomes a(n)___.
A. constative
B. directive
C. utterance D.
expressive
(
)
21. Modern English period starts roughly ___.
A.
from 449 to
1100
B.
from 1500 to the present
C. from 1100
to the present
D. from 1700 to
the present
(
)
22
. “Wife”,
which used to
refer to
any woman, stands for “ a
married woman” in modern
English. This
phenomenon is known as __.
A. semantic shift
B.
semantic broading
C.
semantic elevation
D. semantic narrowing
(
) 23.
__ is concerned
with the social significance of
language variation and language
use in
different speech communities.
A.
Psycholinguistics
B .
Sociolinguistics
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