语言学试卷 2

1. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is

__

C

___.

A. logical

B. non-arbitrary

C.

arbitrary

D. non- productive

2. Chomsky uses the term ___

B_

__to refer

to the actual use of a language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language in

concrete situation.

A. langue

B.

Performance

C. parole

D. competence

3. What kind of function does the sentence “How do you do?” have?

B

A. Directive

B.

Phatic

C. Informative

D. Evocative

4. ___

B

__refers to the fact that the language users can understand and produce sentences they have never heard before.

A. Duality

B.

Creativity

C. Displacement

D. Arbitrariness

5. ____

C_

__ phonetics is the study of the production of speech sounds.

A. Auditory

B. Acoustic

C.

Articulatory

D. Visional

6. In which way is the vowel [u] described?

B

A.

tense high central rounded vowel

B.

lax high back rounded vowel

mid back rounded vowel

high central rounded vowel

7. Which of the following pairs belongs to the minimal pair?

C

A. tink-din

B. vase-case

C.

tin-till

D. pea-appear

8.

[p] [p

h

] never occur at the same

place of words, that is, [p

h

] never appears after the sound [s]. They are said to be

in__

A_

__.

A.

complementary distribution

B. free variation

C. contrastive distribution

D. free distribution

9. In the theory of “ Semantic

triangle”,

Ogden and Richards argue that the relation between a word and a thing it refers

to is not direct. It is mediated by__

B_

____.

A. symbol

B.

Concept

C. culture

D. thought

10.

The utterance

D

___.

A. manner

B. quantity

C. relation

D.

quality

11. Speech act theory was first proposed by__

A

___ .

A.

John Austin

B. John Searle

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Paul Grice

12.

The words “bird” and “black” are called _____

B

____because they can occur unattached.

A. derivational morphemes

B.

free morphemes

C. bound morphemes

D. inflectional morphemes

13. The pair of words “lend” and “borrow” are_____

D_

____.

A.

gradable antonymy

B. co-hyponyms

C. synonyms

D.

converse antonymy

14. The semantic components of the word

“man” can be expressed as __

C_

___.

A.

＋

ANIMATE,

＋< /p>

HUMAN,

＋

MALE,

－

ADULT

B.< /p>

＋

ANIMATE

＋

HUMAN

－

MALE,

－

ADULT

C.

＋

ANIMATE,

＋

HUMAN,

＋< /p>

MALE,

＋

ADULT

D.

－

AN IMATE,

＋

HUMAN,

－

MALE,

－

ADULT

15.

Nouns, verbs and adjectives can be classified as__

C_

___.

A. function words

B. grammatical words

C.

lexical words

D. form words

16.

What is the construction of the sentence “The girl laughed”?

C

A. Coordinate

B. Endocentric

C.

Exocentric

D. Subordinate

17. Of the three speech acts, pragmatists are most interested in the ___

B

___ because this kind of speech act is identical

with the speaker’s intention.

A. locutionary act

B.

illocutionary act

C. perlocutionary act

D. constative act

18.

It is

true

that

there

are

no

absolute

synonyms.

When

we say

two words

are

synonyms

with

each

other, we

usually

mean they have the same__

A

___.

A.

conceptual meaning

B. reference

C. connotative meaning

D. social meaning

19. The word formation of “motel” is

___

D

__.

A. acronym

B. clipping

C. back formation

D.

blending

A

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