(答案)英语语言学复习资料

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I. Multiple choices.

1. _C_________ are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the

vocal cords.

A. Stresses

B. V

oicings

C. Tones

D. Intonations

2. ______C____ plays the performative function.

A.

Hello, do you hear me?

B.

You

’

d better go to the clinic.

C.

Can’t

you see people are dying?

D.

What a blessing!

3. The ____B______ nature of language explains the symbolic nature of language: words are just

symbols; they are associated with objects, actions, ideas, etc. by convention.

A. duality

B. arbitrary

C. productivity

D. displacement

4. The two words

petrol

and

gasoline

are ___A_______.

A. dialectal synonyms

B. stylistic synonyms

C. synonyms that differ in their emotive meaning

D. collocative synonyms

5. _____C_____ is not a design feature of language.

A. Arbitrariness

B. Creativity

C. Communicability

D. Duality

6. Syntactic deep structure was developed to _______B___.

A. explain relations between sentences with the same meaning

B. explain a single sentence with more than one meaning

C. explain relations between sentences with different meanings

D. both A and B

7. Promises and offers are characteristic of the group of ____C______ of illocutionary acts.

A. representatives

B. declaratives

C. commissives

D. expressives

8.

–

ish

in the word

boyish

is _______D___.

A. a free morpheme

B. a root

C. a stem

D. an affix

9. ____D______ does NOT belong to semantic changes.

A. Broadening

B. Borrowing

C. Narrowing

D. Class shift

10. The two words

suite

and

sweet

are ______D____.

A. hyponyms

B. relational antonyms

C. homographs

D. Homophones

11. According to ____A______ rule, the word sign should pronounced as

[

saIn

].

A. deletion

B. sequential

C. assimilation

D. suprasegmental

12. What essentially distinguishes semantics from pragmatics is ______A____.

A. whether in the study of the meaning the context of use is considered

B. whether it studies the meaning or not

C. whether it studies how the speakers use language to effect communication

D. whether it is a branch of linguistics

13. The sentence

John likes linguistics, but Mary is interested in history

is a __B________.

A. simple sentence

B. coordinated sentence

C. complex sentence

D. clause

14. _____C_____ is an error caused by negative transfer..

A.

goed

B.

comed

C.

foots

D.

He tomorrow come

15.

In

general,

linguistic

change

in

___D_______

of

a

language

is

the

more

noticeable

than

in

other systems of the grammar.

A. the sound system

B. the vocabulary

C. the syntax

D. the sound system and the vocabulary

16.

____D______

manifests

various

grammatical

relations

or

grammatical

categories

such

as

number, tense, degree and case.

A. Roots

B. Stems

C. Derivational affixes

D. Inflectional affixes

II. Blank-filling.

1.

___

register

_______

is

the

term

used

in

linguistics

to

describe

the

relationship

between

a

particular type of language and its context of use.

2. One of the design features termed as ___

displacement

_______ means that human language

enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present (in time and

space) at the moment of communication.

3. Foreign language learners will subconsciously use their L1 knowledge in learning the foreign

language and this is called language ___

transfer

__

_____.

4.

In

injustice

and

imperfect

,

in

-

and

im

-

are

supposed

to

be

the

__

affix__

_____

of

the

same

morpheme.

5.

Chomsky

defines

_

competence_

________

as

the

ideal

user

’

s

knowledge

of

the

rules

of

his

language.

6.

Predication

analysis

is

to

break

down

predications

into

their

constituents:

argument

____

and

predicate_

_________.

7.

If

we

think

of

a

sentence

as

what

people

actually

utter

in

the

course

of

communication,

it

becomes an __

utterance

_____.

8. If you tell someone the time instead of the price that is inquired by the person, you violate the

maxim of

__

_relation_

______.

9. The experience and his study of Hopi, an American Indian language, helped Whorf develop his

unique

understanding

of

linguistic

_

relativity

_________,

which

is

widely

known

as

the

SAPIR- WHORF HYPOTHESE.

10. Evidence in support of lateralization for language in the left hemisphere of the brain comes

from researches in __

dichotic

________ listening tasks.

11. __

Componential

________ analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can be

divided into meaning components.

12. Transformational rules are those rules which relate or transform _

deep structure__

_______ of

_