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英
语
语
言
学
Ⅰ
.Directions
：
Read
each of the following statements
carefully
，
Decide which of
the
four choices completes the
statement and put the letter A,B,C or D in the
brackets.
are (
)main areas of phonetic study.
A.2
B.3
C.4
D.5
ANSWER:B
term(
)linguistics may be defined as a way of
referring to the approach which
studies
language change over various periods of time and
at various historical stages.
onic
onic
ative
ical
comparative
ANSWER:B
n language learning always contain (
)
A
language historical process learning
and language
learning
C inter language in language
learning
r and language learning
ANSWER:BCD
way
in which people address each other depends on
their age, sex, social group,
and
personal relationship. The English system of
address forms frequently used includes
first name, last name, title+ last
name, (
)and kin term.
A
title+ first name
B title+ title
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C
title alone
D first name+
last name+ title
ANSWER:C
es of the language in fictions are:
(
)
A stress and
metrical patterning
B speech and thought
presentation
C prose style
D analysis of
the text
ANSWER:BC
6. Which of the following best states
the behaviorist view of child language
acquisition?
(
)
A
Language acquisition is a process of habit
formation
B Language
acquisition is the species-specific property of
human beings
C Children are
born with an innate ability to acquire language
D Humans are equipped with
the neural prerequisites for language and language
use
ANSWER:A
can be identified in terms of
(
)
A a minimum free form
B
stability
C relative uninterruptibility
D variable or not
ANSWER:ABC
is not the features of
language?
(
)
2
A arbitrariness
B
duality
C creativity
D replacement
ANSWER:D
chers
to syntax can be:
(
)
A the traditional approach
B the
structural approach
C the functional
approach
D the generative approach
ANSWER:ABCD
ation analysis is a way to analyze(
)meaning.
A phoneme
B
word
C phrase
D sentence
ANSWER:D
l change cannot be a result
of
(
)
A
phonological change
B semantic change
C analogical change
D orthographic change
ANSWER:C
words that contain only one morpheme
are called
(
)
A
bound morphemes
B roots
C
free morphemes
D affixes
ANSWER:B
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13.(
) is the study
of language in relation to the mind.
A
Psycholinguistics
B Sociolinguistics
C Linguistics
D
Semantics
ANSWER:A
belongs to the main
branches of linguistics?
(
)
A phonetics
B metalingy
C morphology
D syntax
ANSWER:ACD
15
.Which doesn’t belong to
the main branches of linguistics?
(
)
A phonetics
B morphology
C metalingy
D syntax
ANSWER:C
16.V
oicing as a quality of
speech sounds is caused by the vibration of
(
)
A the velum
B the vocal cords
C the glottis
D
the uvula
ANSWER:B
17
.Sense of “word” contains:
(
)
A a
physically definable unit
B the common factor
underlying a set of forms
C an
essential former of sentences
D a grammatical
unit
ANSWER:ABD
ent functional speech varieties known
as are expected in, say, a church sermon, a
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diplomatic
encounter, a family dinner, or a sports broadcast.
A registers
B styles
C dialects
D accents
ANSWER:A
is not
the features of language?
(
)
A arbitrariness
B duality
C
creativity
D
replacement
ANSWER:D
study psycholinguistics because
(
)
A to know
about psychological reality of linguistic
structures
B to help the aphasics
C to produce findings which lead to the
modification of theoretical ideas
D to
make it a new tool for studying psychology
ANSWER:AC
Ⅱ
.Directions: Judge whether
each of the following statements is true or false.
Put a
T for true or F for false in the
brackets(2%×
10=20%).
ions
between
meanings
of
words
can
be
synonymy,
antonymy
or
hyponymy.(
)
ANSWER:T
5
assimilation and alienation can happen during
phonological processes.(
)
ANSWER:T
is a phonological unit.(
)
ANSWER:F
division
of
English
into
Old
English,
Middle
English,
and
Modern
English
is
nonconventional and not arbitrary.(
)
ANSWER:F
first pragmatic
theory is Conversational Implicature.(
)
ANSWER:F
of modern
linguistics is Swiss F. de Saussure.(
)
ANSWER:F
the history of
any language the writing system
always
came into being
before the
spoken form.(
)
ANSWER:F
is
merely little difference between data retrieval
and information retrieval.(
)
ANSWER:F
a child is
deprived of linguistic environment, he or she is
unlikely to learn a language
successfully later on.(
)
ANSWER:T
10. There is no
difference between data retrieval and information
retrieval.(
)
ANSWER:F
ge
refers to the abstract innate system, however,
parole refers to the outcome or
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what we actually
utter/write.(
)
ANSWER:T
are
some relations between language and culture,
language and society, but they
are not
deserved to spend a lot of time studying.(
)
ANSWER:F
ge
acquisition
is
a
hot
research
topic
today,
and
social,
cultural,
personal
factors are also
observed to be affecting.(
)
ANSWER:T
stic
forms
having
the
same
sense
may
have
different
references
in
different
situations while linguistic forms with
the same reference always have the same sense.
(
)
ANSWER:F
ions
between
meanings
of
words
can
be
synonymy,
antonymy
or
hyponymy.(
)
ANSWER:T
16.A compound is the combination of two
words.(
)
ANSWER:F
17.
Both assimilation and alienation can happen during
phonological processes.(
)
ANSWER:T
onic describes language by analyzing
its development through different period
of time, while diachronic describes
phenomenon of language of a certain period.(
)
ANSWER:F
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ge refers to the abstract
innate system, however, parole refers to the
outcome
or what we actually
utter/write.(
)
ANSWER:T
meaning of a sentence is always the sum total of
the words in that sentence.(
)
ANSWER:F
Ⅲ
.Directions: Explain the
following terms(3%×
5=15%).
1. displacement
ANSWER:
Displacement
，
as one of the
design features of the human
language
，
refers to
the fact that one can talk about things
that are not present
，
as
easily as he does things
presently.
al transmission
ANSWER:
It
means
that
language
is
not
biologically
transmitted
from
generation
to
generation
，
but
that the details
of the
linguistic system
must be learned anew
by each
speaker.
ry
ANSWER:Category,
in
some
approaches
refers
to
classes
and
functions
in
its
narrow
sense,
more specifically, it refers to the defining
properties of general units.
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