2015年1月广东省高等教育自学考试英语语言学

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201 5

年

1

月广东省高等教育自学考试

英语语言学

问卷

（课程代码

06422

）

考生注意：

1.

答案必须写在答卷上，写在问卷上无效；

2.

考试时间

1 50

分钟。

I Blank-filling(20%)

Fill

in

the

following

blanks

with

a

word

whose

initial

letter

has

been

given.

Write

the

words

on

the

Answer Sheet ' h

1. Language is a system of arbitrary v

symbols used for human communication.

linguistics is mostly descriptive while traditional grammar is p

.

3. According to Saussure, the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community is

known as l

.

sounds may be studied from three distinct but related points of view, giving rise to three branches of

phonetic studies, namely, a

phonetics, auditory phonetics and acoustic phonetics

5.P

is an abstract unit of distinctive value which is represented or realized by a certain phone in a

certain phonetic context.

6. M

he study of the internal structure of words and the rules that govern the rule of

word-formation.

7.D

morphemes may change hot]only the grammatical class of words, but their meanings

as well.

8. Phrases that are formed of more than one word usually contain three elements: head, s

and complement

9. The structure formed by the XP rule in accordance with the head's s

properties is known as

deep structure.

10.H

refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form,

i. e, different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.

11.P

analysis involves the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence which consists of

argument(s) and predicate.

12. In daily communication, people do not always observe the four maxims of the co- operative

principle. Conversational i

would arise when the maxims are flouted.

13. The way of word formation by which new words may be formed by combining parts of other

words is known as b

.

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14 The word holiday, which originally meant holy day, has undergone a process of w

of meaning

because it signifies any rest day in modern English

15.I

is a personal dialect characterized by individual style that combines elements

regarding regional, social, gender, and age variations

16. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to the type of s

a register.

17. P

is a special language variety that mixes or blends languages and it is used by people

who speak different languages for restricted purposes such as trading.

18. The weak version of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that the language patterns i

people's thinking

and behavior.

anguage refers to learners' i

system of the second language, which is of neither the

native language nor the second language, but a continuum or approximation from his native

language to the target language

20.

M

can

be

defined

as

the

learner,s

attitudes

and

affective

state

or

learning

drive,

having

a

strong impact on his efforts in learning a second language

I. Multiple choice(20 %)

Choose the best answer to the following items.

21. Who among the following linguists looks at language from a psychological point of view and

considers language to be a property of mind of each individual?

A. N. Chomsky

B. F. de Saussure

D. M. A. K. Halliday

C. Leonard Bloomfield

22. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a sound quality called

ion

C. friction

B. nasalization

g

23. Which of the following words begins with a palatal, voiceless fricative?

C. shop

B. chop

D. thought

24. Which of the following words does (not/contain a central vowel?

A. nurse

B. instead

D. whisper

C. stubborn

25. Which of the following is a minimal pair?

A. peak, pig X

C. style, file

, pill

D. meat. seat

26. Which of the following is a closed class word?

A. Borough

t

B. thorough

D. although

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