语言学概论期末复习题(1)

西北农林科技大学外语系英专

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级语言学概论 期末复习题（

2011

春）试题编辑：李丽霞

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语言学概论期末复习题（

1

）

Ⅰ

. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices

best completes the statement and choose the letter A, B, C or D. (20%)

1. When language is used for establishing an atmosphere or maintaining social contact

rather than for

exchanging information or ideas, it serves a _____ function.

A. expressive

B. evocative

C. performative

D. phatic

2.

Language serves the ________ function when it is used to express the speaker?s feeling or

attitude or to arouse a certain feeling or attitude in the hearer.

A. phatic

B. informative

C. emotive

D. directive

3. A ______ is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be added.

A. root

B. free morpheme

C. stem

D. suffix

4. _____ studies the changes in language and language use with respect to social factors.

A. Sociolinguistics

B. Comparative linguistics

C. Syntax

D. Computational linguistics

5._________ studies the total stock of morphemes of a language particularly those items which

have clear semantic references.

A. Phonology

C. Lexicology

B. Lexicography

D. Morphology

6.

________studies

the

mental

processes

that

a

person

uses

in

producing

and

understanding

language, and how humans learn language.

A. Sociolinguistics

C. Neurolinguistics

B. Psycholinguistics

D. Anthropology

7. The fact that ability to speak a language is transmitted from generation to

generation

by

a

process

of

learning,

and

not

genetically

is

usually

referred

to

as

___________.

A. performance

B. language acquisition

D. competence

C. cultural transmission

8.

_________

a

term

used

to

characterize

any

approach

which

attempt

to

lay

down

rules

of

correctness as to how language should be used.

A. Descriptive grammar

C. Pedagogical grammar

A. Diachronic linguistics

C. Prescriptive linguistics

A. semantics

C. syntax

B. Prescriptive grammar

D. Universal Grammar

B. Synchronic linguistics

D. Comparative linguistics

B. phonology

D. morphology

9. Which branch of linguistics studies the similarities and differences among languages?

10. The study of the linguistic meaning of words, phrases, and sentences is called__________.

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西北农林科技大学外语系英专

08

级语言学概论期末复习题（

2011

春 ）试题编辑：李丽霞

11. ___________ covers the study of language use in relation to context, and in particular the

study of linguistic communication.

A. Semantics

B. Pragmatics

D. Stylistics

C. Sociolinguistics

12. Morphology is generally divided into two fields: the study of the rules by which words are

formed and the ___________ of words.

A. affixation

B. bond morphemes

D. free morphemes

C. internal structure

13. ________ is a sub-field of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language.

It is

the rules of how words are combined together to form sentences.

A. Morphology

C. Semantics

B. Syntax

D. Pragmatics

14.

There

are

different

types

of

affixes

or

morphemes.

The

“

ed

”

in

the

word

learned

”

is

known as a(n) ________.

A. derivative morpheme

C. inflectional morpheme

B. free morpheme

D. stem

15. The semantic triangle holds that the meaning of a word _________.

A. is interpreted through the mediation of concept.

B. is related to the thing it refers to.

C. is the idea associated with that word in the minds of speakers.

D. is the image it is represented in the mind.

A. relationship

B. bedroom

C. milkman

D. childlike

66. Which of the following underlined parts is a bound morpheme?

17. The word unreliable consists of _____ syllables as against _____ morphemes.

A. five/two

A. active

B. four/three

C. five/three

D. three/five

B. rename

C. books

D. sleepy

18. Which of the following underlined parts is an inflectional morpheme?

19.

Which of the following is the correct componential analysis of the word “milk”?

A.[+DRINKS-LIQUID- COUNTABLE]

B.[+FOOD-SOLID+COUNTABLE]

C.[+FOOD+SOLID+COUNTABLE]

D.[+DRINKS+LIQUID-COUNTABLE]

20.

The relation between ?furniture? and ?chair? is ___.

A. homophony

B. homography

C. hyponymy

D. polysemy

Ⅱ

. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for

false. (20%)

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