英语语言学试题5

《英语语言学》试题5

I. Fill in each of the following blanks (1%×20=20%)

nguage is a system of arbitrary vocal _________used for human communication. Language is consisting of two sets of structures, or two levels, that is, sound and ___________.

2.Of all the speech organs, the ________ is the most flexible, and is responsible for varieties of articulation than any other. When the vocal cords are drawn wide apart, letting air go through without causing vibration, the sounds produced in such condition are __________.

3. _______ is voiced alveolar fricative, while _______ is back, close long vowel.

4.There are _______ phones, ________ phonemes in word “start”.

plementary distribution means that the ________ of the same phoneme always occur in different phonetic environments.

6. Generally speaking, we can divide phonetics into at least three branches: articulatory phonetics, ________ phonetics and acoustic phonetics.

7. Chomsky defines _________ as the ideal speaker’s knowledge of the rules of his language, and performance is the actual realization of this knowledge.

8.__________ refers to the study of the rules governing the way words are combined to form sentences in a language, or simply the study of the formation of sentences. 9.In Engllish, nouns, verbs adjectives and adverbs make up the largest part of the vocabulary, they are called ______ class words ,while conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns are regarded as close class words.

10. Morphology is the study of the internal ________ of words and the way in which words are formed.

11. ___________ means that language can be used to refer to things which present or not present, real or imagined matters in past, present, or future, or in far-away places.

12. __________ are independent units of meaning and can be used freely all by themselves.

13.In English, _______ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form.

14. A lingustic study is _______ if it describes and analyses the language people actually use; it is prescriptive if it tries to lay down rules for “correct” behavior.

15.Suprasegmental features include ________ tone and intonation.

16. “Accuse…of” and “charge…with” are _______ synonyms.

II．Read and decide the best one that completes the

statement. (1.5%×20=30%)

1. Linguists give priority to the spoken language not on the written language

because_________.

A. vocal sounds are drived from writing systems

B. speech precedes writing everywhere in the world

C. we have reading devices to study speech

D. spoken language preceded writtten language only in Indo-European

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2. According to F. de Saussure, _______ refers to the abstract linguistics.

A. parole

B. performance

C. langue

D. language

3. ________ is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world’s language.

A. Phonology

B. Phonetics

C. Morphology

D. Phonemics.

4. The word “boyish” contains two ______.

A. morphemes

B. morphs

C. phonemes

D. allophones

5. Noun, verb, _____ and preposition are major lexical cateogries.

A. adverb

B. pronoun

C. adjective

D. conjunction

6. Which of the following sounds is voiceless bilabial stop?

A. [p]

B. [m]

C. [b]

D. [t]

7. The study of language to psychology is __________.

A. sociolinguistics

B. psycholinguistics

C. applied linguistics

D. pragmatics

8. Which of the following sounds is central vowel?

A. [ e ]

B. [i]

C. []

D. [a:]

9. In English, “un-” and “dis” are called _________..

A. prefixes

B. infixes

C. suffixes

D. grammatical words

10. ______ are produced by moving from one vowel position to another through interventing position.

A. Diphthongs

B. Consonants

C. V owels

D. Individual vowels

11.The phrase “ men and women ” belongs to the _________ contruction.

A. predicate

B. coordinate

C. subordinate

D. exocentric

12.In English, all the front vowels and the central vowels are _______ vowels.

A. unrounded

B. close

C. open

D. rounded

13.Which is the meaning relationship between the two words “flower/rose”?

A. Homonymy

B. Antonymy

C. Polysemy

D. Hyponymy

14. The words such as “lab”, “doc” are ________.

A. formed by blending

B. acronyms

C. coined by back-formation

D. clipped words

15. In English if three consonants should cluster together at the beginning of a word, the first phoneme must be /s/ and the second phoneme must be /p/ or /t/ or /k/, then the third phoneme can not be _______.

A. /f/

B. /l/

C. /r/

D. /w/

16. The words “make” and “bus” are called ________ because they can occur unattached.

A.derivational morphemes

B. inflectional morphemes