语言学期末复习练习及答案

语言学期末复习练习及答案

英语语言学期末预测及答案

Translate the following terms into Chinese:

(0.5%×10=5%)

1) affricate 2)distinctive feature

3) parole 4) generative grammar

5) bilingualism 6) felicity condition

7) design feature

8) denotation 9) labiodental 10) linguistic relativity

Translate the following terms into English:(0.5%×10=5%)

11)人际功能 12) 真值条件 13)女性

语域 14)音节划分 15)结构主义

16)社会语言学 17) 论元 18)单元音

19)衔接 20)对比分析

III. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. (1%×20=20%)

1). language is a system of arbitrary _________ symbols used for human communication.

A. cultural

B. conventional

C. decoded

D. vocal

2). A word with several meanings is called _________.

A. an abnormal word

B. a polysemous word

C. a synonymous word

D. none of the above

3). There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed”in the word “learned” is known as a(n) __________. A. derivational morpheme B. free morpheme

C. inflectional morpheme

D. free form

4). The syntactic rules of any language are ________ in number.

A. large

B. small

C. finite

D. infinite

5). “I picked some tulips.” __________ “I picked some flowers.”.

A. entails

B. presupposes

C. is inconsistent with

D. is synonymous with

6). Y's utterance in the following

conversation exchange violates the maxim

of __________.

X: Who was that you were with last night?

Y: Did you know that you were wearing odd socks?

A. quality

B. quantity

C. relation

D. manner

7) “Can I borrow your bike?” _____ “You

have a bike.”

A. is synonymous with

B. is inconsistent with

C. entails

D. presupposes

8) The study of language at one point of time

is a _______ study.

A. synchronic

B. historic

C. diachronic

D. descriptive

9) Which of the following is a typical tone language?

A. English

B. Chinese

C. French

D. All of the above

10) Two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in ___________.

A. phonemic contrast

B. complementary distribution

C. minimal pair

D. none of the above

11) In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of _________.

A. palatal

B. alveolar

C. bilabial

D. dental

12) Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by _______ in 1957.

A. L. Bloomfield

B. N. Chomsky

C. F. Saussure

D. M. A. K. Halliday

13) Which of the following is a correct description of reference?

A. a relationship between an expression and other expressions which have the same meaning

B. the set of all objects which can potentially be referred to by an expression