英语语言学考试十套题

英语语言学试题（1）
11、Chomsky defines "competence" as the ideal user's k of the rules of his language.
12、The four sounds /p/,/b/,/m/ and /w/have one feature in common, i.e, they are all b .
13、M is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.
14、A s is a structurally independent unit that usually comprises a number of words to form a completestatement, question or command.
15、Synonyms that are mutually substitutable under allcircumstances are called c synonyms.
16、The illocutionary point of r is to commit the speaker to
something's being the case, to the truth of what has been said.
17、Words are created outright to fit some purpose. Such a method of enlarging the vocabulary is known as word
c .
18、Wherever the standard language can use a contraction (he+is→he's), Black English can d the form of "be".
19、The basic essentials of the first language are acquired in the short period from about age two to puberty, which is called the c period for first language acquisition.
20、As a type of linguistic system in 12 learning, i is a product of L2 training, mother tongue intereference, overgeneralization of the target language rules, and learning and communicative strategies of the learner.
I
()21、In modern linguistic studies, the written form of language is given more emphasis than the spoken form for a number of reasons.
()22、Voicing is a phonological feature that distinguishes meaning in both
Chinese and English.
()23、The compound word "bookstore" is the place where books are sold. This
indicates that the meaning of a compound is the sum total of the meanings
of its components.
()24、Syntactic categories refer to sentences (S) and clauses (C) only.
()25、Dialectal synonyms can often be found in different regional dialects
such as British English and American English but cannot be found within
the variety itself, for example, within British English or American
()26、Only when a maxim under Cooperative Principle is blatantly violated
and the hearer knows that it is being violated do conversational
implicatures arise.
()27、The territory in which the Indo-European languages are mainly spoken
today also includes languages that are not Indo-European.
()28、In most bilingual communities, two languages have the same in speech
situations known as domains.
()29、According to the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,
speakers' perceptions determine language and pattern their way of life.
()30、All normal children have equal ability to acquire their first
language.
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11.A sentence is a structurally independent unit that usually comprises a number of w________ to form a complete statement,q________or command.
12.In sociolinguistic studies,speakers are treated as members of s__g________.
13.Utterance is based on ________ ________ ;it is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication,or simply in a context.
14.To many people,a linguist is the same as a ________,one who can speak several languages fluently.
15.Consonant sounds can be either v ________or v__,while all vowel sounds are v________.
16.All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.( )
17.Tense and reference are two terms often encountered in the study of meaning.( )
18.Linguistics is the course of language.( )
19.The part of a sentence which compriese comprises an infinite verb or a verb phrase is grammatically called predicate.( )
20.Historical linguistics equals to the study of synchronic study.( )
21.The term dialect,as a technical term in linguistics,carries value judgement and not simply refers to a distinct form of language.( )
23.The word “photographically” is made up of 4 morphemes.()
24.The smallest meaningful unit of language is allomorph.( )
25.Semantics is the main part of linguistics.( )
30.naming theory and conceptualist view
31.maxims of quality and manner
32.blending
33.sociolect
34.subvocal speech
35.contrastive analysis
英语语言学试题（3）
nguage exists in time and changes through time. The description of a language at some point of time is called a _s_______ study of language.
12.An essential difference between consonants and vowels is whether the air coming up from the lungs meets with any _o________ when a sound is produced.
13.The morphemes that cannot be used by themselves, but must be combined with other morphemes to form words are called _b________ morphemes.
14.XP may contain more than just X.For example,the NP "the boy who likes his puppy" consists of Det,N and S,with Det being the _s________,N the head and S the complement.
15.According to Searle's classification of illocutionary acts,"to suggest that someone should see the doctor" should fall into the category of _d________.
16.Hyponymy is the relationship which obtains between specific and general lexical items.The word that is more general in meaning is called _s________.
17.Vowels can be nasalized.The vowel nasalization rule is an _a________ rule,which,for the most part, is caused by articulatory or physiological process in which successive sounds are made identical, or more similar, to one another.
18.One mark of an informal style is the frequent occurrence of _s________ words and expressions, which make sense only to the people of particular social groups and serve as a mark of membership and solidarity within a given social group.
left.
20.Linguists often use the term native language or mother tongue instead of first language, and _t________ language instead of second language in second language acquisition literature.
21.( )Human capacity for language has a genetic basis,i.e. we are all born with the ability to acquire language and the details of a language system are genetically transmitted.
22.( )A general difference between phonetics and phonology is that phonetics is focused on the production of speech sounds while phonology is more concerned with how speech sounds distinguish meaning.
23.( )Only words of the same parts of speech can be combined to form compounds.
24.( )Sentences are not formed by randomly combining lexical items, but by following a set of syntactic rules that arrange linguistic elements in a particular order.
25.( )The same semantic feature occurs in one part of speech only. For example, "female" occurs only in nouns such as "mother", "woman" "girl" "tigress" and so on but not in other parts of speech.
26.( )According to Searle's classification of illocutionary acts, inviting, ordering, advising, promising and apologizing all fall into the category of directives.
27.( )New words may be formed from existing words by subtracting an affix thought to be part of the old word; that is, ignorance sometimes can be creative. Thus "peddle" was derived from "peddler" on the mistaken assumption that the "-er" was the agentive suffix.
28.( )Women in Western countries at least appear to be more status-conscious and sensitive to the social significance of certain linguistic variables.
29.( )The case of Genie confirms that the language faculty of an average human degenerates after the critical period and consequently, most linguistic skills cannot develop.
30.( )Conscious knowledge of linguistic rules does ensure acquisition of the rules and therefore an immediate guidance for actual performance.
英语语言学试题（5）
11. The description of a language at some point in time is a s________ study.
12. When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as i________.
13. According to its position in the new word, a________ are divided into two kinds: prefixes and suffixes.
14. P________ refers to the phenomenon that the same word may have a set of different meanings.
15. Whether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules called s________ restrictions.
16. The u________ meaning of the sentence varies with the context in which it is uttered.
17. Some important missions of historical linguists are to identify and classify families of related languages in a genealogical family tree, and to reconstruct the p________, the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist.
18. R________ are language varieties appropriate for use in particular speech situations.
19. Learners will subconsciously use their L1 knowledge in learning a second language. This is known as language t________.
20. A related issue with integrative motivation has been the extent to which learners differ in the process of adapting to the new culture of the L2 community. This adaptation process is called a ________.
21. Modern linguistics is mainly diachronic. ( )
22. The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme,thus making the two phones similar. ( )
23. Semantically, the meaning of a compound is often idiomatic, always being the sum total of the meanings of its components. ( )
24. Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditionally called transformational rules, whose operation may change the syntactic representation of a sentence. ( )
25. Componential analysis is a way proposed by the generative semanticists to analyze meaning. ( )
26. Linguists found that it would be possible to give an adequate description of meaning even if the context of language use was left unconsidered. ( )
27. It is generally accepted that the history of the English language is divided into the periods of Old
English, Middle English and Modern English. ( )
28. When people of a community speak the same language for different purposes, sociolinguistic situations known as diglossia and bilingualism emerge. ( )
29. Linguistic lateralization in terms of right hemispheric dominance for language is found to exist in an overwhelming majority of human beings. ( )
30. In order to identify the areas of learning difficulty, an interlingual contrastive procedure Contrastive Analysis was developed. ( )
英语语言学试题（6）
11. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be
d _____.
12. Stops, fricatives, affricates, liquids, and glides all have some degree of o ____ and are therefore consonants.
13. M ____ is the smallest meaningful unit of language.
14. A _____is the movement of an auxiliary verb to the sentence-initial position, such as “be”, “have”, “do” etc.
15. R ____ is what a linguistic form refers to in the real world; it is a matter of the relationship between form and the reality.
16. In Austin’s early speech act theory, c ____ were statements that either state or describe, and were thus verifiable.
17. In the process of first language acquisition, children usually construct their personal grammars, and their language develops in stages until it a_____ the grammatical rules of the adult language.
18. A s _____ community is one group, all of whose members share the same language or at least a single language variety.
19. People may communicate their feelings or thoughts via n_____ signals such as facial expressions, gestures, postures, or proxemic space.
20. Although the development of a communicative system is not unique to human beings, the natural acquisition of l ______ as a system of highly abstract rules and regulations for creative communication is what distinguishes humans from all other animal species.
21. ( ) The writing system of a language is always a later invention used to record speech; thus there are still many languages in today’s world that can only be spoken, but not written.
22. ( ) In such sound combinations as /bi:p/, /geip/ and /su:p/, the voiceless stop /p/, occurring in the final position, is unaspirated, i.e. pronounced with the strong puff of air withheld to some extent.
23. ( ) The part of speech of the compound is always determined by the part of speech of the second element, without exception.
24. ( ) The relationship between the embedded clause and its matrix clause is one of a part to the whole.
25. ( ) The contextualist view of meaning holds that meaning should be studied in terms of the situational context and linguistic context.
26. ( ) Searle’s classification of illocutionary acts is based on the classification of performative verbs.
27. ( ) One kind of language change results in an increase of the number of exceptional or irregular morphemes. This kind of change has been called internal borrowing—that is, we “borrow” from one part of the
28. ( ) There are differences in the way people of various age categories speak. The differences most easily noted by the layman are likely to be grammatical in nature.
29. ( ) The left hemisphere of the brain is superior to the right hemisphere because the left hemisphere is language-dominant.
30 ( ) A child born to a Chinese or English speaking family takes about the same number of years to acquire their native tongue, regardless of their general intelligence.
英语语言学试题（7）
1. D_________ is a design feature of human language that enables speakers to talk about a wide range of things, free from barriers caused by separation in time and space.
2. S_________ study of language describes language at some point in time; d_________ study describes language as it changes through time.
3. N_________ transcription transcribes sounds with diacritics, while b_________ transcription does not.
4. A sentence has a hierarchical structure and l_________ structure as well.
5. Unlike a sentence, the meaning of an u_________ is concrete and context-dependent.
6. Chinese belongs to S_________ language family, while English belongs to I _________ language family.
7. R_________ are situational dialects appropriate for use in particular situations; i_________ is a personal dialect.
8. When a p_________ comes to be adopted by a population as its primary language and children learn it as their first language, it becomes c_________.
9. I_________ is the approximate linguistic system that a second language learner constructs, which represents the learner’s transitional competence in the target language.
10. A_________ is the learner’s process of adapting to the cu lture and value system of the target language community. 11. Words that have descended from a common source are c_________.
1. “ Beat” and “bit” are not a minimal pair. ()
2. Compounds are words created by combining two or more than two words. ( )
4. In a predication, the argument is said to govern the predicate. ( )
5. Modern English began with the Norman Conquest. ( )
6. Bilingualism is a situation in which two different varieties of a language co-exist in a speech
community. ( )
7. The case of Genie suggests that the language faculty of an average human degenerates after the critical period. ( )
8. Interference is the only source of errors in the second language acquisition. ( )
9. When a plural form -s is added to a noun that ends with a vowel, it is pronounced as ［z］, due to assimilation. ( )
10. In the sentence “The father beat the child”, “the child” is both a s tructural and logical
object. ( )
英语语言学试题（8）
语言学试题
11.In the course of time, the study of language has come to establish close links with other branches of
s________ studies, such as sociology and psychology.
12.Clear ［1］and dark［］are allophones of the same one phoneme /1/.They never take the same position in sound combinations, thus they are said to be in c________ distribution.
13.A r________ is often seen as part of a word, but it can never stand by itself although it bears clear, definite meaning.
14.A c________ sentence contains two or more clauses, one of which is incorporated in the other.
15.That the denial of one member of two words implies the assertion of the other is the characteristic of
c________ antonyms.
16.While the meaning of a sentence is abstract and decontextualized, that of an u________ is concrete and context-dependent.
17.Phonological rules may move phonemes from one place in the string to another. For example, Modern English verb ask was Old English askian, with the /k/preceding the/s/.Sound change as a result of sound movement is known as m________.
18.In many societies of the world, we find a large number of people who speak more than one language. As a characteristic of societies, b________ inevitably results from the coming into contact of people with different cultures and different languages.
19.The brain's neurological specialization for language is called linguistic I ________, which is specific to human
20.In order to acquire a second language, learners will subconsciously use their first language knowledge in learning a second language. This is know as language t________.
( )21.In the history of any language the writing system always came into being before the spoken form.
( )22.In English, long vowels are also tense vowels because when we pronounce a long vowel such as/i:/,the larynx is in a state of tension.
( )23.A compound is the combination of only two words.
( )24.“The student” in the sentence “The student liked the linguistic lecture.”,and “The linguistic lecture” in the sentence “The linguistic lecture liked the student.”belong to the same syntactic category.
)25.Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different references in different situations while linguistic forms with the same reference always have the same sense.
( )26.An important difference between presupposition and entailment is that presupposition, unlike entailment, is not vulnerable to negation. That is to say, if a sentence is negated, the original presupposition is still true.
( )27.The division of English into Old English, Middle English, and Modern English is nonconventional and not arbitrary.
( )nguage reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist, just as it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudes about social taboos or racism.
( )29.If a child is deprived of linguistic environment, he or she is unlikely to learn a language successfully later on.
( )30.When children learn to distinguish between the sounds of their language and the sounds that are not part of the language, they can acquire any sounds in their native language once their parents teach them.
英语语言学试题（9）
语言学试题及参考答案
11. As the first step of their scientific investigation of language, linguists have to observe and collect linguistic
f before they can do anythin
g else.
12. Phonological rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language are called
s rules.
13. An independent unit of meaning that can be used freely by itself is called a f___________ morpheme.
14. A c sentence contains two clauses joined by a linking word, such as "and", "but", "or".
15. The study of the linguistic meaning of words, phrases, and sentences is called s .
16. In making conversation, the general principle that all participants are expected to observe is called the
C principle proposed by J. Grice.
17. In addition to social changes, one of the most pervasive sources of language change seems to be the continual process of cultural t across generations.
18. Language itself is not sexist, but its use may reflect the s attitude connoted in the language that is sexist.
19. When language and thought are identical or closely parallel to each other, we may regard thought as
"s speech," and speech as "overt thought." In such a case, speaking and thinking take place
20. I is the language that a learner constructs at a given stage of SLA.
21. ( ) An important difference between traditional grammarians and modern linguists in their study of language is that the former tended to over-emphasize the written form of language and encourage people to imitate the "best authors" for language usage.
22. ( ) In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria can be applied.
23. ( ) We can always tell by the words a compound contains what it means because the meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meanings of its parts.
24. ( ) Phrase structure rules can generate an infinite number of sentences and sentences with infinite length, due to their recursive properites.
25. ( ) The conceptualist view of meaning holds that there is no direct link between a symbol and reference,
i.e. between language and thought.
26. ( ) Of the views concerning the study of semantics, the contextual view, which places the study of meaning in the context in which language is used, is often considered as the initial effort to study meaning in a pragmatic sense.
27. ( ) In first language acquisition children's grammar models exactly after the grammar of adult language.
28. ( ) The sentences "He crazy" and "He be sick all the time" are both acceptable in Black English vernacular because copula deletion and habitual be are two famous features of Black English.
29. ( ) Speakers of different languages are capable of distinguishing and recognizing experiences of the same objective world according to their respective different linguistic coding system.
30. ( ) Instruction and correction are key factors in child language development.
语言学试题参考答案
11、knowledge
12、bilabial
13、morphology
14、sentence
15、complete
16、representatives
17、coinage
18、delete
19、critical
20、interlanguage
21、F
Actually modern linguistics lays more emphasis on the spoken form of language than the written form for a
22、F
Voicing distinguishes meaning in English but not in Chinese.
23、F
The meaning of some compound words has nothing to do with the sum total of the meanings of their components, such as the compound "redcoat".
24、F
Apart from S and C, they also refer to a word, or a phrase that performs a particular grammatical function.
25、F
Dialectal synonyms can often be found not only in different regional dialects such as British English and American English but also within the variety itself. For example, within British English, "girl" is called "lassie" in Scottish dialect, and "liquor" is called "whishey" in Irish dialect.
26、T
27、T
28、F
They have a fairly clear fairly clear functional differentiation, i.e. one language may be used in some domains, other language in other domains.
29、F
The true statement is "According to the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, language determines speakers' perceptions and patterns their way of life"
30、T
11.words question
12.social groups
13.sentence meaning
14.polyglot
15.voiceless voiced voiced
三、判断说明题(每小题2分，共20分)
16.T
17.F(Sense and reference…)
18.F(scientific study of language)
19.F(finite verb…)
20.F(diachronic)
21.F(no value judgement)
22.T
23.T
24.F(morpheme)
25.F(one of the parts)
英语语言学试题（8）语言学试题参考答案
11.social plementary
13.root plex
plementary 16.utterance
17.metathesis 18.bilingualism
teralization 20.transfer
21.F
The contrary is true. The writing system is always a later invention.
22.T
23.F
Some compounds contain more than two words.
24.T
25.F
It is false because linguistic forms with the same reference might differ in sense. A case in point is the two expressions "morning star" and " evening star." They refer to the same star but differ in sense.
26.T
27.F
The division of English into Old English, Middle English, and Modern English is conventional and somewhat
arbitrary.
28.T
29.T
30.F
Children first acquire the sounds found in all languages of the world, no matter what language they are exposed to ,and in later stages acquire the " more difficult" sounds.
参考答案
二、填空题（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
11、facts 12、sequential 13、free 14、coordinate 15、semantics 16、Cooperative 17、transmission 18、social 19、subvocal 20、Interlanguage
三、判断改错题（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）
21、（T）
22、（F）As there is an essential difference between the consonants and the vowels, i.e. there is some kind of obstruction of air in the production of the former, but there is not in the production of the latter, it is impossible to use the same criteria in their classification.
23、（F）We cannot always tell by the words a compound contains what it means because the meaning of a compound is not always the sum of the meaning of its parts.
24、（T）
25、（F）The conceptualist view holds that there is no direct link between a symbol and its referent, i.e. between language and the real world; rather, in the interpretation of meaning they are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind.
26、（T）
27、（F）In first language acquisition children's grammar never models exactly after the grammar of adult language, because children usually construct their personal grammars by themselves and generalize rules from the linguistic information they hear.
28、（T）
29、（T）
30、（F）Instruction and correction are not key factors in child language development. Linguists have found that for the vast majority of children, language development occurs spontaneously and requires little conscious instruction. Instruction and correction just play a minor role.。