语言学考试题型及分值

I.Define the following terms: (15%) 5个

II.Indicate the following statement true or false, mark “T”for the true statements and “F” for the false. (10%) 10题

III.From A, B, C and D, choose the appropriate one to complete the following statements. (20%) 20题

IV.Fill in the blanks with the following word which completes the statements.

(20%) 20题

V.Answer the following questions. (35%) 四题

1. Give the description of the following sound segments in English. (5%)

Exampl e：[i] front mid-high unrounded short

2. Pick out ten minimal pairs from the following words. (10%)

3. Explain the ambiguity of the following sentences by providing two sentences that paraphrase the multiple meanings. (10%)

4. Answer the questions (10%)

复习题

1. Language is passed on from one generation to the next through , rather than by instinct.

A. learning

B. teaching

C. learning and teaching

D. acquisition

2.Which of the following two-term sets shows the feature of complementarity? .

A. Lend/Borrow

B. Single/Married

C. Hot/Cold

D. Old/Young

3. Which of the following sounds is a voiceless bilabial stop? .

A. [p]

B. [m]

C. [b]

D.[r]

4. Most of the violations of the maxims of the CP give rise to .

A. breakdown of the conversation

B. confusion of one`s intention

C. conversational implicatures

D. hostility between speakers and listeners.

5. is concerned with all the speech sounds that occur in the world`s languages.

A. Phonology

B. Phonetics

C. Morphology

D. Psychology

6. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is about .

A. language and MT

B. SLA and language

C. language and thought

D. language and LAD

7. Morphemes such as “bed”, “tree” are called .

A. bound morphemes

B. word formation

C. free morphemes

D. stem morphemes

8. What`s the meaning relationship between the two words “flower” and “rose”? C

A. Homonymy

B. Antonymy

C. Hyponymy

D. Polysemy

9. “Commerce / begin” and “facilitate / help” are two examples of variety.

A. gender

B. sex

C. age

D. register

10. The relation, Saussure originally called associative, is a relation holding

between elements replaceable with each other at a particular place in a structure, or between one element present and the others absent.

A. syntagmatic

B. chain

C. horizontal

D. paradigmatic

11.Halliday proposed three ：the ideational, interpersonal and textual functions.

A. micro-functions

B. macro-functions

C. meta-functions

D. functions

12. Bloomfield drew on psychology when trying to define the meaning of

linguistic forms.

A. structural

B. behaviorist

C. conceptualist

D. mentalist

13. are produced by moving from one vowel position to anther through

intervening positions.

A. Diphthongs

B. Monophthongs

C. V owels

D. Consonants

14. Words such as “male/female”and “present/absent” are .

A. gradable

B. complementary

C. converse

D. relational

15. A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which can

be added.

A. an inflectional affix

B. a derivational affix

C. a compound

D. a blending

16. The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to,

or stands for, is known as the theory.

A. cohort

B. assimilation

C. referential

D. dissimilation

17. The smallest meaning unit of language is .

A. allomorph

B. phone

C. phoneme

D. morpheme

18. Style refers to in a person`s speech or writing or a particular person`s use of speech or writing at all times or to a way of speaking or writing at a particular period of time.

A. dialect

B. register

C. language

D. variation

19. is the language which a person is learning , in contrast to a first

language or mother tongue.

A. Target language

B. Second language

C. Native language

D. Mother language

20. The members of the same class are .

A. hyponyms

B. antonyms

C. co-hyponyms

D. synonyms

21. Which description of the meaning components of the word “mother” is correct?

A.＋human,＋adult,－male

B. ＋human,－adult,＋male

C. －human,＋adult,－male

D. ＋human,＋adult,＋male

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

A. parole

B. performance

C. language

D. langue

23. The Cooperative Principle is proposed by .

A. John Austin

B. John Searle

C. Paul Grice

D. John Lyons

24. Saussure is a linguist and the founder of modern linguistics.

A. British

B. Swiss

C. French

D. Russian