(完整版)英语专八语言学测试题

英语专八人文语言学测试题

1. Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?

A language is a system

B language is symbolic

C Animal also have language

D language is arbitrary

2. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human loanguage is __________.

A arbitrary

B non-arbitrary

C logical

D non-productive

3. Which of the foloowing terms best describes the “-ate” in the word “affectionate”?

A derivational morpheme

B infectional morpheme

C free morpheme

D prefix

4. Which of the foloowing terms best describes the pair of words kill and dill?

A minimal pair

B phonemic contrast

C closed class words

D bound morphemes

5. What is the basic lexical relation between piece and peace?

A synonymy

B antonymy

C homonymy

D polysemy

6. /p/ is different from /b/ in ______.

A the manner of articulation

B the shape of the lips

C the vibration of the vocal cords

D the place of articulation

7. Of all the speech organs, the ____ is / are the most flexible.

A mouth

B lips

C tongue

D vocal cords

8. The phonological features of the consonant /t/ are ______.

A voiced stop

B voiceless stop

C voiced fricative

D voiceless fricative

9. The branch of linguistics that studies show context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ________.

A semantics

B pragmatics

C sociaolinguistics

D psycholinguistics

10. The utterance “We’ve already eaten ten tons.” Obviously violates the maxim of ______.

A quality

B quantity

C relation

D manner

11. All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i.e. rounded, except _____.

A //

12. The semantic relationship between the two sentences “Mary’s son is an engineer.” And “Mary has a son.” is _______.

A entailment

B presupposition

C synonymy

D inconsistency

13. Which of the following sentences is a commissive?

A The eqarth is round.

B I now prinounce you husband and wife.

C I’m really sorry!

D I’ll be here tomorrow

14. Semantic feature analysis attempts to account for the _____ of a word according to the presence or abence of a specific semantic feature in the word.

A conceptual meaning

B social meaning

C connotative meaning

D affective meaning

15. ____ act is the extra meaning of the utterance produced on the basis of its literal meaning.

A Speech

B Locutionary

C Illocutionary

D Perlocutionary

16. _____is a group of people using a given language or dialect. They use the same kind of language or dialect which is highly strtified in terms of social division.

A Speech community

B Individual dialect

C Regional dialect

D Social dialect

17. The situation where two very different varieties of the same language are used side by side for two different sets of functions is termed as _______.