英语语言学考研真题与典型题详解1

1.3考研真题与典型题详解

I. Fill in the blanks. 1. The features that define our human languages can be called ______ features. (北二外2006研)

2. Linguistics is usually defined as the ______study of language. (北二外2003研)

3. Language, broadly speaking, is a means of______ communication.

4. In any language words can be used in new ways to mean new things and can be combined into innumerable sentences ba sed on limited rules. This feature is usually termed______

5. Linguistics is the scientific study of______.

6. Modern linguistic is______ in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rather than lay down some rul es for people to observe.

7. One general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of ______ over writing.

8. The branch of linguistics which studies the sound patterns of a language is called ______. (北二外2003研)

9. The branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words is called______. (北二外2004研)

10. ______mainly studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription. (北二外2005研)

11. Semantics and ______investigate different aspects of linguistic meaning. (北二外2007研)

12. In linguistics, ______ refers to the study of the rules governing the way words are combined to form sentences in a lang uage, or simply, the study of the formation as sentence. (中山大学2008研)

13. ______can be defined as the study of language in use. Sociolinguistics, on the other hand, attempts to show the relations hip between language and society.

14. The branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of sentence is called _______. (北二外2008研)

15. Saussure distinguished the linguistic competence of the speaker and the actual phenomena or data of linguistics (utteran ces) as and . The former refers to the abstract linguistic

linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and the latter is the concrete manifestation of language either through speech or through writing. (人大2006研)

16. The description of a language as it changes through time is a ______ study.

17. Linguistic potential is similar to Saussure’s langue and Chomsky’s______.

18. One of the important distinctions in linguistics is ______ and parole. The former is the French word for “language”, whi ch is the abstract knowledge necessary for speaking，listening，

writing and reading. The latter is concerned about the actual use of language by people in speech or writing. Parole is more variable and may change according to contextual factors.

19. One of the important distinctions in linguistics is and performance. (人大2006研)

20. Chomsky initiated the distinction between ______ and performances. (北二外2007研)

II. Multiple Choice

1.Which of the following is NOT a frequently discussed design feature? (大连外国语学院2008研)

A. Arbitrariness

B. Convention

C. Duality

2.Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary? (西安交大2008研)

A. tree

B. crash

C. typewriter

D. bang

3. A linguist regards the changes in language and languages use as______.

A. unnatural

B. something to be feared

C. natural

D. abnormal

4. Which of the following property of language enables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, d ue to this feature of language, speakers of a language are free to talk about anything in any situation? A. Transferability.

B. Duality.

C. Displacement.

D. Arbitrariness:

5. The study of physical properties of the sounds produced in speech is closely connected with______. (大连外国语学院2008研)

A. articulatory phonetics

B. acoustic phonetics

C. auditory phonetics

6. Which of the following statements is true of Jacobson’s framework of language functions?

A. The referential function is to indulge in language for its own sake.

B. The emotive function is to convey message and inf ormation.

C. The conative function is to clear up intentions, words and meanings.

D. The phatic function is to establish communion w ith others.