语言学考试答案资料

1. Of the defining features of language, _____B___ is a feature which refers to the ability that people have in making and comprehending large quantities of sentences in their native language, including sentences they have never met before.

A. arbitrariness

B. creativity

C. displacement

D. duality

2. ____C___ put forward the three metafunctions of language, namely ideational function, interpersonal function, and textual function.

A. Chomsky

B. Saussure

C. Halliday

D. Austin

3. Study the following dialogue. What function does it play according to the functions of language? ___B____

—A nice day, isn’t it?

— Right! I really enjoy the sunlight.

A. emotive

B. phatic

C. performative

D. imformative

4. Which language family does English belong to? ___C___

A. the Uralic Family

B. the Altaic Family

C. the Indo-European Family

D. the Sino-Tibetan Family

1. What are the distinctive features of /p/___B____

A. fricative+ bilabial + voiced

B. plosive+bilabial+voiceless

C. plosive+bilabial+voiced

D. fricative+bilabial+voiceless

2. ___C_______ is the science that deals with the sound system.

A. Phonetics

B. Morphology

C. Phonology

D. Semantics

3. Voicing as a quality of speech sounds is caused by the vibration of___B____

A. the velum

B. the vocal cords

C. the glottis

D. the uvula

4. The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in ___B_____

A. the place of articulation

B. the obstruction of airstream

C. the position of the tongue

D. the shape of the lips

5. Which of the following is the correct phonetic description of the vowel /a:/? ___C____

A. high, front, tense

B. high, front, lax

C. low, back, tense

D. low, front, lax

6. Which of the following consonants is not an alveolar? ___C______

A. /t/

B. /d/

C. /f/

D. /l/

7. How many syllables does the word ―congratulation‖ have? ____C_____

A. three

B. four

C. five

D. six

8. In a syllable, a nucleus is preceded by ____B_____ and followed by _________.

A. coda, onset

B. onset, coda

C. onset, rime

D. rime, onset

9. The sound [p] is a ____A____.

A. bilabial

B. labio-dental

C. dental

D. alveolar

1. Which device has been used to form the word ―WTO‖?C

A. affixation

B. compounding

C. initialism

D. acronym

2. “re-” belongs to ___A______ morpheme.

A. bound

B. free

C. suffix

D. root

3. A __A_______in English is one unit of organization that contains a subject-predicate structure.

A. clause

B. sentence

C. phrase

D. idiom

4.“-able” belongs t o ____A____ morpheme.

A. bound

B. free

C. prefix

D. root

5. Which device has been used to form the word ―unsuccessful‖? ____A____

A. affixation

B. acronym

C. blending

D. clipping

6. In English, words fall into two types, i.e. open classes and closed classes. Which of the following does not belong to the open class? __C______

A. nouns

B. verbs

C. pronouns

D. adjectives

7. Which device has been used to form the word ―smog‖? ___C____

A. affixation

B. acronym

C. blending

D. clipping

8. In English –ise and–tion are called _____B_____.

A. prefixes

B. suffixes

C. infixes

D. stems

9. Which of the following is a free morpheme? B

A. –ful

B. play

C. –ceive

D. –ed