北京语言大学832普通语言学科目模拟试题(一)

北京语言大学外国语言学及应用语言学专业

832普通语言学科目模拟试题（一）

Part 1. Answer the following questions and write down your answers on your answer sheet. (共50分)

1.write down the correct sound segments according to the sound

descriptions.

(1)voiced bilabial plosive sound：——

(2)voiceless alveolar fricative:——

(3)high front tense unrounded vowel:——

(4)mid central lax unrounded vowel:——

(5)mid central vowel to high back vowel:——

2.write down the correct phonetic detail about the underlining part. （1） help:______

（2） play:———

（3） tenth：———

（4） button:_______

（5） button:________

3.write down the word formation process on your answer sheet.

(1)smog:______

(2)bike:______

(3)WTO:______

(4)Editor:______

(5)Sputnik:_______

4.Make sure the sense relations between different words

(1)word & universe:_______

(2)warm & cool:--------

(3)alive & dead:______

(4)buy & sell:_______

(5)animal & cow:______

5.please write down the meanings of meaning in G. Leech’s opinion.

(1)what is communicated through association with another sense of

the same expression.________

(2)what is communicated of the feelings and attitudes of

the speaker or writer.________

(3)what is communicated by virtue of what languages refers

to._______

(4)logical, cognitive, or denotative content______

(5)what is communicated of the social circumstances of

language use._______

Part 2. Fill the blanks with the correct answers.(50分)

1. Language, broadly speaking, is a means of __________ communication.

2.In any language words can be used in new ways to mean new things and can be combined into innumerable sentences based on limited rules. This feature is usually termed __________.

nguage has many functions. We can use language to talk about itself. This function is __________.

4.Theory that primitive man made involuntary vocal noises while performing heavy work has been called the __________ theory.

5.Linguistics is the __________ study of language.

6.Modern linguistics is __________ in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rather than lay down some rules for people to observe.

7.----refers to the sound which is capable of distinguishing one word or one shape of word from another in a given language.

8.The description of a language as it changes through time is a __________ study.

9.Saussure put forward two important concepts. __________ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all members of a speech community.

10.Linguistic potential is similar to Saussure’s langue and Chomsky’s __________.

11.The process involving an alternation in the sequence of sunds is ------.

12.The relation between “dog” and “animal”is that of -------.

13.In English the theme and theme are expressed by ____and______.

14.The language knowledge of UG related to a particular language is known as_____.

15.A relation holding between elements replacement with each other at a particular place in a structure is called_______.

Part3 Definitions.(20分)

(1)Duarity

(2)Phoneme

(3)Morphology

(4)Concord

(5)Connotative meaning

Part 4. answer the following questions （30分）

（1） what are the main concerns of semantics?

（2）In what ways do people cooperate in their

conversations?