《语言学概论》练习测试题库及参考答案

《英语语言学》练习测试题及参考答案本科

I. Tick off the correct or the best possible answers:

1.One of the properties of language is that a language user can understand and produce sentences he/she

has never heard before. This property of language is called ________.

A. duality

B. productivity

C. displacement

D. arbitrariness

Key: B

2.The ______ function refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing a favorable atmosphere

or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas.

A. phatic

B. directive

C. evocative

D. performative

Key: A

3.From a functional approach, the _______ meaning of a language use consists of what is communicated

of the feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer.

A. affective

B. associative

C. stylistic

D. collocative

Key: A

4.When –ing in ‘gangling’is removed to get a verb ‘gangle’, we call this way of creating words

________.

A. suffixation

B. back-formation

C. blending

D. acronymy

Key: B

5.______ refers to the process by which words rise from humble beginnings to positions of importance.

A. Degradation

B. Specialization

C. Elevation

D. Extension

Key: C

6.As we know, every speaker has his own pet words and expressions and special way of expressing his

ideas in language. This language variety of individual users is called ______.

A. idiolect

B. regional dialect

C. temporal dialect

D. social dialect

Key: A

7.When pitch, stress and length variations are tied to the sentence rather than to the word, they are

collectively known as ________.

A. intonation

B. tone

C. phoneme

D. sentence stress

Key: A

8._______ refers to the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound.

A. Addition of sound

B. Loss of sound

C. Metathesis

D. Assimilation

Key: D

9.Basically, all the languages in the world can be classified in terms of language family. Vietnamese and

Korean are two languages in the ______ family.

A. Indo-European

B. Sino-Tibetan

C. Hamito-Semitic

D. Malayo-Polynesian Key: B

10. A _______ is the minimal contrastive unit in the writing system of a language.

A. morpheme

B. phoneme

C. grapheme

D. letter

Key: C

11.All mono-morphemic words are constituted by free morphemes, and those poly-morphemic words

which consist wholly of free morphemes are called_________.

A. hyponyms

B. compounds

C. blends

D. allomorphs

Key: B