《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

12.The requirement that the forms of two or more words of specific word classes which stand in specific

syntactic relationship with one another shall also be characterized by the same paradigmatically marked category or categories is called _______.

A. concord

B. government

C. recursiveness

D. cohesion

Key: A

13. The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another is called