英语专业八级人文常识

专八语言学练习

1. Which of the following feature is NOT one of the design features of language?

a. Language is a system,

b. Language is symboli

c.

c. Animal also have language,

d. Language is arbitrary.

2. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is .

a. arbitrary

b. non-arbitrary

c. logical

d. non-productive

3. Which of the following terms best describes the "-ate" in the word "affectionate"?

a. Derivational morpheme,

b. Inflectional morpheme.

c. Free morpheme,

d. Prefix.

4. Which of the following teerms best describes the pair of words kill and dill?

a. Minimal pair.

b. A phonemic contrast.

c. Closed class words,

d. Bound morphemes.

5. What is the basic lexical relation between piece and peace?

a. Synonymy.

b. Antonymy.

c. Homonymy.

d. Polysemy.

6. /p/ is different from /b/ in .

a. the manner of articulation

b. the shape of the lips.

c. the vibration of the vocal cords.

d. the place of articulation.

7. Of all the speech organs, the is/are the most flexible.

a. mouth

b. lips

c. tongue

d. vocal cords

8. The phonological features, the consonant /t/ are .

a. voiced stop

b. voiceless stop

c. voiced fricative

d. voiceless fricative

9. The branch of linguistics that studies show context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called .

a. semantics

b. pragmatics

c. sociolinguistics

d. psycholinguistics

10. The utterance "We' ve abeady eaten ten tons. " Obviously violates the maxim of .

a. quality

b. quantity

c. relation

d. manner

11. All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i. e. rounded,

Except .

a./a:/

b./u/

c./3: /

d./u/

12. The semantic relationship between the two sentences "Mary' s son is an engineer" and "Mary has a son" is .

a. entailment

b. presupposition

c. synonymy

d. inconsistency

13. Which of the following sentences is a commissive?

a. The earth is round.

b. I now pronounce you husband and wife.

c. I' m really sorry !

d. I' 11 be here tomorrow.

14. Semantic feature analysis attempts to account for the of a word according to the presence or absence of a specific semantic feature in the word.

a. conceptual meaning

b. social meaning

c. connotative meaning

d. affective meaning

15. act is the extra meaning of the utterance produced on the basis of its literal meaning.

a. Speech

b. Locutionary

c. Illocutionary

d. Perlocutionary

16. is a group of people using a given language or dialect. They use the same kind of language or dialect which is highly stratified in terms of social division.

a. Speech community

b. Individual dialect

c. Regional dialect

d. Social dialect

17. The situation where two very different varieties of the same language are used side by side for two different sets of functions is termed as

a. diglossia

b. bilingualism

c. muhilingualism

d. register

18. A is a variety of a language that is not a native language of anyone, but is learned on contact situation such as trading.

a. pidgin

b. creole

c. dialect

d. lingua franca

19. The word "lab" is formed through

a. back formation

b. blending

c. clipping

d. derivation

20. Which of the following items is not one of the grammatical categories of English pronouns ?

a. Gender

b. Number

c. Case

d. V oice