英语语言学期末试题练习答案

英语语言学练习题

Ⅰ. Matching

Match each of the following terms in Column A with one of the appropriate definitions in Column B.

Column A

1.displacement

ngue

3.suprasegmental

feature

4.deep structure

5.predication

analysis

6.idiolect

7.pidgin

8.mistakes

9.interlanguage 10.motivation

11.arbitrariness

petence

13.broad

transcription

14.morphology

15.category

16.errors

ponential

analysis

18.context

19.blending

20.culture

21.learning

strategies

22.selectional

restrictions

23.phrase structure

rules

24.culture

diffusion

Column B

A.Learners’ independent system of the second language, which is

of neither the native language nor the second language, but a continuum or approximation from his native language to the target

language. 9

B.Learner’s atti tudes and affective state or learning drive,

having a strong impact on his efforts n learning a second language.

21

C.The rules that specify the constituents of syntactic categories.

23

D.Through communication, some elements of culture A enter culture

B and become part of culture B. 24

E. A personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines

elements regarding regional, social, gender, and age variations.

6

F. A special language variety that mixes or blends languages and it

is used by people who speak different languages for restricted purposes such as trading. 7

G.The kind of analysis which involves the breaking down of

predications into their constituents---- arguments and predicates. 5

H.They refer to constraints on what lexical items can go with what

others. 22

I.The structure formed by the XP rule in accordance with the head’s

subcategorization properties. 4

J.The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments.

3

K.The study of the internal structure of words, and the rules that govern the rule of word formation. 14

L.The abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community. 2

nguage can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. It is one of the distinctive features of human language. 1

N.Learner’s conscious, goal-oriented and problem-solving based efforts to achieve learning efficiency. 10

O.The total way of life of a people, including the patterns of belief, customs, objects, institutions, techniques, and language that characterizes the life of the human community. 20

P.The common knowledge shared by both the speaker and hearer. 18

Q.The way of word formation by which new words may be formed by combining parts of other words. 19

R. A group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language, such as a sentence, a noun phrase or a verb. 15

S. A way proposed by the structural semanticists to analyze word meaning. This approach believes that the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components. 17

T.The ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language. 12 U.One of the properties of human language. It means that there is