《语言学入门》期末复习题(2013秋) .doc

《语言学入门》期末复习题（2013秋）

I. 选择题

1.（）Of all the speech organs, the ___ is/are the most flexible.

A. mouth

B. lips

C. tongue

D. vocal cords

2.（）The theme of Unit 3 is the _______ nature of language in

which the author describes one of the most fundamental

aspects of linguistics.

A. organic

B. symbolic

C. physical

D. phonetic

3.（）According to Krashen, ___ refers to the gradual and

subconcious development of ability in the first language

by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.

A. learning

B. competence

C. performance

D. acquisition

4.（）Using “transfer of population”to refer to the fact that

millions of peasants are robbed of their farms is an

example of ________.

A. the symbolic nature of language

B. language being affected by politics

C. language affecting status identity

D. the metaphoric extension of language

5.（）The organized network of knowledge that helps us to

understand new knowledge is called __________.

A. paradigm

B. hedge

C. aphasia

D. schema

6.（）The location of language skills in the brain is studied by

specialists in the field of ______.

A. psycholinguistics

B. neurolinguistics

C. speech therapy

D. cognitive linguistics

7. （）Which of the following theories is NOT discussed in Unit 9?________

A. the critical period for language hypothesis

B. Linguistic Imperialism

C. the theory of schema

D. long term memory and short term memory

8. （）This course requires a learner to deal with three different

tasks. They are ________.

A. awareness tasks, understanding tasks and analytic tasks

B. awareness tasks, application tasks and analytic tasks

C. understanding tasks, application tasks and analytic tasks

D. awareness tasks, understanding tasks and application

9. （）In the process of abstracting, sometimes we need to classify

an animal into a certain class meanwhile ignoring some

differences. We call this step as ________.

A. bracketing

B. achieving abstraction

C. capturing immediate experience

D. further abstracting

10. （）Speech Act theory was firstly put forward by ________.

A. J. L. Austin

B. Leech

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Clark & Clark

（）11. As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for

"correct" linguistic behavior,

it is said to be _____.

A. prescriptive

B. sociolinguistic

C. descriptive

D. psycholinguistic

（）12. Of all the speech organs, the _____ is/are the most flexible.

A. mouth

B. lips

C. tongue

D. vocal cords

（）13. The morpheme "vision" in the common word "television"

is a(n) _____.

A. bound morpheme

B. bound form

C. inflectional morpheme

D. free morpheme