英语语言学概论期末复习
语言学概论期末复习(男神版)
语言学概论Chapter 1Invitations to Linguistics1.What is language?Senses of language in Webster’s New World Dictionary (our book, p. 2) “Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for humancommunication. “(Wardaugh)2.Design features of language语言设计特征1. arbitrariness (任意性)2. duality (双重性)3. Creativity (创造性) or productivity4. displacement (移位性)5. interchangeability (互换性)6. specialization (专业化)7. cultural transmission （文化传承）3.Functions of Language(语言功能)Jakobson’s view: 1.Emotive(情感功能) 2.Referential（指代功能) 3.Poetic(诗学功能) 4.Phatic（寒暄功能） 5.Metalingual(元语言) 6.Conative(意动功能) Halliday’s view: 1.ideational function (概念功能) 2.Interpersonal function（人际功能） 3.Textual function（语篇功能）Functions on the book: rmative(告知性的) 2.InterpersonalFunction(人际功能) 3.Performative(行事功能)4.Emotive Function5.Phatic Communion（寒暄功能） 6.Recreational Function(娱乐功能)7.Matalingual Function(元语言功能)4．What Is Linguistics• Linguistics is the scientific study of language or the science of language.•1) Exhaustiveness（穷尽性）2) Consistency（贯通性） 3) Economy（经济性） 4) Objectivity（客观性）petence vs. performance言语能力 vs. 言语行为•N oam Chomsky in his Aspects of the Theory of Syntax.•C ompetence refers to a language user’s underlying knowledge about the system of rules.•P erformance refers to the actual use of language in concrete situations.Chapter 2Speech sounds1.Consonants and vowelsDistinction between consonants and vowels: theobstruction （阻塞） of airstream2.Minimal pairs and minimal sets（最小对立体）① When two words are identical in every way except for acontrast in one sound segment occurring in the sameposition in the string, the two words are called a minimalpair 最小对立体.E.g: pit and bit junk and chunkban and bin bet and bat②A minimal pair should follow three conditions: 1) they aredifferent in meaning; 2) they differ only in one sound segment;3) the different sounds occur in the same position in thestrings.Chapter 3From morpheme to phrase1.R oot & affixRoot 词根: 1.a morpheme which is the basic part of a word.（Occur on its own、may be joined to otherroots、or take affixes (manly, coldness) orcombining forms (biochemistry)2 It is that part of the word left when all the affixes areremoved.3．All words contain a root morphemeAffix词缀: 1.a letter or sound, or group of letters or sounds(=amorpheme), which is added to a word, and whichchanges the meaning or function of the word.（Prefix前缀,Suffix后缀，infix中缀：feet，geese）2. inflectional affix 曲折词缀 and derivational affix 派生词缀Chapter 5Meaning1.The Referential Theory(所指理论)①The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of aword to the thing it refers to, or stands for, is known asthe referential theory.②Reference 所指 refers to the relationship between aword and the object it denotes in the physical world, i.e.denotation 外延 in philosophy.③Is a very popular theory (semantic triangle by Ogdenand Richards in Meaning of Meaning )④Problems with this theory：Not every word has areference 所指.2. Sense relations 意义关系Sense may be defined as the semantic relations between one word and another, or more generally between onelinguistic unit and another.*distinctions between sense and reference:The distinction between sense and reference is comparable to that between connotation and denotation in philosophy①The former refers to the abstract properties of an entity,while the latter refers to the concrete entities having theseproperties.②Every word has a sense, but not every word has areference.③Reference in its wider sense would be the relationshipbetween a word or phrase and an entity in the externalworld.④So sense is intra-linguistic and reference is extra- l linguistic3.3 kinds of sense relations:Synonymy （同义关系）▪Semantic relation of sameness or similarity in meaning of two ormore linguistic expressions. （absolute synonyms 绝对同义词、relative synonyms 相对同义词、Stylistic synonyms 文体同义词、Emotive synonyms 情感同义词、Collocational synonyms：搭配同义词）Antonymy （反义关系）·Relation of semantic opposition.·three main sub-types： 1）Gradable antonymy （等级反义关系）：They are gradable; the denial of one is notnecessarily the assertion of the other. There is anintermediate ground between the two.（hot\coldwarm\cool tall\short big\small ）2Complementary antonymy（互补反义关系）The members of a pair in this type are complementaryto each other. There is no intermediate ground betweenthe two.（alive\dead odd\even single\marriedmale\female pass\fail hit\miss ）3Converse antonymy（相反反义关系）The members of a pair in this type show the reversal ofa relationship between two entities. They are also knownas relational opposites. There are always two entitiesinvolved. One presupposes the other.（buy\sellgive\receive husband\wife teacher\studentabove\below before\after）Hyponymy（上下义关系）▪ A relationship between two words, in which the meaning ofone of the words includes the meaning of the other word.▪Sometimes a superordinate may be a superordinate to itself.▪ A superordinate may be missing sometimes. （red greenyellow）▪Hyponyms may also be missing.（uncle rice）ponential analysis (成分分析)Componential analysis: (in semantics) an approach to the study of meaning which analyses a word into a set of meaningcomponents or semantic features.Usually, componential analysis is applied to a group of related words which may differ from one another only by one or twocomponents.Semantic features 语义特征or semantic components are the basic unit of meaning in a word. The meanings of words may bedescribed as a combination of semantic features.5. An integrated theory（整体理论）The idea that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the constituent words and the way they are combinedis usually known as the principle of compositionality(复合性原则）a dictionarya semantic theorya set of projection rules 投射规则The dictionary provides the grammatical classification and semanticinformation of words.The projection rules are responsible for combining the meanings ofwords together.(P.107)Chapter 6Language and cognition1.What is cognitionTwo definitions about cognition:①In psychology it refers to the mental processes of an individualwith particular relation to the view that argues that the mindhas internal states (beliefs, desires, and intentions) and can beunderstood in terms of information processing.②Mental process or faculty of knowing, including aspects such asawareness, perception, reasoning, and judgement.2.W hat is psycholinguistics（心理语言学）Definition：is the study of psychological aspects of languages; it usually studies the psychological states and mentalactivity associated with the use of language.6 subjects of research within psycholinguistics:Acquisition(语言习得) Comprehension(语言理解) Language and thought Production(语言产出) Disorders（语言无序性） Neurocognition3.W hat is Cognitive Linguistics?Definition: is a newly established approach to the study of language.Chapter 7Language, culture and Society1.L anguage and Culture①What is culture :Culture, in a broad sense, means the total way of life of a people,including the patterns of belief, customs, objects, institutions,techniques, and language that characterizes the life of thehuman community.In a narrow sense, culture may refer to local or specific practice,beliefs or customs, which can be mostly found in folk culture,enterprise culture or food culture etc.②The relationship between language and cultureA language not only expresses facts, ideas, or events whichrepresent similar world knowledge by its people, but also reflectsthe people’s attitudes, beliefs, world outlooks etc. In a word,language expresses cultural reality.2.S apir-Whorf Hypothesis (萨丕尔-沃尔夫假设)Sapir and Whorf believe that language filters people’s perception and the way they categorize experiences. This interdependence of language and thought is now known as Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.This hypothesis primarily suggests that our language will mould our view of the world.But few people would tend to accept the original for this theory.Thus, two versions, strong version and weak version have been developed.the strong version: the language patterns determine people’sthinking and behavior.the weak version: the former influences the latter.3.L anguage and society①Definition of sociolinguistics(社会语言学):Sociolinguistics is the sub-field of linguistics that studies the relation between language and society, between the uses of language and the social structures in which the users of language live.②The relatedness between language and society：1) While language is principally used to communicatemeaning, it is also used to establish and maintain socialrelationships.2) Users of the same language in a sense all speakdifferently. The kind of language each of them chooses to useis in part determined by his social background.3) To some extent, language, especially the structure of itslexicon, reflects both the physical and the social environmentsof a society4) Judgments concerning the correctness and purity oflinguistic varieties are social rather than linguistic.4.Halliday’s register theory:Definition of register（语域）: The type of language which is selected as appropriate to the type of situation is a register.Field of discourse（语场） refers to what is going on: to the area of operation of the language.Tenor of discourse（语旨）refers “to whom the speaker is communicating”Mode of discourse（语式）mainly refers to the means of communication.Chapter 8Language in use1.What is Pragmaticsthe study of language in use.2.Speech act theory1)The first major theory in the study of language in use, whichoriginated with the Oxford philosopher John Langshaw Austin: How to Do Things with Words2)Speech act: an utterance(表达) as a functional unit incommunication. In speech act theory, utterances have two kinds of meaning:a.propositional meaning 命题意义(also known aslocutionary meaning发话意义)b. illocutionary meaning行事意义(also known asillocutionary force行事语力).A speech act is a sentence or utterance which has bothpropositional meaning and illocutionary force.3) 2 types of sentences:Performatives（施为句；行事话语）: an utterancewhich performs an actConstative（表述句；述事话语）: an utterance whichasserts something that is either true orfalse.*It has even been suggested that there is no real differencebetween constative and implicit performatives.All sentencescan be used to do things.3.A theory of the illocutionary act(行事行为理论)▪Three different types of act involved in or caused by the utterance of a sentence:▪Locutionary act（发话行为）is the saying of something which is meaningful and can be understood.▪Illocutionary act （行事行为）is using a sentence to perform a function，related to the speaker’s intention.▪Perlocutionary act（取效行为）is the result or effects that are produced by means of saying something.4.Categories of speech acts by Searle1. Representative（阐述类）:stating or describing, saying whatthe speaker believes to be true (e.g. I swear…)2. Directives（指令类）: trying to get the hearer to dosomething.(e.g.Your money or your life.)3. Commissives（承诺类）:committing the speaker himself tosome future course of action. (e.g. I promise..)4. Expressive（表情类）:expressing feelings or attitudetowards an existing state(e.g. Thank you…)5. Declarations（宣告类）: bring about immediate changes bysaying something.(e.g. you are fired...)5.The theory of conversational implicature 会话含义理论The second major theory in the study of language in use proposed by Herbert Paul Grice: Logic and Conversation.1)Definition: Conversational implicature is a type of meaning,which is deduced on the basis of theconventional meaning of words together withthe context, under the guidance of the CP andits maxims2)Characteristics of implicature:calculability（可计算性）cancellability/ defeasibility（可删除性/可取消性）Non-detachability（非可分离性）Non-conventionality（非规约性）1. The cooperative principle合作原则: The co-operationbetween speakers in using the conversational maxims is calledthe cooperative principle.2.Conversational maxim对话准则: an unwritten rule aboutconversation which people know and which influences theform of conversational exchanges▪ Grice introduced 4 categories of maxims:a. the maxim of Quantityb. the maxim of Qualityc. the maxim of Relationd. the maxim of Manne r6.Post-Gricean developments1) Relevance theory 关联理论Definition:Every act of ostensive communicationcommunicates the presumption of its own optimal relevance.（每一个明示交际行为都传递一种假设：该行为本身具备最适宜关联）2)the Q- and R-principleThese two principle was proposed by Laurence Horn①The Q-principle is intended to invoke the first maxim ofGrice’s Quantity, and the R-principle the Relation maxim,but the new principles are more extensive than the Griceanmaxims.②Horn reduces all the Gricean maxims to two principles: the Q-and R-principleA. The Q-principle (hearer- based):Make your contribution sufficientSay as much as you canB. The R-principle (speaker-based):Make your contribution necessarySay no more than you mustIn other words, the Q-principle is concerned with the content.The R- principle, on the other hand, is concerned with the form.Chapter 11Linguistic and Foreign Language Teaching1.Definition:SLA: Second language acquisition 二语习得CPH :Critical Period Hypothesis 关键期假设UG：Universal Grammar 普遍语法LAD：Language Acquisition Device 语言习得基质IL：Interlanguage 中介语CA：Contrastive Analysis对比分析EA: Error Analysis 错误分析2．Universal Grammar 普遍语法Universal grammar holds that there are certain basic structural rules that govern language that all humans know without having to learnthem.3. Input and language learningLanguage Acquisition Device 语言习得基质·Krashen’s Input Hypothesis1）There were two independent means or routes of second language learning: acquisition and learning.Acquisition is a process similar to the way childrenacquire their first language.Learning as another route is a conscious learning of thesecond language knowledge by learning the rules andtalking about the rules.2）Krashen put forward that learners advance their language learning gradually by receiving “comprehensible input”.He defined comprehensible input as “i+1”: “i”represents learners’ current state of knowledge, thenext stage is i+1.4.Inter language (IL,中介语):Definition: is defined as an abstract system of learners’ targetlanguage system, it has now been widely used to refer to thelinguistic expressions learners produce (especially the wrong ornot idiomatic ones) or learner language.5.Contrastive analysis and error analysis 对比分析与错误分析●Contrastive analysis (CA) is a way of comparing languages inorder to determine potential errors for the ultimate purpose ofisolating what needs to be learned and what does not need tobe learned in a second language learning situation. The goal isto predict what areas will be easy to learn and what areas will bedifficult to learn.●Error analysis (EA) involves, first independently or objectively,describing the learner’s interlanguage (that is, their version ofthe target language and the target language itself), then acomparison of the two is followed to locate mismatches.●Two main sorts of errors: interlingualerrors 语际错误 intralingual errors 语内错误.。
英语语言学概论期末复习【通用】.docx
第一章绪论1.1什么是语言1.2语言的性质（1）语言具有系统性（systematic）（2）语言是一个符号系统语言符号是一种象征符号。
（3）语言符号的任意性（arbitrariness）与理据性（motivation）（4）口头性（5）语言是人类特有的（6）语言是用于交际的寒暄交谈（phatic communion）马林诺夫斯基提出的，认为语言除了用于表达思想、交流感情外，还可以用语言营造一种气氛或保持社会接触。
这种不用于表达思想、交流感情的语言使用，叫寒暄交谈。
1.3语言的起源1.4语言的分类1.4.1系属分类（Genetic Classification）历史比较语言学通过比较各种语言在不同时期语音、词性、曲折变化、语法结构上的相同特点来建立语言族系。
将语言分为语系（family）——语族（group）——语支（branch）——语言英语、德语属印欧语系日耳曼语族西日耳曼语支。
法语属印欧语系罗曼语族中罗曼语支。
汉语属汉藏语系汉语族。
1.4.2 类型分类（Typological Classifacation）根据词的结构类型，可分为（1）孤立语（isolating language）又叫词根语，一个词代表一个意思，缺少形态变化，语序和虚词是表达语法意义的主要手段。
汉语是典型的孤立语。
（2）粘着语（agglutinative language）简单词组成复合词，而词性和意义不变。
在词根前、中、后粘贴不同的词缀实现语法功能。
日语、韩语、土耳其语是典型的黏着语。
（3）屈折语（inflectional language）词形变化表语法关系的语言。
英语是不太典型的屈折语。
（4）多式综合语（polysynthesis language）把主、宾和其它语法项结合到动词词干上以构成一个单独的词，但表达一个句子的意思。
因纽特语是典型的多式综合语。
根据句子的语序类型，可分为SVO、SOV、OSV、OVS等1.5语言的功能1.5.1 一般功能1.5.2元功能（metafunction）1.6什么是语言学（linguistics）1.7语言学中的重要区分（1）语言（langue）和言语（parole/langage）索绪尔对语言和言语作出了区分。
语言学概论期末考试范围
语言学概论期末考试范围语言学概论期末复习1. diachronic linguisticsLinguistics that studies language over a period of time, also known as historical linguistics, study of the Chinese language since the end of the Qing dynasty up to the present.2. arbitrarinessLanguage is arbitrary for the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural resemblance to their meaning. The link between the linguistic signs and their meanings is a matter of convention, and conventions differ radically across languages.3. langueAccording to Saussure, langue refers to the abstract linguistic systems shared by all the members of a speech community. It can be thought of as the generalized rules of the language that members of a speech community seem to abide by.4. competenceChomsky defines competence as the abst ract ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language. According to him, anyone who knows a language has internalized a set of rules about the sequences permitted in his language. This internalized set of rules is termed as a person’s competence.5. morphemeThe most basic element of meaning is traditionally called morpheme. The “morpheme’ is the smallest unit in terms of relationship between expression and content, a unit which can not be divided without destroying or drastically altering the meaning.6. MorphologyMorphology studies morphemes and their different forms and the way they combine in word formation. So it refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed7. Semantic triangleAccording to Ogden an d Richard’s semantic triangle, there is no direct link between language and the world, or between the symbol ( the linguistic elements, the word, the sentence) and referent ( the object in the world of experience). The link is via thought or reference, the concepts of our minds.8. Lingua francaLingua franca is the general term for a language that serves as a means of communication between different groups of speakers.9. componential analysisComponential analysis is a way to analyze lexical meaning, and it defines the meaning of a lexical element in terms of semantic components.10. Cooperative PrincipleCooperative Principle (CP) was proposed by Paul Grice, under which there are four maxims: the maxim of quantity, the maxim of quality, the maxim of relation and the maxim of manner. It means in communication, both parties involved will normally seek to cooperate with each other to establish agreed meaning.11. acquisitionThe term “acquisition” is used to refer to picking up a language through exposure. It refers to the subconscious or conscious processes. It is learned in a natural or a tutored settings.12. interlanguageIt refers to the learner’s independent system of th e secondlanguage which is neither the native language nor the second language, but a continuum or approximation from native language to the target language.I.Students should be able to answer the following questions:1) Explain the three kinds of intersentential sematic relations: entailment, presupposition and implicature.Entailment is a relation of inclusion , If X entails Y, then the meaning of X is included in Y.. X: I have been to Shanghai. Y: I have been to Chinaif x is true, then y is also true, If Y is false, then X is also X entails Y.X presupposes Y. ( Y is a pre-requisite of X).X: John’s brother has got married. Y: John has a brother.Implicature: The speaker may use implied meaning but not the literal meaning.2)According to Austin, what are the three acts a person is possibly performingwhile making an utterance Give an example.According to Austin, a speaker might be performing three acts simultaneously when speaking. They are locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act. For example: You have left the door wide open.The locutionary act performed by the speaker is his utterance of all the words. “you” , “have”, “door”, “open”, etc. thus expressing what the words literally mean.The illocutionary act performed by the speaker is that by ,asking such an utterance he has expressed his intention of speaking, that is , asking someone to close the door, or making a complaint, depending on the context.The perlocutionary act refers to the effect of the utterance .If the then hearer g ets the speaker’s message and sees that the speaker means to tell him to close the door, then the speaker goes to close the door for the speaker.3) What are the major differences between acquisition and language learningRod (1985) and Krashen (1981) regard acquisition as the spontaneous internalization of rules and formulas. The term acquisition is often used to refer to first language acquisition and second language acquisition. First language acquisition is also called mother tongue acquisition.Acquisition takes place in the speech community where one's first language or second language is spoken. It is often natural, without much focus on form. Thelearning of English by speakers of other languages in the United States is an example of second language acquisition.Foreign language learning usually takes place in the speech community where one's first language is spoken. It is a conscious process through formal school-like settings and requires time for processing, with focus on linguistic form in addition to knowledge of the rules of language use. For example, the learning of English in China.4) What are the similarities and differences between Semantics and Pragmatics Semantics focuses on the meaning that comes from linguistic knowledge without considering the context. Pragmatics studies the meaning in a certain context taking our knowledge about the physical and social world into account. Semantic analysis look for rules which are black and white, . you are either right or wrong. Pragmatic analysis look for principles. You can obey them to some extent and violate them to some extent.5) Why do we say Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication Explain it in details.a. Language is systematic. Language must be a system since elements in the language are arranged according to certain rules. Each human language is organized into two basic systems: a system of sounds and a system of meanings.b. Language is symbolic. People use signs to communicate, which means that language involves signs.c. Language is arbitrary. Language is arbitrary for the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural resemblance to their meaning.d. Language is primarily vocal. Language is vocal because the primary medium is sound for all languages, no matter how well developed their writing systems.e. Language is human specific. There are certain characteristics of human language that are not found in the communication systems of any other species.f. Language is used for communication.6) What is the Sapir –Whorf hypothesisThe hypothesis assumes that people’s habitual thoug ht patterns and ways of perceiving the world are conditioned to a certain extent by the categories and distinctions that are available to them in their native language. Speakers of different languages may therefore have rather different world-views, depending on how different the languages are from one another semantically and grammatically. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis can be broken down into two basic principles: Linguistic Determinism and Linguistic Relativity.II.Students should be able to draw the tree diagrams for common simple sentences and complex sentences.III.Students should be able to analyze the formation of words.IV.Students should be able to identify errors in given sentences and be able to explain the causes for errors.1. He speaked to T om yesterday.This intralingual error is due to the overgeneralization of the rule about the English v erb’s past tense form.2. There were some people came to watch the football match.The relative pronoun at the beginning of the attributive clause is missing. The learner has made an inter-lingual error because of the influence of his mother tongue, that is the Chinese grammatical pattern.3. They are loving basketball very much.This sentence should be corrected as: They love basketball very much. The learner has made an intra-lingual error caused by the over-generation of the target language grammatical rule. The learner failed to realize that in English some verbs never appear in the continuous tense including the verb: love.。
语言学概论》期末考试复习题及参考答案
语言学概论》期末考试复习题及参考答案语言学概论复题一、单项选择题1.音高取决于什么？A.发音体振动的振幅B.发音体振动的频率C.发音体振动的持续时间D.共鸣器的形状2.北京话“慢”单念时读[man]，但“慢慢儿”却有人读做[maimar]，前一音节的语流音变现象是什么？A.同化B.异化C.弱儿D.增音3.英语“worker”中的“-er”是什么？A.构词语素B.构形语素C.虚词语素D.词根语素4.下列汉语词语中的“儿”不属于词根语素（实义语素）的是什么？A.健儿B.女儿C.少儿D.花儿5.“吓唬”和“恐吓”在非理性意义上的主要差别是什么？A.语气意义不同B.感情色彩不同C.语体色彩不同D.形象色彩不同6.“XXX说服了XXX”中“XXX”是行为的施事，“XXX”是行为的受事，这种意义是什么？A.语汇意义B.语法意义C.语境意义D.蕴含意义7.语言成分的借用，最常见、最突出的是什么？A.词语的借用B.语音成分的借用C.词缀的借用D.语法结构的借用8.下列几种类型的社会方言中，具有排他性的是什么？A.行话B.黑话C.官腔D.贵族语言9.下列辅音音素都是XXX的一组是什么？A.[d。
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v]10.从语音的社会功能角度划分出来的最小语音单位是什么？A.音位B.音素C.音节D.音渡11.英语“students”中的“-s”是什么？A.虚词语素B.词根语素C.构形语素D.构词语素12.下列现象中不属于词法手段的是什么？A.虚词B.重叠C.轻重音D.词形变化13.下面词组中，结构类型与其他各组不同的一组是什么？A.年轻漂亮/朴素大方B.我们大家/首都北京C.铁路民航/工人农民D.贯彻执行/讨论研究14.下列成对的词语中，属于相对反义词的一组是什么？A.成功—失败B.合法—非法C.本地—外地D.勤劳—懒惰15.造成“北京人多”一句歧义的主要原因是什么？A.一词多义B.不同的句法结构关系C.不同的语义结构关系D.不同的层次构造16.下列关于语言起源的表述中，正确的一项是什么？A.语言产生于人类对外界各种声音的摹仿B.语言产生于人们的相互约定C.语言是人类有意识地在短时间内创造出来的D.语言是人类在长期进化发展过程中创造出来的17.在儿童学会说话的过程中，“双词阶段”标志着儿童已经具备了语法能力，能够组合两个词来表达意思。
英语语言学概论复习资料 (2)
Prescriptive:how things ought to beDo/Don’t say X. (Commands)
Descriptive:how things arePeople do/don’t say X. (Statements)
2. What will you say to a statement like “one culture’s meat is another culture’s poison”?
答案及评分标准
I.Definition.共5题
1.arbitrarinessrefers to the fact that the forms of linguistic signs bears no natural relationship to their meaning.
(a) cheery (b) funny (c) loony (d) crazy (e) happy
2. Make distinctions between the following pair of terms.
descriptive vs. prescriptive
3. What are the allomorphs of the morpheme ‘plural’ in this set of English words?
2.morpheme: the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship betweenexpression and content, a unit that cannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical.
语言学概论期末复习精要语言学概论期末复习精要
1.Students should be prepared to be able to define the following linguistics terms:1)Linguistics语言学Linguistics should be defined as the systematic (or scientific) study of language.2)Language语言it is a system of arbitrary ˈɑ:bitrəri主观的vocal symbols used for human communication. It is a means of verbal communication. It distinguishes us from animals because it is far more sophisticated.[səˈfistikeitid].精密的, 尖端的than animal communication system.3)Langue语言Langue refers to the abstract linguistic systems shared by all the members of a speech community.4)Parole言语refers to the actualized language5)linguistic competence语言能力Competence is the ideal language user's knowledge of the rules of his language or the knowledge that native speakers have of their language as system of abstract formal relation6)linguistic performance语言运用Performance is the actual realization of his knowledge in utterances. It refers to what we do when we speak or listen, that is, the indefinite varied individual acts of verbal behavior with their irregularities, inconsistencies, and errors.7)Phonetics语音学The study of human speech sound.8)Phonology音位学The study of the sound patterning(sounds functioning)9)minimal pairWhen two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two sounds combinations are said to form a minimal pair.10)deep structureThe syntactic structure which is formed by the XP rule in accordance with the head’s subcategorization properties, is called deep structure11)surface structureThe syntactic structure ,which corresponding to the final syntactic form of the sentence which results from appropriate transformations is called surface structure.12)Semantics语义学the meaning of language13)Senseit is concerned with the inherent .[inˈhiərənt]固有的; 内在的meaning of the linguistic form. It is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form.14)Referenceit means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world, it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.15)Pragmatics语用学it is the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication.16)Register语域the type of language which is selected as appropriate to the type of situation is a register.17)Dialect方言A variety of a language used recognizably in a specific region or by a specific social class is called dialect.18)Acquisition获取First language acquisition refers to the child’s acquisition of his mother tongue. Second language acquisition refers to the systematic study of how one person acquires a second language subsequent to his native language.19)inter-lingual errorserrors result from language transfer, or caused by the learner’s mother tongue. i.e. caused by the learner’s NL e.g. “Elle regarde les”20)intra-lingual errorsThey mainly result form faulty or partial learning of the target language. It may be caused by the influence of one TL. Term upon another.21)applied linguisticsit refers to the application of linguistic theories, methods, and findings to the study of language learning and teaching22)the aptitude testit is designed to measure the learner’s aptitude or natural ability to learn languages.23)the achievement testit focus on assessing a testee’s mestery of the contents of a particular course.24)co-operative principleit refers to that the participants in a convasation normally communicate in a maximally efficient natual and cooperative way.2.Students should be able to answer the following questions:1)In what ways does modern linguistics differ from traditional grammar?The focus of research has been transformed from the language system to the use of language.The rise of the inter-displinery research and the borderline介于两者之间的subjects.2)For what reasons does modern linguistics give priority to speech rather than to writing? Speech is prior to writing；The writing system is invented when needed；Today there are languages which can only be spoken but not written；Speech plays a greater role than writing in daily communication；Each human being first acquires speech and then learns writing；Modern linguistics tends to pay more attention to authentic speech.3)What is a phone? How is it differ from a phoneme? How are allophones related to aphoneme?Phone is a phonetic unit or segment.These sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones. A phoneme is a phonological unit . It is represented or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context.in English the sounds (phones) that possess the distinctive value are called phonemes.Phonemes are said to be the distinctive sounds.4)What are the five sense relations between words? Please illustrate them. p1361. difference in origin answer-reply;2. difference in the shades不同程度的of meaning;3. difference in socio-expressive meaning;4. difference in stylistic meaning;5. difference in collocation and distribution.5)According to Austin, what are the three acts a person is possibly performing whilemaking an utterance? Give an example.locutionary act (言内行为) illocutionary act(言外行为) perlocutionary act(言后行为)“Good Morning!What did he do ?”He produced a sound, word, or sentence.The act performed in this sense is called locutionary act.言内行为He offered a greeting. illocutionary act言外行为. Locationary act (言内行为) is the act of saying something . It is an act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology.E.g. “John, it’s very cold outside! ”母亲说出这句话的本身就是言内行为；母亲说出这句话的意图是为了让JOHN穿上大衣再出去，这是言外行为；JOHN听了母亲的话后，穿上大衣在出门，这就是言后行为。
英语专业英语语言学期末复习总结
英语专业英语语言学期末复习总结英语语言学一、名词解释第一课1.Synchronic共时性: Said of an approach that studies language at a theoretical “point” in time.\ A kind of description which takes a fixed instant (usually, but not necessarily, the present), as its point of observation. Most grammars are of this kind.ngue语言: The abstract linguistic system shared by all members of a speech community.nguage: Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbol used for human communication.4.Arbitrariness任意性: One design feature of human language, which refers to the face that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning.第二课1.Phoneme音位: Phonology is concerned with the speech sounds which distinguish meaning. The basic unit in phonology is called phoneme; it is a unit that is of distinctive value.2.Allophone音位变体: The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environment are called the allophones of that phoneme.3.Minimal pair最小对立体: When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the stings, the two words are said to form a minimal pair.第三课1.Morphology形态学: Morphology is a branch of grammarwhich studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.2.Derivational morphemes派生词素: Some morphemes which change the category or grammatical class of words are called…3.Inflectional morphemes曲折词素: Some bound morphemes which are for the most part purely grammatical markers and signify such concepts as tense, number, case and so on.第四课1.Syntax语法句法: A branch of linguistics that studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.2.Syntactic categories句法范畴: Words can be grouped together into a relatively small number of classes, called syntactic categories.3.Deep structure 深层结构: Formed by the XP rule in accordance with the head’s subcategorization properties, is called deep structure or D- structure.4.Surface structure 表层结构: Corresponding to the final syntactic form of the sentence which results from appropriate transformations, is called Surface structure or S- structure.第五课1.Reference指称: Reference means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world; it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.2.Homonymy同音异义: Homonymy refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form, i.e. different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.3.Hyponymy 上下义关系: Hyponymy refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word.第六课1.Pragmatics语用学: Pragmatics can be defined as the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication.2.Utterance话语: a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication.3.Utterance meaning话语意义: Utterance is based on sentence meaning; it is realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication, or simply in a context.4.Illocutionary act言外行为: An illocutionary act is the act expressing the speaker’s intention; it is the act performed in saying something.二、简答题第一课1．What are the major branches of linguistics? What does each of them study? The study of sounds used in linguistic communication. It describes individual speech sounds and indicates their physical or phonetic properties. It studies the ways in which these sounds form patterns and systems and how they work to convey meaning in the system of language. 2．What characteristics of language do you think should be included in a good, comprehensive definition of language?The important characteristics which should be included in a good definition of language are separately: systematic, arbitrary and vocal.First of all, language is a system. It has its own set of rules forpeople to abide by, or people will use the language in a wrong way. Second, language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between a linguistic symbol and what the symbol stands for. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a good illustration of the arbitrary nature of language. Third, language is vocal because the primary medium for all languages is sound.3．What are the main features of human language that have been specified by C.Hockett to show that it is essentially different from animal communication system?1) Arbitrariness: no natural/motivated/logical relationship between the sign and what the sign stands for.2) Productivity: provides opportunities for sending messages that have never been sent before and for understanding novel messages.3) Duality: language is a system, which consists of two sets of stuctures, or two levels.4) Displacement: can be used to refer to things real or imagined, past, present or future5) Cultural transmission第二课1. How do phonetics and phonology differ in their focus of study? Who do you think will be moreinterested in the different between say[i]and[i],[p] and[ph],a phonetician or a philologist? Why? 语音学和音位学的研究中心有何不同?语音学家和音位学家哪一个更关心清晰音的区别?为什么?Phonetics — description of all speech sounds and th e i r f i n d d i f f e r e n c e s . / p > p > P h o n o l o g y d e s c r i p t i o n o f s o u n d s y s t e m s o f p a r t i c u l a r l a n g u a g e s a n d h o w s o u n d s f u n c t i o n t o d i s t i n g u i s h m e a n i ng . / p > p > A p h o n e t i c i a n w o u l d b e m o r e i n t e r e s t e d i n s u c h d i f f e r e n c e s c o s s u c h d i f f e r e n c e s w i l l n o t c o s d i f f e r e n c e s i n m e a n i n g . / p > p > 2 . W h a t i s p h o n e ? H o w i s i t d i f f e r e n t f r o m a p h o n e m e ? h o w a r e a l l o p h o n e s r e l a t e d t o a p h o n e m e ? / p > p > P h o n e i s a p h o n e t i c u n i t , i t h a s n o m e a n i n g . / p > p > P h o n e m e i s a p h o n o l o g i c a l u n i t w i t h d i s t i n c t i v e v a l u e . / p > p > T h e p h o n e m e / l / c a n b e r e a l i z e d a s d a r k / l - / a n d c l e a r / l / , w h i c h a r e a l l o p h o n e s o f t h e p h o n e m e / l / / p > p > A l l o p h o n e s - - - a c t u a l r e a l i z a t i o n o f a p h o n e m e i n d i f f e r e n t p h o n e t i c c o n t e x t s . / p >。
《英语语言学概论》期末考试doc
《英语语⾔学概论》期末考试docI．Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (10 points, 1 point each)1.Articulatory Phonetics studies the physical properties of speech sounds.2.Adjectives belong to open class words.3.John Austin made the distinction between a constative and a performative.4.What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study ofmeaning the context of use is considered.5.English is a typical intonation language.6.Phones in complementary distribution should be assigned to the same phoneme.7.Pragmatics treats the meaning of language as something intrinsic and inherent.8.There are words of more or less the same meaning used in different regionaldialects.9.Transformations are the rules which can change the meaning of sentence.10.Sense and reference are two different notions of semantics, and they are related toeach other.II. Fill in the following blanks. (10 points, 1 point each)1.The word “and” is a c____________ conjunction.2.Linguistic c__________ is a native speaker’s linguistic knowledge of his language.3.The relationship between the sound and the meaning of a word is a________.4. A m________ is the smallest linguistic unit that carries meaning.5. A sentence is formed by phonological rules, m______ rules, syntactic rules andsemantic rules.6.The most recognizable difference between American English and British English arein p________ and vocabulary.7.Speech v________refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker ora group of speakers.8.P ____ refers to the realization of langue in actual use.9.Linguistics is generally defined as the s ____ study of language.10.As a type of linguistic system in L2 learning, i_______ is a product of L2 training,mother tongue interference, overgeneralization of the target language rules, and learning and communicative strategies of the learner..III. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement. (20 points, 1 point each)1. Which of the following branch of linguistics takes the inner structure of word as its main object of study?A. Phonetics.B. Semantics.C. Morphology.D. Sociolinguistics.2. ________refers to a marginal language of few lexical items and straightforward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication.A. DialectB. IdiolectC. PidginD. Register3. Which of the following is a voiceless bilabial stop?A.[w].B. [m].C. [b].D. [p].4. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called ________.A. hyponymyB. synonymyC. polysemyD. homonymy5. Which of the following words is NOT formed by blending?A. Smog.B. Botel.C. Brunch.D. Edit.6. What phonetic feature distinguishes the [p] in please and the [p] in speak?A.V oicingB. AspirationC. RoundnessD. Nasality7. The word boyguard is a ______.A. compound wordB. complex wordC. derivational wordD. free morpheme8. All words contain a _________.A. rootB. bound morphemeC. prefixD. suffix9. Of the following sound combinations, only ______ is permissible.A. kiblB. hkilC. ilkbD. ilbk10. Where is the primary stress of the word phonology?A. pho.B. no.C. lo.D. gy.11. Conventionally a ________ is put in slashes.A. allophoneB. phoneC. phonemeD. morpheme12. The plural affix in the word tables is a(n) _______.A. inflectional suffixB. derivational suffixC. free morphemeD. root13. Language is tool of communication. The symbol “highway closed”serves___.A. an expressive functionB. an informative functionC. a performative functionD. a persuasive function14. Which of the following groups of words is a minimal pair?A. but/pubB. wet/whichC. cool/curlD. fail/find15. Whorf believed that speakers of different languages perceive and experienced the world differently, that is relative to their linguistic background, hence the notion of ______________.A. linguistic determinationB. linguistic relativismC. linguistic nativismD. linguistic behaviorism16. What are the dual structures of language?A. Sounds and letters.B. Sounds and meaning.C. Letters and meaning.D. Sounds and symbols.17. The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _______.A. lexicalB. morphemicC. grammaticalD. semantic18. According to Krashen ______ refers to the gradual and subconscious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally in daily communication.A. learningB. competenceC. performanceD. acquisition19. Which of the following is one of the core branches of linguistics?A. Phonology.B. Psycho-linguistics.C. Sociolinguistics.D. Anthropology.20. The relationship between “flower” and “tulip” is _________.A. homonymyB. hyponymyC. polysemyD. synonymyIV. Translate the following linguistic terms: (10 points, 1 point each)A. From English to ChineseB. From Chinese to English1. acoustic phonetics 6. 应⽤语⾔学2. closed class words 7. 格语法3. componential analysis 8. 积极迁移4. distinctive features 9. 历史语⾔学5. Critical Period Hypothesis 10. 声调语⾔V. Draw a tree diagram for the following sentence by applying TG Grammar. (10 points)The man saw a horse.VI. Answer the following questions briefly. (20 points)1. Define phoneme. (4 points)2. Explain complementary distribution with an example.(5 points)3. What are the four criteria for classifying English vowels. (4 points)4. Analyze the following conversation by applying the Cooperative Principles.(7points)A: Teheran is in Turkey, isn’t it, teacher?B: And London is in France, I suppose.VII. Do the following analysis. (20 points)1. Write the one proper description from the list under B for the underlined part of each word in A. (5 points, 1 point each)A B(1) terroriz ed a. free root(2) un civil ized b. bound root(3) terror ize c. inflectional suffix(4) luke warm d. derivational suffix(5) im possible e. inflectional prefixf. derivational prefix2. Consider the following sentences in Swahili, and anwer the questions:(15 points) mtu amelala The man has slept. mtu analala The man is sleeping.mtu atalala The man will sleep.watu wamelala The men have slept.watu wanalala The men are sleeping.watu watalala The men will sleep.visu vinaanguka The knives are falling.kikapu kimeanguka The basket has fallen.watoto watafika The children will arrive.1)toto in Swahili means ______ in English.2)The meaning of the morpheme wa- in Swahili is _______.3)______ in Swahili means “sleep” in English.4)Translate mtoto anaanguka into English.5)Translate vikapu vimefika into English.台州学院_____学年第___学期___级____专业《英语语⾔学概论》期末试卷A卷（闭卷）参考答案及评分说明I．Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (10 points, 1 point each)II. Fill in the following blanks. (10 points, 1 point each)1. coordinate2. competence3. arbitrary4. morpheme5. morphological6. pronunciation7. variety8. performance9. scientific 10. interlanguage III. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement. (20 points, 1 point each)IV. Translate the following linguistic terms: (10 points, 1 point each)1. 声学语⾳学 6. applied linguistics2. 封闭词类7. case grammar3. 成分分析8. positive transfer4. 区别性特征9. historical linguistics5. 临界期假说10. tone languageV. Draw a tree diagram for the sentence by applying TG Grammar. (10 points)SNP Infl VPDet N pst V NPDet Nthe man saw a horseVI. Answer the following questions. (20 points)1. A contrastive phonological segment whose phonetic realizations are predictable by rules. (4 points)(or: A phoneme is a phonological unit; it is a unit that is of distinctive value.)2. The situation in which phones never occur in the same phonetic environment.（4 points）e.g. [p] and [p h] never occur in the same position. （1 point）3. the position of the tongue in the mouth(1 point), the openness of the mouth(1 point), the shape of the lips(1 point), and the length of the vowels. (1 point)4. According to the Cooperative Principle, the participants of the conversation should obey the four maxims of the principle: the maxim of quantity, the maxim of quality, the maxim of relation, the maxim of manner. (2 points) In this conversation, B’s reply deliberately violated the maxim of quality, (2 points) because B wanted A to infer the information that Teheran is not in Turkey. The main purpose of B is to let A know that it is absurd to make such a mistake.(3 points)VII. Do the following analysis. (20 points)1. (1) c (2) a (3) d (4) b (5) f (1 point each)2. 1) child （2 points）2) human, plural （3 points）3)lala （2 points）4)The child is falling.（4 points）5)The baskets have arrived.（4 points）。
英语语言学概论复习题集
英语语言学概论复习题集一、选择题1. 语言学是研究什么的学科？A. 语言的发音B. 语言的结构C. 语言的社会功能D. 所有以上2. 下列哪项不是语言学的分支？A. 语音学B. 语法学C. 词汇学D. 化学3. 英语中的“语言学”一词来源于哪个希腊词？A. LogosB. PhoneC. GlossaD. Syntax4. 英语的音素有多少个？A. 20个B. 44个C. 100个D. 取决于方言5. 英语中的“辅音”和“元音”有何区别？A. 辅音是浊音，元音是清音B. 辅音是清音，元音是浊音C. 辅音可以单独发音，元音不可以D. 辅音不可以单独发音，元音可以二、填空题6. 语言学的主要研究对象是_________。
7. 语言学的三大分支包括语音学、语法学和_________。
8. 英语中的音素数量因_________而异。
9. 英语中的“辅音”和“元音”的区别在于_________。
10. 英语语言学中，“语用学”研究的是语言的_________。
三、简答题11. 请简述语言学的定义及其研究范围。
12. 描述语音学和音系学的区别。
13. 举例说明英语中的音节结构。
14. 解释什么是形态学，并简述其研究内容。
15. 什么是社会语言学？它研究哪些方面？四、论述题16. 论述英语语言学中“语义学”的重要性及其研究内容。
17. 描述英语中的词类系统，并解释它们各自的功能。
18. 论述英语语法的复杂性及其对学习者的影响。
19. 讨论英语作为国际语言对全球语言生态的影响。
20. 分析英语中的双关语现象及其在语言使用中的作用。
五、案例分析题21. 阅读以下对话，并分析其中的语用学现象。
- A: Can you pass the salt?- B: Sure, here you go.22. 观察以下句子，并讨论其语法结构：- The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.23. 分析以下广告语中的修辞手法：- Just do it.24. 考虑以下情景，讨论社会语言学在其中的应用：- 在一个多语言社区中，不同语言群体如何交流？25. 研究以下英语习语，并解释其在不同文化背景下的含义：- Break the ice.六、综合应用题26. 设计一个英语语言学的课程大纲，包括至少五个主要模块及其子主题。
英语语言学概论期末复习
英语语言学概论期末复习English Linguistics Overview Final ReviewIntroduction:1. Phonetics:Phonetics deals with the physical sounds of human speech. It examines speech sounds, their production, transmission, and perception. It includes articulatory phonetics (how sounds are produced), acoustic phonetics (how sounds are transmitted), and auditory phonetics (how sounds are perceived).2. Phonology:Phonology focuses on the systematic organization of sounds in a particular language. It studies phonemes—the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish meaning—and phonological rules, which determine how sounds interact in a language. It also explores the distribution of sounds, syllable structures, and phonological processes like assimilation and vowel harmony.3. Morphology:4. Syntax:Syntax explores the structure of sentences and the rulesthat govern their formation. It analyzes the arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses to create well-formed sentences.Syntax also investigates sentence constituents, grammatical relations, word order, and sentence types.5. Semantics:6. Pragmatics:7. Sociolinguistics:Sociolinguistics explores the relationship between language and society. It investigates how language varies and changes based on social factors such as gender, age, social class, and geographical location. Sociolinguistics also examines language attitudes, language variation, language contact, and dialectology.8. Psycholinguistics:Conclusion:。
语言学概论期末考试复习题及参考答案
语言学概论（八）期末考试复习题及参考答案一、单选题1.（2分）语言符号的任意性是指A.语言符号可以任意使用和创造B.绝大多数语言符号的能指和所指之间没有必然的理据关系C,可以任意使用语言符号绐事物命名D∙语言符号的能指和所指可以任意改变参考答案：B2.（2分）下列各组辅音中，发音部位相同的•组是A.image1..pngB.image2.pngC.image3.pngD.Image4.png参考答案：B3.（2分）“汽车”和“轿车”是A.上下位词B.同义词C.等义词D.近义词参考答案，A4.（2分）下列几种社会方言中，具有排他性的一项是A.阶级习惯语B.行话C隐语D.学生腔参考答案：C5.（2分）下列关于亲属语言的表述中，不正确的项是A亲属语言是社会完全分化的产物B∙亲属语言之间具有历史同源关系C.语言亲属关系有亲疏远近的分别D.亲属语言间不存在语音对应关系参考答案：D6..（2分）“老郎鼓励我考大学”是A.生谓诃组B.兼语词组C.连动词组D.复句词组参考答案，B7.12分）目前己知的最古老的拼音文字是一A.古埃及文字8.占希腊文字C腓尼基文字D∙中国的甲骨文参考答案：C9.（2分）划分词类的最本质的标准是A.分布标准8.意义标准C.形态标准D逻辑标准参考答案，A9.（2分）外语学习中的后期阶段被称为A.中介语阶段B.目标语阶段C低平期D高原期参考答案I D10.（2分）英语“students"中的"∙s"是.A.虚词语素B∙词根语素C.构形语素D.构词语素参考答案：C11.（2分）认为“思维和语言各自发展,二者没仃关系”的学者不包括A.古希腊哲学家柏拉图B.法国哲学家迪卡尔C.英国哲学家座布斯D.苏联语言学家马尔参考答案：D12.（2分）以卜.不属于语言学的三大发源地的是A.中国B.埃及C.印度D希腊•罗马参考答案，B13.（2分）下列语言学流派中桀中研究语言本体的流派是A.功能语言学B∙社会语言学C认知语言学D.结构语言学春考答案：D14.（2分）下面词组中,结构类型与其他各组不同的•组是A.年轻漂亮/朴素大方B.我们大家/首都北京C.民航大厦/工人农民D.贯彻执行/讨论研究辨考答案：C15.（2分）关于语言获得的原因，卜列学说中偏重于内部条件解择的一项是A.天赋说B.摹仿说C强化说D剌激反应说参考答案；A16.（2分）传统上把汉字的单纯字符称为A偏旁B笔画C记号D.独体字参考答案，D17.（2分）北京话“面”单念时读作但“面包”却读作［mi?mpau）,这种语流音变现象是A溺化B.增音C同化D.异化春考答案：C18.（2分）汉语中的词类（词的语法分类）可以首先分出的两个大类是一A.基本词和非基本词B.实诃和虚词C.典型词和兼类词D.体词和谓词参考答案：B19.（2分）目前对于语言和思维的关系，比较一致的观点是A.有什么样的思维，就有什么样的语言B∙有什么样的语言，就有什么样的思维C思维对语言有•定影响，但更重要的是语言决定思维D.语言对思维有一定影响,但更重要的是思维决定语言参考答案，D20.（2分）听觉上最自然、最容易分辨的最小语音单位是A.音素B.国i音C音位D.音节参考答案：D21.（2分）首先提出“能指”和“所指”这对概念的语言学家是A洪堡特B.索绪尔D.萨丕尔分考答案：B22.（2分）判断两种话是不同语言还是同一种语言的不同方言应该主要参考A.相互理解程度B.语言结构的差异程度C.共同的历史文化传统和民族认同感D∙地域临近程度参考答案，C23.（2分）语言符号具有可变性的根本原因在丁语言符号的A.任意性B.强制性C离散性D.系统性参考答案：A24.（2分）下列各项中，谓词和变元之间属于动作与结果关系的是A.写黑板B.打篮球C.织毛衣D.寄包裹参考答案，C25.（2分）从词的构造类型上看，汉语“动人”一词属于A.单纯词B.复合词D.简缩词参考答案：B26.（2分）语法的演变之所以比语汇缓慢，是因为A语法规则比较简单B.语法规则数量较少C.语法规则具有强制性D∙语法规则具有抽象性参考答案IC27.（2分）构形语素属于A.虚词语素B.词根语素C.自由语素D.黏若语素参考答案：D28.（2分）下列各组中,三个复合词构词类型不一致的一组是A.席卷耳鸣地震B.打倒切断推翻C发光散热出气D.天地欢乐爱好弁考答案：A29.（2分）在语言谱系分类的层级体系中,域大的类别是一A.语族B.语支C.语系D∙语群参考答案，C30.（2分）从语音的社公功能角度划分出来的最小语音单位是A.音位B.音素C.音节D.各渡参考答案：B31.（2分）人类语言和动物的交际方式A.完全一致B.有根本区别C有•定的差别D∙基本一样参考答案：B32.（2分）“我知道你很聪明。
英语语言学概论期末复习
第一章绪论1.1什么是语言1.2语言的性质（1）语言具有系统性（systematic ）（2）语言是一个符号系统语言符号是一种象征符号。
（3）语言符号的任意性（arbitrariness ）与理据性（motivation ）（4）口头性（5）语言是人类特有的（6）语言是用于交际的寒暄交谈（phatic communion ）马林诺夫斯基提出的，认为语言除了用于表达思想、交流感情外，还可以用语言营造一种气氛或保持社会接触。
这种不用于表达思想、交流感情的语言使用，叫寒暄交谈。
1.3语言的起源1.4语言的分类1.4.1系属分类（Genetic Classification ）历史比较语言学通过比较各种语言在不同时期语音、词性、曲折变化、语法结构上的相同特点来建立语言族系。
将语言分为语系（family ）——语族（group ）——语支（branch ）——语言英语、德语属印欧语系日耳曼语族西日耳曼语支。
法语属印欧语系罗曼语族中罗曼语支。
汉语属汉藏语系汉语族。
1.4.2 类型分类（Typological Classifacation ）根据词的结构类型，可分为（1）孤立语（isolating isolating languagelanguage ）又叫词根语，一个词代表一个意思，缺少形态变化，语序和虚词是表达语法意义的主要手段。
汉语是典型的孤立语。
（2）粘着语（agglutinative language ）简单词组成复合词，而词性和意义不变。
在词根前、中、后粘贴不同的词缀实现语法功能。
日语、韩语、土耳其语是典型的黏着语。
（3）屈折语（inflectional inflectional languagelanguage ）词形变化表语法关系的语言。
英语是不太典型的屈折语。
（4）多式综合语（polysynthesis polysynthesis languagelanguage ）把主、宾和其它语法项结合到动词词干上以构成一个单独的词，但表达一个句子的意思。
语言学概论期末突击复习资料.doc
一、名词解释1、语言类型：词根语——又称孤立语，其特点是缺乏形态变化，语法意义主要靠词序和虚词来表示。
汉语就是一种比较典型的词根语，例如，“我喜欢他”中的“我”是主语，“他”是宾语，主要取决于词序。
又如，“买菜”是述宾结构，“买的菜”是偏正结构，主要取决于虚词。
除汉语外，属词根语的还有越南语、彝语、苗语、缅甸语等。
屈折语一屈折语的特点是通过各种屈折方式来表示语法意义。
屈折可以分为内部屈折和外部屈折两种。
内部屈折是通过词的语音交替（改变部分语音）来构成不同的语法形式，表示不同的语法意义。
如英语的foot （脚，单数），feet （脚，复数）。
外部屈折是通过附加词缀的方式表示不同的语法意义。
如英语的book （单数，书）在后面加上词缀-s,就表示复数意义books （复数，书）。
屈折语的一个构形词缀可以同时表示几种不同的语法意义。
印欧语系各语言以及阿拉伯语等，一般都属于屈折语，德语和俄语最为典型。
2、条件变体与自由变体：条件变体一一音位的条件变体是指那些出现条件受环境限制的音位变体，即一个音位的各个变体从不在相同的语音环境中出现，只出现在不同的语音环境下，处于互补分布的状态。
例如英语的/p/、/〃、/k/三个辅音音位，当它们出现在词首时是送气的（如kill[k'il]）,而出现在/s/后就变为不送气的了（skill[skil] ）。
自由变体一一音位的自由变体是指那些在相同的语音环境中可以无条件变读的音位变体，即一个音位的各个变体可以自由替换而不会造成意义的改变。
3、语法形式与语法范畴语法形式一语法形式是反映词语的组合规则和语法类别的形式标志，是表示语法意义的形式手段，又称语法手段。
语法形式可分显性和隐性两种。
显性语法形式可以直接感知，主要包括语序、虚词、词缀、重叠以及各种语音形式。
隐性语法形式不能直接感知，但可通过能否组合、替换、扩展、变换等方式分析抽象出来。
语法范畴一一语法范畴有广义和狭义之分，广义的语法范畴是各种语法形式表示的语法意义的概括。
英语语言学概论复习资料（2）
英语语言学概论复习资料（2）《英语语言学概论》复习资料1I. Definitions.Directions：Define the following terms. Explain them with examples if necessary.1.arbitrariness2.morpheme3.endocentric construction4.construal5.principle of compositionalityII..Do the following according to the requirements.1. Identify the manner of articulation of the initial sounds in the following words(a) cheery (b) funny (c) loony (d) crazy (e) happy2. Make distinctions between the following pair of terms.descriptive vs. prescriptive3. What are the allomorphs of the morpheme ‘plural’ in this set of English words?criteria, dogs, oxen, deer, judges, stimuli4. Create a tree diagram and also make a bracketed analysis of the following sentence:The thief stole a wallet.5. What are the features of women register?III. Discussion.1. How do you understand Grice’s CP and its maxims? Give an example to theviolation of each of its maxims?2. What will you say to a statement like “one culture’s meat is another culture’spoison”?答案及评分标准I.Definition. 共5题1. arbitrariness refers to the fact that the forms of linguistic signs bears no naturalrelationship to their meaning.2.morpheme: the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between。
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LinguistsFerdinand de Saussure: Course in General LinguisticsEdward Sapir: Language: An Introduction to the Study of SpeechNoam Chomsky: Syntactic StructuresJohn Lyons: Language and LinguisticsR. H. Robins: General LinguisticsStuart C. Pool: An Introduction to LinguisticsWhat is language: Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.System: Elements of language are combined according to rules.Arbitrary: no close connection between a word and the object it refers to. Vocal: all human languages have sound and speech.Symbolic: Words are associated with objects, actions, ideas, concepts etc. by nothing but convention.Human: language is human specific.Design Features of LanguageArbitrarinessDualityCreativityDisplacementArbitrariness: --The forms of language signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning. (Saussure)--Arbitrary relationship between the sound of a morpheme and its meaning, even with onomatopoeic words.--Language has 2 levels of structures: sounds & meanings.-A small number of sounds can be grouped and regrouped into a large number of units of meaning.--The units of meanings can be grouped and regrouped into an infinite number of sentences, (lyons)Creativity:-We can understand and create sentences that we never heard before.--It comes from 2 features: duality & recursiveness (递归性) Displacement: People can use language to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present (in time and space) at the moment of communication.What is linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language.The sounds and the sound system orpatternsMain branches of linguisticsPhonetics （语音学）、Phonology （音系学）- Morphology （形态学）：the structure of wordsSyntax （句法学）：the structure of phrases and sentencesSemantics （语义学）：the meaning of words and sentencesPragmatics （语用学）：the way language is used to communicate Important distinctions in linguisticsDescriptive vs. Prescriptive 描写式 VS 规定式Synchronic vs. Diachronic 共时性 VS 历时性Langue vs. Parole 语言 VS 言语Competence and Performance 语言能力&语言运用Etic vs. Emic 非位学（素学）VS 位学 Descriptive vs. PrescriptiveDescriptive: how things arePrescriptive: how things ought to beModern linguistics is mostly descriptive, not prescriptive. Why?--Objective description helps to see the nature of language.--Language changes through time.Svnchronic vs. Diachronic （Saussure ）Synchronic Study: the study of language in a fixed instant, take language as unchanged.Diachronic Study: the study of language through the course of its historyLangue vs. Parole (Saussure)Language: the linguistic competence of the speaker, abstract, stable, systematic Parole: the exact way of speaking, specific and changeableSaussure's purpose to distinguish 'langue' and 'parole': To discover the regularities governing the actual use of language and make them the subjects of the study of linguistics.Competence and Performance (Chomsky)Competence: A language user's underlying knowledge about the system of rules Performance: the actual use of language in concrete situations.How is Saussure's distinction between langue and parole similar to and different from Chomsky's distinction between competence and performance?--Similarities: both Saussure and Chomsky make the distinction between the abstract language system and the actual use of language. Saussure's parole and Chomsky's performance are essentially the same thing.-Differences: Saussure's notion of language is a matter of social conventions, and Chomsky looks at language from a psycholoRical point of view. Thus, langue is quite different from competence.Etic vs. Emic (Pike)Chapter 2Major branches of phonetics：1.Acoustic phonetics (声学语音学)2.Auditory phonetics (听觉语音学)3.Articulatory phonetics (发音语音学)Phone [ ] Phoneme / /The IPAInternational Phonetic AssociationInternational Phonetic Alphabet (the IPA chart) was published in August 1888. Consonants and vowelsRP: Received English (BBC English, Oxford English, King's / Queen's English) GA: General AmericanIn what ways consonants differ from vowels?1)Air-stream in Articulation--consonants (24): the flow of air comes out with some obstructions.--vowels (20): the flow of air comes out freely2)Function: --consonants are used to separate the vowels. --vowels are used to help the speech organs to get from one consonant position to the next. Consonants[p] voiceless bilabial stop[b] voiced bilabial stop[s] voiceless alveolar fricative[z] voiced alveolar fricativeVowelsCoarticulation and Phonetic TranscriptionCoarticulation: Sounds continually show the influence of their neighbors.E.g. map, lambAnticipatory coarticulation 先期协'同发音lambPerseverative coarticulation 后滞协'同发音map[p] is aspirated in peak and unaspirated in speak.This aspirated voiceless bilabial stop is thus indicated by the diacritic h, as [p h], whereas the unaspirated counterpart is transcribed as [p].Broad transcription [ ] Narrow transcription / / or []Phone and PhonemeA phone is a phonetic unit or segment. It does not necessarily distinguish meaning; some do, some don't, e.g. [tin— [t] [i] [n]A phoneme can be defined as a minimal unit of sound that can distinguish words of different meanings. E.g. [tin] [din] 9 /t/ /d/ 9 tin dinDifferences Between Phone & PhonemeMinimal Pairs: e.g. "pat" "bat”, “pig" "big”Allophone: the phonetic variants of a phoneme, e.g. the 2 allophones of the same phoneme /p/ are [p h] as in pin and [p] in spin.SuprasegmentalsSuprasegmental features are those aspects of speech that involve more than single sound segments.The principal suprasegmentals are: syllable, stress, tone, intonationThe syllable structureoMonosyllabic word: cat, dogPolysyllabic word: festival, transplantOpen syllable: a syllable without coda, bar, tieClosed syllable: a syllable with coda, bard, tiedChapter 3 LexiconWhat is word?Definition: It is a unit of expression that native speakers may recognize by intuition, whether in spoken or written form.Identification of wordsStability: the internal structure is the most stable e.g. chairman namirahc Relative uninterruptibility: new elements can not be inserted into a word e.g. dis appoint mentA minimum free form (Bloomfield):maximum 9 sentenceminimum 9 wordClassification of words1)Variable vs. Invariable Words:Variable words: write, writes, writing, wrote, written; cat, cats. (n. v.) Invariable words: since, when, seldom, through, etc.2)Grammatical vs. Lexical Words:Grammatical/Function words: conjunctions, prepositions, articles, pronouns. Lexical/Content words: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.3)Closed-class vs. Open-class Words:Closed-class words —grammatical words): New members cannot normally be added, e.g. pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, auxiliaries.Open-class words (=lexical words): New members can be added, eg nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.4)Word class: known as Parts of Speech (词性)in traditional grammar, noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, pronoun, conjunction, interjection, article, etc.Some new word class: -Particles (小品词):Infinitive "to",Negative "not”,Subordinate units in phrasal verbs“get by”, “look back”, etc.-Auxiliaries: do, have-Modal verbs: can, will, may, must, etc.-Pro-form-DeterminersPre-determiners (coverage): all, both, twice, one-fifth, etc.Central- determiners (所指):this, that, every, my, etc.Post-determiners (cardinal numerals, ordinal numerals, general ordinals and quantifiers): last, past, many, little, etc.Morpheme and MorphologyMorpheme: the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between expression and content, its meaning will change if further divided. E.g. dis appoint ment (3)Morphology: the study of word-formation (the internal structure of words).A phoneme is the basic unit in the study of phonology; a morpheme is the basic unit in the study of morphology.(1)Free morphemes & Bound morphemes-Free morphemes: those that may constitute words by themselves, e.g. boy, girl, table, nation.Content words (open-class words)Function words (close-class words)Compounds: polymorphemic words consisting wholly of free morphemes, e.g.mooncake-Bound morphemes: those that cannot occur alone, e.g. -s, -ed, dis-, unBound morphemes are mainly affixes.(2)Root, affix and stemRoot: the free morpheme inside of the wordE.g. friend as in unfriendlinessAffix: the type of morpheme that can be used only when added to another morpheme.prefix (dis-, un-)suffix (-en, -ify) andlnfix( feet, goose)Stem: any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added.E.g. friend (friends), friendship (friendships)(3)Inflectional and Derivational AffixInflectional affixes (all are suffix): number, tense, degree (-er. -est), and case(-s') Derivational affixes: e.g. -tion, -ness, un-, en-, -less etc.Inflection and Word FormationInflection: adding inflectional affix, such as number, person, case, (tables, opens, boy's ) do not change the grammatical class of the stemsDerivation (a relationship between roots and affixes):lengthen, foolish, (word class changed)nonsmoker, disobey (word class unchanged)Word FormationCompounds: to join two or more separate words to produce a new word. Endocentric & Exocentric compounds向心复合词和离心复合词Endocentric: one element serves as the head, the relationship of "a kind of〃E.g. self-control: a kind of control; armchair: a kind ofchairExocentric: there is no head, so not a relationship of "a kind of something"E.g. scarecrow: not a kind of crow; breakneck: not a kind of neckWritten forms of compounds-Solid: blackboard, teapot, bodyguard-Hyphenated: wedding-ring, wave-length -Open: coffee table, washing machine Chapter 4Immediate Constituent Analysis (IC Analysis)the girl (NP)ate the apple (VP)The girl ate the apple (S)The girl ate the appleIf two constituents B (the girl) and C (ate the apple) are jointed to form a higher constituent A (here a sentence S), then B and C are said to be the immediate constituents of A.Syntactic FunctionNames of functions are expressed in terms of subjects, objects, predicators, modifiers, complements, etc.Subject: "what the sentence is about" (i.e., topic)John was bitten by a dog.u grammatical subject" (John) and 'logical subject" (a dog)Predicator: verb or verbs included in a predicate, it usually expresses actions, processes, and states that refer to the subject.Object:Direct Object and Indirect ObjectMother gave my sister a doll.IO DOThe accusative case （受格）for direct objectThe dative case （与格）for indirect objectObject can become subjectJohn broke the glass. 9 The glass was broken by John.Peter saw Jane. 9 Jane was seen by Peter.Category-Number: singular, dual, pluralIn Englishnouns: dog, dogspronouns and verbs: He laughs: They laugh; this man: these men.-Gender: contrasts as "masculine : feminine : neuter", "animate : inanimate", etc. In English gender only in pronouns and nouns:he: she: itprince: princess author: authoress-Case: teacher: teacher'swith/ to a manJohn kicked Peter: Peter kicked John-Agreement:a pronoun agrees with its antecedent: Whose is this pen? --Oh,Ji's the one I lost.a verb agrees with its subject: Each person has one coin.number between nouns and verbs:This man runs. The bird flies.These men run. These birds fly.Chapter 5 Meaning (semantics)SemanticsDefinition: Semantics is the study of meaning in language.Geoffrey Leech. Semantics: The Study of Meaning. Seven types of meaning: Conceptual meaning 9 DenotationConnotative meaning 、9 Connotation (unstable, vary according to culture)Social meaningAffective meaning > Associative meaningReflected meaningJCollocative meaningThematic meaningDenotation & ConnotationE.g. words with the same denotation, but differ in the connotative meanings: politician (derogatory)statesman (favorable)The Referential TheoryReferential theory: the theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to, or stand for.Leech's conceptual meaning has 2 sides:Sense (Connotation): the abstract properties of an entity;Reference (Denotation): concrete entities;Concept: the abstract thing, no entity.Every word has a sense, but not every word has a reference. E.g. "but ", “if”, “God”,“dragon”.Sense Relations--Synonymy:buy/purchaseautumn/fall flat/apartmenttube/underground--Antonymy(1) Gradable antonymy (degree)分级反义词good ---------------------- badlong ----------------------- shortbig ------------------------- small(2) Complementary antonymy (Not A = B; not B= A)互补反义词一个个体的两种情况alive : dead odd : evenmale : female pass : failpresent: absent boy : girlinnocent: guilty hit: miss⑶Converse antonymy回转反义词两方两个事物buy : sell teacher: studentlend : borrow above : belowgive : receive before : afterparent: child host: guesthusband : wife employer: employeeChapter 8 Language in Use (Pragmatics)Definition of Pragmatics:The study of language in use.The study of meaning in context.The study of speakers' meaning, utterance meaning, & contextual meaning. Utterance Meaning vs. Sentence MeaningSentence meaning: What does X mean?Utterance meaning: What do you mean by X?Contextual Meaning: meaning in contextSpeech Act TheoryJohn Austin (1911-1960)How to Do Things with Words (1962)Speech acts: actions performed via utterancesIllocutionary Act TheoryJohn Searle (1932-)Speech acts can be analyzed on 3 levels:the locutionnary act 发话行为the illocutionnary act 行事行为the perlocutionnary act取效行为/言后行为E.g.lIt's cold here.Locutionary act: the literal meaning, the sentenceIllocutionary act: a request of the hearer to shut the window.Perlocutionary act: the hearer's shutting the window or his refusal to shut it. E.g.2Conversations between The illocutionary act:husband and wife:H: That's the phone. 9 Not describing something. Just making a request of his wife to go and answer the phone.W: I'm in the bathroom.— Not describing her action in the bathroom, just (i) a refusal to comply with the request and (ii) issuing a request of her husband to answer it.H : Okay. 9 Accepting his wife's refusal and accepther request, meaning "all right, \'\\ answer it."Conversational ImplicatureHerbert Paul GricePeople do not usually say things directly but tend to imply them.The Cooperative Principle (CP)A speaker can mean a lot more than what he says, most the time the hearer could understand that, then the problem is how the speaker can convey more than what is said and how the hearer can arrive at the speaker's meaning. Grice believed there exists a set of mechanisms governing the production and comprehension of these utterances, this is what he called the Cooperative Principle. (CP)Grice introduced 4 categories of maxisms:--Maxim of Quality:Do not say what you believe to be false.Do not say something if you lack adequate evidence;--Maxim of Quantity: no more, no less--Maxim of Relation: Be relative.--Maxim of Manner: Be perspicuous.Pragmatics violates CP. Since CP is regulative, CP can be violated.Violation of CP and its maxims leads to conversational implicature. 会话含义E-g.He is made of iron.CP (quality) > He is strong-willed.He (lecturer) is a good cook.CP (relation'The lecturer is no good.Violation of the maxims (Quantity)1.No lessA:昨天上街买了些什么？B:就买了些东西。
英语语言学概论期末复习电子版本
英语语言学概论期末复习第一章绪论1.1什么是语言1.2语言的性质（1）语言具有系统性（systematic）（2）语言是一个符号系统语言符号是一种象征符号。
（3）语言符号的任意性（arbitrariness）与理据性（motivation）（4）口头性（5）语言是人类特有的（6）语言是用于交际的寒暄交谈（phatic communion）马林诺夫斯基提出的，认为语言除了用于表达思想、交流感情外，还可以用语言营造一种气氛或保持社会接触。
这种不用于表达思想、交流感情的语言使用，叫寒暄交谈。
1.3语言的起源1.4语言的分类1.4.1系属分类（Genetic Classification）历史比较语言学通过比较各种语言在不同时期语音、词性、曲折变化、语法结构上的相同特点来建立语言族系。
将语言分为语系（family）——语族（group）——语支（branch）——语言英语、德语属印欧语系日耳曼语族西日耳曼语支。
法语属印欧语系罗曼语族中罗曼语支。
汉语属汉藏语系汉语族。
1.4.2 类型分类（Typological Classifacation）根据词的结构类型，可分为（1）孤立语（isolating language）又叫词根语，一个词代表一个意思，缺少形态变化，语序和虚词是表达语法意义的主要手段。
汉语是典型的孤立语。
（2）粘着语（agglutinative language）简单词组成复合词，而词性和意义不变。
在词根前、中、后粘贴不同的词缀实现语法功能。
日语、韩语、土耳其语是典型的黏着语。
（3）屈折语（inflectional language）词形变化表语法关系的语言。
英语是不太典型的屈折语。
（4）多式综合语（polysynthesis language）把主、宾和其它语法项结合到动词词干上以构成一个单独的词，但表达一个句子的意思。
因纽特语是典型的多式综合语。
根据句子的语序类型，可分为SVO、SOV、OSV、OVS等1.5语言的功能1.5.1 一般功能1.5.2元功能（metafunction）1.6什么是语言学（linguistics）1.7语言学中的重要区分（1）语言（langue）和言语（parole/langage）索绪尔对语言和言语作出了区分。
语言学概论1期末复习(4)
《英语语言学1》期末复习题(4)一、判断题（每小题1分，共20分）得分：分Part I.Directions: Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write “T” for true and “F” for false in the Bracket. (1 point each, 20 points)1.Phonology is a branch of linguistics which studies the sentences patterns of a language. ( )2.According to semantic triangle, there is no direct link between a symbol and referent, i.e.between a word and a thing it refers to.( )3.Constituents that can be substituted for one another with loss of grammaticality belong to thesame syntactic category.( )4.Among the approaches to the study of meaning, the naming theory is better than others. ( )5.In linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing. ( )6.IC Analysis can be used to analyze all kinds of ambiguous structures ( )7. A morpheme must convey a lexical meaning ( )8.All words can said to contain a root morpheme. ( )9.Free morpheme can be further classified into inflectional and derivational morphemes. ( )10.Vowel sounds can be differentiated by a number of factors: the position of tongue in the mouth,the openness of the mouth, the shape of the lips, and the length of the vowels. ( )11.If two phonetically similar sounds occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning,they are said to be in complementary distribution. ( )12.The word “modernizations” is made up of three morphemes. ( )13.The English spelling exactly represents its pronunciation.( )14.Phonology is a branch of linguistics which studies the sentences patterns of a language.( )15.English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tonguethat is raised the highest. ( )nguage is relatively stable and systematic while parole is subject to personal and situationalconstraints.( )17.Constituents that can be substituted for one another with loss of grammaticality belong to thesame syntactic category. ( )18.onomatopoetic words are found in almost all human languages, which shows the arbitrarynature of languages.( )19.Allophones are described in phonetic terms.( )20.Sense and reference are two terms often encountered in the study of meaning. ( )二、选择题（每小题 1分，共20分）得分：分Part II. Directions: choose the best answer from the four choices to complete the following sentences or answer the questions. Mark the corresponding letter. (1 point each, 20 points)1. language is a system of arbitrary _________ symbols used for human communication.A. culturalB. conventionalC. decodedD. vocal2. A word with several meanings is called _________.A. an abnormal wordB. a polysemous wordC. a synonymous wordD. none of the above3. There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed” in the word “learned” is known as a(n) __________.A. derivational morphemeB. free morphemeC. inflectional morphemeD. free form4. The syntactic rules of any language are ________ in number.A. largeB. smallC. finiteD. infinite5. “I picked some tulips.” __________ “I picked some flowers.”A. entailsB. presupposesC. is inconsistent withD. is synonymous with6. Cold and hot is a pair of ________ antonyms.A. gradableB. complementaryC. reversalD. converse7. “Can I borrow your bike?” _____ “You have a bike.”A. is synonymous withB. is inconsistent withC. entailsD. presupposes8. The study of language at one point of time is a _______ study.A. synchronicB. historicC. diachronicD. descriptive9. Which of the following is a typical tone language?A. EnglishB. ChineseC. FrenchD. All of the above10. Two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in ___________.A. phonemic contrastB. complementary distributionC. minimal pairD. none of the above11. Bloomfield drew on __________ psychology when truing to define the meaning of linguistic forms.A. contextualB. conceptualistC. behavioristD. naming12. Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by _______ in 1957.A. L. BloomfieldB. N. ChomskyC. F. SaussureD. M. A. K. Halliday13. Which of the following is a correct description of reference?A. a relationship between an expression and other expressions which have the same meaningB. the set of all objects which can potentially be referred to by an expressionC. a relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in anutterance to pick out that objectD. an intra-linguistic relationship between lexical items14. What is function of the sentence “How do you do’?A. DirectiveB. PhaticC. InformativeD. Evocative15. Dialectal synonyms are synonyms used in different ________ dialectsA. personalB. regionalC. socialD. professional16. Which of the following languages has the syllabic writing system?A. ChineseB. JapaneseC. EnglishD. French17. Which descr iption of the meaning components of the word “father” is right?A. [+human, +adult,-male]B. [+human, -adult, +male]C. [–human, +adult, -male]D. [+human, +adult, +male]18. Once the notion of ________ was taken into consideration, semantics spilled into pragmatics.A. meaningB. contextC. formD. content19. The classic semantic triangle reflects__________.A. ComponentialB. PredicationC. SyntacticD. none of the above20. The noun tear and the verb tear are __________.A. homophonesB. homographsC. complete homonymsD. none of the above三、填空题（每空1分，共10分）得分：分Part III. Directions: Complete the following sentences by filling in the blank with the most appropriate word. (1 points each, 20 points)1)The three branches of phonetics are labeled as a____________ phonetics, auditory phoneticsand acoustic phonetics respectively.2)One general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of speech over w_________.3)S_________ studies the sentence structure of language.4)C____________ analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can be dividedinto meaning components.5)The noun “tear” and the verb “tear” are h_____________.6)The modern linguistics is d____________, not prescriptive, and its investigations are based onauthentic and mainly spoken language data.7)M___________ is the smallest meaningful unit of language.8)Langue refers to the language system shared by a community of speaker while p________contrasted with langue is the concrete act of speaking in actual situations by an individual speaker.9)The transformational component has transformational rules, which change the deep structuresgenerated by the phrase structure component into s________ structure. (surface)10)In semantic triangle, the relation between a word and a thing it refers to is not direct, and it ismediated by c___________.四、解释专业术语（每小题4分，共20分，）得分：分Part IV. Directions: Define the following terms. Write the definitions of each term in the following required space: (2 points each, 10 points)1. Syntactic category:2. deep structure:3. semantic triangle:4. true condition:5. componential analysis:五、论述题（每题15分, 共30分）得分：分Part V. Essay Question: (30%)1. What are the seven types of meaning proposed by G. Leech in his Semantics?2. What are the differences between modern linguistics and traditional grammar?3. Draw a surface structure and the deep structure for the following sentence.“the girl put the toys in the box”。
英语语言学概论笔记(期末复习资料)
英语语言学概论笔记（期末复习资料）【考研1号】专为英语基础一般及薄弱者打造《英语语言学概论》重、难点提示Questions & Answers on Key Points of Linguistics《英语语言学概论》重、难点问与答1.1. What is language?―Language is system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. It is a system, since linguistic elements are arranged systematically, rather than randomly. Arbitrary, in the sense that there is usually no intrinsic connection between a work (like ―book‖) and the object it refers to. This explains and is explained by the fact that different languag es have different ―books‖: ―book‖ in English,―livre‖ in French, in Japanese, in Chinese, ―check‖ in Korean. It is symbolic, because words are associated with objects, actions, ideas etc. by nothing but convention. Namely, people use the sounds or vocal forms to symbolize what they wish to refer to. It is vocal, because sound or speech is the primary medium for all human languages, developed or―new‖. Writing systems came much later than the spoken forms. The fact that small children learn and can only learn to speak (and listen) before they write (and read) also indicates that language is primarily vocal, rather than written. The term ―human‖ in the definition is meant to specify that language is human specific.1.2. What are design features of language?―Design features‖ here refer to the defining properties of human language that tell thedifference between human language and any system of animal communication. They are arbitrariness, duality, productivity, displacement, cultural transmission and interchangeability1.3. What is arbitrariness?By ―arbitrariness‖, we mean there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds (see I .1). A dog might be a pig if only the first person or group of persons had used it for a pig. Language is therefore largely arbitrary. But language is not absolutely seem to be some sound-meaning association, if we think of echo words, like ―bang‖, ―crash‖, ―roar‖, which are motivated in a certain sense. Secondly, some compounds (words compounded to be one word) are not entirely arbitrary either. ―Type‖ and ―write‖ are opaque orunmotivated words, while ―type-writer‖ is less so, or more transparent or motivated than the words that make it. So we can say―arbitrariness‖ is a matter of degree.1.4.What is duality?Linguist s refer ―duality‖ (of structure) to the fact that in all languages so far investigated, one finds two levels of structure or patterning. At the first, higher level, language is analyzed in terms of combinations of meaningful units (such as morphemes, words etc.); at the second, lower level, it is seen as a sequence of segments which lack any meaning in themselves, but which combine to form units of meaning.According to Hu Zhanglin et al. (p.6), language is a system of two sets of structures, one of sounds and the other of meaning. This is important for the workings of language. A small number of semantic units (words), and these units of meaning can be arranged and rearranged into aninfinite更多精华请登陆考研1号网 【考研1号】专为英语基础一般及薄弱者打造number of sentences (note that we have dictionaries of words, but no dictionary of sentences!). Duality makes it possible for a person totalk about anything within his knowledge. No animal communication system enjoys this duality, or even approaches this honor.1.5.What is productivity?Productivity refers to the ability to the ability to construct and understand an indefinitely large number of sentences in one’s native language, including those that has never heard before, but that are appropriate to the speaking si tuation. No one has ever said or heard ―A red-eyed elephant is dancing on the small hotel bed with an African gibbon‖, but he cansay it when necessary, and he can understand it in right register. Different from artistic creativity, though, productivity never goes outside the language, thus also called ―rule-bound creativity‖ (byN.Chomsky).1.6.What is displacement?―Displacement‖, as one of the design features of the human language, refers to the fact that one can talk about things that are not present, as easily as he does things present. In other words, one can refer to real and unreal things, things of the past, of the present, of the future. Language itself can be talked about too. When a man, for example, is crying to a woman, about something, it might be something that had occurred, or something that is occurring, or something that is to occur. When a dog is barking, however, you can decide it is barking for something or at someone that exists now and there. It couldn’t be bow wowing sorrowfully for dome lost love or a bone to be lost. The bee’s system, nonetheless,has a small share of ―displacement‖, but it is an unspeakable tiny share.1.7.What is cultural transmission?This means that language is not biologically transmitted from generation to generation, but that the details of the linguistic system must be learned anew by each speaker. It is true that the capacity for language in human beings (N. Chomsky called it ―language acquisition device‖, or LAD) has a genetic basis, but the particular language a person learns to speak is a cultural one other than a genetic one like the dog’s barking system. Ifa human being is brought up in isolation he cannot acquire language. The Wolf Child reared by the pack of wolves turned out to speak thewolf’s roaring ―tongue‖ when he was saved. He learned thereafter, with no small difficulty, the ABC of a certain human language.1.8.What is interchangeability?(1) Interchangeability means that any human being can be both a producer and a receiver of messages. We can say, and on other occasions can receive and understand, for example, ―Please do something to make me happy.‖ Though some people (including me) suggest that there is sex differentiation in the actual language use, in other words, men and women may say different things, yet in principle there is no sound, or word or sentence that a man can utter and a woman cannot, or vice versa. On the other hand, a person can be the speaker while the other person is the listener and as the turn moves on to the listener, he can be the speaker and the first speaker is to listen. It is turn-taking that 更多精华请登陆考研1号网 【考研1号】专为英语基础一般及薄弱者打造makes social communication possible and acceptable.(2) Some male birds, however, utter some calls, which females do not (or cannot?), and certain kinds of fish have similar haps mentionable. When a dog barks, all the neighboring dogs bark. Then people around can hardly tell which dog (dogs) is (are0 ―speaking‖ and which listening.1.9.Why do linguists say language is human specific?First of all, human language has six ―design features‖ whichanimal communication systems do not have, at least not in the true sense of them (see I .2-8). Let’s borrow C. F.Hocket’s Chart that compares human language with some animals’ systems, from Wang Gang (1998,p.8).Secondly, linguists have done a lot trying to teach animals such as chimpanzees to speak a human language but have achieved nothing inspiring. Beatnice and Alan Gardner brought up Washoe, a female chimpanzee, like a hum an child. She was taught ―American sign Language‖, and learned a little that made the teachers happy but did mot make the linguistics circle happy, for few believed in teaching chimpanzees.Thirdly, a human child reared among animals cannot speak a human language, not even when he is taken back and taught to lo to so (see the ―Wolf Child‖in I.7)1.10.What functions does language have?Language has at least seven functions: phatic, directive, Informative, interrogative, expressive, evocative and per formative. According to Wang Gang (1988,p.11), language has three main functions: a tool of communication, a tool whereby people learn about the world, and a tool by which people learn about the world, and a tool by which people create art. M .A. K.Halliday, representative of the London school, recognizes three ―Macro-Functions‖: ideational, interpersonal and textual (see! 11-17;see HU Zhuanglin etal., pp10-13, pp394-396).1. 11What is the phatic function?The ―phatic function‖ refers to language being used for setting up a certain atmosphere or maintaining social contacts (rather than for exchanging information or ideas). Greetings, farewells, and comments on the weather in English and on clothing in Chinese all serve this function. Much of the phatic langua ge (e.g. ―How are you?‖ ―Fine, thanks.‖) Is insincere if taken literally, but it is important. If you don't say ―Hello‖ to a friend you meet, orif you don’t answer his ―Hi‖, you ruin your friendship.1.12. What is the directive function?The ―directive function‖ means that language may be used to get the hearer to do something. Most imperative sentences perform this function, e.g., ―Tell me the result whenyou finish.‖ Other syntactic structures or sentences of other sorts can, according to J.Austin an d J.Searle’s ―indirect speech act theory‖(see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp271-278)at least, serve the purpose of direction too, e.g., ―If I were you, I would have blushed to the bottom of my ears!‖更多精华请登陆考研1号网 【考研1号】专为英语基础一般及薄弱者打造1.13.What is the informative function?Language serves an ―informational function‖ when used to tell something, characterized by the use of declarative sentences. Informative statements are often labeled as true (truth) or false (falsehood). According to P.Grice’s―Cooperative Principle‖(see HuZhuanglin et al., pp282-283), one ought not to violate the ―Maxim of Quality‖, when he is informing at all.1.14.What is the interrogative function?When language is used to obtain information, it serves an―interrogative function‖. This includes all questions that expect replies, statements, imperatives etc., according to the ―indirect speech act theory‖, may have this function as well, e.g., ―I’d liketo know you better.‖ This may bring forth a lot of personal information. Note that rhetorical questions make an exception, since they demand no answer, at least not the reader’s/listener’s answer.1.15.What is the expressive function?The ―expressive function‖ is the use of language to reveal something about the feelings or attitudes of the speaker. Subconscious emotional ejaculations are good examples, like ―Good heavens!‖ ―My God!‖ Sentences like ―I’m sorry about the delay‖ can serve as good examples too, though in a subtle way. While language is used for the informative function to pass judgment on the truth or falsehood of statements, language used for the expressive function evaluates, appraises or asserts the speaker’s own attitudes.1.16.What is the evocative function?The ―evocative function‖ is the use of language to create certain feelings in the hearer. Its aim is, for example, to amuse, startle, antagonize, soothe, worry or please. Jokes (not practical jokes, though) are supposed to amuse or entertain the listener; advertising to urgecustomers to purchase certain commodities; propaganda to influence public opinion. Obviously, the expressive and the evocative functions often go together, i.e., you may express, for example, your personal feelings about a political issue but end up by evoking the same feeling in, or imposing it on, your listener. That’s also the case with the other way round.1.17.What is the per formative function?This means people speak to ―do things‖ or perform actions. On certain occasions theutterance itself as an action is more important than what words or sounds constitute the uttered sentence. When asked if a third Yangtze Bridge ought to be built in Wuhan, the mayor may say, ―OK‖, which means more than speech, and more than an average socialindividual may do for the construction. The j udge’s imprisonment sentence, the president’s war or independence declaration, etc., are per formatives as well (see J.Austin’s speech Act Theory, Hu Zhuanglin, ecal.pp271-278).1.18.What is linguistics?―Linguistics‖ is the scientific study of language. It studies not just one language of any one更多精华请登陆考研1号网 【考研1号】专为英语基础一般及薄弱者打造society, but also the language of all human beings. A linguist, though, does not have to know and use a large number of languages, butto investigate how each language is constructed. He is also concerned with how a language varies from dialect to dialect, from class to class, how it changes from century to century, how children acquire their mother tongue, and perhaps how a person learns or should learn a foreign language. In short, linguistics studies the general principles whereupon all human languages are constructed and operate as systems of communication in their societies or communities (see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp20-22)1.19.What makes linguistics a science?Since linguistics is the scientific study of language, it ought to base itself upon the systematic, investigation of language data, which aims at discovering the true nature of language and its underlying system. To make sense of the data, a linguist usually has conceived some hypotheses about the language structure, to be checked against the observed or observable facts. In order to make his analysis scientific, a linguist is usually guided by four principles: exhaustiveness, consistency, and objectivity. Exhaustiveness means he should gather all the materials relevant to the study and give them an adequate explanation, in spite of the complicatedness. He is to leave nolinguistic ―stone‖ unturned. Consistency means there should be no contradiction between different parts of the total statement. Economy means a linguist should pursue brevity in the analysis when it is possible. Objectivity implies that since some people may be subjectivein the study, a linguist should be (or sound at least) objective,matter-of-face, faithful to reality, so that his work constitutes partof the linguistics research.1.20.What are the major branches of linguistics?The study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics (e.g.Hu Zhuanglin et al., 1988;Wang Gang, 1988). But a linguist sometimes is able to deal with only one aspect of language at a time, thus the arise of various branches: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, lexicology, lexicography, etymology, etc.1.21.What are synchronic and diachronic studies?The description of a language at some point of time (as if itstopped developing) is a synchrony study (synchrony). The description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study (diachronic). An essay entitled ―On the Use of THE‖, for example, may be synchronic, if the author does not recall the past of THE, and it may also be diachronic if he claims to cover a large range or period of time wherein THE has undergone tremendous alteration (see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp25-27).1.22.What is speech and what is writing?(1) No one needs the repetition of the general principle oflinguistic analysis, namely, the primacy of speech over writing. Speechis primary; because it existed long long before writing systems cameinto being. Genetically children learn to speak before learning to write.Secondly, written forms just represent in this way or that the speech sounds:更多精华请登陆考研1号网 【考研1号】专为英语基础一般及薄弱者打造individual sounds, as in English and French as in Japanese.(2) In contrast to speech, spoken form of language, writing aswritten codes, gives language new scope and use that speech does not have. Firstly, messages can be carried through space so that people can write to each other. Secondly, messages can be carried through time thereby, so that people of our time can be carried through time thereby, so that people of our time can read Beowulf, Samuel Johnson, and Edgar A. Poe. Thirdly, oral messages are readily subject to distortion, either intentional or unintentional (causing misunderstanding or malentendu), while written messages allow and encourage repeated unalterable reading.(3) Most modern linguistic analysis is focused on speech, different from grammarians of the last century and theretofore.1.23.What are the differences between the descriptive and the prescriptive approaches? A linguistic study is ―descriptive‖ if itonly describes and analyses the facts of language, and ―prescriptive‖ if it tries to lay down rules for ―correct‖ language behavior. Linguisticstudies before this century were largely prescriptive because many early grammars were largely prescriptive because many early grammars were based on ―high‖ (literary or reli gious) written records. Modernlinguistics is mostly descriptive, however. It (the latter) believesthat whatever occurs in natural speech (hesitation, incomplete utterance, misunderstanding, etc.) should be described in the analysis, and not be marked as incorrect, abnormal, corrupt, or lousy. These, with changes in vocabulary and structures, need to be explained also.1.24.What is the difference between langue and parole?F. De Saussure refers ―langue‖to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community and refers ―parole‖ to the actual or actualized language, or the realization of langue. Langue is abstract, parole specific to the speaking situation; langue not actually spoken by an individual, parole always a naturally occurring event; langue relatively stable and systematic, parole is a mass of confused facts, thus not suitable for systematic investigation. What a linguist ought to do, according to Saussure, is to abstract langue from instances of parole, I. e. to discover the regularities governing all instances of parole and make than the subject of linguistics. Thelangue-parole distinction is of great importance, which casts great influence on later linguists.1.25.What is the difference between competence and performance?(1) According to N. Chomsky, ―competence‖ is the ideal language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language, and ―performance‖ is the actual realization of this knowledge in utterances. The former enables a speaker to produce and understand an indefinite number of sentences and to recognize grammatical mistakes and ambiguities. Aspeaker’s competence is stable while his performance is often influenced by psychological and social factors. So a speaker’s performance does not always match or equal his supposed competence.(2) Chomsky believes that linguists ought to study competence,rather than performance. In other words, they should discover what an ideal speaker knows of his更多精华请登陆考研1号网 【考研1号】专为英语基础一般及薄弱者打造native language.(3) C homsky’s competence-performance distinction is not exactly the same as,though similar to, F. de Saussure’s langue-parole distinction. Langue is a social product,and a set of conventions for a community, while competence is deemed as a property of the mind of each individual. Sussure looks at language more from a sociological or sociolinguistic point of view than N. Chomsky since the latter deals with his issues psychologically or psycholinguistically.1.26.What is linguistic potential? What is actual linguistic behavior?M. A. K. Halliday made these two terms, or the potential-behavior distinction, in the 1960s, from a functional point of view. There is a wide range of things a speaker can do in his culture, and similarly there are many things he can say, for example, to many people, on manytopics. What he actually says (i.e. his ―actual linguistic behavior‖) on a certain occasion to a certain person is what he has chosen from many possible injustice items, each of which he could have said (linguistic potential).1.27.In what way do language, competence and linguistic potential agree? In what way do they differ? And their counterparts?Langue, competence and linguistic potential have some similar features, but they are innately different (see 1.25). Langue is a social product, and a set of speaking conventions; competence is a property or attribute of each ideal speaker’s mind; linguistic potential is all the linguistic corpus or repertoire available from which the speaker chooses items for the actual utterance situation. In other words, langue is invisible but reliable abstract system. Competence means ―knowing‖, and linguistic potential a set of possibilities for ―doing‖ or―performing actions‖. They are similar in that they all refer to the constant underlying the utterances that constitute what Saussure, Chomsky and Halliday respectively called parole, performance and actual linguistic behavior. Paole, performance and actual linguistic behavior enjoy more similarities than differences.1.28.What is phonetics?―Phonetics‖ is the science which studies the characteristics of human sound-making,especially those sounds used in speech, and provides methods fortheir description, classification and transcription (see Hu Zhuanglin etal., pp39-40), speech sounds may be studied in different ways, thus by three different branches of phonetics. (1) Articulatory phonetics; the branch of phonetics that examines the way in which a speech sound is produced to discover which vocal organs are involved and how they coordinate in the process. (2) Auditory phonetics, the branch ofphonetic research from the hearer’s point ofview, looking into the impression which a speech sound makes on the hearer as mediated by the ear, the auditory nerve and the brain. (3) Acoustic phonetics: the study of the physical properties of speech sounds, as transmitted between mouth and ear. Most phoneticians, however, are interested in articulator phonetics.1.29.How are the vocal organs formed?The vocal organs (see Figure1, Hu Zhuanglin et al., p41), or speech organs, are organs of更多精华请登陆考研1号网 【考研1号】专为英语基础一般及薄弱者打造the human body whose secondary use is in the production of speech sounds. The vocal organs can be considered as consisting of three parts; the initiator of the air-stream, the producer of voice and theresonating cavities.1.30.What is place of articulation?It refers to the place in the mouth where, for example, the obstruction occurs, resulting in the utterance of a consonant. Whatever sound is pronounced, at least some vocal organs will get involved. g.Lips, hard palate etc., so a consonant may be one of the following (1) bilabial: [p, b, m]; (2) labiodental: [f, v]; (3) dental: [,]; (4) alveolar: [t, d, l, n.s, z]; (5) retroflex; (6) palato-alveolar: [,]; (7) palatal: [j]; (8) velar [k, g,]; (9) uvular; (10) glottal: [h]. Some sounds involve the simultaneous use of two places of articulation. For example, the English [w] has both an approximation of the two lips and those two lips and that of the tongue and the soft palate, and may be termed ―labial-velar‖.1.31.What is the manner of articulation?The ―manner of articulation‖ literally means the way a sound is articulated. At a given place of articulation, the airstreams may be obstructed in various ways, resulting in various manners of articulation, are the following: (1) plosive: [p, b, t, d, k, g]; (2) nasal: [m, n,]; (3) trill; (4) tap or flap; (5) lateral: [l]; (6) fricative: [f, v, s, z]; (7) approximant: [w, j]; (8) affricate: [].1.32.How do phoneticians classify vowels?Phoneticians, in spite of the difficulty, group vowels in 5 types: (1) long and short vowels, e.g.,[i:,]; (4) rounded and unroundvowels,e.g.[,i]; (5) pure and gliding vowels, e.g.[I,].1.33.What is IPA? When did it come into being ?The IPA, abbreviation of ―International Phonetic Alphabet‖, is a compromise system making use of symbols of all sources, including diacritics indicating length, stress and intonation, indicating phoneticvariation. Ever since it was developed in 1888, IPA has undergone a number of revisions.1.34.What is narrow transcription and what is broad transcription?In handbook of phonetics, Henry Sweet made a distinction between―narrow‖ and ―broad‖ transcriptions, which he called ―Narrow Romic‖. The form er was meant to symbolize all the possible speech sounds, including even the most minute shades of pronunciation while Broad Romic or transcription was intended to indicate only those sounds capable of distinguishing one word from another in a given language.1.35.What is phonology? What is difference between phonetics and phonology? (1) ―Phonology‖ is the study of sound systems- the invention of distinctive speechsounds that occur in a language and the patterns wherein they fall. Minimal pair, phonemes, allophones, free variation, complementary distribution, etc., are all to be investigated by a phonologist.(2) Phonetics, as discussed in I.28, is the branch of linguistics studying the更多精华请登陆考研1号网 【考研1号】专为英语基础一般及薄弱者打造characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription. A phonetist is mainly interested in the physical properties of the speech sounds, whereas a phonologist studies what he believes are meaningful sounds related with their semantic features, morphological features, and the way they areconceived and printed in the depth of the mind phonological knowledge permits a speaker to produce sounds which from meaningful utterances, to recognize a foreign ―accent‖, to make up new words, to add the appropriate phonetic segments to from plurals and past tenses, to know what is and what is not a sound in one’s language.1.36.What is a phone? What is a phoneme? What is an allophone?(1) A ―phone‖ is a phonetic unit or segment. T he speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones. When we hear the following words pronounced:[pit], [tip], [spit], etc., the similar phones we have heard are [p] for one thing, and threedifferent[p]’s, readily making possible the ―narrow transcription or diacritics‖. Phones may and may not distinguish meaning. A ―phoneme‖ is a phonological unit; it is a unit that is of distinctive value. As an abstract unit, a phoneme is not any particular sound, but rather it is represented or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context. For example, the phoneme[p] is represented differently in [pit], [tip] and [spit].(2) The phones representing a phoneme are called its ―allophones‖,i. e., the different (i.e., phones) but do not make one word so phonetically different as to create a new word or a new meaning thereof. So the different[p]’s in the above words are theallophones of the same phoneme[p]. How a phoneme is represented by a phone, or which allophone is to be used, is determined by the phonetic context in which it occurs. But the choice of an allophone is not random.In most cases it is rule-governed; these rules are to be found out by a phonologist.1.37.What are minimal pairs?When two different phonetic forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the string , the two forms(i. e., word) are supposed to form a ―minimal pair‖, e.g.,―pill‖ and ―bill‖, ―pill‖ and ―till‖, ―till‖ and ―dill‖,―till‖ and ―kill‖, etc. All these words together constitute a minimal set. They are identical in form except for the initial consonants. There are many minimal pairs in English, which makes it relatively easy to know what are English phonemes. It is of great importance to find the minimal pairs when a phonologist is dealing with the sound system of an unknown language(see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp65-66).1.38.What is free variation?If two sounds occurring in the same environment do not contrast; namely, if the substitution of one for the other does not generate a new word form but merely a different pronunciation of the same word, the two sounds then are said to be in ―free variation‖. Theplosives, for example, may not be exploded when they occur before another plosive or a nasal (e. g., act, apt, good morning). The minute distinctions may, if necessary, be transcribed in diacritics. These unexploded and exploded plosives are in free variation.更多精华请登陆考研1号网 。
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第一章绪论1.1什么是语言语言的性质（1）语言具有系统性（systematic）（2）语言是一个符号系统语言符号是一种象征符号。
（3）语言符号的任意性（arbitrariness）与理据性（motivation）（4）口头性（5）语言是人类特有的（6）语言是用于交际的寒暄交谈（phatic communion）马林诺夫斯基提出的，认为语言除了用于表达思想、交流感情外，还可以用语言营造一种气氛或保持社会接触。
这种不用于表达思想、交流感情的语言使用，叫寒暄交谈。
语言的起源语言的分类1.4.1系属分类（Genetic Classification）历史比较语言学通过比较各种语言在不同时期语音、词性、曲折变化、语法结构上的相同特点来建立语言族系。
将语言分为语系（family）——语族（group）——语支（branch）——语言英语、德语属印欧语系日耳曼语族西日耳曼语支。
法语属印欧语系罗曼语族中罗曼语支。
汉语属汉藏语系汉语族。
1.4.2 类型分类（Typological Classifacation）根据词的结构类型，可分为（1）孤立语（isolating language）又叫词根语，一个词代表一个意思，缺少形态变化，语序和虚词是表达语法意义的主要手段。
汉语是典型的孤立语。
（2）粘着语（agglutinative language）简单词组成复合词，而词性和意义不变。
在词根前、中、后粘贴不同的词缀实现语法功能。
日语、韩语、土耳其语是典型的黏着语。
（3）屈折语（inflectional language）词形变化表语法关系的语言。
英语是不太典型的屈折语。
（4）多式综合语（polysynthesis language）把主、宾和其它语法项结合到动词词干上以构成一个单独的词，但表达一个句子的意思。
因纽特语是典型的多式综合语。
根据句子的语序类型，可分为SVO、SOV、OSV、OVS等语言的功能1.5.1 一般功能1.5.2元功能（metafunction）什么是语言学（linguistics）语言学中的重要区分（1）语言（langue）和言语（parole/langage）索绪尔对语言和言语作出了区分。
认为，语言是一个言语集团的所有成员共享的抽象的语言系统。
言语是语言在世纪使用中的实现。
语言是习惯、规则，而言语是对习惯、规则的具体运用。
语言是抽象的、稳定的，而言语是具体的、变化的。
索绪尔认为言语是纷繁多变的，容易引起混乱，无法穷尽的语言事实对于系统的语言研究是很困难的，语言学家应该从纷繁的言语中抽象出规则，并将其作为语言学研究的主题。
即作为科学的语言学研究的对象应该是语言，而不是言语。
（2）规定（prescriptive）和描写（descriptive）如果一种语言研究是描写和分析人们实际使用的语言，那就是描写性研究。
如果一种语言研究的目的是为人们如何正确使用语言制定规则，告诉人们应该怎么说，不应该怎么说，那就是规定性研究。
在语言学史上的传统语法时期，语言研究的规定性的。
现代语言学多为描写性研究。
语言研究是描写还是规定是区别现代语言学和传统语法的重要标准。
（3）共时（synchronic）和历时（diachronic）在某一个时间点上对语言进行描写时共时研究；在某一个时间段内对语言的描写则是历时研究。
共时是历时的基础，历时是共时的延伸。
只有在对一种语言的各种共时状况都成功研究之后，才能对其历史发展中的变化进行研究。
即索绪尔认为共时研究应限于历时研究。
（3）组合（syntagmatic）和聚合（associative）索绪尔认为，语言的能指和所指之间的关系时任意性的，所以很难单独解释每一个符号的意义，而必须从符号与符号之间的关系来了解符号的价值。
组合关系结构的要素之间的关系，是水平关系（链条关系）。
聚合关系时一个结构中某个特定位置上可以互相替换的各要素之间的关系，是垂直关系（选择关系）。
组合是个语言要素之间的排列，聚合是各语言要素之间的选择。
（4）语言能力（competence）和语言运用（performance）语言能力和语言运用是美国语言学家乔姆斯基（Chomsky）在《句法理论要略》中提出的一对概念。
语言能力指一个理想的语言使用者关于语言规则系统的潜在语言知识。
语言运用则指在语言交际中这种语言知识的实际使用。
一个语言使用者具有一套内化的语言规则，这套规则使他能够说出和理解无限多的句子并能够辨别句子是否合乎语法，是否具有歧义。
每一个理想的语言使用者的语言能力都是完美的、稳定的，具有普遍性。
而语言运用则是不完美的、易变的，具有偶然性。
索绪尔的语言和言语的区分与乔姆斯基的语言能力和语言运用之间的区别在于。
索绪尔的语言是一个社会的观点，认为语言是社会的产物，是适用于一个言语集团的一套约定俗称的习惯和规则。
乔姆斯基的语言能力是个人大脑的特征，是一个心理学的观点。
语言学的运用第二章语音和音系语音及语音学2.1.1什么是语音2.1.2语音学及其研究对象2.1.3语音学的分支学科发音（1）发音器官（2）音素（phone）音素是从音质的角度划分出来的最小语音单位。
音素分为元音音素和辅音音素。
国际音标（International Phonetic Alphabet——IPA）国际音标是1888年由国际语音学会创制的，用来记录一种未知语言语音的符号系统。
国际音标的原则是“一个音素，一个符号；一个符号，一个音素”。
国际音标标音有宽式标音（broad transcription）和严式标音（narrow transcription）两种。
宽式标音是音位标音，严式标音是音素标音。
英语的元音和辅音2.4.1元音2.4.2 辅音音位2.5.1什么是音位2.5.2归纳音位的方法和原则最小对立对（minimal pairs）区别性特征（distinctive features）序列限制规则（sequential constraints）2.8.1什么是序列限制规则2.8.2英语中的序列限制规则若词的开头是l或r，则其后必为一个元音。
除部分叹词外，每一个词至少要有一个元音。
三辅音序列通常为：S+清塞音+流音音节(syllable)2.9.1英语的基本音节结构节首（onset）+节峰（peak/nucleus）+节尾（coda）2.9.2英语的音节结构特点（1）一个音节必须要有一个节峰。
（2）节峰通常由元音充当。
最小的音节是单个元音。
（3）节首辅音和节尾辅音都可省略。
首辅音可出现1-3个，节尾辅音可出现1-4个。
（4）一个音节有节尾辅音，叫闭音节（closed syllable）。
（5）一个音节没有节尾辅音，叫开音节（open syllable）（6）英语中有闭音节词，也有开音节词，但充当开音节节峰的只能是长元音和双元音。
重音（stress）声调（tone）语调（intonation）第三章形态学和词汇形态学（morphology）是语法学的一个分支。
它研究词的内部结构和构词规则。
词和词类3.1.1什么是词词是“最小的自由单位”（Bloomfield），即词是语言中能够独立运用的最小单位。
3.1.2词类（word classes）（1）开放词类（open class）和封闭词类（closed class）封闭词类：介词（preposition）、限定词（determiners）、代词（pronouns）、连词（conjunctions）、情态动词（modal verbs）、基本动词（primary verbs）开放词类：名词（nouns）、实动词（lexical verbs）、形容词（adjectives）、副词（adverbs）（2）变化词（variable words）和非变化词（invariable words）根据词形是否呈现出有规律的变化，把词分为变化词和非变化词。
变化词：名（数）、代（性、数、格）、动（时体）、形（级）、副（级）非变化词：连、介、叹词等（3）词汇词（lexical words）和语法词（grammatical words）根据词的功能，把词分为表达词汇意义的词汇词和无词汇意义，只有语法功能的语法词。
词汇词：名、动、代、形、副、数语法词：连词、介词（4）实词（cotent words）和虚词（empty/function words）根据词所表达的意义，分为实词和虚词。
实词指那些具有词汇意义的词，虚词只表语法关系。
实词表达语言的主要内容，虚词则从语法角度把它们连接起来。
实词即词汇词，虚词即语法词。
形态（morpheme）3.2.1词素/语素语素是语言中最小的音义结合单位（不能再拆分）。
一个语素可能是一个完整的词，也可能使一个词缀（affix）。
3.2.2 语素变体（allomorphs）同一语素在不同的构词环境中会有不同的形式，这些不同的形式就是语素变体。
语素变体可分为：（1）语音条件变体：变体的选择由基础词的语音形式决定。
如：英语中的复数的语素变体有[s] （pests）、[z] （dogs）、[iz] （houses），动词过去式的变体有[t]（stopped）、[d] （played）、[id] （wanted）（2）语素条件变体：变体的选择由基础词的词汇形式决定。
如：英语中的不规则复数、不规则的动词3.2.2 语素类型（1）自由语素（free morpheme）和粘着语素（bound morpheme）根据语素是否可以独立使用，可以分为自由语素和黏着语素。
·自由语素是可以独立成词的语素。
如：teach·粘着语素即词缀（affix），通常要附着在其他语素上。
有前缀（prefix），如：un-、in-、dis-；中缀（inffixes），如men、mice、 feet；后缀（suffixes），如：-er、-ed等。
（2）屈折语素（inflectional morpheme）和派生语素（derivative morpheme）粘着语素可根据是否构成新词分为屈折语素和派生语素。
屈折语素：对一个已有的词汇项提供更多的语法信息。
英语中多为后缀，如-s、-ed派生语素：指完全创造一个新词的语素。
英语中的前缀和部分后缀，如-er、dis-屈折与构词3.3.1屈折（inflection）指区别统一词汇单位不同语法形式的任何形式或形式改变。
屈折是语法关系的标志，这个关系是通过添加词缀实现的。
添加对象往往是名、动、代、形等实词。
词缀只表示数量、人称、体、格、语气、时态等语法关系。
不改变被添加成分的语法范畴。
3.3.2 构词法（word-formation）词位（lexeme）习语（idioms）和谚语（proverbs）第四章句法句法是一个由一套数量有限的抽象规则组成的系统。