语言学试卷

语言学期中测试

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I: Multiple Choice

第一章语言与语言学

1. Linguistics can be defined as the scientific study of ___.

A. A particular language

B. The system of a particular language

D. The English language C. Human languages in general

William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet said What's in a name That which we

call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. This illustrates ___.

A. the arbitrary nature of language

B. the big difference between human language and animal communication

C. the creative nature of language

D. the universality of language

3. Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language

D.

C. Symbolic

B. Dual.

A. Productive.

Arbitrary

4. Who put forward the distinction between langue and parole

Charles

A. Halliday D.

B. Ferdinand de Saussure

C. Noam Chomsky

Hockett5. One of the properties of language is that a language user can understand and produce sentences

he/she has never heard before. This property of language is called ___.D.

C. displacement

A. duality

B. arbitrary

Productivity

6. The ____ function refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing

a favorable atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas.

D.

B. directive A. phatic

C. evocative

performative

7. Modern linguistics is the scientific study of language. Consequently, modern linguistics emphasizes the importance of language data collected from ___.B. writing by the famous writers A. newspapers and magazines

C. the language people actually speak

D. radio broadcasts

learning

and teaching through next the to generation one from on passed is Language 8.

rather than by instinct. This property of language is called ___.

A. interchangeability

B. cultural transmission

D. arbitrariness C. productivity

a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be ___.D. analytic

B. linguistic

C. prescriptive

A. Descriptive

linguistic10. Which of the following statements is NOT true B. Animals also have language. A. Language is a system.

C. Language is symbolic.

D. Language is arbitrary.11. According to Noam Chomsky, which of the following is seen as the ideal user's

internalized knowledge of his language

A. Competence.

B. Parole.

C. Performance

D. Langue

12. Our linguistic ability is a ___ gift of the species' gene program.

B. physical

D. chemical C. scientific A. biological

13. The description of a language at some point in time is a ___ study.

B. prescriptive

D. synchronic A. diachronic

C. descriptive

14. One of the properties of language is that there is no logical connection between meaning and sounds. This property of language is ___.

A. duality D.

C. displacement B. productivity

arbitrarinesssituations the immediate from can 15. Language be used to refer to contexts removed

of the speaker. This is what we mean by ___.D.

A. duality

B. productivity

C. displacement

arbitrariness

16. Cultural transmission is one of the ____features of language.

A. suprasegmental

B. pragmatic

C. distinctive

D. design

actually the analyze language people to As 17. modern linguistics aims describe and use, and not lay down rules for correct linguistic behavior, it is said to be

___.D.

A. descriptive C. prescriptive

B. sociolinguistic