温州大学研究生入学考研真题【2015】820英语语言学试题A

2015年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题（A卷）

科目代码及名称:820英语语言学适用专业：英语语言文学01、03方向考生（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）

I.Discriminate the following pairs of terms.(25points)

1.psycholinguistics vs.cognitive linguistics;

2.error vs.mistake;

petence vs. communicative competence;

4.synchronic vs.diachronic;

5.phonetics vs.phonology.

II.Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false.If it is true, write A on the answer sheet;if it is false,write B on it.(20points)

1.The study of language in use is called pragmatics.

2.Chomsky has been called father of modern linguistics.

3.The idea that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the constituent words and the way they are combined is usually known as the principle of compositionality.

4.There are three main subtypes of antonymy:gradable antonymy,converse antonymy,and relational antonymy.

5.We can divide a syllable into two parts,the RHYME(or RIME)and the ONSET.The vowel within the rhyme is the NUCLEUS,with the consonant(s)after it termed the CODA.

6.The study of how words are combined to form sentences is called syntax.

7.The sound[s]is shared by“maps”and“keeps”as a common morpheme.

8.When we use a simple set of symbols in our transcription,it is called a NARROW TRANSCRIPTION.

9.The change of the negative prefix“in-”to“im-”when preceding/p/is through a process called assimilation.

10.The lower terms for a superordinate are class members.

11.Garden path sentences are sentences that are initially interpreted with a different structure than they actually have.

12.A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which a derivational affix can be added.

13.The word“interpersonal”consists of three morphemes.

14.Nouns,adverbs,and adjectives belong to function words.

15.Polymorphemic words which consist wholly of free morphemes are called compounds.

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ngue is defined by Saussure as the concrete utterances of a speaker.

17.Positional relation,or word order,refers to the sequential arrangement of words in a language.

18.All the words in a language can be used to refer to,but only some have senses.

19.Sense is regarded as a kind of intralinguistic relationship.

20.The word“baby-sit”is an exocentric compound.

III.Answer the following questions.(30points)

1.How do you comment on Paul Herbert Grice’s CP(COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE)?

2.How do you interpret REGISTER?

IV.Analysis.(25points)

1.Write down the phonetic symbol according to each of the following descriptions,and

then give an English word that contains this sound.(10points)

Phonetic description phonetic symbol English word

(1)bilabial nasal[]

(2)voiced postalveolar affricate[]

(3)voiceless velar stop[]

(4)mid central unrounded lax vowel[]

(5)back high rounded tense vowel[]

2.Disambiguate the given two constructions below using IC(immediate constituent) analysis.Tree diagrams are required.(10points)

(1)John loves old towns and villages.

(2)The children watched the firework from the hill.

3.Write out the semantic components of each word.(5points)

(1)raise;(2)wife

V.Write a short essay in about500words on either of the two topics below. (50points)

1.In Chinese,expressions for moving from one city to another by way of yet another city must take the form‘from X pass-through Y to Z’,and cannot be expressed as‘from X to Z pass-through Y’.How would you characterize the form-meaning relationship exhibited by these Chinese expressions?

2.Is it necessary to distinguish between semantics and pragmatics?Please argue for your view.

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