2012年2月21日----香港中文大学汉语语言学笔试试题

2011-12 CUHK Recruitment Test

MA in Linguistics

MA in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition

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Part One Answer all the questions in this section.

(1) General questions

Circle all the answers which you consider to be correct.

1. Which of the following statements do you think is accurate about the study of

Linguistics?

a. Linguistics studies the nature of language.

b. Linguistics is the learning of languages.

c. Linguistics studies how different languages relate to and inform each other and

why.

d. Linguistics studies how language changes over time, how its speakers come to

learn it, and how speakers affect its development.

e.Linguistics studies humans’ cognitive abilities, perception, and o rgans of

speech production.

2. Which of the following statements about language do you consider will be in

accord with linguistic theory?

a. Only highly advanced and sophisticated cultures have complex language.

b. Children come to speak a language by imitation and memorization.

c. Languages don’t change as long as they are taught properly.

d. The sound structure of words follows rules; it is not based on their meaning.

e. Language is human instinct; it is a human cognitive ability.

3. Which of the following statements about Chinese is accurate?

a.Chinese is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family.

b.Chinese is largely an analytic language.

c.Chinese makes use of inflections.

d.Chinese has many regional varieties knows as dialects.

e.Chinese is a tonal language.

(2) Phonology (Turkish)

1. Are [n] and [m] contrastive in Turkish? Please explain your answer with examples.

2. In which environment does [ŋ] occur? Does [ŋ] contrast with [n] or [m]? Explain

your answer with examples.

3. What phonological process affects the distribution of [ŋ]?

(3) Morphology (Tagalog)

hanap look for sulat write

hinanap was looked for sinulat was written

humahanap is looking for sumusulat is writing

hinahanap is being looked for sinusulat is being written

basag break tawag call

binasag was broken tinawag was called

bumabasag is breaking tumatawag is calling

binabasag is being broken tinatawag is being called

1.Identify all the morphemes;

and exemplify all the morphological processes.