语言学选择题(附答案)

语言学

1.__A__ is the study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

A. Phonology

B. Lexicography

C. Lexicology

D. Morphology

2. __C__ is defined as the scientific study of language, studying language in general.

A. Psycholinguistics

B. Neurolinguistics

C. Linguistics

D. Phonetics

3. Which of the linguistic items listed below is best described as the smallest unit of meaning? B

A. the word

B. the morpheme

C. the phoneme

D. the clause

4. A prefix is an affix which appears __B__.

A. after the stem

B. before the stem

C. in the middle of the stem

D. below the stem

5. Which of the following is true? __C__

A. Phonetics is the study of pronunciation.

B. Phonetics is the scientific study of the movement of sound waves.

C. Phonetics is the scientific study of the sounds of language.

D. Phonetics is the scientific study of the organs of speech.

6. ―What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet

So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,‖ (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2, 43~5)

To what characteristic of language dose Shakespeare refer? __D__

A. Creativity

B. Productivity

C. Duality

D. Arbitrariness

7. Language, as a system, consists of two sets of structures or two levels, which is known as __A__, one of a design features of human language.

A. Duality

B. Displacement

C. Productivity

D. Arbitrariness

8. The different members of a phoneme, sounds which are phonetically different but do not make one word different from another in meaning, are __D__.

A. phonemes

B. phones

C. sounds

D. allophones

9. What is complementary distribution? __A__

A. Different places of occurrence of allophones within a word.

B. When a phone can only occur at the end of a word.

C. When an allophone occurs at the beginning of a word.

D. Contrastive distribution of allophones

10. __D__ deals with the analysis and creation of words, idioms and collocations.

A. Morpheme

B. V ocabulary

C. Root

D. Lexicon

1. Cold and hot are called __B__ antonyms.

A. complementary

B. gradable

C. reversal

D. converse

2. ―I regret that I can’t help you.‖ This is an example of __C__.

A. representatives

B. directives

C. expressives

D. commissives

3. What is the duality of the language? __D__

A. Letters and sounds

B. Sounds and symbols

C. Symbols and meaning

D. sounds and meaning

4. ―I bought some roses‖ __A__ ―I bought some flowers‖.

A. entails

B. presupposes

C. is inconsistent with

D. is synonymous with

5. Of the following linguists, __C__ should be grouped into Prague School.

A. Bloomfield

B. Saussure

C. Jakobson

D. Firth

6. Damage in and around the angular gyrus of the parietal lobe often causes the impairment of reading and writing

ability, which is often referred to as acquired __C__.

A. diglossia

B. aphasia

C. dyslexia

D. dysgraphia

7. __A__ A Dictionary of the English Language established a uniform standard for the spelling and word use.

A. Samuel Johnson’s

B. Bishop Lowth’s

C. Firth’s

D. Samuel John’s

8. What is phonology? __B__

A. The study of how speech sounds are made, transmitted and received

B. The study of the function, behavior and organization of speech sounds as linguistic items.

C. The study of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

D. The study of all possible speech sounds.

9. The morpheme ―cast‖ in the common word ―telecast‖ is a (n) __D__.

A. bound morpheme

B. bound form

C. inflectional morpheme

D. free morpheme

10. A phoneme is __D__.

A. a set of different realization of a phone

B. a set of contrastive allophones in free variation

C. a set of phones in complementary distribution

D. a set of phonetically similar noncontrastive phones

1. Firstly, to which of these language groups dose English belong? __A__

A. Germanic

B. Slavonic

C. romance

D. Baltic

2. What is defined as ―the study of sentence structure‖? __D__

A. Morphology

B. Semantics

C. Phonology

D. Syntax

3. According to Krashen, __D__ refers to the gradual and subconscious development of ability in the first language

by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.

A. learning

B. competence

C. performance

D. acquisition