英语语言学试卷

英语语言学

注意事项：1.在试卷的标封处填写专业、年级、姓名和学号。

2.考试时间共100分。

ⅠDefine the following terms. (40分, 10 * 4)

1.general linguistics

2.phone

3.assimilation rule

4.morpheme

pound words

6.syntax

7.matrix clause

8.naming theory

9.sense

10.polysemy

Ⅱ Fill in the blanks.(30分, 10 * 3)

1 Linguistics is the scientific study of _______________ .

2．In professional usage, the __________________ is a scholar who studies Language objectively, observing it scientifically, recording the facts of Language, and generalizing from them.

3．___________________ deals with how Language is acquired, understood and produced.

4．____________________ is concerned with the diversity of Language as it relates to various sociological factors.

5．Language is a purely human and ______________ method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols.

6．Chomsky’s theory of generative grammar revolutionized work in linguistics in 1957, with the publication of his book ____________ .

7．If the glottis is wide open, the air passes freely through the cords, but if it is narrowed, the presence of the air causes the cords to vibrate, producing __________________ sounds.

8．The sounds f and v are the result of air escaping under friction between the lower lips and upper __________________ .

9．Vowels produced between the positions of a front vowel and a back vowel are called ____________________ vowel.

10．Those who are interested in all possible variations of sound are

called____________________ .

Ⅲ. Answer the following questions in every detail (30分, 2 * 15)

1.How do you interpret the definition of linguistics?

2.Divide the following words into their separate morphemes by placing a “+” between

each morpheme and the next:

a.microfile

b.bedraggled

c.announcement

d.predigestion

e.telecommunication

f.forefather

g.psychophysics

h.mechanist

i.undesirability

j.multimedia