语言学教程 选择题

选择题

Chapter1

1.Which of the following statement is NOT true?

A. Language is a means of vocal communication.

B. Language is not instrumental.

C. Language is social and conventional.

【答案】B

1. When language is used to get information from others, it serves an function.

A. informative

B. directive

C. interrogative

【答案】C

2. The most important sociological use of language is the function, by which people establish and maintain their status in a society.

a. performative

b. interpersonal

c. phatic

d. metalingual

【答案】b

1. deals with the way in which speech sounds are produced.

a. Acoustic phonetics

b. Articulatory phonetics

c. Segmental phonology

d. Suprasegmental phonology

【答案】b

2. Which of the following is a main branch of linguistics?

A. Macrolinguistics.

B. Psycholinguistics.

C. Sociolinguistics

【答案】A

3. The study of physical properties of the sounds produced in speech is closely connected with .

A. articulatory phonetics

B. acoustic phonetics

C. auditory phonetics

【答案】B

1. Which of the following does not belong to the computational linguistics?

a) machine translation

b) corpus linguistics

c) speech recognition

d) empirical study

【答案】d

1. Saussure took a(n) view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a point of view.

A. sociological...psychological

B. psychological...sociological

C. applied...pragmatic

D. semantic...linguistic

【答案】A

2. According to F. de Saussure, refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.

A. parole

B. performance

C. langue

D. Language

【答案】C

Chapter2

1. Of the consonants /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /m/, /z/ and /g/, which has the features of voiceless and velar?

A. /k/

B. /p/

C. /g/

D. /t/

【答案】A

2. The vowel is a low back vowel.

a. /i:/

b. /u/

c. /æ/

d. /a:/

【答案】d

3. Point out which item does not fall under the same category as the rest, and explain the reason in ONE sentence.

A. /f/

B. /z/

C. /v/

D. /k/ [Focus on manner of articulation]

【答案】D (Reason: A, B and C are fricatives, but D is a plosive.)

Chapter3

1. Which two terms can best describe the following pairs of words: table—tables, day + break—daybreak.

A. inflection and compound

B. compound and derivation

C. inflection and derivation

【答案】A

2. Compound words consist of morphemes.

A. bound

B. free

C. both bound and free

【答案】B

1. V ocabulary change in language can include all except .

a) addition of new words

b) simplification of word forms

c) loss of words

d) changes of word meaning

【答案】d

2. Words like brunch, guesstimate are examples of .

a. acronyms

b. contractions

c. blends

d. cohyponyms

【答案】c

3. The word UN is formed in the way of .

A. acronymy

B. clipping

C. initialism

D. blending

【答案】C

4. Language has been changing, but such changes are not so obvious at all linguistic aspects except that of .

a. phonology

b. lexicon

c. syntax

d. semantics

【答案】b

5. “Wife”, which used to refer to any woman, stands for “a married woman”in modern English. This phenomenon is known as .