英语的语言学试题库

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Ⅰ.Directions：Read each of the following statements carefully，Decide which of the four choices completes the statement and put

the letter A,B,C or D in the brackets.

1.There are ( )main areas of phonetic study. A.2

B.3

C.4

D.5 ANSWER:B

2.The term( )linguistics may be defined as a way of referring

to the approach which studies language change over various periods

of time and at various historical stages.

A.synchronic

B.diachronic

parative

D.historical comparative ANSWER:B

3.Foreign language learning always contain ( )

A language historical process learning B.input and language learning C inter language in language learning D.grammar and language learning ANSWER:BCD

4.The way in which people address each other depends on their age, sex, social

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last name, ( )and kin term.

A title+ first name

B title+ title

C title alone

D first name+ last name+ title

ANSWER:C

5.Features of the language in fictions are: ( )

A stress and metrical patterning

B speech and thought

presentation C prose style D analysis of

the text ANSWER:BC

6. Which of the following best states the behaviorist view of child

language acquisition? ( )

A Language acquisition is a process of habit formation

B Language acquisition is the species-specific property of human

beings C Children are born with an innate ability to acquire

language

D Humans are equipped with the neural prerequisites for language

and language use ANSWER:A

7.Words can be identified in terms of ( )

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精彩文档A a minimum free form B stability

C relative uninterruptibility

D variable or not

ANSWER:ABC

8.Which is not the features of language? ( ) A arbitrariness

B duality

C creativity

D replacement

ANSWER:D

9.Approachers to syntax can be: ( )

A the traditional approach

B the structural approach C

the functional approach D the generative approach

ANSWER:ABCD

10.Predication analysis is a way to analyze( )meaning. A phoneme

B word

C phrase

D sentence ANSWER:D

11.Lexical change cannot be a result of ( ) A phonological

change B semantic change C analogical change D orthographic change ANSWER:C

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12.The words that contain only one morpheme are called ( ) A

bound morphemes B roots C free morphemes D affixes

ANSWER:B

13.( ) is the study of language in relation to the mind.

A Psycholinguistics

B Sociolinguistics

C Linguistics D

Semantics ANSWER:A

14.Which belongs to the main branches of linguistics? ( )

A phonetics

B metalingy

C morphology

D syntax

ANSWER:ACD

15.Which doesn't belong to the main branches of linguistics?

( ) A phonetics B morphology C metalingy D