最新杨忠--语言学概论-课后综合测试题及中文版答案

综合测试题（一）

I. Indicate the following statements true or false. Put T for true and F for false in the brackets：(10 points) ：

() 1. General linguistics is based on the view that language as a system, which is composed of three aspects: sound, structure and meaning.

() 2. The total number of words stored in the brain is called morphology.

() 3. The sentence “The woman can’t bear children” is structurally ambiguous.

() 4. Categorization refers to the process by which people use language to classify the world around and inside them.

() 5. Metaphors can create similarities between the target domain and the source domain.

() 6. According to referential content, deixis can be put into person deixis, place deixis, time deixis and discourse deixis.

() 7. Phrase structure rules are rules that specify the constituents of syntactic categories.

() 8. Modality can be categorized into probability and Usuality.

() 9. Age is not the learner factor that has been an issue in second language acquisition research. ()10. Register, as a variety of language in use, is analyzed on three dimensions: field, mode and tenor.

II. Multiple choice: (10 points)

1. ____________ is the first and foremost striking feature of human language.

A. creativity

B. arbitrariness

C. displacement

D. interchangeability

2. Syntactically, Japanese is ____________ language.

A. analytic

B. isolating

C. synthetic

D. agglutinating

3. The general roles language plays are termed

A. metalanguages

B. metafunctions

C. metadiscourses

D. metagrammar

4. ____________ is a process that creates a new word by dropping a real or supposed suffix.

A. Blending

B. Eponyms

C. Backformation

D. Clipping

5. The smallest meaningful unit of language is called a ___________.

A. suffix

B. prefix

C. morpheme

D. morph

6. __________ theories are those that attempt to explain acquisition on the basis of assuming an innate biological endowment that makes learning possible.

A. Environmentalist

B. functionalist

C. nativist

D. both a and b

7. Words and phrases like now, yesterday, next week, in three day, etC. are called __________.

A. person deixis

B. time deixis

C. place deixis

D. discourse deixis

8. Every syllable has a(n) __________, which is usually a vowel.

A. nucleus

B. onset

C. code

D. rhyme

9. ___________ is defined as the study of meaning.

A. linguistics

B. semantics

C. morphology

D. pragmatics

10. A ___________ is a mixed language which has become the mother tongue of a speech community.

A. pidgin

B. creole

C. Esperanto

D. natural language

III. Match the terms in column A with the phrases in column B and put a, b…j into brackets: (10