英语语言学考试十套题

英语语言学试题（1）

11、Chomsky defines "competence" as the ideal user's k of the rules of his language.

12、The four sounds /p/,/b/,/m/ and /w/have one feature in common, i.e, they are all b .

13、M is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.

14、A s is a structurally independent unit that usually comprises a number of words to form a completestatement, question or command.

15、Synonyms that are mutually substitutable under allcircumstances are called c synonyms.

16、The illocutionary point of r is to commit the speaker to

something's being the case, to the truth of what has been said.

17、Words are created outright to fit some purpose. Such a method of enlarging the vocabulary is known as word

c .

18、Wherever the standard language can use a contraction (he+is→he's), Black English can d the form of "be".

19、The basic essentials of the first language are acquired in the short period from about age two to puberty, which is called the c period for first language acquisition.

20、As a type of linguistic system in 12 learning, i is a product of L2 training, mother tongue intereference, overgeneralization of the target language rules, and learning and communicative strategies of the learner.

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()21、In modern linguistic studies, the written form of language is given more emphasis than the spoken form for a number of reasons.

()22、Voicing is a phonological feature that distinguishes meaning in both

Chinese and English.

()23、The compound word "bookstore" is the place where books are sold. This

indicates that the meaning of a compound is the sum total of the meanings

of its components.

()24、Syntactic categories refer to sentences (S) and clauses (C) only.

()25、Dialectal synonyms can often be found in different regional dialects

such as British English and American English but cannot be found within

the variety itself, for example, within British English or American

English.

()26、Only when a maxim under Cooperative Principle is blatantly violated

and the hearer knows that it is being violated do conversational

implicatures arise.

()27、The territory in which the Indo-European languages are mainly spoken

today also includes languages that are not Indo-European.

()28、In most bilingual communities, two languages have the same in speech

situations known as domains.

()29、According to the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,

speakers' perceptions determine language and pattern their way of life.

()30、All normal children have equal ability to acquire their first

language.

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11.A sentence is a structurally independent unit that usually comprises a number of w________ to form a complete statement,q________or command.

12.In sociolinguistic studies,speakers are treated as members of s__g________.

13.Utterance is based on ________ ________ ;it is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication,or simply in a context.

14.To many people,a linguist is the same as a ________,one who can speak several languages fluently.

15.Consonant sounds can be either v ________or v__,while all vowel sounds are v________.

16.All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.( )

17.Tense and reference are two terms often encountered in the study of meaning.( )

18.Linguistics is the course of language.( )

19.The part of a sentence which compriese comprises an infinite verb or a verb phrase is grammatically called predicate.( )

20.Historical linguistics equals to the study of synchronic study.( )

21.The term dialect,as a technical term in linguistics,carries value judgement and not simply refers to a distinct form of language.( )

22.Morphology is translated as 形态学。( )