英语专业本科语言学A卷

重庆三峡学院至学年度第期英语语言学课程考试试题册A卷

试题使用对象：外国语学院（系）级专业

命题人：考试用时 120 分钟答题方式采用：闭卷

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2、考生应在答题纸上答题，在此卷上答题作废。

I. Define the following linguistic terms: (2%×10=20%)

1) duality 2) displacement 3) phonology

4) morphology 5) concord 6) endocentric construction

7) hyponymy 8) pragmatics 9) illocutionary force

10)error analysis

II. Translation (0.5%×20=10% )

Translate the following terms into Chinese: (0.5%×10=5% )

1) affricate 2)distinctive feature 3) parole 4) generative grammar

5) bilingualism 6) felicity condition 7) design feature 8) denotation 9) labiodental 10) linguistic relativity Translate the following terms into English: (0.5%×10=5%)

11)人际功能12) 真值条件13)女性语域14)音节划分 15) 结构主义

16) 社会语言学17) 论元18) 单元音 19)衔接 20) 对比分析

III. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the corresponding letter A, B, C or

D on the answer sheet. (1%×20=20%)

1). language is a system of arbitrary _________ symbols used for human communication.

A. cultural

B. conventional

C. decoded

D. vocal

2). A word with several meanings is called _________.

A. an abnormal word

B. a polysemous word

C. a synonymous word

D. none of the above

3). There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed” in the word “learned” is known as a(n) __________.

A. derivational morpheme

B. free morpheme

C. inflectional morpheme

D. free form

4). The syntactic rules of any language are ________ in number.

A. large

B. small

C. finite

D. infinite

5). “I picked some tulips.” __________ “I picked some flowers.”.

A. entails

B. presupposes

C. is inconsistent with

D. is synonymous with

6). Y's utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maxim of

__________.

X: Who was that you were with last night?

Y: Did you know that you were wearing odd socks?

A. quality

B. quantity

C. relation

D. manner

7) “Can I borrow your bike?” _____ “You have a bike.”

A. is synonymous with

B. is inconsistent with

C. entails

D. presupposes

8) The study of language at one point of time is a _______ study.

A. synchronic

B. historic

C. diachronic

D. descriptive

9) Which of the following is a typical tone language?

A. English

B. Chinese

C. French

D. All of the above

10) Two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in ___________.

A. phonemic contrast

B. complementary distribution

C. minimal pair

D. none of the above

11) In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of _________.

A. palatal

B. alveolar

C. bilabial

D. dental

12) Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by _______ in 1957.