英语语言学考研试题 精品考研试题四

江苏大学2004年考研试题

I. Multiple choice (10%)

1. ____________ has been widely accepted as the forefather of modern linguistics.

a. Chomsky

b. Saussure

c. Bloomfield

d. John Lyons

2. The minimal independent unit of language is _________.

a. phoneme

b. word

c. morpheme

d. affix

3. ____________ is not an English consonant.

a. Labio-dental plosive

b. Alveolar nasal

c. velar stop

d. Dental fricative

4. __________ is not a distinctive feature in English phonology.

a. Nasality

b. Voicing

c. Aspiration

d. rounding

5. The choice of an allophone in a given phonetic context is ______.

a. random

b. predictable

c. variable

d. independent

6. Site and sight are ____________.

a. orthography

b. homography

c. homophony

d. hyponymy

7. Kodak is a(n) ____________.

a. coinage

b. blending

c. acronym

d. clipping

8. ____________ is a phenomenon that in some speech communities two varieties of a language exist sides by side, with each having a different role to play.

a. Bilingualism

b. Diglossia

c. Pidgin

d. Creole

9. The Indirect Speech Act was developed by __________.

a. John Austin

b. Levinson

c. John Lyons

d. John Searl

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10. The totality of linguistic varieties possessed by an individual constitutes his _________.

a. register

b. linguistic repertoire

c. idiolect

d. dialect

II. Define the following terms(30%)

1. arbitrariness

2. evocative

3. competence

4. manners of articulation

5. distinctive features

6. stem

7. idiom

8. endocentric

9. hyponymy 10. sound writing 11. acronym 12. ideolect

language 14. illocutionary act authority

III. Justify the following claims or statements. (20%)

1 The violation of one or more of the conversational maxims (of the CP Principle) can, when the listener fully understands the speaker, create conversational implicature, a humor sometimes.

2 Duality and cultural transmission are two most important design features of human language.

3. Chomsky's 'competence' and 'performance' are similar in meaning to Saussure's 'langue' and 'parole'.

IV. Make your critical remarks on the following: (20％):

1 It's a bit cold in here.

2 John married Fred's sister

3 He drank another glass of beer

4 The lecturer continued speaking.

5 Peter has stopped beating his wife

V. Give one concept to cover the following statement (6%)

1) Human language can be used to refer to real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future. It can even be used to talk about language itself.

2) A competent native speaker is able to utter any grammatical sentence that he has never said before or understand any that he has never heard before.

3) Chomsky believes that anyone who knows a language has internalized a set of rules about the sequences permitted in his language.

4) Chomsky is much interested in the study of the similarities between languages rather than their differences.