语言学试题

1. Articulatory Phonetics studies the physical properties of speech sounds. F

2. Sense and reference are two different notions of semantics, and they are related to each other. T

3. Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences. F

4. Syntax is different from morphology in that the former not only studies the morphemes, but also the combination of morphemes into words and words into sentences. T

5. Number and gender are categories of noun and pronoun F

6. IC analysis can be used to analyze all kinds of ambiguous structures.F

7. Speech act theory was originated with the British philosopher John Searle. F

8. The meaning of an utterance is de-contextualized; therefore stable utterances always take the form of complete sentences. F

9. Pragmatics treats the meaning of language as something intrinsic and inherent. F

10. Voicing is a phonological feature that distinguishes meaning in both Chinese and English. T

11. If two phonetically similar sounds occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning, they are said to be in complementary distribution. F

12. A phone is a phonetic unit that distinguishes meaning. F

13. English is a tone language while Chinese is not. F

14. In linguistics. Phonology does not concern with meaning. F

15. Morphology studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed. T

16. Words are the smallest meaningful units of language. F

17. Just as a phoneme is the basic unit in the study of phonology, so is a morpheme the basic unit in the study of morphology.T

18. The smallest meaningful units that can be used freely all by themselves are free morphemes. T

19. Bound morphemes include two types: roots and affixes. F

20. Inflectional morphemes manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree, and case. T

1. A sentence is formed by phonological rules, ______ rules, syntactic rules and semantic rules.

A.Morphological B minimal C pragmatic D phonological

2. A ________ is a structurally independent unit that usually comprises a number of words to

form a complete statement, question or command.

A.Structure B sentence C paragraph D text

3.There are __ nasals in English.

A. one

B. two

C. three

D. four

4. The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _______.

A. lexical

B. morphemic

C. grammatical

D. semantic

5. The plural affix in the word tables is a (n) _______.

A. inflectional suffix

B. derivational suffix

C. free morpheme

D. root

6. Which of the following branch of linguistics takes the inner structure of word as its main object of study?

A. Phonetics.

B. Semantics.

C. Morphology.

D. Sociolinguistics.

7. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called ________.

A. hyponymy

B. synonymy

C. polysemy

D. homonymy

8. The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _______.