语言学入门

内蒙古广播电视大学2015-2016学年度第一学期《语言学入门》期末试题

1. 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. presupposes8）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.

A. L. Bloomfield

B. N. Chomsky

C. F. Saussure

D. M. A. K. Halliday

13）Which of the following is a correct description of reference？

A. a relationship between an expression and other expressions which have the same meaning

B. the set of all objects which can potentially be referred to by an expression

C. a relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an utterance to pick out that object

D. an intra-linguistic relationship between lexical items

14）What is function of the sentence “How do you do’？

A. Directive

B. Phatic

C. Informative

D. Evocative

15）In the following sounds，________is a central vowel.

A. /?/

B. /u/

C. /æ/

D. /з/

16）Which of the following languages has the syllabic writing system？

A. Chinese

B. Japanese

C. English

D. French

17）Which description of the meaning components of the word “father” is right？

A. [+human，+adult，-male]

B. [+human，-adult，+male]

C. [–human，+adult，-male]

D. [+human，+adult，+male]

18）Once the notion of ________ was taken into consideration，semantics spilled into pragmatics.

A. meaning

B. context

C. form

D. content

19）Black English has a number of distinctive features in its phonological，morphological and syntactic systems which are _______.

A. rule-governed

B. systematic

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