[语言学]语言学教程 测试题及答案

1.判断题:We were all born with the ability to acquire language, which means the details of any language system can be genetically

transmitted.

正确错误参考答案:错误

2.单选题:__________ deals with language application to other fields, particularly education.

A. Linguistic theory

B. Practical linguistics

C. Comparative linguistics

D. Applied linguistics

参考答案:D

3.单选题:Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human __________

A. contact

B. communication

C. relation

D. community

参考答案:B

4.判断题:Only human beings are able to communicate.

正确错误

参考答案:错误

5.填空题:Saussure put forward two important concepts. _____refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all members of a speech community.

参考答案:langue

6.判断题:The conventional nature of language is illustrated by a famous quotation from Shakespear’s play Romeo and Juliet: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.

正确错误

参考答案:正确

7.填空题:Linguistic potential is similar to Saussure’s langue and Chomsky’s_______

参考答案:competence

8.判断题:Speech and writing came into being at much the same time in human history.

正确错误

参考答案:错误

9.填空题:The description of a language as it changes through time is a _______ study.

参考答案:diachronic

10.填空题:Linguistics is the______ study of language.

参考答案:scientific

11.填空题:One general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of _______ over writing. 参考答案:speech

12.填空题:Modern linguistics is _______ in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rather than lay down some rules for people to observe.

参考答案:descriptive

13.单选题:Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?

A. tree

B. typewriter

C. crash

D. bang

参考答案:A

14.判断题: F. de Saussure, who made the distinction between langue and parole in the early 20th century, was a French linguist.

正确错误

参考答案:错误

15.单选题:__________ refers to the actual realization of the ideal language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language in utterances.

A. Performance

B. Competence

C. Langue

D. Parole

参考答案:A

16.判断题:Language is written because writing is the primary medium for all languages.

正确错误

参考答案:错误

17.单选题:Which of the following property of language enables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, due to this feature of language, speakers of a language are free to talk about anything in any situation?

A. Transferability

B. Duality