英语语言学概论期末考试样卷

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I．Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (10 points, 1 point each)

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

2.Adjectives belong to open class words.

3.John Austin made the distinction between a constative and a performative.

4.What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning the context of use is considered.

5.English is a typical intonation language.

6.Phones in complementary distribution should be assigned to the same phoneme.

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

8.There are words of more or less the same meaning used in different regional dialects.

9.Transformations are the rules which can change the meaning of sentence.

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

II. Fill in the following blanks. (10 points, 1 point each)

1.The word “and”is a c____________ conjunction.

2.Linguistic c__________ is a native speaker's linguistic knowledge of his language.

3.The relationship between the sound and the meaning of a word is a________.

4.A m________ is the smallest linguistic unit that carries meaning.

5.A sentence is formed by phonological rules, m______ rules, syntactic rules and semantic rules.

6.The most recognizable difference between American English and British English are

in p________ and vocabulary.

7.Speech v________refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker or

a group of speakers.

P ____ refers to the realization of langue in actual use.

8.

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9.Linguistics is generally defined as the s ____ study of language.

10.As a type of linguistic system in L2 learning, i_______ is a product of L2 training, mother tongue interference, overgeneralization of the target language rules, and learning and communicative strategies of the learner..

III. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement. (20 points, 1 point each)

1. 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.

2. ________refers to a marginal language of few lexical items and straightforward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication.

A. Dialect

B. Idiolect

C. Pidgin

D. Register

3. Which of the following is a voiceless bilabial stop?

A.[w].

B. [m].

C. [b].

D. [p].

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

________.

A. hyponymy

B. synonymy

C. polysemy

D. homonymy

5. Which of the following words is NOT formed by blending?

A. Smog.

B. Botel.

C. Brunch.

D. Edit.

6. What phonetic feature distinguishes the [p] in please and the [p] in speak?

A.V oicing

B. Aspiration

C. Roundness

D. Nasality

7. The word boyguard is a ______.

A. compound word

B. complex word

C. derivational word

D. free morpheme

8. All words contain a _________.

A. root

B. bound morpheme

C. prefix

D. suffix

9. Of the following sound combinations, only ______ is permissible.

D. ilbk

C. ilkb B. hkil A. kibl

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10. Where is the primary stress of the word phonology?

A. pho.

B. no.

C. lo.

D. gy.

11. Conventionally a ________ is put in slashes.

A. allophone

B. phone

C. phoneme

D. morpheme

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

A. inflectional suffix

B. derivational suffix

C. free morpheme

D. root

13. Language is tool of communication. The symbol “highway closed”serves___.

A. an expressive function

B. an informative function

C. a performative function

D. a persuasive function

14. Which of the following groups of words is a minimal pair?

A. but/pub

B. wet/which

C. cool/curl

D. fail/find

15. Whorf believed that speakers of different languages perceive and experienced the world differently, that is relative to their linguistic background, hence the notion of ______________.

A. linguistic determination

B. linguistic relativism

C. linguistic nativism

D. linguistic behaviorism

16. What are the dual structures of language?

A. Sounds and letters.

B. Sounds and meaning.

C. Letters and meaning.

D. Sounds and symbols.

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

A. lexical

B. morphemic

D. semantic C. grammatical