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1.What is the difference between an allophone and a phoneme?A phoneme is a unit of sound in a language that cannot be analysed into smaller linear units and that can distinguish one word from another. Phonemes are often presented surrounded by in transcription (e.g. /p/ and /b/ in English pat, bat). So /p/ and /b/ are two phonemes because they can distinguish between the words "pat" and "bat". /c/ is another, because it distinguishes the word "cat" from "pat" and "bat".Allophones are any of the variants making up a single phoneme .So, for example, you might pronounce the letter "T" differently in the two words "stand" and "tip".2.Which of the following words would be treated as minimal pairs? Ban ,fat, pit, bell, tape, heat, meal, more, pat, pen, chain, vote, bet, far, bun, goat ,heel, sane ,talePat----fatpat---pitheat—healtape---talebun---banfat---farbell---betmeal---heel3.What is meant by the phonotactics of a language?Phonotactics is the particular combination of letter sounds that are allowable within a given language. Each language, or even each dialect of a language, has its own set of rules that speakers stay within. Phonotactics is a branch of phonology, the study of the sound structures of languages, but also has applications in phonetics, the actual production of sound, in synthesized speech and language identification Phonotactics affects the structure and emphasis of syllables in a language. Nearly every French word, for instance, has an emphasis on the final syllable. In Greek, the emphasis depends on the length of the final vowel in the word, among other factors. When speaking his or her native language, a person is often able to put the emphasis on the correct syllable intuitively, even if reading an unfamiliar word.。
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1.syntax: the study of the rules governing the ways different constituents are combined to form sentences in a language, or the study of the interrelationships between elements in sentence structures.co-occurrence: It means that words of different sets of clauses may permit, or require, the occurrence of a word of another set or class to form a sentence or a particular part of a sentence. For instance, what can precede a noun {dog) is usually the determiners and adjectives, and what can follow it when it takes the position of subject will be predicators such as bark, bite, run, etc. In short, co-occurrence is the syntactic environment in which a construction, with its relevant elements, can appear grammatically and conventionally. Thus relations of co-occurrence partly belong to syntagmatic relations, partly to paradigmatic relations.construction: it refers to any syntactic construct which is assigned one or more conventional functions in a language, together with whatever is linguistically conventionalized about its contribution to the meaning or use construct contains. It can be further divided into the external and internal properties. Take sentence The boy kicked the ball as an example, we will determine the external syntax as an independent clause, while NP ("the boy"), VP ("kicked") and NP ("the ball") will be assigned respectively to the different elements in this clause.constituent: Constituent is a term used in structural sentence analysis for every linguistic unit, which is a part of a larger linguistic unit. Several constituents together form a construction: for example, in the sentence The boy ate the apple, S (A), the boy (B), ate the apple(C), each part is a constituent. Constituents can be joined together with other constituents to form larger units. If two constituents, in the case of the example above, B (the bo。
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胡壮麟语言学复习及答案Chapter I Introductionl.T 2.F 3.F 4.T 5.T 6.F 7.T 8 .F 9.T 10.F11.T 12.T 13.T 14.T 15.T 16.F 17.T 18.F19.F 20.FI. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:1. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.T2.Linguistics studies particular language, not languages in general.F3. A scientific study of language is based on what the linguist thinks.F4. In the study of linguistics, hypotheses formed should be based on language facts and checked against the observed facts. T5. General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole. T6. General linguistics, which relates itself to the research of other areas, studies the basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicable in any linguistic study. F7. Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication. T8. Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences.F9. The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology. T10. 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. F11. The study of meaning in language is known as semantics. T12. Both semantics and pragmatics study meanings. T13. Pragmatics is different from semantics in that pragmatics studies meaning not in isolation, but in context. T14. Social changes can often bring about language changes. T15. Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society. T16. Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive. F17. Modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar.T18. A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some pointin time. F19 Modern linguistics regards the written language as primary, not the written language. F20. The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure.FII. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given: 21. knowledge 22. abstract 23. Duality 24.arbitrary25. syntax 26.genetic 27. Parole 28. applied 29. productive30. scientific (or systematic)21. Chomsky defines “ competence” as the ideal user’s k__________ of the rules of his language.ngue refers to the a__________ linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community while the parole is the concrete use of the conventions and application of the rules.23.D_________ is one of the design features of human language which refers to the pheno广告网址n that language consists of two levels: a lower level of meaningless individual sounds and a higher level of meaningful units.24. Language is a system of a_________ vocal symbols used for human communication.25. The discipline that studies the rules governing the formation of words into permissible sentences in languages is called s________.26. Human capacity for language has a g ____ basis, but the details of language have to be taught and learned.27. P ____ refers to the realization of langue in actual use.28. Findings in linguistic studies can often be applied to the settlement of some practical problems. The study of such applications is generally known as a________ linguistics.29. Language is p___________ in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its users. In other words, they can produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences which they have never heard before.30. Linguistics is generally defined as the s ____ study of language.III. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement.3l.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.B 36.A 37.C 38.B 39.A 40.D31. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be ______________.A. prescriptiveB. analyticC. descriptiveD. linguistic32.Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?A. ArbitrarinessB. DisplacementC. DualityD. Meaningfulness33. Modern linguistics regards the written language as ____________.A. primaryB. correctC. secondaryD. stable34. In modern linguistics, speech is regarded as more basic than writing, because ___________.A. in linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writingB. speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed.C. speech is always the way in which every native speaker acquires his mother tongueD. All of the above35. A historical study of language is a ____ study of language.A. synchronicB. diachronicC. prescriptiveD. comparative36.Saussure took a (n)__________ view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a ________ point of view.A. sociological…psychologicalB. psychological…sociologicalC. applied… pragmaticD.semantic and linguistic37. According to F. de Saussure, ____ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.A. paroleB. performanceC. langueD. Language38. Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between _________ and meanings.A. senseB. soundsC. objectsD. ideas39. Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediatesituations of the speaker. This feature is called_________,A. displacementB. dualityC. flexibilityD. cultural transmission40. The details of any language system is passed on from one generation to the next through ____ , rather than by instinct.A. learningB. teachingC. booksD. both A and BIV. Define the following terms:41. Linguistics 42. Phonology 43. Syntax 44. Pragmatics45. Psycholinguistics 46. Language 47. Phonetics 48.Morphology 49.Semantics 50. Sociolinguistics 51. Applied Linguistics 52.Arbitrariness 53 Productivity 54.Displacement 55.Duality 56. Design Features 57. Competence 58 Performance 59. Langue 60 ParoleV. Answer the following questions as comprehensively as possible. Give examples for illustration if necessary:61. Language is generally defined as a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. Explain it in detail.62. What are the design features of human language? Illustrate them with examples.63. How is modern linguistics different from traditional grammar?64. How do you understand the distinction between a synchronic study and a diachronic study?65. Why does modern linguistics regard the spoken form of language as primary, not the written?66. What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?67. How do you understand competence and performance ?68. Saussure’s distinction between langue and parole seems similar to Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performance. What do you think are their major differences?69. Do you think human language is entirely arbitrary? Why?I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:l.T 2.F 3.F 4.T 5.T 6.F 7.T8.F 9.T 10.F11.T 12.T 13.T 14.T 15.T 16.F 17.T 18.F19.F 20.FII. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given:21. knowledge 22. abstract 23. Duality 24. arbitrary25. syntax 26.genetic 27. Parole 28. applied 29. productive30. scientific (or systematic)III. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement.3l.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.B 36.A 37.C 38.B 39.A 40.DIV. Define the following terms:41. Linguistics: Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.42. Phonology: The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology.43. Syntax: The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax. .44. Pragmatics: The study of meaning in context of use is called pragmatics.45. Psycholinguistics: The study of language with reference to the workings of mind is called psycholinguistics.46. Language: Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.47. Phonetics: The study of sounds which are used in linguistic communication is called phonetics.48. Morphology: The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words is called morphology.49. Semantics: The study of meaning in language is called semantics.50. Sociolinguistics: The study of language with reference to society is called sociolinguistics.51. Applied linguistics: In a narrow sense, applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning, especially the teaching of foreign and second languages. In a broad sense, it refers to the application of linguistic findings to the solution of practical problems such as the recovery of speech ability.52. Arbitrariness: It is one of the design features of language. It meansthat there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds53. Productivity: Language is productive or creative in that it makes possible the con-struction and interpretation of new signals by its users.54. Displacement: Displacement means that language can be used to refer to things which are present or not present, real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future, or in far-away places. In other words, language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker 55. Duality: The duality nature of language means that language is a system, which consists of two sets of structure, or two levels, one of sounds and the other of meanings.56. Design features: Design features refer to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication 57. Competence: Chomsky defines competence as the ideal user's knowledge of the rules of his language,58. Performance: performance is the actual realization of the knowl-edge of the rules in linguistic communication.59. langue : Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community; Langue is the set of conventions and rules which language users all have to follow; Langue is relatively stable, it does not change frequently60. Parole: Parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use; parole is the concrete use of the conventions and the application of the rules; parole varies from person to person, and from situation to situation.V. Answer the following questions as comprehensively as possible. Give examples for illustration if necessary:61. Language is generally defined as a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. Explain it in detail.First of all, language is a system, because elements of language are combined according to rules. Secondly, language is arbitrary because there is no intrinsic connection between form and meaning, or between the sign and what it stands for. Different languages have different words for the same object in the world. This fact is a good illustration of the arbitrary nature of language. This also explains the symbolic nature of language: words are just symbols; they are associated with objects, actions, ideas, etc. by convention . Thirdly, language is vocal because the primary medium is sound for all languages, no matter how well - developed their writing systems are.The term "human" in the definition indicates that language is possessed by human beings only and is very different from the communication systems of other living creatures. The term "communication" means that language makes it possible for its users to talk to each other and fulfill their communicative needs.62. What are the design features of human language? Illustrate them with examples.1) ArbitrarinessAs mentioned earlier, the arbitrary property of language means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds. For instance, there is no necessary relationship between the word elephant and the animal it symbolizes. In addition, different sounds are used to refer to the same object in different languages, and even within the same language, the same sound does not refer to the same thing. However, language is not entirely arbitrary. There are words which are created in the imitation of sounds by sounds, such as crash, bang in English. Besides, some compound words are also not entirely arbitrary. But the non-arbitrary words are quite limited in number.The arbitrary nature of language makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions.2) ProductivityLanguage is productive or creative in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its users. This is why they can produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences, including sentences that they have never said or heard before. They can send messages which no one else has ever sent before.Productivity is unique to human language. Most animal communication systems appear to be highly restricted with respect to the number of different signals that their users can send and receive.3) DualityThe duality nature of language means that language is a system, which consists of two sets of structure, or two levels, one of sounds and the other of meanings. At the lower or the basic level, there is the structure of sounds, which are meaningless, discrete, individual sounds. But the sounds of language can be combined according to rules into units of meaning such as morphemes and words, which, at the higher level, can be arranged into sentences. This duality of structure or double articulation of language enables its users to talk aboutanything within their knowledge. No animal communication system has duality or even comes near to possessing it.4) DisplacementDisplacement means that language can be used to refer to things which are present or not present, real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future, or in far-away places. In other words, language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. Animal calls are mainly uttered in response to immediate changes of situation.5) Cultural transmissionHuman beings were born with the ability to acquire language, but the details of any language are not genetically transmitted or passed down by instinct. They have to be taught and learned, but animal call systems are genetically transmitted.63. How is modern linguistics different from traditional grammar?Traditional gram-mar is prescriptive; it is based on "high "(religious, literary) written language. It sets grammatical rules and imposes the rules on language users. But Modern linguistics is descriptive; It collects authentic, and mainly spoken language data and then it studies and describes the data in an objective and scientific way.64. How do you understand the distinction between a synchronic study and a diachronic study?The description of a language at some point in time is a Synchronic study; the description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study. A synchronic study of language describes a language as it is at some particular point in time, while a diachronic study of language is the study of the historical development of language over a period of time.65. Why does modern linguistics regard the spoken form of language as primary, not the written?First, the spoken form is prior to the writ-ten form and most writing systems are derived from the spoken form of language.Second, the spoken form plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed and it serves a wider range of purposesFinally, the spoken form is the medium through which we acquire our mother tongue.66. What are the major distinctions between langue and parole?The distinction between langue, and parole was made by the famous linguist Ferdinand de Saussure early this century. Langue refers to the abstractlinguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use. Langue is the set of conventions and rules which language users all have to follow while parole is the concrete use of the conventions and the application of the rules. Langue is abstract; it is not the language people actually use, but parole is concrete; it refers to the naturally occurring language events. Langue is relatively stable; it does not change frequently; while parole varies from person to person, and from situation to situation.67. How do you understand competence and performance?American linguist N. Chomsky in the late 1950’s proposed the distinction between competence and performance. Chomsky defines competence as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language. This internalized set of rules enables the language user to produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences and recognize sentences that are ungrammatical and ambiguous. According to Chomsky, performance is the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication. Although the speaker’s knowledge of his mother tongue is perfect, his performances may have mistakes because of social and psychological factors such as stress, embarrassment, etc.. Chomsky believes that what linguists should study is the competence, which is systematic, not the performance, which is too haphazard.68. Saussure’s distinction between langue and parole seems similar to Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performance. What do you think are their major differences?Although Saussure’s distinction and Chomsky’s are very similar, they differ at least in that Saussure took a sociological view of language and his notion of langue is a mater of social conventions, and Chomsky looks at language from a psychological point of vies and to him, competence is a property of the mind of each individual.69. Do you think human language is entirely arbitrary? Why?Language is arbitrary in nature, it is not entirely arbitrary, because there are a limited number of words whose connections between forms and meanings can be logically explained to a certain extent, for example, the onomatopoeia, words which are coined on the basis of imitation of sounds by sounds such as bang, crash,etc.. Take compounds for another example. The twoelements “photo” and “copy” in “photocopy” are non-motivated, but the compound is not arbitrary.Chapter 2：Phonology l.T 2.F 3.F 4.F 5.T 6.T7.F 8.F 9.T 10.F11.F 12.T 13.F 14.F 15.F 16. F 17. T 18. F 19. T 20. TI. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:1. Voicing is a phonological feature that distinguishes meaning in both Chinese and English. T2. If two phonetically similar sounds occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning, they are said to be in complementary distribution. F3. A phone is a phonetic unit that distinguishes meaning.F4. English is a tone language while Chinese is not. F5. In linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing.T6. In everyday communication, speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed. T7. Articulatory phonetics tries to describe the physical properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues with the help of a machine called spectrograph. F8. The articulatory apparatus of a human being are contained in three important areas: the throat, the mouth and the chest. F9. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing. T10. English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tongue that is raised the highest.F11. According to the manner of articulation, some of the types into which the consonants can be classified are stops, fricatives, bilabial and alveolar. F 12. Vowel sounds can be differentiated by a number of factors: the position of tongue in the mouth, the openness of the mouth, the shape of the lips, and the length of the vowels. T13. According to the shape of the lips, vowels can be classified into close vowels, semi-close vowels, semi-open vowels and open vowels.F14. Any sound produced by a human being is a phoneme. F15. Phones are the sounds that can distinguish meaning.F16. Phonology is concerned with how the sounds can be classified into different categories. F17. A basic way to determine the phonemes of a language is to see if substituting one sound for another results in a change of meaning. T18. When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two words are said to form a phonemic contrast. F19. The rules governing the phonological patterning are languagespecific. T20. Distinctive features of sound segments can be found running over a sequence of two or more phonemic segments. TII. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given: 21. Aspiration 22.Articulatory 23. bilabial 24. tongue 25. place26. stop 27. Suprasegmental 28. sequential 29. narrow 30. intonation 31. Phonology 32. oral 33. Tone 34. sentence21. A ____ refers to a strong puff of air stream in the production of speech sounds.22．A ____ phonetics describes the way our speech organs work to produce the speech sounds and how they differ.23. The four sounds /p/,/b/,/m/ and /w/ have one feature in common, i.e, they are all b_______ sounds.24． Of all the speech organs, the t ____ is the most flexible, and is responsible for varieties of articulation than any other.25．English consonants can be classified in terms of manner of articulation or in terms of p____ of articulation.26．When the obstruction created by the speech organs is total or complete, the speech sound produced with the obstruction audibly released and the air passing out again is called a s________. <![endif]>27．S_________ features are the phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments. They include stress, tone, intonation, etc.28．The rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language are called s ____ rules.29．The transcription of speech sounds with letter-symbols only is called broad transcription while the transcription with letter-symbols together with thediacritics is called n_________ transcription.30．When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as i_________.31．P______ is a discipline which studies the system of sounds of a particular language and how sounds are combined into meaningful units to effect linguistic communication.32．The articulatory apparatus of a human being are contained in three important cavities: the pharyngeal cavity, the o_______ cavity and the nasal cavity. 33．T____ are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords and which can distinguish meaning just like phonemes. <![endif]>34．Depending on the context in which stress is considered, there are two kinds of stress: word stress and s_________ stress.III. There are four choices following each of the statements below. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement:35.C 36.A 37.B 38.D 39.A 40.D 41.C 42.C 43.D 44.D35． Of all the speech organs, the _______ is/ are the most flexible.A. mouthB. lipsC. tongueD. vocal cords36．The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ____ sounds.A. voicelessB. voicedC. vowelD. consonantal37．__________ is a voiced alveolar stop.A. /z/B. /d/C. /k/D./b/38． The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones ____________. A. identical B. same C. exactly alike D. similar 39．Since /p/ and /b/ are phonetically similar, occur in the same environments and they can distinguish meaning, they are said to be ___________.A. in phonemic contrastB. in complementary distributionC. the allophonesD. minimal pair40．The sound /f/ is _________________.A. voiced palatal affricateB. voiced alveolar stopC. voiceless velar fricativeD. voiceless labiodental fricative41. A ____ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highest position.A. backB. centralC. frontD. middle42. Distinctive features can be found running over a sequence of two or more phonemic segments. The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called ____________.A. phonetic componentsB. immediate constituentsC. suprasegmental featuresD. semantic features43. A(n) ___________ is a unit that is of distinctive value. It is an abstract unit, a collection of distinctive phonetic features.A. phoneB. soundC. allophoneD. phoneme 44．The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the ____ of that phoneme.A. phonesB. soundsC. phonemesD.allophones <![endif]>IV. Define the terms below:45. phonology 46. phoneme 47.allophone48. international phonetic alphabet49. intonation 50. phonetics 51. auditory phonetics52. acoustic phonetics 53. phone 54. phonemic contrast55. tone 56. minimal pairV. Answer the following questions as comprehensively as possible. Give ex-amples for illustration if necessary:57. Of the two media of language, why do you think speech is more basic than writing?58. What are the criteria that a linguist uses in classifying vowels?59. What are the major differences between phonology and phonetics?60. Illustrate with examples how suprasegmental features can affect meaning.61. In what way can we determine whether a phone is a phoneme or not?I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:l.T 2.F 3.F 4.F 5.T 6.T 7.F 8.F 9.T 10.F11.F 12.T 13.F 14.F 15.F 16. F 17. T 18. F 19. T 20. TII. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given:21. Aspiration 22.Articulatory 23. bilabial 24. tongue 25. place26. stop 27. Suprasegmental 28. sequential 29. narrow 30. intonation 31. Phonology 32. oral 33. Tone 34. sentenceIII. There are four choices following each of the statements below. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement:35.C 36.A 37.B 38.D 39.A 40.D 41.C 42.C 43.D 44.DIV. Define the terms below:45. phonology: Phonology studies the system of sounds of a particular language; it aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.46. phoneme: The basic unit in phonology is called phoneme; it is a unit of distinctive value. But it is an abstract unit. To be exact, a phoneme is nota sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.47. allophone: The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the allophones of that phoneme.48. international phonetic alphabet: It is a standardized and internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription.49. intonation: When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation.50. phonetics: Phonetics is defined as the study of the phonic medium of language; it is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world' s languages 51. auditory phonetics: It studies the speech sounds from the hearer's point of view. It studies how the sounds are perceived by the hear-er.52. acoustic phonetics: It studies the speech sounds by looking at the sound waves. It studies the physical means by which speech sounds are transmitted through the air from one person to another.53. phone : Phones can be simply defined as the speech sounds we use when speaking。
语言学概论习题答案
语言学概论习题答案导言一,名词解释(20分,每小题4分)1.语言学就是以语言为研究对象的科学,研究语言的本质,语言的结构和发展规律.2.指我国传统的语文学,包括文字学,音韵学,训诂学三方面的内容.3.专语语言学也叫具体语言学,个别语言学,以一种(或几种有联系的)语言为研究对象,研究某一种语言的结构.4.共时语言学以同时的,静态分析的方法,研究语言相对静止的状态,描写分析语言在某一个时期,某一个阶段的状况,是从横向的方面研究语言.5.历时语言学从历时的,动态的角度研究语言发展的历史,观察一种语言的各个结构要素在不同发展阶段的历史演变,是从纵向的方面研究语言的历史.6.普通语言学以人类所有的语言为研究对象,探讨人类语言的共同规律,是在具体语言学基础上建立起来的,下面又分普通语音学,普通语法学,普通词汇学等分支学科.二,填空题(20分,每空1分)1.中国印度古希腊-罗马2.文字学音韵学训诂学3.语音词汇和语义语法4.编码发送传递接收5.历时共时历史描写6.历史比较7.《语言论》 8.索绪尔三,问答题(60分,每小题10分)1.古代的语言研究和今天的语言研究有如下几个方面的区别:①研究对象不同:古代的语言学主要以书面语为主要研究材料,不重视口头语言的研究,而今天的语言学则十分重视口语研究,如制定语言规范,确立共同语的各方面标准等,都要依据口语的研究成果;②研究目的不同:古代语言学研究语言,主要是给政治,哲学,宗教,历史,文学方面的经典著作作注解,比如我国古代的语文学主要就是围绕阅读先秦经典著作的需要来研究文言的,而现代语言学的研究目的主要是分析语言的结构,以此探讨语言发展的共同规律.正因为有这些差别,所以古代的语言学还不是独立的学科,处于附庸地位,而现代语言学已经发展成为一门独立的学科,随着现代科学的发展又产生了许多边沿性学科.2.语言交际过程分为哪几个阶段人类语言交际的过程,实际上就是信息的传递与接收问题,可分为编码,发送,传递,接收,解码五个阶段.编码就是发话人利用词语组织语句;发送就是把思维成果变成话语,通过发音器官表达出来;传递就是通过空气振动形成声波,把话语传达给受话人;接收是受话人利用听觉器官感知对方所说的话;解码则经过大脑的思维把声波还原成语言,理解对方话语的含义,从而完成信息传递接收.如果受话人收到语言信息有所反馈,那么上述五个阶段则又重复一遍,只是发话人与受话人调换了.(举例说明略,可结合分析任举一个句子作说明.)3."语言学既是一门古老的学科,又是一门年轻的学科;既与社会科学有密切的联系,又与自然科学有密切的联系."怎样理解这句话的含义语言是伴随着人类一起出现的,是人类社会生活必不可少的,所以人类很早就注意到了语言的重要性,很早就注意研究语言,所以语言学是古老的,但语言学直到18世纪下半叶,产生了历史比较语言学,后来又建立了语言学的各个部门,语言研究才发展成为一门独立的学科,同其它学科相比,语言学的确是十分年轻的.语言是社会现象,与社会的政治,经济,文化,历史等密切相关,而语言的发生又与物理,生理,心理等学科密切相关,而现代社会语言与语言的信息处理(如机器翻译,语码转换等)又涉及到数学,计算机科学,所以语言学既与社会科学有密切的联系,又与自然科学有密切的联系.正因为如此,随着语言学与别的学科的交融,又产生了许多新的语言学分支学科,如社会语言学,心理语言学,统计语言学,话语语言学,数理语言学,宇宙语言学等等,这些也体现了语言学是一门年轻的学科.4.语言学有哪些作用语言学的作用主要表现在以下几个方面:①学习语言文字是掌握科学技术,提高文化水平的基础,而要学好用好语言,就必须利用语言学的研究成果;②制定语言文字的有关政策,制定语言规范,都要在对语言进行充分研究的基础上进行,而语言学的研究成果正好可以作指导;③新兴技术的出现扩大了语言学的应用范围.至于个人,同样可以利用语言学的成果,比如学习一种语言或方言,最好的办法是找到所学语言同自己母语的各方面的对应规律,这样可以收到事半功倍的效果,这就需要利用语言学的研究成果.(结合实际部分可以根据自己的学习,工作或生活经历举例)5.语言学的分类语言学首先可以分为理论语言学和应用语言学,一般所说的语言学,主要是指理论语言学.根据研究对象的不同,理论语言学又分普通语言学和专语语言学(具体语言学).普通语言学以人类所有的语言为研究对象,探讨人类语言的共同规律,是在具体语言学基础上建立起来的,下面又分普通语音学,普通语法学,普通词汇学等分支学科.专语语言学以个别的,具体的语言为研究对象.探讨研究某一种语言的规律.从是静态研究还是研究语言的历史看,又分历时语言学和共时语言学:历时语言学研究具体语言的发展历史,是纵向研究,比如汉语史研究,共时语言学研究具体语言在某一时代的状态(相对静止的状态),规律,对之进行客观的描述,是横向研究.如描写语言学,又分描写语音学,描写语汇学,描写语法学等分支学科,现代汉语就是共时语言学.6.为什么说历史比较语言学在语言学史上具有重要地位历史比较语言学在语言学史上具有十分重要的地位.在历史语言学产生以前,语言学还不是严格意义上的语言学,一般称之为语文学,和不是独立的学科,只是别的学科的附庸.语文学时期的学者,对语言的研究多是主观的规定和臆测,缺少客观的描述和检验,研究对象往往仅限于书面语,目的是校勘古书,解释传统经典中的微言大义,不准违背古人的说法,忽视语言本身的结构与发展,更不理解语言作为交际工具和思维工具的社会功能.历史语言学建立了比较的方法,既注意语言古今的对比,又注意现代不同语言的对比,重视当代活的语言的研究,运用达尔文的进化论观点,考察语言的历史来源和亲属关系,为语言建立了谱系,对各种语言作了谱系分类.所以,历史比较语言学是语言学走上独立发展道路的标志,是语言学史上的一个里程碑.历史比较语言学所采用的比较方法,给其它学科以很大的影响,像比较法学,比较宗教法,比较史学,比较文学等学科,都是仿效比较历史语言学的比较研究方法建立起来的,这可以说是语言学对社会科学的一大贡献.(关键是抓住历史比较语言学的建立是使语言学走上独立发展道路的标志,而此前的语言学,实际上都没有独立性,是经学的附庸.) 第一章一,名词解释(10分,每词2分)1.语言语言是人类最重要的交际工具,也是思维的工具.2.说话说话就是运用有声语言这个工具表达自己思想的一种行为.3.交际工具人与人交流时所使用的用来沟通思想的工具,例如语言就是交际工具.4.社会现象就是指那些与人类共同体的一切活动——产生,存在和发展密切联系的现象.5.思维是在表象,概念的基础上进行分析,综合,判断,推理等认识活动的过程,是人类社会特有的一种精神活动.二,填空题(20分,每空1分)1.语言2.规则3.交际工具工具4.肯定否定再见鼓掌愤怒兴奋5.左直观思维6.sister uncle7.量词8.语言9.全民性阶级性10.社会的具体三,判断题(20分,每小题1分)(只判断正误即可)1.√(语言最主要的社会功能就是作交际工具.)2.×(文字是辅助语言交际的工具,对语言交际起辅助作用.)3.×(语言没有阶级性,一视同仁地为社会全体成员服务,这里的共同语言,是指阶级观念,思想感情,不是作为交际工具的语言.)4.×(语言声音的发出和声波的传递具有自然属性的一面,但语言的音义结合却是社会赋予的,所以语言从本质上看是社会现象,而不是自然现象.)5.√(语言不同于一般的社会现象,因为社会现象都是属于一定是上层建筑和经济基础的,而语言既不属于上层建筑又不属于经济基础.)6.×(语言的确是通过个人的运用体现出来的,但语言并不是个人现象,因为语言是社会全体成员共同创造的,没有社会,个人不可能创造出语言来,所以语言是社会现象.)7.×(在现代社会,文字使用非常广泛,日益重要,但无论文字有多重要,都只是辅助语言进行交际的工具,记录语言的工具,离不开语言这个基础,所以不可能取代语言,没有语言,文字的存在就失去了意义.)8.×(现代社会沟通的方式很多,只是说明运用语言的方式多了,不像过去只能当面交际或通过文字交际,可以采用其它方式,但这种种沟通方式都是以语言为基础的,离不开语言,这只能说明语言是非常重要的.)9.√(人类社会须臾也不能离开语言,没有语言,人类无法沟通,社会就会崩溃,人类社会就不复存在了.)10.√(动物没有人类意义上的语言,人类语言具有社会性,是要通过与社会接触才能学会的,而动物的鸣叫等是先天遗传的,不是语言.)11.√(人类的思维可以分几种,而要进行抽象思维,就离不开语言这个工具,没有语言,人类就只能进行比较低级的思维活动.)12.×(人类要进行抽象思维,必须借助于语言中的词语句子进行分析综合推理.)13.√(语言和思维是相互依存,共同发展的.语言是思维的工具,又是思维的成果,思维离不开语言,同时语言也离不开思维.二者如影随形,谁也离不开谁.语言和思维是密了可分的,各以对方为存在条件,所以语言和思维的相辅相成的.思维必须在语言材料的基础上进行,哪里有思维活动,哪里就有语言活动.)14.√(二者如影随形,谁也离不开谁.没有语言,思维活动无法进行,思维成果无法表达,思维实际上就不可能存在;语言作为思维的工具,只有具有思维活动,只有在思维过程中运用才有存在的意义,如果没有思维活动,无所谓交际和思想,语言工具也就失去了存在的价值,没有必要存在了.)15.×(语言和思维不是同一个东西,二者没有同一性.语言既然是思维的工具,就不会是思维本身.)16.×(语言既然是人类的交际工具,所以无论它是在无阶级的社会还是有阶级的社会,都不可能具有阶级性,否则,语言就不会成为社会全体成员的交际工具了.)17.√(语言其实是一个抽象的概念,它反映的是人类语言所具有的共同特指,所谓"语言"是不存在的,都是通过个别的具体的语言体现出来,如英语,汉语,日语,俄语等等.语言是概括的,一般的,和具体的语言是一般和特殊的关系,通过特殊的语言表现出来.)18.√(马是一个抽象的概念,反映了世界上所有马匹的共同特征,我们在现实生活中所说的马,都是具体的,如白马,大马,母马等.)19.×(绘画和音乐不具有符号的一般特点,其解释可能因人而异,不是语言符号.)20.√(语言和思维是互相适应的,思维发展水平有多高,语言的发展水平就有多高.我们不能想象,一个民族的语言十分发达,而思维水平却很低;我们同样不能想象,一个民族的思维水平很高,而语言水平很低.这两种情况都是不可想象的,因为二者必须互相适应.一种语言,无论它的结构简单复杂与否,都是能满足一个社会集团交际的需要的,当然也能适应思维的要求.)四,问答题(50分,每小题5分)1.语言的作用是什么语言是人类社会的交际工具.每个社会,无论它是经济发达的社会,还是经济十分落后的社会,都必须有属于自己的语言,都离不开语言这个交际工具,语言是组成社会必不可少的一个因素,是人类与动物相区别的重要特征之一.语言是联系社会成员的桥梁和纽带,没有语言,人类无法交际,人与人之间的联系就会中断,社会就会崩溃,不复存在.同时语言又是人类的思维工具,没有语言,人类无法思维,也无法把思维成果表达出来.(根据语言的定义展开回答即可,注意包括交际工具和思维工具两个方面.)2.每个人说话都是自由的,但不能把"我看书"说成"书看我",不能把"huó(活)",这是为什么语言是社会现象而不是个人现象.虽然每个人说话是自由的,可以根据需要选择不同的词语表达自己的思想,但是有一点则是大家都必须遵守的,那就是运用词语组成句子,必须遵循全社会统一的规则,选择什么样的语音形式代表某个意义,也得全社会约定俗成,不能个人任意更改.否则,语言就不成其为交际工具了,别人也就无法听懂你的话,社会将乱成一锅粥.只要想象一下,一个不会外语的人到国外生活所遇到的窘迫尴尬,就知道遵循规则的重要性了.(紧扣语言的社会性回答,同时说明语言不是个人现象.)3.任何一种语言所包含的句子的数量都是有限的,那么人类为什么能在有限的时间内掌握语言呢.这主要是因为:①词语组合的规则是十分有限的,掌握一个规则,可以类推出无限多的句子,例如学会说"我吃饭",掌握了"主-动-宾"这个格式,就可以造出"我看报","他打球","你唱歌"之类的句子来.②语言中的词表达的意义具有概括性,数量是有限的,一个词语可以重复使用,可以用在这个句子中,也可以用在那个句子中,从而满足了人们交际的需要,所以语言系统中的句子是无穷的,但构成句子的材料却是有限的,这也有利于人们学习掌握语言.例如"人"这个词,并不指哪一个具体的人,可以指古今中外所有的人;"苹果"可以指色彩,味道,形状各方面都不同的苹果.4.人类语言能力是天生的还是后天学会的,为什么人类的语言能力是后天获得的.语言是社会现象,一个人只有生活在一定的社会环境中,才能获得语言,具备语言能力,离开了社会,哪怕他是一个天才,他也不会说话.如果一个人先天就具有语言能力,那么就应该是所有人都说相同的语言才是,而实际上是一个人出生在什么样的社会,就掌握什么样的语言;中国孩子从小生活在中国,就会说汉语,而不会说英语,如果从小在英国出生长大,则只会说英语,不会说汉语.由此可见,一个人的语言能力不是天生的,而是后天学会的,社会环境是最好的语言老师.(结合语言的社会性理论回答)5.用"棋,下,有,一,完,没,的,盘"这八个词组成句子,看能组合成多少句子一盘没有下完的棋.一盘下完的棋没有.一盘棋下完的没有.没有下完的一盘棋.没有一盘下完的棋.没下完的棋有一盘.下完的棋一盘没有.下完的棋没有一盘.下完的没有一盘棋.有一盘没下完的棋.有没下完的一盘棋.棋没下完的有一盘.棋有一盘没下完的.棋下完的没有一盘.棋下完的一盘没有.棋没有一盘下完的.……6.人们平时常说,"无产阶级和资产阶级没有共同语言","工人有工人的语言,农民有农民的语言".这是不是说,语言具有阶级性语言没有阶级性.①语言是社会全体成员共同的交际工具,全体成员,包括各阶级,阶层的人,不分男女,不分老幼,无论什么人,与别人交际都要使用语言.如果语言有阶级性,不同的阶级说不同的语言,那么不同阶级之间就无法进行交际(不同阶级之间的斗争,也是一种交际活动).②语言结构本身,没有阶级性可言,比如语音,语法规则,就谈不上有阶级性.③语言是伴随着人类同时出现的,而在人类从猿到人这个漫长的过程中,根本就没有阶级的区分,所以从语言的诞生过程看语言也是没有阶级性的.(结合语言是特殊的社会现象这一内涵挖掘分析) 7.为什么说语言是人类最重要的交际工具人们在进行社会交际的时候,除了运用语言传递信息外,也可以借助其它手段传递信息,表达思想.比如运动场上,篮球教练用手势表示谁犯规,谁发球等内容,不用语言;部队用长短不同的号声表示起床,集合,冲锋,撤退等信息;在海上,船与船之间用旗语传递信息,等等.但是,这些交际工具远远没有语言运用那样便捷,而且使用也受到限制,使用范围有限.更为重要的是,无论什么交际工具,它所传递的信息内容都是有限的,而且离不开语言基础,它们实际上是在一定范围代替语言,没有语言的存在,也不可能有这些信息手段的产生,可以说,语言是一切交际工具的基础.因此,说语言是人类最重要的交际工具,是毫不奇怪了.(突出两点:1.将语言和别的交际工具相互比较;2.说明别的交际工具实际上是语言的代用品,仍然以语言为基础.)8.为什么说文字是语言最重要的辅助**际工具辅助语言进行交际的工具很多,像旗语,手势,红绿灯,色彩,音响等,都可以在一定范围内传递信息,起到沟通作用,而在现代社会,像广播,电视,电话,网络等通讯工具,甚至还可以不改变语言的有声特质,传递信息既快又广,但这些工具,远不及文字那样方便,不及文字使用范围那样广,文字打破了有声语言的时空局限,在很大程度上扩展了语言的功能,这是其它语言辅助工具所不能比的,所以说文字是语言最重要的辅助**际工具.(通过比较分析,得出文字是最重要的辅助语言交际工具的结论.)9.两个人在争论语言和思维的关系,一个人说先有语言,因为语言是思维工具,没有这个工具就无法思维;一个人说先有思维,因为语句是思维的成果,没有思维,人们无法把散沙一样的词语组合成句.你认为谁的观点对两个人的话看似有理,由于割裂了语言与思维的关系,所以都是无理的,都是片面的.首先,语言和思维是相互依存的,各以对方为自己存在的条件:语言是思维的工具,语言离不开思维,思维也不能脱离语言;如果没有思维,没有思想,人际之间的交流无从谈起,语言的存在也失去了任何意义.其次,语言和思维的发展程度是相互适应的,是一致的;有什么样的思维水平,就有什么样的语言水平,有什么样的语言水平,就有什么样的思维水平,不可能一个社会发展到语言和思维脱节的地步,语言水平很高而思维水平很低,或思维水平很高而语言水平很低,这都是不可想象的,也是不可能的.(关键要认识到语言和思维二者相互依存,密不可分的关系.)10.语言实际上是一种社会现象,怎样理解这句话第一,语言是社会的产物,没有人类社会,也就没有语言;第二,语言是人类社会独有的,人类社会以外,没有语言,动物没有语言.(所谓社会,必然是和人类有关系的,就是人类结成的共同体,否则就不是社会了.语言既然是社会现象,不是自然现象,就否认了人类社会以外还有语言的说法.) 第二章一,名词解释(10分,每词2分)1.符号:就指代某种事物的标记,记号,它是由一个社会的全体成员共同约定用来表示某种意义的标记和记号.2.语言符号的任意性指符号的形式和符号的内容的结合是偶然的,没有必然的关系.例如语言符号,语音形式和意义内容的结合就是任意的,没有本质的关系.3.二层性:语言是由一定的单位按照一定的层级组成的,可分为音位层和符号层,其音位层和符号层我们合称为语言的二层性.4.组合关系:两个同一性质的结构单位(如音位与音位,词与词等等)按照线性的顺序组合起来的关系.5.聚合关系:语言结构某一位置上能够互相替换的具有某种相同作用的单位(如音位,词)之间的关系.二,填空题(20分,每空1分)1.形式意义2.意义形式3.语音意义形式4.约定俗成5.任意性线条性6.音位序列语素词7.组合关系聚合关系8.组合关系聚合关系9.抽象思维发音三,判断题(20分,每小题1分)1.×2.√3.×4.×5.√6.√7.√8.√9.× 10.√11.× 12.× 13.× 14.√ 15.√ 16.√ 17.√ 18.× 19.√ 20.×四,问答题(50分,每小题5分)1.什么是符号它有哪些因素构成所谓符号,就指代某种事物的标记,记号,它是由一个社会的全体成员共同约定用来表示某种意义的标记和记号.甲能代表乙或指称乙,甲就有条件成为乙的符号.符号由一定的形式和一定的意义构成,二者互相对待,密不可分.例如老师阅卷,用"√"表示正确,就是符号,其形式是线条√,意义是"正确".2.为什么说语言是一种符号系统语言就是一种符号系统.语言所以是一种符号,就是因为它能代表或指称现实现象.比如我们一听到"书"这个词,就知道它指的是"成本的著作"这个意义.符号的形成要具备一定的条件,其中最重要的就是在使用中要受到一定规则的支配,装拆自如,可以重复使用.而语言就具有这个自由拼装的特点.从结构成看,语言也是一种符号系统,具有所有符号的一般特点,也有形式和意义两个方面.与一般符号形式和内容的结合由社会决定一样,语音的形式和意义的结合也是由一定社会成员共同决定的,是约定俗成的.3.人类选择语音作为语言的形式,同其他形式相比,语音形式有什么优点人类创造语言为什么选择语音作为符号的形式呢这主要是因为:①语音这种形式使用起来比较方便,语音是人类发音器官发出来的声音,发音器官人人都有,随时可以使用,因此人们可以在任何地方使用语音形式表达意义内容,不需要任何附加设备,每个人随时都能发出来的,走到哪里就可以带到哪里,使用非常方便;②语音形式的容量大,几十个语音单位通过排列组合可以表达任何意义内容.③语音形式的表达效果也是最好的,它可以是大声疾呼,也可以是轻声细语,可以细致入微地表达人类的喜怒。
语言学教程课后习题答案第一章资料(最新整理)
Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics1. Define the following terms:design feature: the distinctive features of human language that essentially make human language distinguishable from languages of animals.function: the role language plays in communication (e.g. to express ideas, attitudes) or in particular social situations (e.g. religious, legal).synchronic: said of an approach that studies language at a theoretical ‘point’ in time.diachronic: said of the study of development of language and languages over time. prescriptive: to make authoritarian statement about the correctness of a particular use of language.descriptive: to make an objective and systematic account of the patterns and use of a language or variety.arbitrariness: the absence of any physical correspondence between linguistic signals and the entities to which they refer.duality: the structural organization of language into two abstract levels: meaningful units (e.g. words) and meaningless segments (e.g. sounds, letters).displacement: the ability of language to refer to contexts removed from the speaker’s immediate situation.phatic communion: said of talk used to establish atmosphere or maintain social contact.metalanguage: a language used for talking about language.macrolinguistics: a broad conception of linguistic enquiry, including psychological, cultural, etc.competence: unconscious knowledge of the system of grammatical rules in a language.performance: the language actually used by people in speaking or writing.langue: the language system shared by a “speech community”.parole: the concrete utterances of a speaker.2. Consult at least four introductory linguistics textbooks (not dictionaries), and copy the definitions of “language” that each gives. After carefully comparing the definitions, write a paper discussing which points recur and explaining the significance of the similarities and differences among the definitions.ANSWER:All the definitions should not exclude the description of design features that have been mentioned in this course book. Also it will be better if other design features, say, interchangeability or cultural transmission is included. But it seems impossible to give an unimpeachable definition on language, because the facets people want to emphasize are seldom unanimous. To compare several definitions can make you realize where the argument is.3. Can you think of some words in English which are onomatopoeic?ANSWERS:creak: the sound made by a badly oiled door when it opens.cuckoo: the call of cuckoo.bang: a sudden loud noise.roar: a deep loud continuing sound.buzz: a noise of buzzing.hiss: a hissing sound.neigh: the long and loud cry that a horse makes.mew: the noise that a gull makes.bleat: the sound made by a sheep, goat or calf.4. Do you think that onomatopoeia indicates a non-arbitrary relationship between form and meaning?ANSWER:4. No matter you say "Yes" or "No", you cannot deny that onomatopoeia needs arbitrariness. Before we feel a word is onomatopoeic we should first know which sound the word imitates. Just as what is said in Chapter One, in order to imitate the noise of flying mosquitoes, there are many choices like "murmurous" and "murderous". They both bear more or less resemblance to the genuine natural sound, but "murmurous" is fortunately chosen to mean the noise while "murderous" is chosen to mean something quite different. They are arbitrary as signifiers.5. A story by Robert Louis Stevenson contains the sentence “As the night fell, the wind rose.” Could this be expressed as “As the wind rose, the night fell?” If not, why? Does this indicate a degree of non-arbitrariness about word order? (Bolinger, 1981: 15)5. Yes. It is a case in point to illustrate non-arbitrariness about word order. When the two parts interchange, the focus and the meaning of the sentence is forced to change, because clauses occurring in linear sequence without time indicators will be taken as matching the actual sequence of happening. The writer’s original intention is distorted, and we can feel it effortlessly by reading. That is why systemic-functionalists and American functionalists think language is not arbitrary at the syntactic level.6. Does the traffic light system have duality? Can you explain by drawing a simple graph?6. Traffic light does not have duality. Obviously, it is not a double-level system. There is only one-to-one relationship between signs and meaning but the meaning units cannot be divided into smaller meaningless elements further. So the traffic light only has the primary level and lacks the secondary level like animals’ calls.ANSWER:Red→stopGreen→goYellow→get ready to go or stop7. The recursive nature of language provides a theoretical basis for the creativity of language. Can you write a recursive sentence following the example in section 1.3.3.ANSWER:Today I encountered an old friend who was my classmate when I was in elementary school where there was an apple orchard in which we slid to select ripe apples that…8. Communication can take many forms, such as sign, speech, body language and facial expression. Do body language and facial expression share or lack the distinctive properties of human language?ANSWER:On a whole, body language and facial expression lack most of the distinctive properties of human language such as duality, displacement, creativity and so on. Body language exhibits arbitrariness a little bit. For instance, nod means "OK/YES" for us but in Arabian world it is equal to saying "NO". Some facial expressions have non-arbitrariness because they are instinctive such as the cry and laugh of a newborn infant.9. Do you agree with the view that no language is especially simple?ANSWER:Yes. All human languages are complicated systems of communication. It is decided by their shared design features.10. What do you think of Bertrand Russell’s observation of the dog language: “No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest”? Are you familiar with any type of ways animals communicate among themselves and with human beings? ANSWER:When gazelles sense potential danger, for example, they flee and thereby signal to other gazellesin the vicinity that danger is lurking. A dog signals its wish to be let inside the house by barking and signals the possibility that it might bite momentarily by displaying its fangs.11.Can you mention some typical expressions of phatic communion in Chinese? There is the dialog between Ms. P and Ms. Q. in section 1.5.5. When someone sneezes violently, do you say anything of the nature of phatic communion? Have you noticed your parents or grandparents say something special on such an occasion?Some of the typical phatic expressions in Chinese are: 吃了吗？家里都好吧？这是去哪里啊？最近都挺好的？ANSWER:If someone is sneezing violently, maybe you parents and grandparents may say: “Are you ok?”, “Do you need to see a doctor?”, “Do you need some water?”, “Do you need a handkerchief?”, “Do you have a cold?” or something like these to show their concerns.12．There are many expressions in language which are metalingual or self-reflexives, namely, talking about talk and think about thinking, for instance, to be honest, to make a long story short, come to think of it, on second thought, can you collect a few more to make a list of these expressions? When do we use them most often?ANSWER:To tell the truth, frankly speaking, as a matter of fact, to be precise, in other words, that is to saySuch expressions are used most frequently when we want to expatiate the meaning of former clauses in anther way in argumentation.13. Comment on the following prescriptive rules. Do you think they are acceptable?(A) It is I.(B) It is me.You should say A instead of B because “be” should be followed by the nominative case, not the accusative according to the rules in Latin.(A) Who did you speak to?(B) Whom did you speak to?You should say B instead of A.(A) I haven't done anything.(B) I haven't done nothing.B is wrong because two negatives make a positive.ANSWER:(1) the Latin rule is not universal. In English, me is informal and I is felt to be very formal.(2) Whom is used in formal speech and in writing; who is more acceptable in informal speech.(3) Language does not have to follow logic reasoning. Here two negative only make a more emphatic negative. This sentence is not acceptable in Standard English not because it is illogical, but because language changes and rejects this usage now.14. The prescriptivism in grammar rules has now shifted to prescriptions in choice of words. In the “guidelines on anti-sexist language” issued by the British sociological association, someguidelines are listed below. Do you think they are descriptive and prescriptive? What’s your comment on them?(1) Do not use man to mean humanity in general. Use person, people, human beings, men and women, humanity and humankind.(2) colored: This term is regarded as outdated in the UK and should be avoided as it is generally viewed as offensive to many black people.(3) civilized: This term can still carry racist overtones which derive from a colonialist perception of the world. It is often associated with social Darwinist thought and is full of implicit value judgments and ignorance of the history of the non-industrialized world.ANSWER:They are undoubtedly descriptive. Guidelines are not rules that can determine whether a sentence is right or not. The guidelines advise you to avoid the use of particular words that are grammatically correct but offensive to some certain groups. Actually, they describe the way anti-sexist advocators speak and write.15. Why is the distinction between competence and performance an important one in linguistics? Do you think the line can be neatly drawn between them? How do you like the concept “communicative competence”?ANSWER:This is proposed by Chomsky in his formalist linguistic theories. It is sometimes hard to draw a strict line. Some researchers in applied linguistics think communicative competence may be a more revealing concept in language teaching than the purely theoretical pair—competence and performance.16. Which branch of linguistics do you think will develop rapidly in China and why?It is up to you to decide after you have gone through the whole book. At this stage, we suggest all branches of linguistics have the potential to flourish.17. The following are some well-known ambiguous sentences in syntactic studies of language. Can you disambiguate them?The chicken is too hot to eat.Flying planes can be dangerous.ANSWER:The chicken is too hot to eat.The chicken meat is too hot, so it cannot be eaten at the moment.The chicken feels so hot (maybe after some intense aerobic exercises) that it cannot start eating and needs to calm down first.Flying planes can be dangerous.The ambiguity comes from "flying planes". It can be deciphered as "the planes that is flying" or "to fly planes".18. There are many reasons for the discrepancy between competence and performance in normal language users. Can you think of some of them?ANSWEREthnic background, socioeconomic status, region of the country, and physical state (such as intoxication, fatigue, distraction, illness) vary from individual to individual.19. What do these two quotes reveal about the different emphasis or perspectives of language studies?(1) A human language is a system of remarkable complexity. To come to know a human language would be an extraordinary intellectual achievement for a creature not specifically designed to accomplish this task. A normal child acquires this knowledge on relatively slight exposure and without specific training. He can then quite effortlessly make use of an intricate structure of specific rules and guiding principles to convey his thoughts and feelings to others, ... Thus language is a mirror of mind in a deep and significant sense. It is a product of human intelligence, created anew in each individual by operations that lie far beyond the reach of will or consciousness.(Noam Chomsky: Reflections on Language. 1975: 4)(2) It is fairly obvious that language is used to serve a variety of different needs, but until we examine its grammar there is no clear reason for classifying its uses in any particular way. However, when we examine the meaning potential of language itself, we find that the vast numbers of options embodied in it combine into a very few relatively independent “networks”; and these networks of options correspond to certain basic functions of language. This enables us to give an account of the different functions of language that is relevant to the general understanding of linguistic structure rather than to any particular psychological or sociological investigation. (M. A. K. Halliday, 1970: 142)ANSWER:The first quote shows children’s inborn ability of acquiring the knowledge of intricate structure of specific rules. It implies that the language user's underlying knowledge about the system of rules is the valuable object of study for linguists. The second attaches great importance to the functions of language. It regards the use of language as the choice of needed function. The meaning of language can be completely included by a few “networks” which is directly related to basic functions of language. It indicates the necessity to study the functions of language.20. You may be familiar with the following proverbs. How do you perceive them according to the arbitrariness and conventionality of language?The proof of the pudding is in the eating.Let sleeping dogs lie.You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.Rome was not built in a day.When in Rome, do as the Romans do.All roads lead to Rome.ANSWER:20. Arbitrariness and conventionality derive from the choice of the subject matter. For example, in the “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” The word “pudding” is selected arbitrarily, for we can use another word such as cheese instead of pudding without changing the associative meaning of the proverb. On the other hand, once such links between particular words and associativemeaning are fixed, it becomes a matter of conventionality.21. Give examples of situations in which a usage generally considered non-standard (e.g. ain’t) would be acceptable, even appropriate.ANSWER21. In the talks between intimate friends, one may say “gimme that!” instead of “give me that!” and “wachya doin’?” instead of “what are you doing?” and this list may go on.22. The following are some book titles of linguistics. Can you judge the diachronic and diachronic orientation just from the titles?English Examined: Two centuries of Comment on the Mother-Tongue.Protean Shape: A Study in Eighteenth-century Vocabulary and Usage.Pejorative Sense Development in English.The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation.Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular.ANSWER22. Synchronic:Protean Shape: A Study in Eighteenth-century Vocabulary and Usage.The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation.Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular.Diachronic:English Examined: Two centuries of Comment on the Mother-Tongue.Pejorative Sense Development in English。
语言学课后答案
1.What is the difference between an allophone and a phoneme?A phoneme is a unit of sound in a language that cannot be analysed into smaller linear units and that can distinguish one word from another. Phonemes are often presented surrounded by in transcription (e.g. /p/ and /b/ in English pat, bat). So /p/ and /b/ are two phonemes because they can distinguish between the words "pat" and "bat". /c/ is another, because it distinguishes the word "cat" from "pat" and "bat".Allophones are any of the variants making up a single phoneme .So, for example, you might pronounce the letter "T" differently in the two words "stand" and "tip".2.Which of the following words would be treated as minimal pairs? Ban ,fat, pit, bell, tape, heat, meal, more, pat, pen, chain, vote, bet, far, bun, goat ,heel, sane ,talePat----fatpat---pitheat—healtape---talebun---banfat---farbell---betmeal---heel3.What is meant by the phonotactics of a language?Phonotactics is the particular combination of letter sounds that are allowable within a given language. Each language, or even each dialect of a language, has its own set of rules that speakers stay within. Phonotactics is a branch of phonology, the study of the sound structures of languages, but also has applications in phonetics, the actual production of sound, in synthesized speech and language identification Phonotactics affects the structure and emphasis of syllables in a language. Nearly every French word, for instance, has an emphasis on the final syllable. In Greek, the emphasis depends on the length of the final vowel in the word, among other factors. When speaking his or her native language, a person is often able to put the emphasis on the correct syllable intuitively, even if reading an unfamiliar word.。
语言学教程课后习题与答案第一章
Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics1. Define the following terms:design feature: the distinctive features of human language that essentially make human language distinguishable from languages of animals.function: the role language plays in communication (e.g. to express ideas, attitudes) or in particular social situations (e.g. religious, legal).synchronic: said of an approach that studies language at a theoretical ‘point’ in time.diachronic: said of the study of development of language and languages over time. prescriptive: to make authoritarian statement about the correctness of a particular use of language.descriptive: to make an objective and systematic account of the patterns and use of a language or variety.arbitrariness: the absence of any physical correspondence between linguistic signals and the entities to which they refer.duality: the structural organization of language into two abstract levels: meaningful units (e.g. words) and meaningless segments (e.g. sounds, letters).displa cement: the ability of language to refer to contexts removed from the speaker’s immediate situation.phatic communion: said of talk used to establish atmosphere or maintain social contact.metalanguage: a language used for talking about language.macrolinguistics: a broad conception of linguistic enquiry, including psychological, cultural, etc.competence: unconscious knowledge of the system of grammatical rules in a language.performance: the language actually used by people in speaking or writing.l angue: the language system shared by a “speech community”.parole: the concrete utterances of a speaker.2. Consult at least four introductory linguistics textbooks (not dictionaries), and copy the definitions of “language” that each gives. After careful ly comparing the definitions, write a paper discussing which points recur and explaining the significance of the similarities and differencesamong the definitions.ANSWER:All the definitions should not exclude the description of design features that have been mentioned in this course book. Also it will be better if other design features, say, interchangeability or cultural transmission is included. But it seems impossible to give an unimpeachable definition on language, because the facets people want to emphasize are seldom unanimous. To compare several definitions can make you realize where the argument is.3. Can you think of some words in English which are onomatopoeic?ANSWERS:creak: the sound made by a badly oiled door when it opens.cuckoo: the call of cuckoo.bang: a sudden loud noise.roar: a deep loud continuing sound.buzz: a noise of buzzing.hiss: a hissing sound.neigh: the long and loud cry that a horse makes.mew: the noise that a gull makes.bleat: the sound made by a sheep, goat or calf.4. Do you think that onomatopoeia indicates a non-arbitrary relationship between form and meaning?ANSWER:4. No matter you say "Yes" or "No", you cannot deny that onomatopoeia needs arbitrariness. Before we feel a word is onomatopoeic we should first know which sound the word imitates. Just as what is said in Chapter One, in order to imitate the noise of flying mosquitoes, there are many choices like "murmurous" and "murderous". They both bear more or less resemblance to the genuine natural sound, but "murmurous" is fortunately chosen to mean the noise while "murderous" is chosen to mean something quite different. They are arbitrary as signifiers.5. A story by Robert Louis Stevenson contains the sentence “As the night fell, the wind rose.” Could this be expressed as “As the wind rose, the night fell?” If not, why? Does this indicate a degree of non-arbitrariness about word order? (Bolinger, 1981: 15)5. Yes. It is a case in point to illustrate non-arbitrariness about word order. When the two parts interchange, the focus and the meaning of the sentence is forced to change, because clauses occurring in linear sequence without time indicators will be taken as matching the actual sequence of happening. The writer’s original intention is distorted, and we c an feel it effortlessly by reading. That is why systemic-functionalists and American functionalists think language is not arbitrary at the syntactic level.6. Does the traffic light system have duality? Can you explain by drawing a simple graph?6. Traffic light does not have duality. Obviously, it is not a double-level system. There is only one-to-one relationship between signs and meaning but the meaning units cannot be divided into smaller meaningless elements further. So the traffic light only has the primary level and lacks the secondary level like animals’ calls.ANSWER:Red→stopGreen→goYellow→get ready to go or stop7. The recursive nature of language provides a theoretical basis for the creativity of language. Can you write a recursive sentence following the example in section 1.3.3.ANSWER:Today I encountered an old friend who was my classmate when I was in elementary school where there was an apple orchard in which we slid to select ripe apples that…8. Communication can take many forms, such as sign, speech, body language and facial expression. Do body language and facial expression share or lack the distinctive properties of human language?ANSWER:On a whole, body language and facial expression lack most of the distinctive properties of human language such as duality, displacement, creativity and so on. Body language exhibits arbitrariness a little bit. For instance, nod means "OK/YES" for us but in Arabian world it is equal to saying "NO". Some facial expressions have non-arbitrariness because they are instinctive such as the cry and laugh of a newborn infant.9. Do you agree with the view that no language is especially simple?ANSWER:Yes. All human languages are complicated systems of communication. It is decided by their shared design features.10. What do you think of Bertrand Russell’s observation of the dog language: “No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest”? Are you familiar with any type of ways animals communicate among themselves and with human beings? ANSWER:When gazelles sense potential danger, for example, they flee and thereby signal to other gazelles in the vicinity that danger is lurking. A dog signals its wish to be let inside the house by barking and signals the possibility that it might bite momentarily by displaying its fangs.11.Can you mention some typical expressions of phatic communion in Chinese? There is the dialog between Ms. P and Ms. Q. in section 1.5.5. When someone sneezes violently, do you say anything of the nature of phatic communion? Have you noticed your parents or grandparents say something special on such an occasion?Some of the typical phatic expressions in Chinese are: 吃了吗？家里都好吧？这是去哪里啊？最近都挺好的？ANSWER:If someone is sneezing violently, maybe you parents and grandparents may say: “Are you ok?”, “Do you need to see a doctor?”, “Do you need some water?”, “Do you need a handkerchief?”, “Do you have a cold?” or something like these to show their concerns.12．There are many expressions in language which are metalingual or self-reflexives, namely, talking about talk and think about thinking, for instance, to be honest, to make a long story short, come to think of it, on second thought, can you collect a few more to make a list of these expressions? When do we use them most often?ANSWER:To tell the truth, frankly speaking, as a matter of fact, to be precise, in other words, that is to say Such expressions are used most frequently when we want to expatiate the meaning of former clauses in anther way in argumentation.13. Comment on the following prescriptive rules. Do you think they are acceptable?(A) It is I.(B) It is me.You should say A instead of B because “be” should be followed by the nominative case, not the accusative according to the rules in Latin.(A) Who did you speak to?(B) Whom did you speak to?You should say B instead of A.(A) I haven't done anything.(B) I haven't done nothing.B is wrong because two negatives make a positive.ANSWER:(1) the Latin rule is not universal. In English, me is informal and I is felt to be very formal.(2) Whom is used in formal speech and in writing; who is more acceptable in informal speech.(3) Language does not have to follow logic reasoning. Here two negative only make a more emphatic negative. This sentence is not acceptable in Standard English not because it is illogical, but because language changes and rejects this usage now.14. The prescriptivism in grammar rules has now shifted to prescriptions in choice of words. In the “guidelines on anti-sexist language” issued by the British sociological association, some guidelines are listed below. Do you think they are descriptive and prescriptive? What’s your comment on them?(1) Do not use man to mean humanity in general. Use person, people, human beings, men and women, humanity and humankind.(2) colored: This term is regarded as outdated in the UK and should be avoided as it is generally viewed as offensive to many black people.(3) civilized: This term can still carry racist overtones which derive from a colonialist perception of the world. It is often associated with social Darwinist thought and is full of implicit valuejudgments and ignorance of the history of the non-industrialized world.ANSWER:They are undoubtedly descriptive. Guidelines are not rules that can determine whether a sentence is right or not. The guidelines advise you to avoid the use of particular words that are grammatically correct but offensive to some certain groups. Actually, they describe the way anti-sexist advocators speak and write.15. Why is the distinction between competence and performance an important one in linguistics? Do you think the line can be neatly drawn between them? How do you like the concept “communicative competence”?ANSWER:This is proposed by Chomsky in his formalist linguistic theories. It is sometimes hard to draw a strict line. Some researchers in applied linguistics think communicative competence may be a more revealing concept in language teaching than the purely theoretical pair—competence and performance.16. Which branch of linguistics do you think will develop rapidly in China and why?It is up to you to decide after you have gone through the whole book. At this stage, we suggest all branches of linguistics have the potential to flourish.17. The following are some well-known ambiguous sentences in syntactic studies of language. Can you disambiguate them?The chicken is too hot to eat.Flying planes can be dangerous.ANSWER:The chicken is too hot to eat.The chicken meat is too hot, so it cannot be eaten at the moment.The chicken feels so hot (maybe after some intense aerobic exercises) that it cannot start eating and needs to calm down first.Flying planes can be dangerous.The ambiguity comes from "flying planes". It can be deciphered as "the planes that is flying" or "to fly planes".18. There are many reasons for the discrepancy between competence and performance in normal language users. Can you think of some of them?ANSWEREthnic background, socioeconomic status, region of the country, and physical state (such as intoxication, fatigue, distraction, illness) vary from individual to individual.19. What do these two quotes reveal about the different emphasis or perspectives of language studies?(1) A human language is a system of remarkable complexity. To come to know a human language would be an extraordinary intellectual achievement for a creature not specifically designed to accomplish this task. A normal child acquires this knowledge on relatively slight exposure andwithout specific training. He can then quite effortlessly make use of an intricate structure of specific rules and guiding principles to convey his thoughts and feelings to others, ... Thus language is a mirror of mind in a deep and significant sense. It is a product of human intelligence, created anew in each individual by operations that lie far beyond the reach of will or consciousness.(Noam Chomsky: Reflections on Language. 1975: 4)(2) It is fairly obvious that language is used to serve a variety of different needs, but until we examine its grammar there is no clear reason for classifying its uses in any particular way. However, when we examine the meaning potential of language itself, we find that the vast numbers of options embodied in it combine into a very few relatively independent “networks”; and these networks of options correspond to certain basic functions of language. This enables us to give an account of the different functions of language that is relevant to the general understanding of linguistic structure rather than to any particular psychological or sociological investigation. (M. A. K. Halliday, 1970: 142)ANSWER:The first quote shows chil dren’s inborn ability of acquiring the knowledge of intricate structure of specific rules. It implies that the language user's underlying knowledge about the system of rules is the valuable object of study for linguists. The second attaches great importance to the functions of language. It regards the use of language as the choice of needed function. The meaning of language can be completely included by a few “networks” which is directly related to basic functions of language. It indicates the necessity to study the functions of language.20. You may be familiar with the following proverbs. How do you perceive them according to the arbitrariness and conventionality of language?The proof of the pudding is in the eating.Let sleeping dogs lie.You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.Rome was not built in a day.When in Rome, do as the Romans do.All roads lead to Rome.ANSWER:20. Arbitrariness and conventionality derive from the choice of the subject matter. For example, in the “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” The word “pudding” is selected arbitrarily, for we can use another word such as cheese instead of pudding without changing the associative meaning of the proverb. On the other hand, once such links between particular words and associative meaning are fixed, it becomes a matter of conventionality.21. Give examples of situations in which a usage generally considered non-standard (e.g. ain’t) would be acceptable, even appropriate.ANSWER21. In the talks between intimate friends, o ne may say “gimme that!” instead of “give me that!” and “wachya doin’?” instead of “what are you doing?” and this list may go on.22. The following are some book titles of linguistics. Can you judge the diachronic and diachronic orientation just from the titles?English Examined: Two centuries of Comment on the Mother-Tongue.Protean Shape: A Study in Eighteenth-century V ocabulary and Usage.Pejorative Sense Development in English.The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation.Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular.ANSWER22. Synchronic:Protean Shape: A Study in Eighteenth-century V ocabulary and Usage.The Categories and Types of Present-Day English Word-Formation.Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular.Diachronic:English Examined: Two centuries of Comment on the Mother-Tongue.Pejorative Sense Development in English。
语言学课后答案3
1.morpheme: the smallest unit of language in terms of the relationship between expression and content, a unit that can not be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexically or grammatically. Take for example, the word tourists contains three morphemes. There is one minimal unit of meaning, tour, another minimal unit of meaning –ist (meaning ―person who does something), and a minimal unit of grammatical function –s (indicating plural). Meanwhile, from the above example, we can further classify morphemes into different types on different dimensions: (a) free morphemes, which can stand by themselves as single words, e.g. tour in tourist, and bound morphemes, which cannot normally stand alone, but which are typically attached to another form, e.g. –ist, -s. (b) lexical morphemes and functional morphemes. Both of these two types of morphemes fall into the ―free‖ category. The first category is that set of ordinary nouns, adjectives and verbs tha t carry the ―content‖ of message we convey, e.g. house, long and follow. The second category consists largely of the functional words in the language such as conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns, e.g. but, above, the and it. (c) derivational morphemes and inflectional morphemes. These two types of morphemes fall into the ―bound‖ category. The derivational morphemes are used to make new words in the language and are often employed to produce words of a different grammatical category from the stem. For example, the addition of the derivational morpheme –ness changes the adjective good to the noun goodness. In contrast, inflectional morphemes never change the grammatical category of a word, but indicate aspects of the grammatical function of a word. For example, both old and older are adjectives. The –er inflection simply creates a different version of the adjective, indicating a comparative degree. As a useful way to remember the different categories of morphemes, the following chart can be used:It should be pointed out, morphemes may also be divided into roots and affixes, the root being that part of a word structure which is left when all the affixes have been removed. Root morphemes may be bound or free, and are potentially unlimited in number in a language; Affixes are bound morphemes and limited in number. For instance, in try, tries, trying, tried, the root is try, and –s, -ing, -ed are affixes. compound:refers to the words that consist of more than on lexical morpheme or the way to join two separate words to produce a single form, such as classroom, mailbox, fingerprint, sunburn. In terms of the word class of compounds, there are Noun compounds (e.g. daybreak), Verb compounds (e.g. brainwash), Adjective compounds (e.g. dutyfree) and Preposition compounds (e.g. throughout). Meanwhile compounds can be further divided into endocentric compound and exocentric compound in terms of its structural organization. The head of a nominal or adjectival endocentric compound is d is derived from a Verb, and it is usually the case that the first member is a participant of the process verb. Consider the following two examples: self-control and virus-sensitive. The exocentric nominal compounds are formed by V+N, V+A, and V+P, whereas the exocentric adjectives come from V+N and V+A. Here are some examples:Nouns scarecrow playboy cutthroat Adjectives takehome lackluster breakneckinflection: is the manifestation of grammatical relationship through the addition of inflectional affixes such as number, person, finiteness, aspect and cases to which they are attached.affix:the collective term for the type of formative that can be used when added to another morpheme. Affixes in a language are limited in number, and are generally classified into three subtypes, namely, prefix, suffix, and infix, depending on their position around the root or stem of a word. Prefixes are these affixes that have be added to the beginning of a word (e.g. un- in unhappy); suffixes are those added to the end of a word (e.g.–ish in foolish); infixes, as a third type of affix, is not normally found in English but fairly common in some other languages. As the term suggests, it is an affix that is incorporated inside another word. It is possible to see the general principle at work in certain expressions, occasionally used in fortuitous or aggravating circumstances by emotionally aroused English speakers: Absogoddamlutely!And Unfuckingbelievable! In fact, all affixes are bound morphemes. derivation: is the most common word-formation process to be found in the production of new English words. It is accomplished by means of a large number of affixes of English language, and shows the relationship between roots and affixes. For example:mis+represent →misrepresent, joy+ ful → joyful, sad + ness → sadness. In contrast to inflection, derivation can make the word class of the original word either changed or unchanged, e.g. dis + card → discard (changed) and dis + obey → disobey (unchanged). It is worth mentioning that word forms that come from derivation are relatively large and potentially open. Take the prefix pre- for example. One can easily list hundreds of words from any dictionary, such as preamble, pre-arrange, precaution, precede, precedent, precept, precinct, precognition, precondition, precursor, among many othersroot: refers to the base form of a word that cannot be further analyzed without loss of identity. That is to say, it is that part of the word that is left when all the affixes are removed. In the word internationalism, after the removal of inter-, -al and -ism, the left part is the root nation. Apparently, all words contain a root morpheme. And roots can be further classified into free root morpheme and bound root morpheme.First, free root morphemes are those that can stand by themselves and are the base forms of words, such as black in black, blackbird, blackboard, blacksmith. A language may contain many morphemes of this type. Second, there are relatively a few bound root morphemes in English, such as -ceive in receive, perceive, and conceive; -mit in remit, permit, commit, and submit; -tain in retain, contain, and maintain; -cur in incur, recur, and occur, etc. Third, a few English roots may have both free and bound variants. For instance, sleep(/sliːp/) and child (/tʃaild/) are free root morphemes, whereas slep- in the past tense form of sleep, i.e. slept and child- in the plural form of child, namely children, cannot exist by themselves, and are hence bound.allomorph:A morpheme, like a phoneme, is a linguistic abstraction, which must be realized as certain phonetic forms or variants in different phonetic environments. Each of the phonetic forms or variants is a morph. A single morpheme may be phonetically realized as two or more morphs. The different morphs that represent or which are derived from one morpheme is called the allomorphs of that morpheme. In practice, some morphemes have a single form in all contexts, such as ―dog‖ ―bark‖ etc. In other instances there may be considerable variation, that is to say, a morpheme may have alternate shapes or phonetic forms. For example, the plural sememe in English can be represented by the voiceless /s/, the voiced /z/, the vowel-consonant structure /ɪz/, the diphthong /aɪ/ found in the irregular form of /maɪs/, the nasal sound /n/ in /ˡɒksn/, the long vowel /i/ in /tiːθ/ and the zero form /iː/ of /ʃiːp/ and others. Each would be said to be an allomorph of the plural morpheme.stem: is any morpheme or combinations of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added. For example, friend-in friends, and friendship- in friendships are both stems. The former shows that a stem may be the same as a root, whereas the latter shows that a stem may contain a root and one, or more than one, derivational affix.bound morpheme: refers to those which can not occur alone and must appear with at least one other morpheme. For example, the word distempered has three morphemes, namely, dis-, temper, and -ed, of which temper is a free morpheme, dis-and -ed are two boundmorphemes. There are two types of morphemes which fall into the ―bound‖ category: derivational morphemes and inflectional morphemes. The derivational morphemes are used to make new words in the language and are often employed to produce words of a different grammatical category from the stem. For example, the addition of the derivational morpheme –ness changes the adjective good to the noun goodness. In contrast, inflectional morphemes never change the grammatical category of a word, but indicate aspects of the grammatical function of a word. For example, both old and older are adjectives. The –er inflection simply creates a different version of the adjective, indicating a comparative degree.free morpheme: refers to those which may occur alone or which may constitute words by themselves. In English cats,cat is free since cat is a word in its own right. Free morphemes therefore necessarily constitute mono-morphemic words. So all mono-morphemic words are free morphemes. Poly-morphemic words/compound words may consist wholly of free morphemes, and English aircraft, godfather and housewife. As for its subtypes, free morphemes can be further divided into lexical morphemes and functional morphemes. The former is that set of ordinary nouns, adjectives and verbs that carry the ―content‖ of message we convey, e.g. house, long and follow. The latter consists largely of the functional words in the language such as conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns, e.g. but, above, the and it. lexeme: in order to reduce the ambiguity of the term word, lexeme is postulated as the abstract unit underlying the smallest unit in the lexical system of a language which appears in different grammatical contexts. For exampl e, ―write‖ is the lexeme of the following set of words: write, writes, wrote, writing, written.grammatical word:refers to those which mainly work for constructing group, phrase, clause, clause complex, or even text, such as, conjunctions, prepositions, articles, and pronouns. Grammatical words serve to link together different content parts. So they are also known as Function Words.lexical word:refers to those which have mainly work for referring to substance, action and quality, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, andadverbs. Lexical words carry the main content of a language. So lexical words are also known as Content Words.lexicon:refers to the whole vocabulary of a language as against grammar of a language.closed-class:A word that belongs to the closed-class is one whose membership is fixed or limited, such as pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and others. One cannot easily add or deduce a new member.open-class:is one whose membership is in principle infinite or unlimited. When new ideas, inventions, or discoveries emerge, new members are continually and constantly being added to the lexicon. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and many adverbs are all open-class items.blending:is a relatively complex form of compounding, in which two words are blended by joining together the initial part of the first word and the final part of the second word, or by only joining the initial parts of the two words. For example, telephone + exchange → telex; transfer + resister → transistor.loanword: The borrowing of a process in which both form and meaning are borrowed with only a slight change, in some cases, to the phonological system of the new language that they enter. For instance, English borrowed au pair, encore, coup d'etat and others from French, al fresco(in the open air) from Italian, tea from Chinese, sputnik from Russian and moccasin(a type of shoe) from an American Indian language.loanblend: is a process in which part of the form is native and the rest has been borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed. For example, the first parts of the words coconut and China-town came from Spanish and Chinese respectively, but the second parts are of the English origin. loanshift: is a process in which the meaning is borrowed, but the form is native. For example, the Italian ponte means ―bridge‖ in the literal sense, when it refers to a type of card game, the meaning was borrowed from English.acronym:is made up from the first letters of the name of an organization, which has a heavily modified headword. For example, WTO stands for World Trade Organization. This process is also widely used in shortening extremely long words of word groups in science, technology and other special fields, e.g. Aids—acquired immune deficiency syndrome, COBOL—common business oriented language. loss: the loss of sound refers to the disappearance of the very sound as a phoneme in the phonological system. Take the sound /x/ in O.E. (old English) again for example. Apart from having changed into /f/ or /k/ in some words as mentioned above, this velar fricative was simply lost between the times of Chaucer and Shakespeare. Sounds lost may also occur in utterances at the expense of some unstressed vowels. For example, temperature /'tempərətʃə/ /'temprətʃə/. backformation: refers to an abnormal type of word-formation where a shorter word is derived by deleting an imagined affix from a longer form already in the language. For example, the word television appeared before televise. The first part of the word television was pulled out and analyzed as a root, even though no such root occurs elsewhere in the English language.assimilation:refers to the change of a sound by the influence of an adjacent sound, which is more specifically called ―contact‖ or ―contiguous‖ assimilation. The assimi lation processes at work could be explained by the ―theory of least effort‖; that is, in speaking we tend to use as little effort as possible so that we do not want to vary too often the places of articulation in uttering a sequence of sounds. Assimilation takes place in quick speech very often. For instance, in expressions such as immobile, irrevocable, impolite, illegal, the negative prefixes im-, il-, or ir- should be in- etymologically. Sometimes assimilation may occur between two sounds that are not too far separated. For instance, discussing shortly(/s/ becomes /ʃ/) and confound it(/ə/ becomes /aʊ/). This is called ―non-contiguous‖ or ―distant‖ assimilation. dissimilation:refers to the influence of one sound segment upon the articulation of another, so that the sounds become less alike, or different. For example,grammar (O.E.) → glamor (M.E.)peregrinus (Latin) → pilgrimmarbre (French) → marbleIn all these examples, one of the phonemes, /r/, dissimilates to /l/ in the course of time, which has changed the morpheme in question.folk etymology: refers to the change of the form of a word or phrase, resulting from an incorrect popular notion of the origin or meaning of the term, or from the influence of more familiar terms mistakenly taken to be analogous. For example, the word sparrowgrass in English was derived from asparagus and the Spanish cucaracha was changed into English cockroach.2.a. irremovableb. informalc. impracticabled. insensiblee. intangiblef. illogicalg. irregularh. disproportionatei. ineffectivej. inelastick. inductivel. irrational m. dissyllabic n. abnormal o. unworkable p. unwritten q. unusual r. unthinkable s. inhuman t. irrelevant u. uneditable v. immobile w. illegalx. indiscreet3.As a matter of fact, morpheme is both a grammatical concept and a semantic one.For instance, we can recognize that English word-forms such as talks, talker,talked and talking must consist of one element talk, and a number of otherelements such as –s, -er, -ed, -ing. All these elements are described asmorphemes. The definition of morphemes is a “minimal unit ofmeaning orgrammatical function”. We would say that the word reopened in the sentence Thepolice reopened the investigation consists of three morphemes. One minimal unitof meaning is open, another minimal unit of meaning is re- (meaning again), anda minimal unit of grammatical function is –ed (indicating past tense). Therefore, we are in a position to conclude that those which can stand bythemselves as single words, e.g. open, are semantic concepts, and those whichcannot normally stand alone, but which are typically attached to another form,e.g. re-, -ist,-ed,-s, are grammatical concepts.As we know, each one of the meaning-distinguishing sounds in a language isdescribed as a phoneme. An essential property of a phoneme is that it functionscontrastively. If we substitute one sound for another in a word and there is achange of meaning, then the two sounds represent different phonemes. The relation between morpheme and phoneme is also of twofold feature, viz.one-to-one, one-to-more. As with the former type, one-to-one, re- is the kindof morpheme that always consists of two phonemes /riː/; as for the latter type,one-to-more relation, a typical example would be the plural morpheme thatfollows a noun or a verb. {s} after a noun can be pronounced in three ways, viz./s/, /z/,and /ɪz/, as in locks, bags, and watches; {z} after a verb can also bepronounced in three ways, viz. /s/, /z/, and /ɪz/, as in stops, drags, andcatches.Seen from a integrative perspective, a morpheme and a phoneme, indeed, can forman organic whole, as the number of the sound of each morpheme cannot beunlimited.4.The function words in this passage include: she, was, a, and, when, she, for,she, was, past, of, her, were, in, but, this, and, as, she, a, that, from, of, would, to, her, a, of, that, had, over, she, would, the, it, on, her, and, it, and the. Altogether there are 85 words in this passage, and the function wordsare 40. Then the percentage of function words in this passage is 40/85¡Ö47% .5. Here are the answers for reference:(a) The ¡°words¡± in Bloomfield¡¯s sense, namely, the minimum free forms asconceptual units in general thinking are those smallest units that can stand bythemselves and constitute, by themselves, complete utterances. Those that canfunction as complete utterances by themselves like hi, possibly, darling, andeven the legs of the table, the man I saw yesterday etc. are ¡°words¡±.(b) Yes, for example, those words that cannot stand only by themselves andconstitute utterances by themselves in the usual sense like the articles a andthe in English fail to satisfy Bloomfield¡¯s criterion, though he himself doesnot acknowledge this.(c) In addition to the criterion of a minimum free form, stability and relativeuninterruptibility are also involved in defining the word. Besides, the threesenses of ¡°word¡±, namely, a physically definable unit, the common factorunderlying a set of forms and a grammatical unit can be conducive to identifyingthe word.6.(a) bash(b) smash(c) glimmer(d) flimmer(e) clash(f) flare(g) brunch(h) motel(i) transistor (j) medicare (k) workaholic (l) spam (m) telethon (n) aerobicise (o) chunnel (p) chortle (q) bit(r) modem (s) guestimate (t) threepeat bat and mashsmack and mashgleam and shimmerflame and glimmerclap and crashflame and glarebreakfast and lunchmotor and hoteltransfer and resistormedical and carework and alcoholicspiced and hamtelephone and marathonaerobics and exercisechannel and tunnelchuckle and snortbinary and digitmodulator and demodulatorguess and estimatethree and repeat8.(a) asset: assets(b) burgle: burglar(c) enthuse: enthusiasm(d) greed: greedy(e) hush: husht(f) automate: automation(g) donate: donation(h) escalate: escalator(i) homesick: homesickness (j) peddle: peddler(k) diagnose: diagnosis(l) tuit: intuition(m) amusing: amuse(n) loaf: loafer(o) self-destruct: self-destruction (p) attrit: attrition(q) hairdress: hairdresser(r) emote: emotion(s) drawse: drowsy(t) frivol: frivolous9.(a) air(b) barbecue(c) bungalow(d) cola (e) gusto(f) babel(g) buffalo(h) cocoa(i) costume(j) ill(k) mule(l) decreed(m) revolution(n) benevolent(o) lie(p) topic(q) subject(r) theme(s) wind(t) datumMiddle EnglishAmerican SpanishHindi and UrduAfrican originSpanishHebrew (The Bible)ItalianSpanishFrenchMiddle EnglishMiddle EnglishMiddle EnglishMiddle EnglishMiddle EnglishMiddle EnglishLatinMiddle EnglishMiddle EnglishMiddle EnglishLatin10.LW: monk; loan-wordLB: booby trap; coconutLS: YankeeLT: firewater; free verse; war paint11.No. Words with both of these affixes –ly are not allocated in English. Seebelow:*friendlily (friend-friendly-friendlily*) *oilily (oil-oily-oilily*) *chillily (chill-chilly-chillily*)12.hat house kitchen region13.-ing, He is walking home, of progressive aspect-ed, He walked home, of simple past tense-s, He walks home, of simple present tense。
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Chapter 1Introduction1. Define the following terms briefly.(1) linguistics: the scientific or systematic study of language.(2) language: a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.(3) arbitrariness: the absence of similarity between the form of a linguistic sign and what itrelates to in reality, e.g. the word dog does not look like a dog.(4) duality: the way meaningless elements of language at one level (sounds and letters)combine to form meaningful units (words) at another level.(5) competence: knowledge of the grammar of a language as a formal abstraction anddistinct from the behavior of actual language use, i.e. performance.(6) performance: Chomsky’s te rm for actual language behavior as distinct from theknowledge that underlies it, or competence.(7) stylistics: the study of how literary effects can be related to linguistic features.(8) phatic communion: Language is used to establish an atmosphere or maintainsocial contact between the speaker and the hearer.(9) functionalism: the study of the forms of language in reference to their social function incommunication.(10) formalism: the study of the abstract forms of language and their internal relations.(11) synchronic linguistics: the study of language and speech as they are used at a givenmoment and not in terms of how they have evolved over time.(12) diachronic linguistics: the study of linguistic change over time in contrast to looking atlanguage as it is used at a given moment.2. No, language is human-specific. Human language has seven design features, including arbitrariness, duality, productivity, interchangeability, displacement, specialization and cultural transmission. These features are found utterly lacking in do gs’ or pigs’ noises and thus set human language apart from animal cry systems.3. Arbitrariness refers to the fact that there is no logical or intrinsic connection bet ween a particular sound and the meaning it is associated with. For example, for the same animal dog, in English we call it /d0g/, in Chinese as “gou”, but “yilu” in Japanese; it barks wow wow in English but wang wang in Chinese. Of course, onomatopoetic words such as “quack-quack” and “bang” are exceptions, but words like these are re latively few compared with the total number of words in a language.4. A human baby does not speak any language at birth. What language the baby is going to speak is determined by the culture he is born into. A Chinese baby born and brought up in London by an English family will speak English, while an English child brought up in Beijing by a Chinese aunt will speak Chinese. That is to say, language cannot be transmitted through heredity. It is culturally transmitted.5. Firstly, linguistics describes languages and does not lay down rules of correctness while traditional grammar emphasizes correctness. Secondly, linguistics regards the spoken language as primary, while traditional grammar emphasizes the priority of the written language. Thirdly, traditional grammar is based on Latin and it tries to impose the Latin categories and structures on other languages, while linguistics describes each language on its own merits.6. A descriptive approach attempts to tell what is in the language while the prescriptive approach tells people what should be in the language. Most modern linguistics is descriptive, whereas traditional grammars are prescriptive.7. Synchronic linguistics studies language at one particular time while diachronic linguistics studies language developments through time. Synchronic linguistics focuses on the state of language at any point in history while diachronic linguistics focuses on the differences in two or more than two states of language over decades or centuries.8. No, human language has the design feature of specialization. It refers to the fact that man does not have a total physical involvement in the act of communication. For example, a mother can tell a story to her child while slicing up a cake. However, wolves can only respond to a stimulus and is totally involved physically in the communication process. Thus, a wolf cannot have a language similar to man’s, even though it could express a thousand different emotions. Besides, the aspect of productivity also distinguishes human language from wolf ’s postures.Chapter 2The Sounds of Language1. Define each of the following terms briefly.(1) articulator: the tongue, lips, and velum, which change the shape of the vocal tract toproduce different speech sounds.(2) assimilation: a phonological process whereby a sound becomes phonetically similar (oridentical) to a neighboring sound, e.g. a vowel becomes [+nasal] when followed by a[+nasal] consonant.(3) consonant: a speech sound produced by partial or complete closure of part of the vocaltract, thus obstructing the airflow and creating audible friction. Consonants aredescribed in terms of voicing, place of articulation, and manner of articulation.(4) elision: the leaving out of a sound or sounds in speech.(5) intonation: the variation in pitch and stress which gives beat and rhythm to the tune thevoice plays in ordinary speech.(6) phoneme: the abstract element of a sound, ident ified as being distinctive in a particularlanguage.(7) phonetics: the study of linguistic speech sounds, how they are produced,how they are perceived, and their physical properties.(8) phonology: the study of the abstract systems underlying the sounds of language.(9) stress: the prominence given to certain sounds in speech.(10) voicing: the vibration in the larynx caused by air from the lungs passingthrough the vocal cords when they are partly closed; speech sounds are said to be eithervoiced or voiceless.(11) voiceless: When the vocal cords are spread apart, the airstream from thelungs is not obstructed at the space between vocal cords and passes freely.The sounds produced in this way are described as voiceless sounds.(12) vowel: a speech sound produced without significant constriction of the air flowingthrough the oral cavity.2. Minimal pair test or substitution test.Minimal pair test or substitution test is to see whether substituting one sound for 4another results in a different word. If it does, the two sounds represent different phonemes. For example, as to the English word bear, if we substitute p for b, we get the word pear, the two are different words. Then /b/ and /p/ represent different phonemes. Other examples are chunk/junk, ban/bin, bet/beat, fine/vine, side/site, etc.3. Take the word big for example, in the word big /big/, /b/ is the onset, /i/ is the nucleus and /g/ is the coda. The difference between open syllables and closed syllables is whether the words have codas. If there are codas, they are closed syllables, such as pig, hat and at; if not, they are open syllables, such as do, I, tea and key.4. (1) stop, consonant(2) back, rounded, vowel5. (1) voiceless / voiced(2) bilabial / labiodental(3) close / semi-open(4) stop / nasal(5) alveolar / palatal(6) alveolar / dental(1) kit/git, bucker/bugger, bag/back(2) mark/nark, smack/snack, sum/sun(3) best/vest, ober/over, lib/live(4) bore/more, abate/amate, mob/mom(5) pat/fat, apt/aft (AmE), harp (BrE)/half7. (1) The stresses are placed on the second syllable except for “promise”. We may easily conclude that the verbs usually are stressed on the second syllable.(2) Syllable representations of the words:collide [k2#laid] elect [i#lekt] consider [k2n#sid2]Chapter 3Morphology1. Define the following terms briefly.(1) morphology: the study of the structure of words.5(2) morpheme: the smallest unit of language that carries meaning or serves agrammatical function.(3) free morpheme: a morpheme that can stand alone as a word.(4) bound morpheme: a morpheme that can not stand alone as a word, e.g.ment (as in establishment), and -er (as in painter).(5) morph: the smallest meaningful phonetic segments of an utterance on the levelof parole.(6) allomorph: a phonetic form in which a morpheme is realized, e.g. -s, -es, and en are allallomorphs (in writing) of the plural morpheme.(7) derivation: the formation of new words by adding affixes to other words or morphemes inmorphology and word formation.(8) clipping: the process by which parts of a word of more than one syllable have been cutoff, and reduced to a shorter form.(9) acronym: words which are composed of the first letter of a series of words and arepronounced as single words. Examples: NATO, radar and yuppy.(10) initialism: Some new words are composed of the first letters of a series of wordsand pronounced by saying each letter in them. Such words are called initialism.(11) blending: A single new word can be formed by combining two separate forms.Typically, blending is finished by taking only the beginning of one word andjoining it to the end of another word. For example, brunch is formed by theshortened forms of breakfast and lunch.(12) root: the morpheme that remains when all affixes are stripped from a complex word, e.g.system from un- + system + atic + ally.(13) stem: the base to which one or more affixes are attached to create a more complexform that may be another stem or a word. For example, book is the stem of bookish. (14) prefix: Affixes can be joined to the beginning of the root or stem, in which caset hey are called prefixes.(15) suffix: Affixes can be joined to the end of the root or stem, in which case they are calledsuffixes.2. (3), (5), (7)3. (1) simple: fly tree suite(2) bound morpheme rootfly / flyreuse re- usespiteful -ful spitepreplan pre- plandesks -s desktriumphed -ed triumphsuite / suiteoptionality -ality optionuntie un- tiedelight de- lightfastest -est fastprettier -ier prettytree / treejustly -ly justdeform de- formmistreat mis- treatdislike dis- likepayment -ment paydisobey dis- obeypremature pre- mature4. (1) Column I: ablaut (vowel modification)Column II: suppletionColumn III: stress modification(2) The process in the Column I is finished by changing the vowel of each word, while inColumn II, the process is finished by changing vowe l and consonant of each word.(3) Column I: awake/awoke bear/bore arise/aroseblow/blew bite/bit hide/hidlie/lay know/knew foot/feetgoose/geese tooth/teeth louse/liceColumn II: bad/worse are/were many/moreColumn III: ‘combine/com’bine ‘compress/com’press7‘conduct/con’duct ‘insert/in’sert‘insult/in’sult ‘intern/in’tern5. (1) Omitted.(2) Other examples:‘rerun (n.) –re’run (v.) ‘contrast (n.) –con’trast (v.)‘convert (n.) –con’vert (v.) ‘desert (n.) –de’sert (v.)‘export (n.) –ex’port (v.) ‘increase (n.) –in’crease (v.)‘conduct (n.) –con’duct (v.) ‘object (n.) –ob’ject (v.)‘content (n.) –con’tent (v.) ‘protest (n.) –pro’test (v.)‘insult (n.) –in’sult (v.) ‘produce (n.) –pro’duce (v.)When a word belongs to different word classes, the stress of the word will be sometimes placed on different syllables. When all the words above are stressed on t he first syllables, they are nouns, but if they have the second syllables stressed, the words become verbs.6. (1) It means “the inhabitant of ”.(2) It means “the person who does”.(3) The morphological rule working here is “n. + -er ––n.”, and the lastphoneme of the noun, which the suffix -er is added to, should be a consonant. (4) The rule in (3) doesn’t work in the word discoverer because the last phonemeof discoverer is a vowel /2/.7. (1) inflection (2) derivation (3) inflection (4) inflection (5) derivationChapter 4Syntax1. Define the following terms briefly.(1) syntax: the term used to refer to the structure of sentences and to the study of sentencestructure.(2) word class: a group of words which are similar in function; words which are grouped intoword classes according to how they combine with other words, how they change theirforms, etc.(3) prescriptive approach: This view regards grammar as a set of rules forthe 8“proper” use of a language, that’s to say, it tries to lay down rules to tell people how to use a language.(4) descriptive approach: the approach of linguistic studies, with which linguists collectsamples of the language they are interested in and attempt to describe the regularstructures of the language as they are used, not according to some view of how theyshould be used.(5) IC analysis: the approach to divide the sentence up into its immediate constituentsby using binary cutting until obtaining its ultimate constituents. For example, theimmediate constituents of “The man bought a car” are the man and bought a car. Theimmediate constituents of the man are the and man, and so on until no further cutscan be made. The ultimate constituents of “The man bought a car” at the word level arethe, man, bought, a, and car.(6) structural analysis: a type of descriptive approach to study the distribution of linguisticforms in a language through such me thods as the use of “test frames”.(7) immediate constituent: Linguistic units can be divided into small constituents, whichcan be further analyzed into smaller constituents. This process continues until no further divisions are possible. The first division or units are known as immediateconstituents.(8) ultimate constituent: Linguistic units can be divided into small constituents, which canbe further analyzed into smaller constituents. This process continues until nofurther divi sions are possible. The final division or units are known as ultimateconstituents.(9) constituent structural grammar: It refers to a grammar which analyzes sentences usingonly the idea of constituency, which reveals a hierarchy of structural levels.(10) transformational grammar: a type of grammar which attempts to define and describe by aset of rules or principles all the grammatical sentences (without ungrammatical ones) of a language.(11) ideational function: the use of language as a means of giving structure to our experience ofthe real or imaginary world.(12) interpersonal function: the use of language for maintaining social roles and interactingwith others.(13) textual function: to create written or spoken texts which cohere within themselves andwhich fit the particular situation in which they are used.2. Yes. As we know, morphology is the study of the internal structure, forms and 9classes of words, while syntax focuses on the structure and ordering of components within a sentence. The major distinction between morphology and syntax is that the former is concerned with the internal composition of a word, while the latter is concerned with the combination of words.3. (2) Instead of using the form “suggest somebody to do something”, we usuallyuse “suggest + that-clause” or “suggest doing”, here we’d better substitute “advise”for “suggest”(4) The word “request” is a transitive verb which should take an object directly, so the word“for” should be omitted.(6) The word “donate” cannot be followed by double objects as “donate somebodysomething”. Instead we always use “donate something to somebody”.(10) The subject of the verb “write” is usually a human; an “article” cannot write itself. In thiscase the passive construction is normally used: The article was very well writen.(11) Usually we don’t use “be bored of something/somebody”, but “be bored withsomething/somebody” which means losing interest in somebody/something.(13) Here “myself ” is a reflexive pronoun, which can’t be used as subject, and it shouldbe replaced by “I”.(14) The word “surprise” is usually used as a transitive verb, so the expression“…surprise for you” is ungrammatical, and it can be replaced by “surp risesomebody (with something)” or “I was surprised by your getting married.”(15) The word “sleep” is usually used as an intransitive verb, which can’t take an object.The cases of “sleep” being used as a transitive verb are semantically limited, as in “to sleep a good sleep” or “the room can sleep 3 people”.4. It’s ungrammatical, because “us” is the objective case which can’t serve as the subject, while“she” is the subjective case which can’t serve as the object. The sentence should be “Wevisit her on Sundays”. The personal pronouns “you” and “it” have the same form whetherused as the subject or object.5. (1) NP: A Guns “N” Roses concert, an arena, some 2500 fans, a full-fledged riot, A Guns “N” Roses concert at an arena , A Guns “N” Roses c oncert at an arena near ST. Louis ,The trouble, venue security, a camera, the front, the stage, the front of the stage. PP: at an arena, at an arena near ST. Louis, near ST. Louis, in disaster, near the front, of the stage, near the front of the stage. VP: staged a full-fledged riot, asked venue security, confiscate a camera.(2) N: Guns, Roses, concert, arena, ST. Louis, disaster, fans, riot, trouble, Axl10Rose, venue, security, camera, front, stage. Prep: at, near, in, of. V: end, stage, start, ask,confiscate, see.6. (1) You mustn’t end a sentence with a preposition.You mustn’t split infinitives7. (i)(ii)8. (1) a. Terry loves his wife and I love his wife, too. b. Ilove my wife as well as Terry loves his wife.(2) a. It’s yesterday that they said she would go. b. Shewould go yesterday as they said.(3) a. The governor is a street fighter who is dirty.b. The governor is a fighter in a dirtystreet.(4) a. The design has squares and circles, both of which are big. b. The design has bigsquares, and it also has some circles. (The sizes of the circles are not mentioned.)Chapter 5Semantics1. Define the following terms briefly.(1) semantics: the study of linguistic meaning.(2) truth-conditional semantics: an approach that knowing the meaning of the sentenceis the same as knowing the conditions under which the sentence is true or false, andknowing the meaning of a word or expression is knowing the part that it plays in thetruth or falsehood of the sentence containing it.(3) naming theory: the view that the meaning of an expression is what it refers to, or names.(4) behaviorist theory: the view that the meaning of a linguistic form is defined as observablebehaviors which is an approach drawing on psychology.(5) use theory: the semantic theory according to which the meaning of anexpression is determined by its use in communication and more generally, insocial interaction.(6) sense: the inherent part of an expression’s meaning, together with the context,determines its referent. For example, knowing the sense of a noun phrasesuch as the president of the United States in 2004 allows one to determine that GeorgeW. Bush is the referent.(7) reference: (in semantics) the relationship between words and the things,actions, events and qualities they stand for. An example in English is the relationshipbetween the word tree and the object “tree” (referent) in the real world.(8) conceptual meaning: It means the meaning of words may be discussed in terms ofwhat they denote or refer to, also called denotative or cognitive meaning. It is theessential and inextricable part of what language is and is widely regarded as thecentral factor in verbal communication. For instance, the conceptual meaning of “he” inEnglish is any male person or male animal.(9) connotative meaning: It is the communicative meaning that a word or acombination of words has by virtue of what it refers to, over its purely conceptualmeaning. For example, the connotative meaning of “woman” is emotional, frail,inconstant, irrational, etc.(10) semantic field: the organization of related words and expressions into asystem which shows their relationship to one another. For example, kinship terms suchas father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt belong to a semantic field whose relevantfeatures include generation, sex, membership of the father’s or mother’s side of family.(11) lexical gap: the absence of a word in a particular place in a semantic field of a language.For instance, in English we have brother versus sister, son versus daughter, but noseparate lexemes for “male” and “female” cousin.(12) componential analysis: (in semantics) an approach to the study of meaning which analyzesa word into a set of meaning components or semantic features. For example,the meaning of the English word boy may be shown as [+human][+male][-adult]. (13) semantic feature: the smallest units of meaning in a word. The meaning of wordmay be described as a combination of semantic components or features. Forexample, the feature [+male] is part of the meaning of father, and so is thefeature [+adult], but other features are needed to make up the whole meaning of father.Often, semantic features are established by contrast and can be stated in terms of [+] and[-], e.g. woman has the semantic features [+human], [-male] and [+adult].(14) synonym: the sense relations of equivalence of meaning between lexical items,e.g. small/little and dead/deceased.(15) antonym: the sense relation of various kinds of opposing meaning between lexical items,e.g. big/small, alive/dead and good/bad.(16) hyponymy: the sense relation between terms in a hierarchy, where a moreparticular term (the hyponym) is included in the more general one (the superordinate): Xis a Y, e.g. a beech is a tree, a tree is a plant.(17) meronym: the sense relation between body and its parts which are not only sections ofthe body but defined in terms of specific functions. For example, the head is the part ofthe body which carries the most important sense organs, i.e. eyes, ears, nose and tongue.(18) semantic role: the way in which the referent of a noun phrase is involved in the situationdescribed or represented by the clause, for example as agent, patient, orcause.(19) entailment: the relationship between two sentences where the truth of one (thesecond) is inferred from the truth of the other, e.g. Corday assassinated Marat and Maratis dead; if the first is true, the second must be true.(20) presupposition: implicit assumptions about the world required to make an utterancemeaningful or appropr iate, e.g. “some tea has already been taken” is a presupposition of“Take some more tea!”2. (1) He waited by the bank.a. He waited by the financial institution which people can keep their money in or borrowfrom.b. He waited by the bank of the river.(2) Is he really that kind?a. Is he really that type of person?b. Is he really that kind-hearted?(3) We bought her dog biscuits.a. We bought dog biscuits for her.b. We bought biscuits for her dog.(4) He saw that gasoline can explode.a. He saw that gasoline container explode.b. He saw that gasoline may explode.(5) Fifty soldiers shot three wild foxes.a. Fifty soldiers shot three wild foxes in total.b. Each of the fifty soldiers shot three wild foxes.(6) He saw her drawing pencils.a. He saw her pencils for drawing.b. He saw her drawing the picture of pencils.3. (2) (4) (5) (8) are antonyms; (1) (3) (6) (7) are synonyms.4. charity: kindness, sympathy, church, helpfuliron: strong, brave, hard, determinedmole: traitor, betrayal, spysnow: pure, virgin, cleanstreet: homeless, living hard, pitiable5. (1) a. hoard b. scribble c. barn, method d. olfactory(2) a. acquire b. tell c. way d. smell(3) a. buy, win, steal. b. talk, tell c. road, way, path d. smellThese words are less marked in their sets because they are more usual and tendto be used more frequently. They consist of only one morpheme and are easier tolearn and remember than others. They are also often broader in meaning and cannot bedescribed by using the name of another member ofthe same field.6. homophones: sea-see, break-brake; polysemies: sea, break, prayer, mature, trace, househomonyms: ear.7. In a semantic field, not all lexical items necessarily have the same status. The less markedmembers of the same semantic field (1) are usually easier to learn andremember than more marked members; (2) consist of only one morpheme incontrast to more marked members; (3) cannot be described by using the name of anothermember of the same field; (4) tend to be used more frequently than more marked terms;(5) broader in meaning than more marked members; (6) are not the result of themetaphorical usage of the name of another object or concept, but more marked are.8. (1) a. bachelor, man, son, paperboy, pope, chiefb. bull, rooster, drake, ram.The (a) and (b) words are male.The (a) words are human.The (b) words are animals.(2) a. ask, tell, say, talk, converseb. shout, whisper, mutter, drawl, hollerThe (a) and (b) words are realized by sounds.The (a) words are normal voice quality.The (b) words are produced by modifying one’s normal voice quality.(3) a. walk, run, skip, jump, hop, swimb. fly, skate, ski, ride, cycle, canoe, hang-glideThe (a) and (b) words are sports (movement).The (a) words are sports without instruments.The (b) words are sports with instruments.Chapter 6Pragmatics1.Define the following terms briefly.(1) pragmatics: a branch of linguistics that studies language in use.(2) deixis: the marking of the orientation or position of entities and situations withrespect to certain points of reference such as the place (here/there) and time (now/then) of utterance.(3) reference: (in semantics) the relationship between words and the things, actions, events,and qualities they stand for.(4) anaphora: a process where a word or phrase (anaphor) refers back to another word orphrase which was used earlier in a text or conversation.(5) presupposition: implicit assumptions about the world required to make anutterance meaningful or appropriate, e.g. “some tea has already been taken” is apres upposition of “Take some more tea!”(6) Speech Act Theory: The theory was proposed by J. L. Austin and has been developedby J. R. Searle. Basically, they believe that language is not only used to inform or todescribe things, it is often used to “do things”, to perform acts. In saying“Sorry”, you are performing an act of apology.(7) indirect speech act: an utterance whose literal meaning (location) andintended meaning (illocution) are different. For example, Can you pass the salt?is literally a yes/no question but is usually uttered as a request or polite directive foraction.(8) the Cooperative Principle: a principle proposed by the philosopher Paul Gricewhereby those involved in communication assume that both parties willnormally seek to cooperate with each other to establish agreed meaning. It is composed of4 maxims: quality, quantity, relation and manner.(9) the Politeness Principle: politeness is regarded by most interlocutors as a meansor strategy which is used by a speaker to achieve various purposes, such assaving face, establishing and maintaining harmonious social relations in conversation.This principle requires speakers to “minimize the expression of impolite beliefs”. It iscomposed of 6 maxims: Maxims of Tact, Generosity, Approbation, Modesty, Agreement and Sympathy.(10) conversational implicature: the use of conversational maxims in the CooperativePrinciple to produce extra meaning during conversation.。