语言学试卷(期中及南师大)

语言学试卷(期中及南

师大)

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语言学期中测试

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I: Multiple Choice

第一章语言与语言学

1. Linguistics can be defined as the scientific study of ___.

A. A particular language

B. The system of a particular language

C. Human languages in general

D. The English language

2.In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet said "What's in a name That which we

call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." This illustrates ___.

A. the arbitrary nature of language

B. the big difference between human language and animal communication

C. the creative nature of language

D. the universality of language

3. Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language

A. Productive.

B. Dual.

C. Symbolic

D. Arbitrary

4. Who put forward the distinction between langue and parole

A. M.A.K. Halliday

B. Ferdinand de Saussure

C. Noam Chomsky

D. Charles Hockett

5. One of the properties of language is that a language user can understand and produce sentences

he/she has never heard before. This property of language is called ___.

A. duality

B. arbitrary

C. displacement

D. Productivity

6. The ____ function refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing a favorable atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas.

A. phatic

B. directive

C. evocative

D. performative

7. Modern linguistics is the scientific study of language. Consequently, modern linguistics emphasizes the importance of language data collected from ___.

A. newspapers and magazines

B. writing by the famous writers

C. the language people actually speak

D. radio broadcasts

8. Language is passed on from one generation to the next through teaching and learning rather than by instinct. This property of language is called ___.

A. interchangeability

B. cultural transmission

C. productivity

D. arbitrariness

9.If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be ___.

A. Descriptive

B. linguistic

C. prescriptive

D. analytic linguistic

10. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Language is a system.

B. Animals also have language.

C. Language is symbolic.

D. Language is arbitrary.

11. According to Noam Chomsky, which of the following is seen as the ideal user’s internalized knowledge of his language?

A. Competence.

B. Parole.

C. Performance

D. Langue

12. Our linguistic ability is a ___ gift of the species' gene program.

A. biological

B. physical

C. scientific

D. chemical

13. The description of a language at some point in time is a ___ study.

A. diachronic

B. prescriptive

C. descriptive

D. synchronic

14. One of the properties of language is that there is no logical connection between meaning and sounds. This property of language is ___.

A. duality

B. productivity

C. displacement

D. arbitrariness

15. Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This is what we mean by ___.

A. duality

B. productivity

C. displacement

D. arbitrariness

16. Cultural transmission is one of the ____features of language.

A. suprasegmental

B. pragmatic

C. distinctive

D. design

17. As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not lay down rules for "correct " linguistic behavior, it is said to be ___.

A. descriptive

B. sociolinguistic

C. prescriptive

D. psycholinguistic

18. Which of the following is the exception to the feature of arbitrariness of language

A. Native English words

B. Borrowed words

C. Onomatopoeic words

D. One-syllable words

19. Saussure took a(n) ____ view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from

a ___ point of view.

A. sociological, psychological

B. psychological, sociological

C. Applied, pragmatic

D. Semantic, linguistic

20. Modern linguistics regards the written language as ___.

A. primary

B. correct

C. secondary

D. stable

第二章语音学与音系学

1. The tone, defined as variation, is an important suprasegmental feature of tone languages such as ____.

A. Chinese

B. English

C. Chinese and English

D. English and French

2. According to the places of articulation, sounds in English such as /t/, /l/ and /z/ can be labeled as ____ ones.

A. dental

B. bilabial

C. velar

D alveolar

3. Of the following sound combinations, only ____ is permissible according to the sequentla1 rules in English.

A. kibl

B. bkil C ilkb

D. ilbk

4. Of all the speech organs, the ____ is the most flexible.

A lip B. mouth C. vocal cord

D. tongue

5. The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ____ sounds.

A. voiceless

B. voiced

C. vowel

D. consonantal

6. ____ is a voiced alveolar stop.

A . /z / B. /d / C. /k/

D. /b/

7. The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by "copying" a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones ____.

A. identical

B. similar

C. exactly alike

D. same

8. 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 contrast

B. in complementary distribution

C. the allophones

D. minimal pair

9. The sound /f/ is a ____.

A. voiced palatal affricate

B. voiced alveolar stop

C. voiceless velar fricative

D. voiceless labiodentals fricative

l0. A ____ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highest position.

A. back

B. central

C. front

D. middle

11. 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. suprasegmental features

B. immediate constituents

C. phonetic components

D. semantic features

12. A(n)____is a unit that is of distinctive value. It is an abstract unit, a collection of distinctive phonetic features.

A. phone

B. sound

C. allophone

D. phoneme

13. The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the ____ of that phoneme.

A. phones

B. sounds

C. phonemes

D. allophones

14. Which of the following statements about allophone is NOT correct

A. Allophones are different forms of the same phoneme.

B. Allophones of the same phoneme are in complementary distribution.

C. Allophones distinguish meaning·

D. Allophones are language specific.

15. When pitch, stress and length variations are tied to the sentence rather than to the word, they are collectively known as ____.

A. intonation

B. tone

C. phoneme

D. sentence stress

16. Which of the following is also called "semivowels

A. fricatives

B. liquids

C. affricates

D. glides

17. In terms of place of articulation, the two consonants /f/, /v/ are ____.

A. denta1

B. alveolar

C. palatal

D. labiodental

18. In terms of manners of articulation, the sounds /p/, /b/, /t/,/d/, /k/,/g/ are ____.

A. bilabial

B. stops

C. affricates

D. fricatives

19. What is your understanding of "the Adam’s apple”

A. Part of Adam’s body.

B. The front part of larynx.

C. The top of larynx.

D. A kind of apple.

20. Which of the following is NOT a velar sound?

A. /k/

B. /?/

C. /v/

D./g/

第三章形态学

1. ____ is a process of combining two or more words into one lexical unit.

A. Derivation

B. Blending

C. Abbreviation

D. Compounding

2. Words such as "telex " and "workfare "are created through ____.

A. blending

B. compounding

C. conversion

D. affixation

3. According to the morphological analysis, the underlined part in the word “internationali sm” should be referred to as a ____.

A. root

B. stem

C. prefix

D. suffix