期末试题A(语言学导论)

广州大学2008-2009学年第一学期考试卷

课程语言学导论考试形式（闭卷，考试）

I. Decide which one would be the best answer to each of the following questions (1×20=20%):

1.( ) If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually

use, it is said to be ______________.

A. prescriptive

B. analytic

C. descriptive

D. linguistic

2.( ) Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness

B. Displacement

C. Duality

D. Meaningfulness

3.( ) The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ____ sounds.

A. voiceless

B. voiced

C. vowel

D. consonantal

4.( ) __________ is a voiced alveolar stop.

A. /z/

B. /d/

C. /k/

D./b/

5.( ) _______ are those that cannot be used independently but have to be

combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.

A. Free morphemes

B. Bound morphemes

C. Bound words

D. Words

6.( ) _________ is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure

of words and the rules by which words are formed.

A. Syntax

B. Grammar

C. Morphology

D. Morpheme

7.( ) The sentence structure is ________.

A. only linear

B. only hierarchical

C. complex

D. both linear and hierarchical

8.( ) The syntactic rules of any language are ____ in number.

A. large

B. small

C. finite

D. infinite

9.( ) Which of the following is not true?

A. Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.

B. Sense is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form.

C. Sense is abstract and de-contextualized.

D. Sense is the aspect of meaning dictionary compilers are not interested in.

10.( ) “Can I borrow your bike?” _______ “ You have a bike.”

A. is synonymous with

B. is inconsistent with

C. entails

D. presupposes

11.( ) _________ does not study meaning in isolation, but in context.

A. Pragmatics

B. Semantics

C. Sense relation

D. Concept

12.( ) The meaning of language was considered as something ___________ in

traditional semantics.

A. contextual

B. behaviouristic

C. intrinsic

D. logical

13.( ) Children refer to all four-legged animals as dogs. This phenomenon is

called __________.

A. underdergeneralization

B. overgeneralization

C. formulation

D. articulation

14.( ) “She decides to hit it” spoken as “She decide to hits it” is a slip of the

tongue. This type of slips of the tongue is called ______________.

A. exchange

B. blend

C. shift

D. deletion

15.( ) According to _________________, there is no such case in which one

member is better than others in the same category.

A. the classical theory

B. the prototype theory

C. the speech act theory

D. the behaviorist theory

16.( ) “He pored himself a glass of wine and opened the bottle” is unacceptable

because this utterance violates the principle of ___________.

A. Politeness Principle

B. Cooperative Principle

C. order iconicity

D. distance iconicity

17.( ) There are morphemes in the word "boyish".

A. one

B. two

C. three

D. four

18.( ) In English "-ize" and "-tion" are called .

A. prefixes

B. suffixes

C. infixes

D. free morphemes

19.( ) The words "make" and "bus" are called because they can

occur unattached.

A. derivational morphemes

B. inflectional morphemes

C. bound morphemes

D. free morphemes