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2013-2014 学年第 2 学期期末考试（B）卷课程名称《英语语言学概论》任课教师签名程建山

出题教师签名程建山审题教师签名王婉华

考试方式（闭）卷适用专业 2011 级英语专业

考试时间（ 120）分钟

题号I II III IV V总分

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I. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (2% 10=20%)×

1.According to Saussure, _______ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, the set of conventions and rules which language users all have to abide by.

A. language

B. langue

C. parole

D. competence

2.Vowels can be classified in terms of each of the following ways EXCEPT

_______.

A. position of the tongue

B. openness of the mouth

C. manner of articulation

D. shape of the lips

3. In terms of manner of articulation, the English consonants［s］ and［ z］ are classified as ______.

A. liquids

B. affricates

C. stops

D. fricatives

4. There are _______ morphemes in the word“ frightening.”

A.2

B.3

C.4

D.5

5. Semantically, the sentence “ Iregret stepping on your book”______ the sentence“ I stepped on your book.”

A. presupposes

B. entails

C. contradicts

D. is synonymous with

6. According to John Austin ’speech act theory, a(n) ______ act is the act performed by saying something.

A. prelocutionary

B. locutionary

C. illocutionary

D. perlocutionary

7.All the following words EXCEPT ______ are the examples which can be used to illustrate semantic narrowing.

A. aunt

B. wife

C. hound

D. fowl

8.In many cultures, words relating to sex, sex organs, and natural bodily functions make up a larger part of ______ vocabulary.

A. gender

B. euphemism

C. slang

D. taboo

9. Speaker A:I ’m out of petrol.

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Speaker B:There’s a garage round the corner. crying in a certain situation; the word “ baby” means a baby known Speaker B is violating the maxim of _______. speaker and the hearer, which is the r of the word “ baby”in this A. quantity B. quality particular situation.

C. relation

D. manner 16. The relationship between the words in such pairs as “ buy”and “ by, ”

10. A typical example of a _______ community is an ethnic ghetto where most, “ stationary ” and“ stationery ” can be labe.led as h

if not all, of its inhabitants are either immigrants or children of immigrants. 17. In an a process, successive sounds are made identical, or more A. diglossic B. bilingual similar, to one another in terms of place or manner of articulation, or of C. pidginized D. creolized haplology.

II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one 18. In sociolinguistic studies, a pidginized dialect may expand and eventually word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to become the native language of a certain population, which is known as c . fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. 19. A linguistic t ______ refers to a word or expression that is prohibited by the ד polite ” society fromgeneral use.

(1% 10=10%)

11. Cultural t refers to the fact that the details of the linguistic system 20. Speech v_________ refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a must be learned anew by each speaker, and they are not simply biologically speaker or group of speakers.

passed on from generation to generation. III. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or 12. The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called false. Put a T for true or F for false on the Answer Sheet. If you think a

s features, which are the phonological properties of such units as the statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the syllable, the word, and the sentence. correct version. (2% 10=20%)×

13. D affixes are added to an existing form to create a word. This is a 21. Speech and writing are the two major media of communication. In linguistic very common way to create new words in English. evolution, however, speech is prior to writing, therefore, the spoken language 14. A c sentence contains two or more clauses, one of which is rather than the written should be given priority in modern linguistics.

incorporated into the other.22. There are two ways now available to transcribe speech sounds: broad

15. If we say“ The baby is crying,” we must be talking about a certain babytranscription and narrow transcription, of which the really required and used by

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