2012年10月广东省高等教育自学考试英语语言学.doc

prim2012年10月广东省高等教育自学考试英语语言学问卷（课程代码06422）I.Blank-filling (20%)Fill in the following blanks with a word, whose initial letter has been given.1. Three branches of phonetics are articulatory phonetics, a_phonetics, and acoustic phonetics.2. The word around which a phrase is formed is termed head , and the words on the right side of the heads are c_.3. H_refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form, i.e., different words are identical in sound or spelling ,or in both.4. S_ refers to the linguistic variety characteristic of a particular social class.5. There are two types of a_ dyslexia: phonological dyslexia and surface dyslexia.6. Different languages offer people different ways of expressing the world around , they think and speak differently , this is known as linguistic r_.7. The most basic and the smallest meaningful element of meaning is traditionally called m_.8. The i_ view holds that language develops as a result of the complex interplay between the human characteristics of the child and the environment in which he develops.9. C_ determines the speakers use of language and also the hearers interpretation of what is said to him10. If the linguistic study aims lay down rules for “correct and standard” behavior in using language, i.e. to tell people what they should say and what they should not say, it is said to be p_.11. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called “v_”.12. R_ means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world.13. A_ refers to a number of acquired language disorder due to the cerebral lesions caused by vascular problems, a tumor, an accident and so on.14. Minor Lexical Categories refer to D_, Degree word, Qualifier , Auxiliary and Conjunction.15. Linguistics is a scientific study because it is based on the s_ investigation of linguistic data.16. Grammatical of functional words are referred to as being c_class words .17. A p_ is a special language variety that mixes or blends languages and it is used by people who speak different languages for restricted purposes such as trading.18. A_ are words derived from the initials of several words, such as WTO.19. I_ motivation refers to the drive that people learn a foreign language because of the wish to identify with the target culture.20.Chomsky uses the term p_ to refer to the actual realization of the knowledge in linguistic communication.II. Multiple choice(20%)Choose the best answer to the following items.21. Different from contrastive analysis, _gave less consideration to learners native language.A . negative transferB. mistake analysisC. positive analysisD. error analysis22. The social group that is singled out for any special study is called the _.A. public societyB. common groupC. speech communityD. speech group23. English consonants can be classified in two ways: one is in terms of _ of articulation and the other is in terms of place of articulation.A. forceB. positionC. mannerD. pattern24. _ analysis is a way proposed by the structural semanticists to analyze word meaning.A. ComponentialB. ContrastiveC. ComparativeD. Inflection25. Changes in a language are changes in the grammar of the speakers of the language. This means that phonemes, _, words and grammatical rules may be borrowed, added, lost or altered.A. morphemes B. elementsC. segmentsD. constituents26. _ motivation occurs when the learner desires to learn a second language in order to communicate with native speakers of the target language.A. PositiveB. IntegrativeC. Instrumental D. Intrinsic27. The words on the left side of the heads are said to function as _.A. modifiersB. qualifiersC.specifiersD. determiners28.The following sounds belong to the same natural class EXCEPT_.A.tB.sC.pD.k29. The sentence that has a NP and a PP can be shown in a _ formula “SNP PP”.A. hierarchical B. tree diagramC. verticalD. linear30. If a linguistic study aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, it is said to be_.A. prescriptiveB. descriptiveC. synchronic D. diachronic31.The relationship between “ flower “and “ rose” is _.A.homonymyB. hyponymyC. polysemyD. synonymy32.The pair of words “ east ”and “ west “ is _.A. gradable antonymsB.co-hyponymsC.complementary oppositeD. relational opposites33.Which of the following hypothesis is put forward by Eric Lenneberg?A. Critical Period HypothesisB. Input HypothesisC. Sapir-Whorf HypothesisD. Language Acquisition Device Hypothesis34. X: John has taken part in the London Olympic Games.Y: John is a sportsman.The sense relation between the above sentences is _.A. X entails YB. X is inconsistent with YC. XpresupposesYD. X is synonymous with Y35.The word “unreasonably” consists of _ morphemes.A. 4B. 3C. 5D.236._ occurs when the Cooperative Principle is violated.A. Locutionary actB. Illocutionary actC. Conversational implicatureD. Intralingual error37. When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string, the two sound combinations are said to form a _.A. adjacency pairsB. minimal pairsC. complementary pairsD. similar pairs38.”Brunch” is a word formed by _.A. clippingB. back-formationC. coinageD. blending39.Which of the underlined morphemes below is a derivational morpheme?A. startedB. jumpingC. physicianD. suffixes40._ is concerned with the processes of language comprehension and production.A. PragmaticsB. MorphologyC. SemanticsD. PsycholinguisticsIII.True of false judgement (20%)41. The brain, weighing about 1,400grams, consists of about ten billion nerve cells called neurons.42. W hat is measured in the ing experiment is the extent to which the prime influences the subjectspsychological decision performance on the target stimulus.43. According to Austin, a speaker might be performing three acts simultaneously when speaking: locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act.44. Diacritics are added to the letter-symbols to bring out finer distinctions than the letters alone may possibly do.45.Mode of discourse refers to the role of relationship in the situation in question.46.”Language is arbitrary” means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds since different sounds are used to refer to the same object in different languages.47.Derivational morphemes are the group of morphemes such as en,-ate, and ic etc. Because when they are conjoined to other morphemes (or words), a new word is derived of formed.48. Locutionary act is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance; it is the act performed by saying something.49.The cortex is separated by the longitudinal fissure into two parts: the left and right cerebral hemispheres.50. Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by N. Chomsky in 1967.IV.Explain the following notio