现代语言学判断正误.doc

1. ()One of the clauses in a coordinate sentence is subordinate to the other. 答案：F(It is incorporated in the other clause.)8. ) Left ear advantage proves that the left side of the brain is specialized for language and that it is where language centers reside.答案：F(The right side of the brain is specialized for language.)10. ) Generally speaking, the standard language is more effective in expressing ideas than any other dialect coexisting with it.答案：F (Dialects are more effective sometimes.)3. ()The ultimate objective of language is to create grammatically well formed sentences.答案：F(The goal is to serve communication.)4. ()There is only one major type of syntactic movement, i.e., NP movement. 答案：F(There are also WHmovement and AUXmovement.)5.) Phonetics deals with how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning.答案：F (Phonetics studies the phonic medium of language ,all the sounds in the languages.)7. ) One advantage of componential analysis is that by specifying the semantic features of certain words, it will be possible to show how these words are related in collocation.答案：F (It will not be possible.)8. ) The critical period hypothesis proposed by the neurobiologist Eric Lenneberg believes that there exists a critical age for the acquisition of the first language after which language cannot be acquired or learned any more.答案：F (Language can be learned at any stage.)9. ) The most dramatic morphological loss concerns the loss of gender markings only.答案：F (The most dramatic loss concerns the loss of affixes.)1. ()Modern linguistics is mostly descriptive, but sometimes prescriptive. 答案：F(It is always descriptive.)5. ()An acronym is a shortened form of a word or phrase which represents the complete form.答案：F(No,it is composed of the first letters of a group of words.)7. ()Most English words are closed categories because the number of the lexical items in these categories is fixed and no new members are allowed for, so they are known as major lexical categories.答案：F(Most English words are not closed categories.)2. ()Language acquisition and language learning are believed to refer to the same process.答案：F(No,language acquisition refers to childrens development of their first language.) 4. ()Free morphemes are the same as bound morphemes.答案：F(Free morphemes are independent units of meaning and can be used freely all By themselves.)6. ()A coordinate sentence contains two clauses which hold unequal status, that is, with one subordinating the other.答案：F(One clause is incorporated into another.)2. ()The root of a word is the smallest meaningful unit of language. 答案：F(Morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit.)4. ()The language system provides all specifics of ones world view. 答案：F(No,it does not.)8. ()In English and many other languages, the subject usually follows the verb and the direct object usually precedes the verb.答案：F(The verb follows the subject.)9. ) Blending is a process of combining two or more words into one lexical unit.答案：F(No,it is not.)3. ()Phonology is defined as the study of the phonic medium of language; it is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the worlds languages.答案：F(Phonology is interested in the system of sounds of a particular language.)5. ()Semantic shift is the same as semantic change. 答案：F(Semantics change refers to the change of meaning of a word.)7. ()The location of one of the suprasegmental features in English stress does distinguish meaning.答案：T8. ) Words are the smallest unit of language that can not be broken down into even smaller components.答案：F1. ()In English and many other languages, the subject usually follows the verb and the direct object usually precedes the verb.答案：F(The verb follows the subject.)6. ()Morphology and syntax study the same aspect of language. 答案：F(Morphology studies the internal structure of words.)7. ()Research findings have shown that language processing centers are situated in a single area of the left hemisphere.答案：F(They are situated in several areas.)8. ()It is the property of arbitrariness that provides speakers with an opportunity to talk about a wide range of things, free from barriers caused by separation in time and place.答案：F(Arbitrariness does not have the property.)9. ) The angular gyrus is supposed to be crucial for commanding of the syntax system of ones language.答案：F (The angular gyrus is not.)1. ()Distinctive features are the same to any language. 答案：F(They are not the same.)3. ()Some languages have ways of referring to some entity, some languages dont. 答案：F(They all have ways of referring to entity.)5. ()A scientific study of language is based on what the linguist thinks. 答案：F(It is