2011级成人教育英语语言学试卷B.doc

装订线 系别 年级 专业 班级 姓名 学号 装订线 系别 年级 专业 班级 姓名 学号 保定学院学历教育 2011 级 英语 专业考试科目： 语言学概论 B卷题号一二三四五总分得分DIRECTIONS: PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON THE ANSWER SHEET!I. Complete each of the following statements. (20%) 1. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. This famous quotation from Shakespeare illustrates that language has the design feature of_.2. Chomsky initiated the distinction between_and performance.3. Consonant articulations are relatively easy to feel, and as a result are most conveniently described in terms of place and _of articulation.4. Human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present(in time and space) at the moment of communication. This quality is labeled as _.5. Language is is a system of _ _ symbols used for human communication.6. The different members of a phoneme, sounds which are phonetically different but do not make one word different from another in meaning, are _.7. A syllable must have a_, which is the task of a vowel.8. Stress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable. For long words, the more stressed syllable is the_stress while the less stressed syllable is known as the secondary stress.9. The features that occur above the level of the segments and can distinguish meaning are called_, which includes stress, intonation and tone.10. A_morpheme is one that cannot constitute a word by itself.11. Poly-morphemic words other than compounds may be divided into_and_.12. The branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of sentence is called_.13. There are two methods of forming endocentric constructions:_ and _.14. Gender is a grammatical category dividing nouns into classes basically characterizable by reference to sex. Gender is also mostly a category of nouns and pronouns. The grammatical gender includes_, _and _.15. Nation is the _of internationalism.II. Multiple Choice: Choose ONE best answer from the following choices to complete the each of the statements.(20%) 1. _proposes a theory of metafunctions of language, that is, language has IDEATIONAL, INTERPERSONAL and TEXTUAL functions. A. Chomsky B. Halliday C. BloomfieldD.John Lyons. 2. Which of the following is the most important function of language?A. interpersonal functionB. performative function C. informative functionD. recreational function 3. Human language is different from animal communication systems because it is_. A. under immediate stimulus control B. utimulas free C. stimulus bound D. stimulated by some occurrence of communal interest4. When APPLE is said slowly, _sound segments can be recognized.A. threeB. fourC. fiveD. six 5. Broad transcription is the phonetic transcription without_. A. distinctive featuresB. diacritics C. articulationD. voicing 6. To be specific, _deals with how speech sounds are produced. A. articulatory phoneticsB. acoustic phonetics C. auditory phoneticsD. phonological phonetics. 7. The process involving an alternation in the sequence of sounds is_. A. lossB. addition C. class shiftD. metaphesis 8. _refers to those words which are made by combining the initial letters of a composite name. A. BorrowingB. Acronym C. CoinageD. Blending 9. Classical Greek and Arabic have a third number:_, something like the English both.A. singleB. pluralC. dualD. trial 10. The structural approach to the analysis of language was started by the Swiss linguist_ in the beginning of the twentieth century. He is also known as the father of modern linguistics.A. ChomskyB. HallidayC. SaussureD. FillmoreIII. Describe the following speech sounds. (15%)/z/k/h/v/i:/ IV. Define the following terms with examples if necessary.(20%)1. coarticulation2. morpheme3. performative function4. endocentric constructionV. Answer the following questions.(15%)1. What is meant by arbitrariness according to Saussure? 系别 年级 专业 班级 姓名 学号 保定学院学历教育 2011 级 英语 专业考试科目： 语言学概论 B卷题号一二三四五总分得分答 题 纸I. Complete each of the following statements. (20%)1. _2._3._4._5. _ _6._7._8. _9._10._11._ _ 12._13._14. _15._II. Multiple Choice: Choose ONE best answer from the following choices to comple