英语语言学判断题.doc

.判断题：正确写A，错误写BChapter 1:1. Linguistics is the systematic study of language.True.2. Linguistics deals with a particular language.False.3. Linguistics is scientific because it is helpful to language use.False.4. The task of a linguist is to discover the nature and rules of the underlying language system. True.5. Linguistics is generally divided into general and specific linguistics.False.6. General linguistics deals with the general aspects of language application.False.7. General linguistics does not study theories of language.False.8. Phonetics studies human sound patterning and the meaning of sounds in communication. False.9. Phonology studies how a sound is produced.False.10. Morphology is the study of sentences.False.11. Syntax is the study of the rules of words.False.12. Semantics is the study of word meaning.False.13. Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context of language use. True.14. Sociolinguistics deals with the relation between language and society.True.15. Psycholinguistics deals with the relation of language to psychology.True.16. Applied linguistics means the language application to specific areas. False.17. Modern linguistics aims at prescribing models for language users to follow.False.18. Synchronic linguistics deals with a series of language phenomena at the same time.False.19. Diachronic linguistics is also called historical linguistics.True.20. Langue means competence.False.21. Parole is a French word; it means the concrete language events.True.22. F. de Saussure was a Swiss linguist.True.23. N. Chomsky is an American linguist.True.24. According to Chomsky, the internalization of a set of rules about his language enables a speaker to produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences and recognize sentences that are ungrammatical and ambiguous.True.25. Chomsky regards competence as an act of doing things with a sentence.False.26. Performance is the focus of Chomskys linguistic study.False.Competence, instead.27. Details of language system are genetically transmitted.False.28. Displacement of language means language use in a far-away place.False.29. Arbitrariness of language means language can be used freely.False.30. Duality of language means language is a two-level system.True.Chapter 2:1. Writing is more basic than speech.False.2. There have been some 2,500 languages in the world.False.3. About two thirds of languages in the world have not had written form. True.4. Linguists are interested in all sounds.False.5. The limited range of sounds that are meaningful in human communication constitute the phonic medium of language. True.6. Phonetic similarity, not phonetic identity, is the criterion with which we operate in the phonological analysis of languages.True.7. The greatest source of modification of the air stream is found in the oral cavity.True.8. The narrowing of space between the hard palate and the front of the tongue results in the sound j. True.9. k, g and n are velar sounds.False.10. i is a semi-close vowel.False.11. h is the glottal sound.True.12. ei is a monophthong. False.13. Phonology is of a general nature.False.14. Phonetics deals with speech sounds in all human languages.True.15. A phone does not necessarily distinguish meaning.True.16. A phoneme is a phonetic unit.False.t.17. Tsled is a possible word in English.False.18. English is a tone language.False.Chapter 3:1. The word predigestion is composed of two morphemes.False.2. Teach-in is a compound word.True.3. Pronouns belong to closed class words.True.4. The word unacceptability has four morphemes.True.5. The word boy is a free morpheme.True.6. The morpheme or in actor is an inflectional morpheme.False.7. The s in works of He works hard. is a bound morpheme.False.8. The word unsad is acceptable in English.False.9. Compounding is a very common and frequent process for enlarging the vocabulary of the English language.True.10. The prefix a- in asexual means without.True.Chapter 4:1. Phrases can consist of just one word, but more often they contain other elements as well.True.2. In XP, X refers to any such head as N, V, A or P.True.3. In a book about ghosts, the complement is ghosts.False.The complement is aboutghosts.4. In TG, determiner is often written as Det.True.Chapter 5:1. Hyponymy is a relation of exclusion of meaning.False.2. The words alive and dead are relational opposites.False.3. The words lead(领导) and lead(铅球) are homographs.True.4. The words flat and apartment are stylistic synonyms.False.5. The words politician and statesman are collocational synonyms.False.6. The words buy and purchase are dialectal synonyms.False.7. The words shock and surprise are semantically different synonyms.True.8. In the sense set , junior and senior are co-hyponyms.True.9. The words doctor and patient are relational synonyms.True.10. I have been to Beijing. entails I have been to North China.True.11. His friend is coming. presupposes He has a friend.True.12. Mary is single. is inconsistent with Mary is married.True.13. His dumb boy spoke good English. is a contradiction.True.Chapter 6:1. Pragmatics is a linguistic branch that developed in the 1890s.False.2. Course in General Linguistics was published in 1889.False.3. Context refers to the relation between lines or paragraphs of a text.False.4. If I said to you, Its very stuffy here., then my illocutionary act may be asking you to switch on the air-conditioner.True.5. If Smith said to you in a supermarket, I am thirsty now, but I have no money with me, then his perlocutionary act is your buying him a coca-cola.True.6. According to Austin, He is a boy. is a constative.True.7. According to Austin, I bet you sixpence it will be fine this evening. is a performative.True.8. Open the door! is a directive.True.9. The room is air-conditioned. is an expressive.False.10. We have never met before. is a representative.True.11. I fire you! is a commissive.False. is a declaration.12. I will return the book to you soon. is an expressive.False.13. Do not say what you believe to be false is a maxim of relation.False.14. Be brief belongs to the maxim of manner.True.15. Make your contribution as informative as required (for the current purpose of the exchange). belongs to the maxim of quality.False.16. Bs reply violates the maxim of quality in the dialogue below:A: Where do you live?B: In South China Normal University.False. 17. B probably means that he doesnt want to make any comment on the lecture, in the dialogue below:A: What do you think of the lecture? (The speech maker is coming)B: Do we have classes this evening?True.18. B probably means that it is impolite to ask about her age, in the dialogue below:A: How old are you?B: I am 80.True.19. B probably means that A should not laugh at him since they know each other, in the dialogue below:A: Are you a good student?B: Are you?True.Chapter 7:1. Sound changes tend to be systematic.True.2. The word home was written as hm in Old English.True.3. The word mice, which is pronounced as mais, was pronounced as mi:s in Middle English.True.4. In Chaucers the Canterbury Tales, we can find his to replace it in Modern English, as in Whan that Aprille with his shoures sooth. This reflects the change in the agreement rule.True.5. I love thee not. before the 16th century, has now become I do not love you. This means the change in negation rule.True.6. The English pronoun our has experienced a process of simplification from Old English.True.7. The word fridge is a loan word.False.8. The word walkman is a blend.False.9. The word mike is a clipped word.True.10. The word videophone is an acronym.False.11. UNESCO is a blend.False.12. The word quake is the result of back-formation.False.13. ISBN means International Standard Book Number.True.14. The word baby-sit is a word from back-formation.True.15. The word question is a word borrowed from French.True.16. The word tea is a loan word from Chinese.True.17. The word education comes from Latin.True.18. The word dinner comes from French.True.19. The word beer comes from German.True.20. The word meat we use now has gone through the narrowing of meaning.True.21. The word holiday has gone through the widening of meaning.True.22. The word silly used to mean happy in Old English.True.23. The use of the expressions to update, to host and to check up indicates the influence of American English.True.24. Computer language is one of the sources that have influenced the English language.True.25. One possible account of the increasing use of cheap instead of cheaply in He got it cheap. is that of the theory of least effort.True.26. The expression Its me is Not acceptable in English.False.Chapter 8:1. The term diglossia was first used by Ferguson in 1959.True.2. Pidgins came from a blending of a few languages.True.3. A typical example of a bilingual community is an ethnic ghetto where most of the inhabitants are either immigrants or children of immigrants.True.4. Different styles of the same language can be revealed through differences at syntactic, lexical and phonological levels.True.5. One of the most important features of bilingualism is the specialization of function of the two varieties.False.6. Of reply and answer, the latter is more formal.False.7. M.A.K. Halliday is a British linguist.True.8. The deletion of the link verb be as in You crazy is typical of the syntax of Black English (1, 2).True.9. A prominent phonological feature of Black English is the deletion of the consonant at the end of a word, as in desk des.True.10. The use of such sentences as I aint afraid of no ghosts to mean Im not afraid of ghosts is one of the syntactic features of Black English.True.11. Accent is an important marker of sociolect.True.12. Received Pronunciation in British English is a dialect of London that is representative of standard English.False.13. An RP accent often serves as a high status marker.True.Chapter 9:1. The word dog often conjures up different images in the US and Hong Kong.True.2. People in the West End in London speak differently from the East Enders.True.3. Language plays a major role in socializing the people and perpetuating culture, especially in print form.True.4. The Eskimos have far more words for snow than the English natives in that snow is more crucial to the life of the former.True.5. For the British people, the Chinese greeting Have you had dinner? would turn into Its fine today, isnt it?.True.6. It is standard practice for an English native student to greet his teacher before a lecture by saying Good morning, teacher!.False.7. The Chinese uncle means the same as the British uncle.False.8. It is proper in English to say no, no in response to such a praise as Youve made good progress. to show ones modesty.False.9. You can never ask an English native the question of his name or age.False.10. In English, the word blue is associated with unhappy feelings.True.11. It is acceptable to translate Every dog has his day. into 每条狗都有自己的日子。.False.12. Intercultural communication is also called cross-cultural communication.True.13. If you were a Cantonese and talked to a person from Shanghai, then you were having intercultural communication.FalseChapter 10:1. Language acquisition is concerned with the acquisition of a foreign language.False.2. B.F. Skinners is the most important exponent of the behaviourist view of LA.True.3. The behaviourist view of LA was not prevalent until the 1960s.False.4. N. Chomsky claims that men are biologically programmed for language.True.5. The sentence Himself saw John. is acceptable in English.False.6. The innatists hold that children could not discover the rules of reflexive pronouns by trial and error.True.7. Frequent repetition is one of the features of the caretaker talk.True.8. Victor, a wild child, who was deprived of language contact for 12 years, was trained by Itard, but could only speak only two words in the end.True. 9. The sounds z and are among the consonants that are supposed to be acquired with most difficulty by a child.True.10. If a child calls every man Daddy, then he is over-extending the meaning of the word Daddy.True.11. The expression mummy play ball is typical of telegraphic speech.TrueChapter 11:1. A target language is always a foreign language.False.2. According to Littlewood, the first language study has served as a backcloth for perceiving and understanding new facts about second language learning.True.3. Such sentences as there are more and more people want to be a postgraduate student indicate the Chinese trans