语言学概考试样题

本卷共 4 页 本页第1页 武汉大学武汉大学珞珈学院考试试卷珞珈学院考试试卷 考试科目 英语语言学 样题 考试科目 英语语言学 样题 I Define the following terms 2X5 10 1 articulatory phonetics 2 assimilation 3 4 syntactic function 5 II Multiple Choice 2X15 30 Choose the best answer from the four given options to complete each of the following statements 1 Which of the following is not a metafunction of language according to Halliday A interpersonalB textual C informativeD ideational 2 As far as language is concerned changes are the quickest and easiest to notice A phonological B morphological C lexicalD grammatical 3 In its technical sense lexicon deals with the analysis and creation of A words and phrases B words phrases and idioms C words idioms and collocations D words phrases and collocations 4 Verbs are A lexical and closed class words B lexical and open class words C grammatical and open class words D grammatical and closed class words 5 The positional relation is also known as all the following except A the syntagmatic relation B the chain relation C the vertical relation D the horizontal relation 6 Among the following meanings is of a different nature A connotative meaning B thematic meaning C affective meaning D social meaning 7 A syllable must have a A onset B coda C vowel D nucleus 2 8 Which of the following is NOT an exocentric construction A A great success B He succeeded C He passed the exam D On the table 9 together with openness is generally regarded as the core of creativity of language A Recursiveness B Conjoining C Embedding D Coordination III Data Analysis 40 1 Transcribe the pronunciation of the following words with the help of IPA and then describe the phonetic features of the speech sounds in these words of the underlined parts 2X4 8 Example handwriting h ndraiti mid low front unrounded vowel 1 curse k s 2 stick st k 2 Analyze the morphological structure of the following words a Break the words if possible into its constituent parts b Identify the way s in which they are formed or give the original form from which it comes c Put the structure in the round brackets and the formation method in square brackets 1X10 10 Example unbelievable un believ able derivational 1 2 greenhouse green house compounding 3 4 fridge shortening clipping 5 6 7 painstaking pain s tak ing compounding 8 9 10 3 Decide the sense relation of each of the following group of words 10 Example early late Gradable antonym 1 本卷共 4 页 本页第3页 2 3 4 aunt uncle complementary antonym 5 6 7 ruin destroy synonym 8 bear bare homophone 9 10 4 Analyze the following sentence first using the tree diagram and then the functional approach 12 What they fear was that the political challenges would be more difficult S NP VP Cl V Cl NP VP NP VP Pron V Pron Det Adj N V AdjP they fear what was would be Adv Adj the political ch