2011年1月广东省高等教育自学考试英语语言学

2011年1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. The 3 branches of phonetics are labeled articulatory phonetics ,auditory phonetics ,and a_phonetics.2. When 2 different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings ,they are said to be in am_ pair .3. R_motivation refers to the fact that learners learn a second language for external purposes .4. Later Noam Chomsky prefers this innate endowment as UG ,i.e. U_ Grammar.5. In NP （Deg )A(pp), the dots in the rule indicate that other c_options are available .6. The articulatory apparatus of human being are contained in 3 important areas :the p_ cavity，the oral cavity ,and the nasal cavity.7. L_refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community .8. H_refers to the sense relation between a more general ,more inclusive word and a more specific word .9. The description of a language at a given point in time is a s_ study.10. The study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication is called p_.11. The structure corresponding to the final syntactic output of the sentence which results from appropriate transformations is called s_structure.12. The term d_, first used by Ferguson in 1959,refers to a sociolinguistic situation similar to bilingualism .13. Learners independent system of the second language which is of neither the second language is known as i_.14. The sound pin pit is pronounced with a strong puff of air, which is said to be a_.15. C_ model states that in word comprehension words are analyzed by hearers from beginning to end.16. S_ is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form and is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form .17. Major lexical categories are Noun, Verb , Adjective , and P_.18. S_ is the sub-field of linguistics that studies the relation between linguistic and society between the uses of language and social structures.19. P_ isconcerned with the progress of language comprehension and production.20. Linguistics studies not any particular language ,but languages in g_.II. Multiple choice(20%)Choose the best answer to the following items.21. _refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed .A.SyntaxB. EtymologyC. LexicologyD. Morphology22. _ aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication .A. PhoneticsB. PhonemicsC. PhonologyD. Phonotactics23. Language _ refers to a natural ability for learning a second language.A. aptitudeB. competenceC. performanceD. attitude24. _ is a personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines elements regarding regional ,social, gender, and age variations .A. IdiolectB. PidginC. SociolectD. Creole25. A(n) _ is a word formed by combining parts of other words , e.g. smog .A. back -formation B. blendC. abbreviationD. clipping26. The traditional and the only way to study the brain in the past was through _ studies .A. experimental B. surgicalC. autopsyD. observational27._ 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 .A. PolysemyB. Synonym C. HomophoneD. Homonymy28.The arrow in the phrase structure rule SNP VP is read as _.A. is equal toB. generatesC. hasD. consists of29._ of neighbouring sound is , for the most part ,caused by articulatory or physiological progress .A. AssimilationB. FormalizationC. DerivationD. Patterning30.The drive that people learn a foreign language because of the wish to identify with the target culture is called _ motivation .A. instrumentalB. resultativeC. integrativeD. intrinsic31There are different types of affixes pr morphemes .The affix ed in the word learned is known as a(n)_.A.derivational morphemeB. free morphemeC. inflectional morphemeD. free form32.If a linguistic study aims to describe and analyzed the language people actually use ,it is said to be _A. descriptiveB. prescriptiveC. synchronicD. diachronic33.Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by _ in 1957.A. L. BloomfieldB. F. Saussure C. N. ChomskyD.M.A.K Halliday34.Of the following sound combination ,only _ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English .A. mibleB. bmilC. imlbD. ilbm35Which of the following English words is formed by clipping ?A. smogB.UNESCO C. baby-sitD. disco36Of the following words ,_ belongs to the open class word .A. emaiB. butC. theD. they37The sense relation for the pair of words doctor and patient is _A. synonymyB. hyponymyC. antonymyD. homonymy38In learning a foreign language,instances of mother tongue interference can be found act the level of _.A. pronunciationB. vocabularyC. syntaxD. all of the above39According to F .de Saussure,_ refers to the system of language .A. langueB. paroleC. competenceD. performance40.The utterance We re already working 25 hours a day, 8 days a week obviously violates the maxim of _A. qualityB. quantityC. relationD. mannerIII. True of false judgement (20%)Judge whether the following statements are true or false .Write T in ye corresponding bracket for a true statement and F for a false one .41.Damage to parts of the brain in front of the central sulcus will cause fluent aphasia .42.D-structure is formed by the XP rule in accordance with the heads supercanonization properties .43.An illocution act is the act performed by or resulting from saying something .It is the consequence of the utterance .44.The LAD was described as an imaginary black box which is said to contain rules that are specific only to human languages .45.Componential analysis is a way proposed by the structure semantics to analyze lexical word meaning .46.Garden path sentence is an awkward sentence that misleads the speakers and takes them down the garden path to a wrong direction .47.Acronyms are words derives from the initials and ending of several words .48. Diglossia refers to the dialect having to do with separation brought about by different social conditions.49.In daily life people often see the situation in which adult speak differently when talking to little children ,they use a special speech called motherese.50.Phonology is the study of how speech sounds are produced by human speech organsIV. Explain the following notions briefly (25%)