2012-13香港中文大学MA语言学部精彩试题

1、2012-13 CUHK Recruitment TestMA in LinguisticsMA in Chinese Linguistics and Language AcquisitionName Email Phone University City ProvinceSecti on OneAn swer all the questio ns in this secti on.Questi on 1An alyze the follow ing data and decide if s and z are alloph ones of the same phon eme or bel o

2、ng to differe nt phon emes.1.esfieraIphethkasa'houses'3.asusrar'frigln亡iV4,peskii* s/he fishes5nisos"Russians'&lds* tiles'丁sueiio'dream'&asuto4 vacation'9.址* island'1CLezpelto:slenderlkSince'12,sesosGrams'13-eleks;jdn'election'14,piso&

3、#39;apaitment'15,k 嘉 ix almost'16.keso'cheese'17.desjerto;desen'18,bjertocertain'19.niizinoSame120.aznos2Lraz/o'feature'Questi on 2Look at the follow ing data involving allomorphic variati on:iL lokaiilaL a restaurant'lokaiitadain al a reslaiuaiit'il kapujP do

4、or1kapiuda“in/at a door3iii. randcvuLan appointment'raiidevuda"in at an appomtmentiv. bajba headbafta*iii al a head'v. kitajj0 book'kitapta'in-at a book*vi+ koltukannehair"Roll uk ta4in ai an armchair1vii. tarafla side'taraftain al a side'(note: LUis u high back unr

5、ounded v owcl)(a) What kind of morphological means does this Ianguage employ to express the meaning in/at ' ?(b) What are the allomorphs of this morpheme?(c) Describe their distributi on in the data.(d) What phono logical process is invo Ived in such distributi on?Questi on 3What are the possibl

6、e meanings of unlearn able ' and un doableDraw tree diagrams to expla in their possible mea nin gs.Questi on 4Joh n drew two structures for the sentence“ The tech ni cia n will fixit tomorrow.” Professor Huang considered Structure A to be the righttha nstructure.Please give reasons why Structure

7、 A is betterStructure B.theStnj匚tune AtechnicianwilltomorrowfixitQuesti on 55tUCtLIE Bit tomorrowThe sentence The student hit the teacher with a ruler ' is ambiguous. Illustrate the meaning differences with tree diagrams and appropriate linguistic labels.Question 6Explain the difference in use b

8、etweenthink of and think about . Lookat the concordance lines provided below, taken from a corpus of informal spoken conversation. Are there any generalizations that can be made that would help a learner know when to usethink of and whento use think about ?THINK OFstank. Then, as he was trying tothi

9、nk of something to say to her (allyes, wedding presents. We mustthink of something. You probably don ' tracking my brains for three hours to think of something, I simplycannot lasta second catastrophe. I tried tothink of something to say myself, butmyoffered frills. Nicandra tried to think of so

10、mething pleasing to say:only you were here, then we couldthink of something to do.“Christophergroaning quietly, perhaps trying tothink of something that summed upwhatlet said nothing. He had tried tothink of something to say, but theonlylunch? ' Ah me, the young! You sympathy and collusion. But

11、I can she tried to speak, but she couldanything so familiar, and he could man in the word. ' As he couldBut try as she might, she couldlistening. Can we ourselves what an idiot I was not tono, wait a min ute, come tothink of nothing but your stomachs. think of nothing to say. Perdie says, think

12、of nothing, and her mother, shiftingthink of nothing on earth to say. It think of nothing else, Martin repeated think of nothing to say like that, fiercethink of nothing that needs to be done? think of it before! You all right Elfie?think of it you 're finding. hmm. think of it. We 've been

13、aware o eachthink of it, Hamelin 's rats andor him, on other occasions, come tohappened to those kids. And come tochildrenlike that five years ago, come tothink of it, or even ten. It's thewash his feet, he had seen, come to think of it, the moon not tooremote fromprobably cheaper than Selin

14、a, come tothink of it, what with the hotelmarkcould have. I didn't happen to think ofher pregnant. Better not even tothink ofand done with. Don 't let us everthink ofHow nice. What did you think of it? 'it then. And when did you it. Just go on hating him, it again. My family always Patri

15、ce held her breath,THINK ABOUTYou wouldn 't just think about it it 's just gone isn 't itWell that 's a good way, if you think about it he 's got, he 's gotfourmore, I mean they can wear, if youWhen you think aboutIt seems easier that way when youdoes that come from? Oh when

16、youwasn't the money really when you more. I mean they can wear if you week! And why, they wonthink about it they were suits intheit, yeah he was So whatthink about it dunnit? Mm it ' s a lot bethink about it Pledge, why do they callthink about it because at end of day, think about it they we

17、ar suits in the t need to think about it, they can talk you out ofpenetrating at lasers. We might think about that, I say at last.I ' ll have to start andthink about that train, Dwight.see it. That 's the way I like to think about that sort of place. It' sanother way, but I don 't wa

18、nt to think about that for a while.Timothyget eight to twenty-five. Nowthink about that. The district attorneySecti on TwoAn swer one of the questi ons in either En glish or Chin ese:Questi on 1Pennington & Richards (1986: 219) remarked: Pronunciation forms anaturallink to other aspects of Iangu

19、age use, such as listening,vocabulary, and grammar.' Discuss the role of pronunciationplaysin second Ianguage acquisition. How important do you think it is forL2 learners to acquire good pronunciation skills at the initial phaseof their Ianguage acquisition? To facilitate your work, you may choo

20、se one of the following aspects and discuss in depth your un dersta nding of the issues invo Ived:a. vocabulary buildingb. speech intelligibilityc. phono logical processes in read ingd. general speech processingYou may discuss other related issues as well.(Referenee:Pennington, M. C., & Richards

21、, J. C. (1986). Pronunciationrevisited. TESOL Quarterly, 20(2), 207-225.)Questi on 2Evaluate the following sentences produced by a learner of Chinese. Correct the sentences if they are ungrammatical, and justify your an alysis with detailed expla nati on, show ing your un dersta nding of theChi nese

22、 grammar.1）来前，我不对熟悉。2）一个星期不吃饭，你非饿死了不可。3）行人被开车人看不见，所以汽车对他们很危险Secti on ThreeChoose one of the followingquestions and write a one-page essay inresp onse to the questi on. Please follow the style of academic discourse,and conven ti ons for citati on and refere nee (if any). Please use En glishonly.Questi on 1Elaborate thediffere ncesbetwee n spoke n and writte nIan guage,comme nting on at least three of the followi ng aspects:a. Mediab. Permanencyc. Cognitiond. Spontaneitye. Lexical densityf. Language formQuesti on 2What is the relati onbetwee n conv ersati onalimplicature andpre