语言学判断题

1、判断题Chapterl1. “La nguage operates by rule” is a fun dame ntal view about Ian guage.【答案】T2. It is con clusive that Chin ese is regarded as the primeval la nguage.【答案】F3. Wherever huma ns exist, la nguage exists.【答案】T1. When Ian guage is used to get in formatio n from others, it serves an in formative

2、 fun cti on.【答案】F2. The phatic function refers to Ianguage function for establishing or maintaining social con tact rather tha n for excha nging in formatio n or ideas.【答案】T3. The most importa nt sociological use of Ian guage is the performative fun cti on, by which people establish and mai nta in t

3、heir status in society.【答案】F1. Phono logy is Ian guage specific.【答案】T2. Syntax refers to the study of the rules governing the way words are combined to form senten ces in a Ian guage.【答案】T3. Phono logy and grammar are infin ite, tightly structured systems, the child does not have to master them befo

4、re puberty in order to be a n ative speaker of the Ian guage.【答案】F1. The con cept compete nee orig in ally refers to the grammatical kno wledge of the ideal la nguage user and has nothing to do with the actual use of Ian guage in con crete situati on.【答案】T2. The description of a Ianguage at some poi

5、nt in time is called diachronic study.【答案】FChapter21. Bilabial consonant is produced whe n the obstructi on is partial and the air is forced through a n arrow passage.【答案】F2. The sound segme nts are grouped into consonants and vowels.【答案】TChapter31. The word of “ impossibility ” contains four morphe

6、mes.【答案】F2. Both “use” and “books” contain /s/, which can be regarded as a phoneme and a morpheme as well.【答案】F3. The words “ water” and “ teacherhave a com mon phon eme and a com monmorpheme as well.【答案】F4. The words “ boys” and “raise” have a com mon phon eme and a com mon morpheme as well.【答案】F1.

7、 An alogic cha nge refers to the reduct ion of the nu mber of excepti onal or irregular morphemes.【答案】T2. INVENTION is a form of compounding, in which two words are blended by joining the initial part of the first word and the final part of the second word, or by joining the initial parts of the two

8、 words.【答案】FChapter41. Paradigmatic relati on in syn tax is alter natively called horiz on tal relatio n.【答案】F (解释:Paradigmatic relation is also called vertical relation; horizontal relation is a term for syntagmatic relation)2. It is characteristic of Halliday ' s theory that more attention is

9、paid to paradigmatic relations than to syntagmatic relations, which is the main concern of Chomsky.【答案】T1.In English, nouns have three case nominative, accusative and genitive.【答案】T1. All Ianguages have some differences in verb forms which are used to produce cohesi on.【答案】T2. In the example: “ He c

10、ould n't ope n the door. It was locked tight ” , the relati on between “the door” and “It” is that of substitution.【答案】F (referenee)Chapter51. After comparing “They stopped at the end of the corridor with “ At the end of the corridor, they stopped” you may find some differenee in meaning, and th

11、e differe nee can be in terpreted in terms of collocative meaning【答案】F2. After compari ng “ They stopped at the end of the corridor with “ At the end of the corridor, they stopped” you may find some differenee in meaning, and the differe nee can be in terpreted in terms of thematic meaning.【答案】T3. W

12、he n you use your own sentence with a meaning other tha n the eon ceptual, the meaning is sometimes referred to as speakers meaning, or eon textual meaning.【答案】T1. The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to, or stands for, is known as the referential theory.【

13、答案】T2. Refere nee is one of the rarely used cohesive devices.【答案】F3. Odgen and Richards argue that the relation between a word and a thing it refers to is not direct.【答案】T4. The idea that the meaning of a sentence depe nds on the meanings of the con stitue nt words and the way they are combined is u

14、sually known as the principle of COMPOSITIONALITY .【答案】TChapter91. Metonymy is a kind of figurative Ianguage which is usually classed as a type of synecdoche. It refers to using the name of part of an object to talk about the whole thing, and vice versa, as the use of “hand/ in “ We are short of han

15、ds ”.【答案】F【解析】 Synecdoche is a kind of figurative language which is usually classed as a type of metonym y. It refers to using the n ame of part of an object to talk about the whole thing, and vice versa, as the use ofha nd in We are short of han ds.1. Bla nk verse con sists of lines in iambic pen t

16、ameter which do not rhyme.【答案】T2. The initial consonants are identical in alliteration.【答案】T1. The term Stream of con scious ness writ ing was origi nally coined by the philosopher William James in his Principle of Psychology to describe the free association of ideas and impressions in the mind.【答案】

17、T2. AUTHORIAL STYLE looks closely at how lin guistic choices help to con struct textual meaning. When we examine it, we will need to examine linguistic choices which are in tri nsically conn ected with mea ning and effect on the reader.【答案】F【解析】Text style looks closely at how lin guistic choices help to con struct textual meaning. Whe