试题]-河北大学《新编简明英语语言学教程》期中期末试题

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上| |官方总站：|您当前位置： >> 试题 河北大学新编简明英语语言学教程期中期末试题 试卷AIDirections: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets. (1%*20=20%) 1. The fact that different languages have dif

2、ferent words for the same object is good proof that human language is _.A. arbitrary B. non-arbitrary C. logical D. non-productive2. The distinction between langue and parole was made by _. A. N. Chomsky B. F. de. Saussure C.Charles Hockett D.Sir William Jones3. The fact that the ability to speak a

3、language is transmitted from generation to generation through teaching and learning rather than by instinct is usually referred to as _. A. cultural transmission B. language acquisition C. competence D. performance4. In Chinese when someone breaks a bowl or a plate the host or the people present are

4、 likely to say sui sui ping an( every year be safe and happy), what the function of this idiom among the functions of language? A. Informative B. Interpersonal C. Performative D. Phatic5. When the obstruction, complete at first, is released slowly with the friction resulting from partial obstruction

5、, the sounds thus produced are_. A. affricates B. fricatives C. liquids D. alveolar6. The sound k and gare separate _. A. allophones B. phonemes C. morphemes D. allomorphs7. Palatal semi-vowel refers to the sound_. A. /n/ B. /h/ C. /w/ D. /j/8. All the back vowels in English are pronounced with roun

6、ded-lips, i.e . rounded, EXCEPT_. A. a: B. u: C. c: D. u9. The word “antidisestablishmentarianism” contains _morphemes. A.5 B.6 C.7 D.810. Morpheme that can occur “unattached” is called_. A. inflectional B. bound C. free D. derivational11. .is that part of the word that carries the fundamental meani

7、ng but has to be used in combination with other morphemes to make words A. Free root B. Bound rootC. Morpheme D. Bound morpheme12. The compound “blackleg” can reflect which feature of the compound features? A. Orthrographically B. Syntactically C. Semantically D. phonetically13. The utterance “ We r

8、e already working 25 hours a day , eight days a week .” obviously violates the maxim of_.A.quality B. quantityC relation D. manner14. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called _. A. commisives B. directives C. expres

9、sives D. declaratives15. “ Can I borrow your bike?” _ “You have a bike” A. is synonymous with B. is inconsistent with C. entails D. presupposes16. The sentence “ John reads quickly the linguistics book.” is a wrong sentence because it violates the _ rule. A. adjacency condition B. case condition C.

10、X-bar theory D. Move a rule17. In a simple sentence , the clause is called_. A. a matrix clause B. a subordinate clause C. an embedded sentence D. a finite clause18. The level of syntactic representation that exits before movement takes place is communal termed the _. A. phrase structure B. surface

11、structure C. syntactic structure D. deep structure19. “ Words are names or labels for things .” This view is called_ in semantic theory. A. mentalism B. conceptualism C. naming theory C. contextalism20. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called _. A. polysemy B

12、. hyponymy C. antonymy D. homonymy II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only. (1%*10=10%)1. Language exists in time and changes through time. The description of

13、 a language at some point of time is called a _ study of language.2. Writing is a secondary language from based upon_.3. An essential difference between consonants and vowels is whether the air coming up from the lungs meets with any_ when a sound is produced.4. Of the three branches of phonetics, t

14、he longest established and until recently the most developed is_.5. A _ sentence contains two or more clauses, one of which is incorporated in the other.6. is the formation of new words by joining two or more stems. 7. The illocutionary point of _ is to commit the speaker to somethings being the cas

15、e, to the truth of what has been said.8. XP may contain more than just X. For example, the NP “the boy who likes this puppy” consists of Det, N and S, with Det being the _, N the head and S the complement.9. While the meaning of a sentence is abstract and decontextualized, that of an _ is concrete a

16、nd context-dependent.10. _ is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from or reduce meaning to observable contexts. III. Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration. (2%*10=20%)1. duality2. diachronic linguistics3. narrow transcription4. bound mo

17、rpheme5. allophone6. context7. inflectional morphemes8. locutionary act9. semantics10. grammatical relation IV. Answer the following questions (5%*10=50%)1. How is the distinction between langue and parole similar to the distinction between competence and performance?2. Explain with examples the thr

18、ee notions of phone, phoneme and allophone, and also how they are related.3. Why do we say tree diagrams are more advantageous and informative than; linear structure in analyzing the constituent relationship among linguistic elements? Support your statement with examples.4. How are sentence meaning

19、and utterance meaning related, and how do they differ?5. What is maxim of manner? Give an example to show how this may be violated in an actual life.试卷B IDirections: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter

20、A, B, C or D in the brackets. (1%*20=20%) 2. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is _.A. arbitrary B. non-arbitrary C. logical D. non-productive2. The ideal users knowledge of the rules of his language is the language _. A. com

21、petence B. performance C. acquisition D. genetical transmission3. The fact that the ability to speak a language is transmitted from generation to generation through teaching and learning rather than by instinct is usually referred to as _. A. cultural transmission B. language acquisition C. competen

22、ce D. performance4. In Chinese when someone breaks a bowl or a plate the host or the people present are likely to say sui sui ping an( every year be safe and happy), what the function of this idiom among the functions of language? A. Informative B. Interpersonal C. Performative D. Phatic5. When the

23、obstruction, complete at first, is released slowly with the friction resulting from partial obstruction, the sounds thus produced are_. A. affricates B. fricatives C. liquids D. alveolar6. The sound k and gare separate _. A. allophones B. phonemes C. morphemes D. allomorphs7. Palatal semi-vowel refe

24、rs to the sound_. A. /n/ B. /h/ C. /w/ D. /j/8. All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i.e. . rounded, EXCEPT_. A. a: B. u: C. c: D. u9. The word “antidisestablishmentarianism” contains _morphemes. A.5 B.6 C.7 D.810. Morpheme that can occur “unattached” is called_. A. infle

25、ctional B. bound C. free D. derivational11. .is that part of the word that carries the fundamental meaning but has to be used in combination with other morphemes to make words A. Free root B. Bound rootC. Morpheme D. Bound morpheme12. The compound “greenhouse” can reflect which feature of the compou

26、nd features? A. Orthrographically B. Syntactically C. Semantically D. phonetically13The function of the sentence “ Water boils at 100 degrees Centigrade is_.”A. interrogative B. directiveC. informative D. performative14. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the spea

27、ker to some future course of action are called _. A. commisives B. directives C. expressives D. declaratives15. “ Can I borrow your bike?” _ “You have a bike” A. is synonymous with B. is inconsistent with C. entails D. presupposes16. The sentence “ John reads quickly the linguistics book.” is a wron

28、g sentence because it violates the _ rule. A. adjacency condition B. Case condition C. X-bar theory D. Move a rule17. In a simple sentence, the clause is called_. A. a matrix clause B. a subordinate clause C. an embedded sentence D. a finite clause18. The level of syntactic representation that exits

29、 before movement takes place is communal termed the _. A. phrase structure B. surface structure C. syntactic structure D. deep structure19. “Words are names or labels for things.” This view is called_ in semantic theory. A. mentalism B. conceptualism C. naming theory C. contextalism20. The phenomeno

30、n that words having different meanings have the same form is called _. A. polysemy B. hyponymy C. antonymy D. homonymy II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only

31、. (1%*10=10%)11. Language exists in time and changes through time. The description of a language at some point of time is called a _ study of language.12. Writing is a secondary language from based upon_.13. An essential difference between consonants and vowels is whether the air coming up from the

32、lungs meets with any_ when a sound is produced.14. Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established and until recently the most developed is_.15. A _ sentence contains two or more clauses , one of which is incorporated in the other.16. is the formation of new words by joining two or more stems. 17. A _ analysis of the utterance will reveal what the speaker intends to do with the context in which it is uttered.18. XP may contain more than just X. For example, the NP “the boy who likes this puppy” consists of Det, N and S, with Det being the _, N the head an