英语专业本科语言学A卷

1、重庆三峡学院 至 学年度第期 英语语言学 课程考试试题册A卷试题使用对象 ： 外国语学院 （系） 级 专业 命题人： 考试用时 120 分钟 答题方式采用：闭卷 说明：1、答题请使用黑色或蓝色的钢笔、圆珠笔在答题卷上书写工整。2、考生在此卷上答题不计成绩。说明：1、答题请使用黑色或蓝色的钢笔、圆珠笔在答题纸上书写工整。2、考生应在答题纸上答题，在此卷上答题作废。I. Define the following linguistic terms: (2%×10=20%)1) duality2) displacement3) phonology4) morphology5) concord

2、 6) endocentric construction7) hyponymy8) pragmatics 9) illocutionary force10) error analysisII. Translation (0.5%×20=10% )Translate the following terms into Chinese: (0.5%×10=5% )1) affricate 2)distinctive feature 3)parole 4) generative grammar 5) bilingualism 6) felicity condition 7) des

3、ign feature 8) denotation 9) labiodental 10) linguistic relativityTranslate the following terms into English: (0.5%×10=5%)11)人际功能 12) 真值条件13)女性语域14)音节划分 15) 结构主义16) 社会语言学17) 论元18) 单元音 19)衔接 20) 对比分析III. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best c

4、ompletes the statement and put the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. (1%×20=20%) 1). language is a system of arbitrary _ symbols used for human communication. A. cultural B. conventional C. decodedD. vocal2). A word with several meanings is called _.A. an abnormal wordB. a

5、polysemous wordC. a synonymous wordD. none of the above3). There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed” in the word “learned” is known as a(n) _. A. derivational morphemeB. free morpheme C. inflectional morpheme D. free form 4). The syntactic rules of any language are _ in numbe

6、r. A. largeB. small C. finiteD. infinite5). “I picked some tulips.” _ “I picked some flowers.”. A. entails B. presupposes C. is inconsistent with D. is synonymous with 6). Y's utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maxim of _. X: Who was that you were with last night? Y: D

7、id you know that you were wearing odd socks? A. quality B. quantity C. relation D. manner 7) “Can I borrow your bike?” _ “You have a bike.”A. is synonymous withB. is inconsistent withC. entailsD. presupposes    8) The study of language at one point of time is a _ study. A. synchronicB

8、. historic C. diachronicD. descriptive9) Which of the following is a typical tone language? A. EnglishB. Chinese C. FrenchD. All of the above10) Two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in _. A. phonemic contrastB. complementary distribution C. minimal pairD. none of the above11) In terms o

9、f the place of articulation, the following sounds tdszn share the feature of _.A. palatal         B. alveolar C. bilabial        D. dental12) Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by _ in 1957.A. L. BloomfieldB.

10、N. Chomsky C. F. Saussure      D. M. A. K. Halliday13) Which of the following is a correct description of reference? A. a relationship between an expression and other expressions which have the same meaning B. the set of all objects which can potentially be referred to

11、by an expression C. a relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an utterance to pick out that object D. an intra-linguistic relationship between lexical items14) What is function of the sentence “How do you do? A. DirectiveB. PhaticC. Informative D. Evocative15)

12、 In the following sounds, _is a central vowel. A. / B. /u/C. /æ/ D. /16) Which of the following languages has the syllabic writing system? A. Chinese B. JapaneseC. English D. French17) Which description of the meaning components of the word “father” is right? A. +human, +adult,-maleB. +human, -

13、adult, +male C. human, +adult, -male D. +human, +adult, +male18) Once the notion of _ was taken into consideration, semantics spilled into pragmatics. A. meaningB. context C. formD. content19) Black English has a number of distinctive features in its phonological, morphological and syntactic systems

14、 which are _. A. rule-governedB. systematic C. arbitraryD. both A and B20) “Hot dog” with the first syllable stressed means _. A. an overheated animalB. a kind of food C. a barking dogD. a dead dogIV. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false: (15 pts, 1 point for each)Decide

15、whether each of the following statements is true or false: (1%×15=15%)1) Animal call systems are not genetically transmitted.2) According to N. Chomsky, “competence” is the actual realization of his knowledge in utterance.3) A syllable without a coda is a closed syllable.4) Parole refers to the

16、 abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.5) Phonology is a branch of linguistics which studies the sentences patterns of a language.6) Languages differ in their selection of contrastive sounds.7) The English spelling exactly represents its pronunciation.8) Constitu

17、ents that can be substituted for one another with loss of grammaticality belong to the same syntactic category.9) According to semantic triangle, there is no direct link between a symbol and referent, i.e. between a word and a thing it refers to.10) A referring expression can be used to refer to non

18、existent things.11) All the grammatically well-formed sentences are semantically well-formed.12) Pragmatics studies the aspect of meaning that is not accounted for by semantics.13) An illocutionary act is the consequence of or the change brought about by the utterance.14) Social dialects, or sociole

19、cts, are varieties of language used by people belonging to particular social classes.15) The structural tests focus on the communicative and linguistic competence.V. 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 y

20、ou are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. (1%×10=10%)1) The three branches of phonetics are labeled as a_ phonetics, auditory phonetics and acoustic phonetics respectively.2) One general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of speech over w_

21、.3) S_ studies the sentence structure of language.4) C_ analyis is based upon the belief that the mesning of a word can be divided into meaning components.5) The noun “tear” and the verb “tear” are h_.6) H. Sweet made a distinction between narrow and b_ transcription.7) Lingistics found that it woul

22、d be impossible to give an adequate description of meaning if the c_ of langauge use was left unconsidered.8) Interchangeability means that any human being can be both a producer and a _of messages.9) Language may determine our thinking pattern and similarity between languages is relative, the greater their structureal differentiation is, the more diverse their conceptualization of the world will be. This has often been called the Sapir-Whorf h_.10) S_ act theory is an importa