语言学试卷五

1、大学外语学院 20032004 学年第一学期期末语言学概论试卷 B 卷答卷I.1. 2. 3. 密4. 5. 6. _7. 8. 9. _10. 11. 12. _13. 14. 15. _II.封1. A B C D2. A B C D3. A B C D4. A B C D5. A B C D6. A B C D7. A B C D8. A B C D9. A B C D10. A B C D11. A B C D12. A B C D13. A B C D14. A B C D15. A B C DIII.线1. TF2. TF3. TF4. TF5. TF6. TF7. TF8. TF

2、9. TF10. TFIV. 学号：年级：专业：题号一二三四五六七总成绩得分得分：得分：得分：得分：1.2.3. 4.密5.封V.得分：线.大学外语学院 20032004 学年第一学期期末语言学概论试卷 B 卷I. Fill each bl learnedbelow with onlyord according to what you havehe linguistics course.(30%)1. distinguishes us from animals becauseitis far moresophisticatedn any animal communication

3、system.2.For learners of a foreign language, it is the conventionality of a languagetis more worth noticingn its .3.The study of the production of speech sounds is called phonetics.h is a fricative.The principal suprasegmental features are syllable, , tone, and onation..words refer to those w

4、hich do nove inflective endings.An is the collective term for the type of formative used only when added to another morpheme.t can be8. may be defined as the requirementt the forms of two ormore words in a syntactic relationship should agree with each othererms of some categories.9.In antonymy, the

5、denial of one imp other.s the assertion of the10. In PREDICAOGIC, an is a term which refers to someentity about which a sement is being made.11. claims and consives.t there are two types of senten: performatives12. CP stands for the principle proed by Grice.13. The function embodies all uses of lang

6、uage to express solandal relations.14. in linguistics holdst children learn language through achain of “stimulus-response reinforcement”.15. Chomskys Aspects of the Theory of Syntax marks the theory in Generative Linguistics.II. Read the following carefully and choose the best answer from thefour ch

7、oigiven to complete each sement below.(15%)t language has two levels of structures.1. refers to the propertyA. ConventionalityB. CreativityC. DisplacementD. Duality2.The function of languaget it can be used to talk about itself is referred to as the function.A. emotiveB. metalingualC. performativeD.

8、 recreational3.Speech sounds are produced with a(n) as their sourof energy.A. obstructionB. blockageC. airstreamD. articulation4. consist of a stop followed immediay afterwards by a fricative at the same place of articulation.A. FricativesB. AffricatesC. StopsD. Approximants5.Voicing, which plays an

9、 important part in distinguishing obstruents in English, is one of the features in English.A. componential All syllables mus and a coda.B. distinguishingC. consonantalD. distinctive6.ve a but not all syllables contain an onsetA. nucleusB. rhymeC. pitchD. tone7.The isA. closed-class is ahose membersh

10、ip in principle infinite or unlimited.B. open-classC. variableD. s in which the original meaning of a word can berestricted to a specific sense.A. BroadeningB. NarrowingC. Meaning shiftD. Folk etymology9.is a type of control over the form of some words by other words in certain syntac

11、tic constructions.A. AgreementB. ConcordC.ernmentD.erning10. The relation betn one item and others in a sequence, or betn elementswhich are all present is called the relation.A. syntagmaticB. paradigmaticC. linearD. vertical11. meaning is what is communicated by virtue of what language refers to.A.

12、SolB. AffectiveC. ConceptualD. Connoive12. antonymy shows the reversal of a relationship betn two entities.A. Gradable13. The sentenB. ComplementaryC. Converse whose uttering is, or is part of, theD. Opiteng of an action arecalled .A. declarativesB. consivesC. imperativesD. performatives14. The of l

13、anguage is to convey new information, to communicatea contentt is unknown to the hearer.A.eractionalB. instrumentalC. informativeD. ideational15. The base component and the transformational component together make up the component.A. semB. syntacticC. generativeD. pragmaticIII. Read each of the foll

14、owing carefully and decide whether it is true(T) or false(F) according to what you have learned in the linguistics course.(20%)1.Human language is totally different from the languages of other animals in every aspect.Compuional linguistics is one of the major branches of linguistics. The English lan

15、guage has three nasal sounds.Stress at the word level cannot distinguish meaning. All words contain a root morpheme.The traditional approach is of no use to the study of language nowadays..6.7.Ferdinand de Sau linguistics.re is usually referred to as the father of modern8.9.Total synonymy rar

16、e. The so-called synonyms are all context dependent.Proitional logic is the study of the truth conditions for proitions.10. The Q- and R-principles were developed by Laurence Horn.IV. Define the linguistic terms below.(15%).5.dualitycomplementary distribution assimilationendocentric construct

17、ion hyponymyyze the following according to what you have learnedV.helinguistics course.(20%)Explain why Sentence A below is acceptable while Sentence B below unacceptable.Please turn off the light before you go out.Please turn off the light after you go out.1.is2.Try to explahe ambiguity of the sent

18、ence below:Visiting relatives can be troublesome.3.yze the two sentenbelow by using tree diagrams:A. The cat climbed up the tree.B. The cicked up the milkhe plate.4.Explain why one of the two senten unacceptable:below is acceptable while the otherisJohn ate a piece of bread for breakfast.John ate a cup of milk for