外国语学院语言学期末考试试题卷

1、电子科技大学中山学院外国语学院考试试题卷课程名称：简明英语语言学教程考试方式：开卷201920学年第一学期期末考试 拟题人：曾跃都 日期：2019. H. 15班级：16级学号： 姓名：考前须知：1.答案一律做在答题卷上。2.请写上班级、学号和姓名。Multiple cho ice (20%): Choose the one out of the four choices marked with A, B, C, and D that you think is the most proper explanation to complete the following sentences. Wr

2、ite the letter you ve chosen on the answer sheet.l.The famous quotation from Shakespeare5 s play Romeo and Juliet A rose by any other name would smell as sweet“ well illustrates C_.the universality of languagethe creative nature of languagethe arbitrary nature of languagethe big difference between h

3、uman language and animal communicationWhat the element -es indicates is third person singular, present tense, the elemenf-ed past tense, and -ing progressive aspect. Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are alsoD.A. phonemes B. phones C. allophones D. morphemesLinguistic

4、s is the scientific study of B_.A. a particular language C. the English languagehuman languages in generalD. the system of a particular languageChomsky uses the term_A to refer to the actual realization of a language usersknowledge of the rules of his language in linguistic communication.A. performa

5、nce B. competence C. parole D. langueThe description of a language as it changes through time is a_D study.A. comparative B. descriptive C. up-to-date D. diachronicOf the following sound combinations, only_A is permissible according to thesequential rules in English.A. kibl B. bkilC. ilkbD. ilbkThe

6、consonant f in English can be correctly described as having the following phonetic features:C_.A. voiceless, bilabial, stopB. voiced, bilabial, stopC. voiceless, labiodental, fricativeD. voiced, labiodental, fricativeIn terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds t J d , s ,z ,and n sha

7、re the feature of C_.A. palatal B. bilabial C. alveolar D. dentalAn essential difference between consonants and vowels is whether the air coming up from the lungs meets with any B when a sound is produced.A. interaction B. obstruction C. retrospection D. frictionClear 1 and dark 1 are allophones of

8、the same one phoneme /I/. They never take the same position in sound combinations, thus they are said to be in A_distribution.A. complementary B. compressible C. compulsive D. comprehensiveThere are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix ed in the word “learned“ is known as a( n)B.A. der

9、ivational morpheme B. inflectional morphemeC. free morphemeD. free formThe fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good roof that human language isDA. non-productiveB. non-arbitraryC. logicalD. arbitraryThe level of syntactic representation that exists before moveme

10、nt takes place is commonly termed the B_./DA. phrase structureB. surface structureC. syntactic structureD. deep structureIn the phrase structure rule “SNP + VP the arrow can be read as_AA. consists of B. is equal toC. hasD. generatesXP may contain more than just X. For example, the NP the boy who li

11、kes his puppy consists of Det, N and S, with Det being the D, N the head and S the complement.A. modifier B. qualifier C. complementD. specifierPredication analysis is a way to analyze B meaning.A. phoneme B. sentence C. phraseD. wordThe phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same

12、form is called.BA. polysemy B. homonymy C. antonymyD. hyponymyI bought some rosesCI bought some flowers”.A. is inconsistent with B. presupposes C. entails D. is synonymous withSynonyms are classified into several kinds. The kind to which girl and lass” belong is called_C synonyms.A. stylistic B. emo

13、tive C. dialectalD. collocational.C_ in its wider sense would be the relationship between a word or phrase and an entity in the external world; it is a matter of the relationship between form and the reality.A. Subordination B. Sense C. Reference D. InteractionIL Judgement 10%); Judge whether the fo

14、llowing statements are true(T) or false(F), and then write your answer on the answer sheet.(T)Of the views concerning the study of semantics, the contextual view, which places the study of meaning in the context in which language is used, is often considered as the initial effort to study meaning in

15、 a pragmatic sense. (T) The relationship between the embedded clause and its matrix clause is one of a part to the whole.(T)Wh Movement is designed to test whether a sentence of deep structure can be transformed into one of surface structure.(F)Move cr is a general rule that is supposedly applicable

16、 to the formation of special questions.(_F)We can always tell by the words a compound contains what it meansbecause the meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meanings of its constituents.(_F_)Only words of the same lexical category can be combined to form compounds because the lexical categ

17、ory of a compound is supposed to remain identical with that of its constituents.(T_)A general difference between phonetics and phonology is that phonetics is focused on the production of speech sounds while phonology is more concerned with how speech sounds distinguish meaning.(_T)In such sound comb

18、inations as /bi:p/, /geip/ and /su:p/, the voiceless stop /p/ occurring in the final position, is unaspirated, i. e. pronounced with the strong puff of air withheld to some extent.(_F) Human capacity for language has a genetic basis, i. e. we are all born with the ability to acquire language and the

19、 details of a language system are genetically transmitted.(_F)The writing system of a language is always a later invention used to record speech; thus there are still many languages in todays world that can only be spoken, but not written.III. Brief explanation (5%): In componential analysis words are dissected into semantic features for their lexical meanings while phonemes may be reduced to distinctive features. Now exemplify to what extent the analysis of these two is similar. (You may do the job through typewriting.)As f