语言学中期测试-答案(p2)(1).doc

系别Department专业Major班级Class学号Students Number姓名Name装订线英语语言学 阶段测试-答案满分(Full mark)： 100 考试时间 (Duration ) ： 90 分钟 (Minutes)题 号Question Number一One二Two三Three四Four五Five六Six七Seven八Eight总分Total Marks阅卷人Examiner得分MarksPart 1 True or False (1*20=20) Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False( ) 1. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. T( ) 2. Linguistics studies particular language, not languages in general. F( ) 3. A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time. F( ) 4. Modern linguistics regards the written language as primary, not the written language. F( ) 5. The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure. F( ) 6. If two phonetically similar sounds occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning, they are said to be in complementary distribution. F( ) 7. A phone is a phonetic unit that distinguishes meaning. F( ) 8. English is a tone language while Chinese is not. F( ) 9. Words are the smallest meaningful units of language. F( ) 10. Just as a phoneme is the basic unit in the study of phonology, so is a morpheme the basic unit in the study of morphology. T( ) 11. The syntactic rules of any language are finite in number, but there is no limit to the number of sentences native speakers of that language are able to produce and comprehend. T( ) 12. In a complex sentence, the two clauses hold unequal status, one subordinating the other. T( ) 13. What is actually internalized in the mind of a native speaker is a complete list of words and phrases rather than grammatical knowledge. F( ) 14. Dialectal synonyms can often be found in different regional dialects such as British English and American English but cannot be found within the variety itself, for example, within British English or American English. F( ) 15. The meaning of a sentence is the sum total of the meanings of all its components. F( ) 16. Most languages have sets of lexical items similar in meaning but ranked differently according to their degree of formality. T( ) 17. Both semantics and pragmatics study how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication. F( ) 18. It would be impossible to give an adequate description of meaning if the context of language use was left unconsidered. T( ) 19. The meaning of a sentence is abstract, but context-dependent. F( ) 20. Both semantics and pragmatics study meanings. TPart 2 Multiple Choice (1*20=20)There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement.( ) 1. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be _. A. prescriptiveB. analytic C. descriptive D. linguistic ( ) 2. According to F. de Saussure, _ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.A. paroleB. performance C. langue D. Language ( ) 3. Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called_.A. displacement B. duality C. flexibilityD. cultural transmission( ) 4. Which of the following is not a design feature of human language? A. Arbitrariness B. Displacement C. DualityD. Meaningfulness( ) 5. The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are _ sounds. A. voiceless B. voiced C. vowelD. consonantal( ) 6. _ is a voiced alveolar stop. A. /z/ B. /d/ C. /k/ D./b/ ( ) 7. The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones _. A. identicalB. sameC. exactly alike D. similar( ) 8. A(n) _ is a unit that is of distinctive value.It is an abstract unit, a collection of distinctive phonetic features. A. phone B. sound C. allophoneD. phoneme( ) 9. The morpheme “vision” in the common word “television” is a(n) _. A. bound morpheme B. bound formC. inflectional morpheme D. free morpheme( ) 10. _ are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.A. Freemorphemes B. Bound morphemes C. Bound wordsD. Words( ) 11. _ are often thought to be the smallest meaningful units of language by the linguists. A. WordsB. Morphemes C. Phonemes D. Sentences( ) 12. A sentence is considered _ when it does not conform to the grammatical knowledge in the mind of native speakers. A. right B. wrong C. grammatical D. ungrammatical( ) 13. “Alive” and “dead” are _. A. gradable antonyms B. relational opposites C. complementary antonyms D. None of the above( ) 14. _ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience. A. Reference B. Concept C. Semantics D. Sense( ) 15. _ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form. A. PolysemyB. Synonymy C. HomonymyD. Hyponymy( ) 16. Words that are close in meaning are called _. A. homonymsB. polysemy C. hyponyms D. synonyms ( ) 17. _ does not study meaning in isolation, but in context. A. PragmaticsB. Semantics C. Sense relationD. Concept( ) 18. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning _is considered. A. reference B. speech act C. practical usage D. context( ) 19. Speech act theory did not come into being until _. A. in the late 50s of the 20the century B. in the early 1950s C. in the late 1960s D. in the early 21st century. ( ) 20. _ is advanced by Paul Grice A. Cooperative Principle B. Politeness Principle C. The General Principle of Universal Grammar D. Adjacency Principle Part 3 Definition (5*5=25)Define the following terms.1. languageLanguage is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.2. phonemeThe basic unit in phonology is called phoneme; it is a unit of distinctive value. But it is an abstract unit. To be exact, a phoneme is not a sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.3. morphemeIt is the smallest meaningful unit of language.4. sense (in semantics)Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. It is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form; it is abstract and de -contextualized.5. contextContext consists of the knowledge that is shared by the speaker and the hearer. The shared knowledge is of two types: the knowledge of the language they use, and the knowledge about the world, including the general knowledge about the world and the specific knowledge about the situation in which linguistic communication is taking place.Part 4 Phonetics: Classification (2*5=10)Classify the consonants in each word.Example: z voiced alveolar fricative1. t voiceless alveolar stop2. n voiced nasal alveolar3. k voiceless velar stop4. voiceless interdental fricative5. l voiced alveolar approximantPart 5 Morphology: Word Formation Processes (1*10=10)Insert the words in the table according to the word formation processes.a. to motherb. telephonec. moteld. VOAe. UFOf. televiseg. talkingh. boyishi. greenhousej. quakeInflectionDerivationConversionCompoundingBlendingghaicClippingAcronymBack-formationb jd efPart 6 Syntax: Sentence Analysis (5*2=10)Analyze the following sentences in terms of clauses, functions and categories.Example: He missed the early bus.He subject NP / missed predicate VP / the early bus object NP 1. I am writing an essay on Milton.I Subject NP Am writing - Predicate VP An essay on Milton - Object: NP 2. Your teaching style has impressed the new Principal.Your teaching style Subject NPhas impressed Predicate VPthe new Principal- Object: NPPart 7 Semantics: Sense relations (0.5*5=2.5)Insert the following pairs of words in the table according to their sense relations.a. pass away/ dieb. stem/ flowerc. sweets/ candiesd. green/ ripee. virtue/ honestysynonymyc. antonymya. d. hyponymyb. e. Part 8 Pragmatics: Sentence Analysis (1*2.5=2.5)Which of the Conversational Maxims is being violated in the following conversation?A: Tom is an excellent linguist. Dont you think?B: He is a good cookIt may be regarded as a violation of the maxim of _relation_. (The hearer assumes that if the speaker is cooperative, his reply must be relevant in a different sense- Tom is not a good linguistic. Page 2 of 2