英语语言学试卷.doc

内蒙古医科大学2009级医学英语专业
语言学教程补考试卷
March，2013

Grade: Class: Name: Student No.:

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分值
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Part I Multiple Choice(45 points)

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Part II True or False(20 points)

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Part III Blank Filling (20 points)　

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Part IV Question Answering (15 points)

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内蒙古医科大学2009级医学英语专业
语言学教程补考试卷
March，2013

Grade: Class: Name: Student No.:

Part I Multiple Choice
Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one that you think can best answer the question in the sentence. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET。

1. “Don’t end a sentence with a preposition.” This is an example of ________ rules.
A. prescriptive B. descriptive C. transformational D. functional
2. Which of the following is the correct description of [f]?
A. voiceless labiodental fricative
B. voiced labiodental fricative
C. voiceless labiodental stop
D. voiced labiodental stop
3. Which of the following is narrow transcription of the word rap?
A. [ræp] B./ ræp / C. [ræph ] D. ./ ræph /
4. Which of the following is not the characteristic of implicature?
A. cancellability B. calculability C. creativity D. non-conventionality
5. ________ is concerned with the relationship between a word and the thing it refers to.
A. Connotation B. Denotation C. Affective D. Reflected
6. “Do not say what you believe to be false” is under __________maxim of CP.
A. QUANTITY B. QUALITY C. RELATION D. MANNER
7. Which is the branch of linguistic which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for the description, classification and transcription?
A. Phonetics B. Phonology C. Semantics D. Pragmatics
8. Which is an indispensable part of a syllable?
A. coda B. onset C. stem D. nucleus
9. Which of the following sounds does not belong to the allomorphs of the English plural morpheme?
A. [s] B. [z] C. [əz] D. [is]
10. All words contain a ______
A. root morpheme B. bound morpheme C. prefix D. suffix
11. The relationship between “fruit” and “apple” is
A. Homonymy B. hyponymy C. polysemy D. synonymy
12. which of the following items is NOT linguistic phenomena of recursiveness?
A. conjoining B. embedding C. hypotactic D. cohesion
13. The pair of words “lend” and “borrow” are
A. gradable opposites B. converse opposites C. co-hyponyms D. synonyms
14. The maxim of ______________ requires that a participant’s contribution be relevant to the conversation.
A. quantity B. quality C. manner D . relation
15. An ________ can further be divided into two types: subordinating and coordinating.
A. endocentric construction B. exocentric construction
C. immediate constituent D. ultimate constituent
16. The morpheme "vision" in the common word "television" is a(n) ___.
 A. bound morpheme
 B. bound form
 C. inflectional morpheme
D. free morpheme  
17. "Can I borrow your bike?" ___ "You have a bike."
  A. is synonymous with
  B. is inconsistent with
  C. entails
  D. presupposes 
18. The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as __.
  A. +animate,+male,+human,-adult
  B. +animate,+male,+human,+adult
  C. +animate,-male,+human,-adult
  D. +animate,-male,+human,+adult
19. 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-productive
20. All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i.e. rounded, EXCEPT ______.
A. [u:] B. [u] C. [ɔ] D. [a]
21. Which of the following words involve “nasalization”?
A. rap B. read C. good D. want
22. Which of the following is the immediate constituent of the sentence “The boy ate the apple.”?
A. apple B. the apple C. ate the apple D. The boy ate the apple
23. which of the following is not a kind of syntactic relation?
A. relation of substitutability B. positional relation
C. sense relation D. relation of co-occurrence
24. The “semantic triangle” was proposed by_______
A. Plato and Aristotle.
B. Ogden and Richards.
C. Chomsky and Halle
D. Leech and Palmer.
25. According to Austin, a speaker, while making an utterance, is inmost cases performing _______ acts simultaneously.
A. two　　　 B. three　　 C. four　　D. five
26. Which studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed?
A. Morphology B. Syntax C. Phonology D. Semantics
27. Which of the following words comes into being through Acronym?
A. ad B. flu C. Radar D. Prof
28. Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language?
A. Symbolic B. Duality C. Creativity D. Arbitrary
29. Who put forward the distinction between Langue and Parole?
A. Saussure B. Chomsky C. Halliday D. Anonymous
30. The function of the sentence “A nice day, isn’t it?” is
A. informative B. phatic C. directive D. performative

Part II True or False
Directions: In this section there are 20 statements. Decide whether they are true or false. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET with “A” stands for “T” or “B” stands for “F”.
( ) 31. The description of [i] is high front lax unrounded vowel
( ) 32. A tripartite model for successful communication is based on Rogers’ theory.
( ) 33. Leech recognozes 6 types of meaning in his Semantics.
( ) 34. People suggest that we should study meaning in terms of reference rather than sense.
( ) 35. In a truth table “→” “∧” and “∨” correspond to the English “if…then”, “and” and “or” respectively.
( ) 36. The timeless language, Hopi, provides some positive envidence to support the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
( ) 37. Leech’s conceptual meaning has two sides: sense and reference.
( ) 38. In Halliday’s grammar, the basic unit of structure is the sentence.
( ) 39. Every word has a sense and a reference
( ) 40. Utterances which are used to perform acts is Constatives
( ) 41. In Britain, one of the most important markers of status is accent.
( ) 42. Only when a maxim under Cooperative Principle is clearly violated and the hearer knows that it is being violated do conversational implicatures arise.
( ) 43. The Locutionary act of “good morning’ is to greet.
( ) 44. In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria can be applied.
( ) 45. To study Pidgin and Creole is Sociolinguistic study of society
( ) 46. Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.
( ) 47. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing.
( ) 48. The English sound [m] is a bilabial nasal.
( ) 49. “editor” is an example of acronym.
( ) 50. English has only three bilabials, which are [p][b][m].

Part III Blank Filling
Directions: In this section there are20 blanks in 20 statements, for each blank the first letter has been given. With the help of this hint, make out the whole word and complete the statement . Write down the complete words on your ANSWER SHEET.
51. Those aspects of speech that involve more than single sound segments are s___________ features.
52. The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to, or stands for, is known as the R___________ THEORY.
53. Conversational i____________ is a type of implied meaning, which is deduced on the basis of the conventional meaning of words together with the context, under the guidance of the CP and its maxims
54. C__________ are utterances which roughly serves to state a fact, report that something is

the case, or describe what something is
55. An i_____________ act is an act performed in saying something.
56. A theory which explicitly employs the notion “concept” is the semantic t________ proposed by Ogden and Richards in their book The Meaning of Meaning.
57. The principle that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the constituent words and the way they are combined is c_____________
58. Synonymy is the technical name for one of the sense relations between linguistic units, namely, the sameness relation; h___________, the technical name for inclusiveness sense relation, is a matter of class membership.
59. D_________ features are features that destine our human languages.
60. Linguistic s__________ is a term used to refer to sex-biased phenomena in language use. More specifically, it aims to reveal and deal with linguistic issues related to male chauvinism.
Part IV Question answering
Directions: In this section there are two questions. Using the knowledge learnt from your course of Lniguistics, give a reasonable answer to the each question. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
61. The pronunciation of tell is [te ł], but that of the telling is ['teliŋ]. Using your knowledge of phonology and morphology, discuss why the phoneme /l/ is realized as [l] and [ł] respectively. (8points)
62. Decide which maxim of the CP Students has violated and what implicature Teacher may draw: (7 points)
(It is towards the end of a lecture.)
Teacher: What time is it?
Student: It’s 10:15 and 35.6 seconds.
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