英语语言学试题(3)

英语语言学试题（3）

第一部分 选择题Ⅰ.Directions:Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the

four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A,B,C or D in the brackets.(2%×10=2

0%)

fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human

language is ______.

A. arbitrary -arbitrary

C. logical -productive

the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded, EXCEPT ______.

level of syntactic representation that exists before movement takes place is commonly termed t

he ______.

structure e structure

tic structure structure

theory of ______ accounts for the fact that noun phrases appear only in subject and object po

sitions.

Condition nt Condition

ter nt parameters

phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called ______.

my my

my my

utterance "We're already working 25 hours a day,eight days a week."obviously violates the max

im of ______.

y ty on

first language acquisition children usually ______ grammatical rules from the linguistic information

they hear.

lize truct

rdization known as ______ is necessary in order to facilitate communications.

ge interpretation ge identification

ge choice ge planning

of the following choices is not the key biological basis for human language acquisition?

______.

al cortex s

r gyrus

lly all the following categories except ______ are always missing in the children's telegraphic

speech stage.

copula verb "be" tional morphemes

on words t words

第二部分 非选择题Ⅱ.Directions:Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word,the

first letter of which is already given as a that you are to fill in ONE word only,and you are

not allowed to change the letter given.(1%×10=10%)

ge exists in time and changes through time. The description of a language at some point o

f time is called a _s_______ study of language.

essential difference between consonants and vowels is whether the air coming up from the lun

gs meets with any _o________ when a sound is produced.

morphemes that cannot be used by themselves, but must be combined with other morphemes

to form words are called _b________ morphemes.

may contain more than just example,the NP "the boy who likes his puppy" consists of D

et,N and S,with Det being the _s________,N the head and S the complement.

ing to Searle's classification of illocutionary acts,"to suggest that someone should see the do

ctor" should fall into the category of _d________.

my is the relationship which obtains between specific and general lexical word th

at is more general in meaning is called _s________.

can be vowel nasalization rule is an _a________ rule,which,for the most part,

is caused by articulatory or physiological process in which successive sounds are made identical, or

more similar, to one another.

mark of an informal style is the frequent occurrence of _s________ words and expressions,

which make sense only to the people of particular social groups and serve as a mark of membership

and solidarity within a given social group.

brain is divided into two roughly symmetrical halves, called _h________, one on the right and

one on the left.

sts often use the term native language or mother tongue instead of first language, and _t___

_____ language instead of second language in second language acquisition literature.

Ⅲ.Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F f

or false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain

why you think so and give the correct version.(2%×10=20%)

21.( )Human capacity for language has a genetic we are all born with the ability to acquir

e language and the details of a language system are genetically transmitted.

22.( )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 m

eaning.

23.( )Only words of the same parts of speech can be combined to form compounds.

24.( )Sentences are not formed by randomly combining lexical items, but by following a set of syntactic rules that arrange linguistic elements in a particular order.

25.( )The same semantic feature occurs in one part of speech only. For example, "female" occurs only in nouns such as "mother", "woman" "girl" "tigress" and so on but not in other parts of speech.

26.( )According to Searle's classification of illocutionary acts, inviting, ordering, advising, promising and apologizing all fall into the category of directives.

27.( )New words may be formed from existing words by subtracting an affix thought to be part of the old word; that is, ignorance sometimes can be creative. Thus "peddle" was derived from "peddler"

on the mistaken assumption that the "-er" was the agentive suffix.

28.( )Women in Western countries at least appear to be more status-conscious and sensitive to the social significance of certain linguistic variables.

29.( )The case of Genie confirms that the language faculty of an average human degenerates after the critical period and consequently, most linguistic skills cannot develop.