期末考试语言学复习范围
2： 名i司倉翠释复习范围 language, speech community, bilingualism, semantics, context, locutionary act, language acquisition, phonology, psycholinguistics, langue, phoneme, culture, intercultural communication, linguistics, phonetics, competencet inteiianguage, neurolinguistics, sense, morphology 3：术语翻译都选自教材最后的glossary；
4：简答题复习范围(主要限定在第一章、第五章、第六章、和第十章) I ? Is modern linguistics mainly synchronic or diachronic? Why?
2. What are the major branches of linguistics? What does each of them study? 3. What makes modern linguistics different from traditional grammar? 4. What is sense and what is reference? How are they related?
5. What does pragmatics study? How does it differ from traditional semantics?
6. According to Austin, what are the three acts a person is possibly performing while making an utterance? Give an example? 7? What are the three variables that determine register? Interpret them with an example?
8. In what way is componential analysis similar to the analysis of phonemes into distinctive features? 9? What are the major types of synonyms in English?
10- What are the five design features of language specified by C. Hockeet to show that human language is essentially different
from any animal communication system?
II ? What are the four major views concerning the study of meaning?
12? Why is the notion of context essential in the pragmatic study of linguistic communication?
13. What are the four maxims of the Cooperative Principle (CP)? List their names and explain them briefly.
14. To what extent is second language learning similar to first language learning? Can you list some proof from your own
learning experience?
15. What is the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) concerning language acquisition? 16? Explain the definition： \17? What are suprasegmental features? Use examples to illustrate your points.
18- What is grammaticality? Is a grammatically meaningful sentence necessarily a semantically meaningful sentence? 19. How are “sentence\ 20. What distinction, if any, can you draw between bilingualism and diglossia?
I ?For each question, there is only ONE correct answer Choose the one from A, B, C and D.
1 ? Displacement benefits human beings by giving them the power to handle __
A. arbitrariness and creativity B. generalizations and abstractions C. interpersonal relationship D? performative functions 2. Using language for the sheer joy of using it shows that language has a ____ function.
A. recreational B? metalingual C? informative D? performative
3. According to ____ , the task of a linguist is to determine from the data of performance the underlying system of rules that has been mastered by the language user.
A. Roman Jacobson B. Leonard Bloomfield C. Kenneth Pike D. Noam Chomsky 4. Whose Cardinal Vowel system is still in use? A. AJ. Ellis B. A.M. Bell C. Daniel Jones D. A. C. Gimson 5. Which of the following words involves \ A. rap B. read C. rose D. running 6. Which of the following words is likely to have stress in sentences? A. a B. and C. to D. sun 7?“ ______ is the abstract unit underlying the smallest unit in the lexical system of a language? A. Word A. Construction
B. Lexeme B. parts of speech
C. Morpheme
C. inflection
D. Vocabulary
D? categories
8. Word Class is known as in traditional grammar as _____ ?
9. Which of the following are NOT prefixes? A. para B. dis C. ir D. ion 10. _______ is NOT included in the studies of traditional gram mar. A. Classifying words into parts of speech B. Defining the properties of sentences C. Identifying the functions of words D. Recognizing certain categories, like number and tense 11. \____ A. perfective B. progressive C. agreement D. government 12. Which of the following is NOT related to Noam Chomsky?
D. Theme and Rheme A. Deep Structure B. Surface Structure C? Transformational Component 13. The \
A. Plato and Aristotle B. Ogden and Richards C. Chomsky and Halle 14. Which of the following are NOT converse antonyms?
D. Leech and Palmer
D? teacher: student A. clever: stupid B. boy: girl C? give: receive
15. “I can refer to Confucius even though he was dead 2000 years ago.\ A. arbitrariness B. creativity C. Duality D. Displacement 16. \55 This is an example of ____ rules. A. prescriptive
B. descriptive
C. transformational
D? functional
17. According to G.B? Shaw's ridicule of English orthography, the non-existed word ^hoti can be pronounced in the same way as _____ A. goat B. hot C. fish D. floor 18. Which of the following is the correct description of [vj? A. voiceless labiodental fricative B. voiced labiodental fricative C. voiceless labiodental stop D. voiced labiodental slop
19. \A. uninterruptibility B? stability A preposition
B? adverb
C. extremity C? adjective
D. variability D.noun
20. Which of the following word class is the closed-class?
21. Which of the following are NOT suffixes
D. ful A. in B. ise C. ly
22. Traditional grammar sees a sentence as ________
C. a sequence of words D. a sequenee of phrases A. a sequence of morphemes B. a sequenee of clauses
23. ________ meaning is concerned with the relationship between a word and the thing it refers to.
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