英语语言学期末考试试卷
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%X10=20%)
1. Saussure’s distinction and Chomsky’s are very similar, but they differ in that ____________. A. Saussure took a sociological view of language while Chomsky took a psychological point of view
B. Saussure took a psychological view of language while Chomsky took a sociological point of view
C. Saussure took a pragmatic view of language while Chomsky took a semantic point of view D. Saussure took a structural view of language while Chomsky took a pragmatic point of view 2. Language is a system of ____________ vocal symbols used for human communication. A. unnatural B. artificial C. superficial D. arbitrary
3. We are born with the ability to acquire language, _______________. A. and the details of any language system are genetically transmitted B. therefore, we needn’t learn the details of our mother tongue C. but the details of language have to be learnt. D. and the details are acquired by instinct
4. A(n)________ is a phonological unit of distinctive value. It is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.
A. phone B. allophone C. phoneme D. sound
5. The morpheme –ed in the word “worked” is a(n) __________ morpheme.
A. derivational B. inflectional C. free D. word-forming
6. WH-movement is __________ in English which changes a sentence from affirmative to interrogative.
A. obligatory B. optional C. selectional D. arbitrary
7. Naming theory, one of the oldest notions concerning meaning, was proposed by _________.
A. Grice B. Plato
C. Saussure D. Ogden and Richards 8. “John married a blond heiress.”__________ “John married a blond.”
A. is synonymous with B. is inconsistent with C. entails D. presupposes
9. In semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is called _______, which is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.
A. utterance B. reference C. predication D. morpheme
10. In Austin’s speech act theory, ___________ is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention; it is the act performed in saying something.
A. a perlocutionary act B. a locutionary act
C. a constative act D. an illocutionary act
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 clue. Note that you are to fill in One word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. (1%×10=10%)
11. P___________ relates the study of language to psychology. It aims to answer such questions
as how the human mind works when people use language.
12. A d_________ study of language is a historical study; it studies the historical development of language over a period of time.
13. Language is a system, which consists of two sets of structures, or two levels. At the lower level,
there is a structure of meaningless sounds, which can be combined into a large number of meaningful units at the higher level. This design feature is called d___________.
14. The articulatory apparatus of a human being is contained in three important areas: the
pharyngeal cavity, the o_________ cavity and the nasal cavity.
15. The localization of cognitive and perceptual functions in a particular hemisphere of the brain is
called l_____________.
16. S_____________ features such as stress, tone and intonation can influence the interpretation
of meaning.
17. Phrase structure rules can generate an infinite number of sentences, and sentences with infinite
length, due to their r_________ properties.
18. H__________ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings are identical in
sound or spelling, or in both.
19. Some important missions of historical linguists are to identify and classify families of related
languages in a genealogical family tree, and to reconstruct the p____________, the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist.
20. In Sociolinguistics, speakers are treated as members of social groups. The social group
isolated for any given study is called the speech c___________.
III. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. (2%×10=20%)
( ) 21. Linguists believe that whatever occurs in the language people use should be described and
analyzed in their investigation.
( ) 22. Language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between words and
what these words actually refer to.
( ) 23. The conclusions we reach about the phonology of one language can be generalized into
the study of another language.
( ) 24. The meaning-distinctive function of the tone is especially important in English because
English, unlike Chinese, is a typical tone language.
( ) 25. The syntactic rules of any language are finite in number, and yet there is no limit to the
number of sentences native speakers of that language are able to produce and comprehend.
( ) 26. When we think of a concept, we actually try to see the image of something in our mind’s
eye every time we come across a linguistic symbol.
( ) 27. All utterances can be restored to complete sentences. For example, “Good morning!” can
be restored to “I wish you a good morning.”
( ) 28. Two people who are born and brought up in the same town and speak the same regional
dialect may speak differently because of a number of social factors.
( ) 29. Black English is linguistically inferior to standard English because Black English is not as
systematic as standard English.
( ) 30. Any child who is capable of acquiring some particular human language is capable of
acquiring any human language spontaneously and effortlessly.
IV. Directions: Explain the following terms. (3%×10=30%) 31. parole:
32. broad transcription: 33. allophones:
34. phrase structure rules: 35. context
36. Historical Linguistics: 37. standard language: 38. linguistic taboo: 39. acculturation: 40. care-taker speech:
V. Answer the following questions. (10%×2=20%)
41. Enumerate three causes that lead to the systematic occurrence of errors in second language acquisition and give your examples.
42. English has undergone tremendous changes since its Anglo-Saxon days. Identify the major
periods in its historical development and name major historical events that led to the transition from one period to the next.
参考答案
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=20%)
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. C 5.B 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. C 10. D
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 clue. Note that you are to fill in One word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. (1%×10=10%) 11. Psycholinguistics 12. diachronic 13. duality 14. oral
15. lateralization
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