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Ⅰ. Transcribe the following words into IPA symbols, with stress marking when necessary. (10%) Example: life—1. writhe 2. sigh 3. cupboard 4. confucian 5. allophone 6. parole 7. langue 8. wives 9. anesthesia 10. odor 答： 1.writhe /2. sigh //
3. cupboard /4. Confucian /5. allophone /6. parole /
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II. Fill in the following blanks. (15%)
1. Halliday proposes a theory of metafunctions of language, that is, language has ______,interpersonal and textual functions.
2. There has been a maxim in ______ which claims that “You are what you say.” 3. The theory of conversational implicature was proposed by ______.
4. Systemic-Functional Grammar, unlike traditional grammar which takes sentence as the largest unit, takes ______ as the basic unit.
5. ______ refers to a collection of Linguistic data, either compiled as written texts or as a transcription of recorded speech.
6. In linguistics, ______ refers to the study of the rules governing the way words are combined to form sentences in a language, or simply, the study of the formation as sentences.
7. At different times, different patterns of metre and sound have developed and become accepted as ways of structuring poems. Among them, ______ consists of lines ha iambic pentameter which do not rhyme.
8. The type of language constructed by second or foreign language learners who are still in the process of learning a language is often referred to as ______.
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www.100xuexi.com 圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 9. Error is the grammatically incorrect form; ______ appears when the language is correct grammatically but improper in a communicational context.
10. In research into the relation between structure and function, J. Firbas developed the notion of ______.This notion is based on the fact that linguistic communication is not a static phenomenon, but a dynamic one.
11. In Halliday’s Systemic Grammar, a system is a list of things between which it is possible to choose. So they are meanings, which the grammar can distinguish. The items in a system are called ______.
12. The present system of the ______ derives mainly from one developed in the 1920s by the British phonetician, Daniel Jones (1881-1967), and his colleagues at University of London.
13. As the lexical words carry the main content of a language while the grammatical ones serve to link its different parts together, the lexical words are also known as content words and grammatical ones ______.
14. The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to, or stands for, is known as the ______ theory.
15. At what point is meaning extracted from the words in a text? The reader is supposed to carry out the processes required to understand each word and its relationship to previous words in the sentence as soon as that word is encountered; this is known as the ______. 答： 1. ideational
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圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 10. Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP) 11. options 12. cardinal vowels 13.function words 14. referential
15. immediate assumption
III. Define the following terms. (50%) 1. metalanguage
答：metalanguage: Metalanguage refers to a language used for talking about another language. For example, the semantic components like HUMAN, ADULT, MALE, belong to a meta-language, since in here they are used to explain the meaning of “man”.
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圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 答：distinctive features: The distinctive feature refers to a property which distinguishes one phoneme from another. For example, “voicing” is a distinctive feature, since it plays an important role in distinguishing obstruents in English. 3. blending
答：blending: Blending is a process in which two words are blended by joining the initial part of the first word and the final part of the second word，or by joining the initial parts of the two words. For example, the word “smog” is blended from “smoke” and “fog”.
4. concord
答：concord: Concord, also known as agreement, could be defined as the requirement that the forms of two or more words in a syntactic relationship should agree with each other in terms of some categories. For example, in English the determiner and the noun it precedes should concord in number as in “this man”, “these men”; “a book”, “same books”.
5. propositional logic
答：propositional logic: Propositional logic, also known as propositional calculus or sentential calculus, is the study of the truth conditions for propositions: how
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