Final exam key words
I multiple choices
1 Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human .
a. writing
b. speaking
c. communication
d. reading
2 general linguistics
3 de Saussure
Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913)
4 Course in Genaral Linguistics
modern linguistics
5 Which is not belong to a branch of linguistics?
Speech
6 Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics studies the relationship between language and human mind. More specifically, it studies
- language comprehension (understanding)
- language production
- language acquisition
7 Design features : American Charles Hockett
One of Hockett’s most important contributions was his development of the
design-feature approach to comparative linguistics where he attempted to distinguish the similarities and differences among animal communication systems and human language.
8. Design features: A。Arbitrariness B。Duality C. Displacement (选剩下的一项)
9. voiceless sound: crash
10. splat
11. stops; happy
12. fricative : 字母组合f, sh, th的发音，选write
13. bilabial 双唇音（b,p,m）
14.minimal pairs 最小差异化组合，即只有一处不同的选项
15.glorification 用到的构词法deviational process（属于inflection的一种）
16.gym 用到的构词法clipping
17.UNESCO 用到的构词法acronyms 首字母略写
18 Syntax：（sentence structure）the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences 句法
19. kid, child, 属于stylistic synonyms
20.选不是的一项lexical relations of hyponymy (上下文意义)：magzine，dictionary
21.homonymy 同形异意the same form but with different meaning
Bank
22 也是考lexical relations of hyponymy
23 lexical relations of hyponymy：rose, tree
24 complementary antonyms 互补反义词
absent ,present
25 gradable antonyms 可分等级反义词
Wide，narrow
26.relational antonyms 关系反义词
let,rent
27. polysemy 一词多义
I had to park on the shoulder (路肩（公路两侧供车辆紧急停靠的地带）)of the road.
28.一些对话，题目是分析用到的maxim of ____is flouted，答案选Relevance
29. John run as fast as deer: maxim of quality has been flouted.
30.--I hope you brought A and B.
--I bought A
考点：Maxim of quantity is flouted.
II T/F
1 T---xun zi.
2 F--Aristotle
3 F--- diachronic/synchronic
4 T---discriptive rather perscriptive
5 F---Auditory phonetics
6.F--- place of articulation
7.T---phoneme, smallest unit
8.T----allophone音位变体
9.F—morphologically:
Should be 3 types, isolating, inflecting, agglu…
10.T—today’s English , isolating English
11.T—meaning of words,denotative, connotative
12.F---illocutionary语言外表现行为的
13.T---cooperative principle, to a maximum extent
14.T---conversational implication
III Answer sheet
1 What determines whether a string of words in a language is a sentence or simply a string of ~
Syntax
2 use language in a particular ways
Pragmatics
3.What are words like?
Morphology
4. What are speek sounds? What is their physical nature?
Phonetics
5. How do sounds behave in language?
Phonology
6.Why does the set of words means one thing,….
semantics
7. Two different sentence mean the same thing. How can one sentence mean more than one thing?
Pragmatics
