《英语语言学概论》题与答案
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《英语语言学概论》题与答案
Exercises
I. Multiple Choice
1. _________ studies language change over time in contrast to
looking at language
as it is used at a given moment.
A. Diachronic linguistics
B. Synchronic linguistics
C. Prescriptive linguistics
D. Comparative linguistics
2. Of all the speech organs, the _____ is/are the most flexible.
A. mouth
B. lips
C. tongue
D. vocal cords
3. In terms of place of articulation, the following sounds [p],
[b], [m] and [w]share the feature of
.
A. palatal
B. alveolar
C. bilabial
D. dental
4. A(n) ____ is a unit that is of distinctive value. It is an abstract
unit, a collection
of distinctive phonetic features.
A. phone
B. sound
C. allophone
D. phoneme 5. Which of the following sound description is for [d]?
A. voiced labiodental fricative
B. voiced alveolar stop
C. voiceless labiodental fricative
D. voiceless alveolar stop
6. What is the phonetic feature of the sound [u]?
A. close back short
B. semi-close front short
C. semi-open central short
D. open front short
7. Which of the following sentences contain a derivational
affix?
A. The cows escaped.
B. It was raining.
C. Those socks are inexpensive.
D. She closed the book.
8. The morpheme “ed” in the word “ worked ” is
kno_w_n__a_s_a.(n)
A. derivational morpheme
B. lexical morpheme
C. inflectional morpheme
D. functional morpheme
9. “-e”n in “ enlarge ” is a(n) ________ .
A. derivational affix
B. inflectional affix
C. free root
D. bound root
10. ____ is the smallest unit of language that carries
information about meaning or function.
A. Syntax B. Grammar
C. Morphology
D. Morpheme
11. Which of the following forms is possible word of English?
A. sproke
B. bsarn
C. mbood
D. coofp
12. Which pair of words below shows the relation of
antonymy. _____
A. flourish —thrive
B. intelligent —stupid
C. casual—informal
D. flog —whip
13. We call the relation between “ furniture ob”e”aansd
__“__w_a_r.dr
A. hyponymy
B. meronymy
C. homophony
D. homonymy
14. Most of the violations of the maxims of the CP give rise
to ____ .
A. breakdown of conversation
B. confusion of one ' s intention
C. hostility between speakers and the listeners
D. conversational implicatures
15. In the phrase structure rule “S——>NP VP”, the arrow
can be read as ______
A. is equal to
B. consists of C. has
D. generates
16. The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is ____ .
A. lexical
B. morpheme
C. grammatical
D. semantic
17. The pair of words “ hot ” and “ cold ” are _________ .
A. gradable antonyms
B. relati onal antonyms
C. compleme ntary antonyms
D. co-hyp onyms
18. Which pair of the followi ng are compleme ntary antony
ms?
A. alive / dead
B. above / below
C. poor / rich
D. doctor / patie nt
19. What is the relatio n betwee n the pair of senten ces:
He likes seafood.
He likes crabs
A. synonymy
B. incon siste ncy
C. en tailme nt
D. presuppositi on
20. Which pair of the followi ng are homographs?
A. piece n. / peace n.
B. tear v. / tear n.
C. fast adj. / fast v.
D. flower n. / rose n. 21. Which pair of the following are dialectal synonyms?
A. lorry, truck
B. kid, child
C. collaborator, accomplice
D. amaze, asto und
22. “ Lift ” and “ elevator ” form a pairsyfnonyms.
A. stylistic
B. dialectical
C. collocati onal
D. conno tative
15. All syllables must have a _____ .
A. onset
B. coda
D. consonant
23. ____ studies language and speech as they are used at a
given moment and not in terms of how they have evolved over
time.
A. Diachronic linguistics
B. Synchronic linguistics
C. Prescriptive linguistics
D. Comparative linguistics
24. ____ deals with language application to other fields,
particularly education.
A. Psycholinguistics
B. Sociolinguistics
C. Applied linguistics
D. Comparative linguistics
25. Of the following sound combination, only ____ is
permissible in English.
A. iblk B. ilbk
C. ilkb
D. blik
26. Which pair of words below shows the relation of
synonymy. ____
A. drunk—sober
B. uncle—aunt
C. young—old
D. casua—l informal
27. The senserelationship between “ Hehas been to
France ”and “ Heh as been to Europe ” is .
A. hyponymy
B. antonymy
C. presupposition
D. entailment
28. In the phrase structure rule “ NP—>(Det) N (PP)…” the
arrow can be read
A. is equal to
B. branches into
C. transforms
D. generates
29. In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds
[t][r][s][l][z][n] share
the feature of _____ .
A. palatal
B. alveolar
C. bilabial
D. dental
30. Y 's utterance in the following convetriosna violates the
maxim of ___ .