《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 ___ .