2011级成人教育英语语言学试卷B

《英语语言学》练习测试题及参考答案本科I. Tick off the correct or the best possible answers:1.One of the properties of language is that a language user can understand and produce sentences he/shehas never heard before. This property of language is called ________.A. dualityB. productivityC. displacementD. arbitrarinessKey: B2.The ______ function refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing a favorable atmosphereor maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas.A. phaticB. directiveC. evocativeD. performativeKey: A3.From a functional approach, the _______ meaning of a language use consists of what is communicatedof the feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer.A. affectiveB. associativeC. stylisticD. collocativeKey: A4.When –ing in ‘gangling’is removed to get a verb ‘gangle’, we call this way of creating words________.A. suffixationB. back-formationC. blendingD. acronymyKey: B5.______ refers to the process by which words rise from humble beginnings to positions of importance.A. DegradationB. SpecializationC. ElevationD. ExtensionKey: C6.As we know, every speaker has his own pet words and expressions and special way of expressing hisideas in language. This language variety of individual users is called ______.A. idiolectB. regional dialectC. temporal dialectD. social dialectKey: A7.When pitch, stress and length variations are tied to the sentence rather than to the word, they arecollectively known as ________.A. intonationB. toneC. phonemeD. sentence stressKey: A8._______ refers to the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound.A. Addition of soundB. Loss of soundC. MetathesisD. AssimilationKey: D9.Basically, all the languages in the world can be classified in terms of language family. Vietnamese andKorean are two languages in the ______ family.A. Indo-EuropeanB. Sino-TibetanC. Hamito-SemiticD. Malayo-Polynesian Key: B10. A _______ is the minimal contrastive unit in the writing system of a language.A. morphemeB. phonemeC. graphemeD. letterKey: C11.All mono-morphemic words are constituted by free morphemes, and those poly-morphemic wordswhich consist wholly of free morphemes are called_________.A. hyponymsB. compoundsC. blendsD. allomorphsKey: B12.The requirement that the forms of two or more words of specific word classes which stand in specificsyntactic relationship with one another shall also be characterized by the same paradigmatically marked category or categories is called _______.A. concordB. governmentC. recursivenessD. cohesionKey: A13. The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another is called_____.A. blendingB. clippingC. acronymyD. compoundingKey: A14. The distinction of ‘linguistic potential’ and ‘actual linguistic behavior’ is proposed by _______.A. N. ChomskyB. F. de SaussureC. M. A. HallidayD. J. AustinKey: C15. The word meaning given in the dictionary is called _____ meaning.A. denotativeB. connotativeC. collectiveD. stylisticKey: A16. When we consider the variation relating to what a user is trying to do with language, we are dealing withaddressee relationship—continually ca tegorized as “______”.A. tenor of discourseB. mode of discourseC. field of discourseD. idiolectKey: A17. According to words’ structures, Turkish is a typical ______ language.A. isolatingB. fusionalC. analyticD. agglutinativeKey: D18. ______ refer to the fact that one type of utterance is typically followed by a special type of utterance.A. Minimal pairsB. Illocutionary actsC. Social dialectsD. Adjacency pairs Key: D19. The relation between “dead” and “alive” is labeled as ________.A. gradabilityB. complementarityC. hyponymyD. homonymyKey: B20. The words “encore” and “au pair” are loanwords from _______.A. FrenchB. GermanC. ItalianD. SpanishKey: A21. The distinction of langue and parole is proposed by______.a. N. Chomskyb. F. de Saussurec. M. A. Hallidayd. J. AustinKey: b22.Which of the following is the exception to the feature of arbitrariness of languagea. native English wordsb. borrowed wordsc. echoic wordsd. one-syllable wordsKey: c23.Which of the following feature cannot be used to describe the phone [s]a. voicelessb. oralc. alveolard. lateralKey: d24.In terms of place of articulation, the two consonants [f], [v] are ________.a. dentalb. alveolarc. palatald. labiodentalKey: d25.In terms of manner of articulation, the sounds [p], [b], [t], [d], [k], [g] are ________.a. affricatesb. fricativesc. bilabiald. oral stopsKey: d26.Which of the following statements about allophone is NOT correcta. Allophones are different forms of the same phonemeb. Allophones of the same phoneme are in complementary distribution.c. Allophones distinguish meaning.d. Allophones are language specific.Key: c27.Which of the following words is not a free morphemea. ableb. petc. changed. dustyKey: d28.How many morphemes are there in the word dischargeda. 2b. 3c. 4d. 5Key: b29.Which of the following words is made up of bound morphemes onlya. happinessb. televisionc. ecologyd. teacherKey: c30. Language is passed on from one generation to the next by teaching and learning rather than by instinct.This property of language is called_____.a. interchangeabilityb. productivityc. cultural transmissiond. arbitrarinessKey: c31.The famous quotation from Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet‘A rose by any other name would smellas sweet’ well illustrates _______.A. the conventional nature of languageB. the creative nature of languageC. the universality of languageD. the big difference between human language and animal communicationKey: A32.Of the following sound combinations, only _______ is permissible according to the sequential rules inEnglish.A. kiblB. bkilC. ilkbD. ilbkKey: A33.The sentence that has a NP and a VP can be shown in a _______ formula “S→NP VP”.A. hierarchicalB. linearC. tree diagramD. verticalKey: B34.It is the _______ on Case assignment that states that a Case assignor and a Case recipient should stayadjacent to each other.A. Case ConditionB. Case ParameterC. Adjacent ConditionD. Adjacent Parameter Key: C35. Predication analysis is a way to analyze _______ meaning.A. phonemeB. wordC. phraseD. sentenceKey: D36. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called _______.A. commisivesB. directivesC. expressivesD. declarativesKey: A37. The term _______ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.A. synchronicB. diachronicC. comparativeD. historical comparative Key: B38. The way in which people address each other depends on their age, sex, social group, and personal relationship. The English system of address forms frequently used includes first name, last name, title+last name, _______, and kin term.A. title+first nameB. title+titleC. title aloneD. first name+last name+titleKey: C39. Language and thought may be viewed as two independent circles overlapping in some parts. When language and thought are identical or closely parallel to each other, we may regard thought as “subvocal speech,” and speech as “_______”.A. vocal thoughtB. subvocal thoughtC. covert thoughtD. overt thoughtKey: D40.Whcih of the following best states the behaviorist view of child language acquisitionA. Language acquisition is a process of habit formation.B. Language acquisition is the species-specific property of human beings.C. Children are born with an innate ability to acquire language.D. Humans are equipped with the neural prerequisites for language and language use.Key: A41. The words “kowtow” and “tea ” are loanwords from _______.A. ChineseB. GermanC. ItalianD. SpanishKey: A42. The term _______ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.A. synchronicB. diachronicC. comparativeD. historical comparative Key: B43. The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another is called _____.A. blendingB. clippingC. acronymyD. compoundingKey: A44. According to words’ structures, Latin is a typical ______ language.A. isolatingB. fusionalC. analyticD. agglutinativeKey: B45. The relation between “animal” and “lamb” is labeled as ________.A. gradabilityB. complementarityC. hyponymyD. homonymyKey: C46. One of the property of language is that there is no logical connection between meaning and sounds. This property of language is called________.A. dualityB. productivityC. displacementD. arbitrarinessKey: D47. The________ function refers to the use of language to create certain feelings in the hearer.A. phaticB. directiveC. evocativeD. performativeKey: A48. The _______ meaning of a word consists of the associations it acquires on account of the meanings of words which tend to occur in its environment.A. associativeB. affectiveC. stylisticD. collocativeKey: D49. When –or in editor is removed to get a verb edit, we call this way of creating words ________.A. suffixationB. back-formationC. blendingD. acronymyKey:50. The relation between “rose” and “flower” is labeled as ________.A. gradabilityB. complementarityC. hyponymyD. homonymy Key: C51. Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This is what we mean by __________.A. dualityB. productivityC. displacementD. arbitrarinessKey: C52. When language is used to get the hearer to do something, then it serves a _______ function.A. directiveB. informativeC. interrogativeD. expressive53. The description of a language at some point in time is a ________ study.A. diachronicB. synchronicC. descriptiveD. prescriptiveKey: B54. The distinction between “competence” and “performance” was made by______ .A. N. ChomskyB. F. de SaussureC. M. A. HallidayD. L. BloomfieldKey: A55. According to the places of articulation, sounds in English such as [t], [l], and[z] can be labeled as_______ ones.A. dentalB. bilabialC. velarD. alveolarKey: D56. According to the morphological analysis, the underlined part in the word “inter nation alism” should beregarded as a ___________ .A. rootB. stemC. prefixD. suffixKey: B57. Words such as “telex” and “workfare” are created through ___________.A. affixationB. compoundingC. conversionD. blendingKey: D58. According to the syntact ic construction analysis, simple sentence such as “John is a student.” belongs to__________construction.A. endocentricB. exocentricC. coordinateD. subordinateKey: B59. The sense relationship between “male” and “female” is _________.A. complementarityB. gradabilityC. relational oppositesD. hyponymyKey: A60. Componential analysis is a method of analyzing________ meaning.A. sentenceB. lexicalC. grammaticalD. utteranceKey: BII. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)1. A sentence cannot be a word or a fragment in strict sense, but an utterance can be a word or a fragment ofa sentence. T/FKey: T2.It doesn’t make sense to ask what language a sentence belongs to. T/FKey: F3. A stem first of all refers to any morpheme or combination of morphemes, but an affix can be added to it.T/FKey: T4.Every word in a language can find at least one referent in the objective world. T/FKey: F5.In most cases, lexicon means vocabulary and is related to the analysis and creation of words, idioms andcollocations. T/FKey: T6.The use of the term ‘implicature’ is different from ‘implication’ in that it usually indicates a rathernarrowly defined logical relationship between two propositions. T/FKey: F7. A phrase means two or more words in sequence, intended to have meaning, that form a syntactic unit thatis less than a complete sentence. It is actually synonymous with word group. T/FKey: F8.Collocation is a term in lexicology used by some linguists to refer to the habitual co-occurrences ofindividual lexical items, or collocates. This relation of co-occurrence usually cannot be accounted for. T/F Key: T9.In order to understand how conversational principles work, we may consider how each maxim actuallyworks and how people observe these maxims in daily communication. T/FKey: T10.Syntax studies the rules which govern the ways words, word groups and phrases are combined to makegrammatical sentences in a language, i.e. it deals with the relationships between elements in sentence structures. T/FKey: T11.Even in modern society, the primary medium is sound for all languages, and the fact that childrenacquire spoken language first before they can read or write also indicates that language is primarily vocal. Key: T12.The defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system ofcommunication are termed design features.Key: T13.There are other channels, besides language, for communicating our thoughts, so language is only oneaspect of semiotics.Key: T14.Modern linguistics regards the spoken language as primary, written language as secondary.Key: T15.Descriptive linguistics aims to lay down rules for ‘correct’ language use, i.e., to tell people what theyshould say and what should not say.Key: F16.Phonology is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and theirpatterns.Key: F17.The case category is used in the analysis of word classes to identify the syntactic relationship betweenwords in a sentence.Key: Tnguage is genetically transmitted.Key: F19.The grammar taught today to language learners is still basically descriptive.Key: F20.All the sounds produced by human are speech sounds.Key: F21.Generally speaking, pragmatics can be understood as a branch of linguistic study that deals with thefactors that govern our choice of language in social interaction and the effects of our choice on others. Key: T22.[f], [v], [s], [z], [?] and [?] are all fricative in English, but [?] and [?] are alveolar while [f] and [v] aredental.Key: F23.In most cases, sentence is synonymous with utterance.Key: F24.Syntax exclusively deals with the study of the interrelationships between elements in sentence structure,and it has nothing to do with exploring the syntactic relation beyond sentence boundary.Key: F25.The London School proposed a functional approach towards the concept of phoneme, and N.Trubetzkoy made the greatest contribution to the related study.Key: F26.A phoneme in a language is a distinctive sound which is capable of distinguishing one word or oneshape of a word from another.Key: T27.Every language is part of a culture, and it cannot but serve and reflect cultural needs.Key: T28.Sentence can be extended either by conjoining or embedding, and a construction where constituentshave been linked through the use of conjunction indicates a paratactic relation.Key: F29.Both Chinese and English are tone languages.Key: F30.Words are the smallest meaningful units of language.Key: F31.Derivation changes always result in change of the word class of the original words.Key: T32.Pitch variations may be distinctive like phonemes, and in this function they are called tones. Languagesusing tones, like Chinese, are called tone language.Key: T33.The notion of inflection just indicates the manifestation of grammatical relationships, rather than lexicalones, through the addition of inflectional affixes.Key: T34.The same morpheme always takes different forms in different contexts.Key: T35. According to P. Grice, whether a speaker follows or violates the Maxims of the Cooperative Principle, he produces some implicature, i.e. a kind of extra meaning that is not contained in the utterance.Key: T36.In the history of any language the writing system always came into being before the spoken form.T/FKey: F37.In English, long vowels are also tense vowels because when we pronounce a long vowel such as/i:/, the larynx is in a state of tension. T/FKey: T38.A compound is the combination of only two words. T/FKey: F39.“The student” in the sentence “The student liked the linguistic lecture”, and “The linguistic lecture” in the sentence “The linguistic lecture liked the student.” belong to the same syntactic category. T/FKey: T40.Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different references in different situations while linguistic forms with the same reference always have the same sense. T/FKey: F41.An important difference between presupposition and entailment is that presupposition, unlike entailment, is not vulnerable to negation. That is to say, if a sentence is negated, the original presupposition is still true. T/FKey: T42.The division of English into Old English, Middle English, and Modern English is non-conventional and not arbitrary. T/FKey: Fnguage reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist, just as it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudes about social taboos or racism. T/FKey: T44.If a child is deprived of linguistic environment, he or she is unlikely to learn a language successfully later on. T/FKey: T45.When children learn to distinguish between the sounds of their language and the sounds that are not part of the language, they can acquire any sounds in their native language once their parents teach them. T/F Key: F46. Leonard Bloomfield maintained that linguistics should describe instead of prescribe what people actually say and should take a deductive approach in analyzing data.Key: F47. Chomsky believes that linguistic study and research can help explain what happens in the mind, and linguistics should be regarded as a branch of psychology.Key: F48. Halliday claims that if we are given an adequate specification of the semantic properties of the context in terms of field, tenor and mode, we should be able to predict the syntactic properties of texts.Key: F49. Onomatopoeia indicates a non-arbitrary relationship between form and meaning.Key: F50. Traffic light system has the feature of duality.Key: F51. The distinction of ‘linguistic potential’ and ‘actual linguistic behavior’ is proposed by N. Chomsky. Key: F52. In English there are three nasal sounds. They are [m], [n], and [l].Key: T53. A morpheme is the minimal contrastive unit in the writing system of a language.Key: F54. According to the functions of affixes, we can put them into groups: inflectional affixes and derivational affixes.Key: T55. Compounding is the formation of new words by joining two or more stems.Key: T56. Metathesis refers to the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound.Key: F57. The requirement that the forms of two or more words of specific word classes which stand in specificsyntactic relationship with one another shall also be characterized by the same paradigmatically marked category or categories is called concord.Key: T58. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called directivesKey: F59. The term synchronic linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.Key: F60. In terms of manner of articulation, the sounds [p], [b], [t], [d], [k], [g] are affricatesKey: FIII.Fill in the blanks:1.It is generally believed that J. Austin and _______ made the greatest contribution to the proposition ofSpeech Act Theory, an important theory in pragmatic study.Key: J. Searle2.According to the positions affixes occupy in words, __________ falls into prefixation and suffixation.Key: affixation3.The signs “&”, “@”, “%” and “$” widely used today are examples of ______ writing.Key: word4.Two methods can be used to reconstruct an older form of a language: internal reconstruction and the_______ reconstruction.Key: external5.The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has two major thrusts: linguistic determinism and linguistic _______ .Key: relativity6.In the course of communication, a speaker may change from the standard language to the non-standardlanguage, may shift his subject matter, or may move from one point on the formality scale to another point. This linguistic behavior is referred to as ______.Key: code switch7.The different types of a language as different forms to realize a mere generalization of the language arecalled “sub-languages” or _______.Key: (language) varieties8._________ construction refers to a construction in which the distribution of words is functionallyequivalent to that of one or more of its constituents.Key: Endocentric_9.It’s commonly believed that the basic function of language is that it’s used for _________.Key: human communication10.The degree to which a test measures what it is meant to measure is termed _________ in languagetesting, and that is an important index used to evaluate the quality of a test.Key: validity11.By _______ is meant that language can refer to contexts removed from the immediate situation of thespeaker.Key: displacementnguage is a system of two sets of structures, the structure of sound and the structure of ___________. Key: meaning13.The three branches of phonetics are articulatory phonetics, auditory phonetics, and _________phonetics. Key: acoustic14.There are two kinds of stress in English. They are word stress and ________ stress.Key: sentence15.In English there are three nasal sounds. They are [m], [n], and ________.Key: [ ];16.Morphology is divided in two branches: __________ morphology and derivational morphology. Key: .inflectional17.According to H. Paul Grice’s Cooperative Principle, that one should avoid obscurity and ambiguityaccords with the ________ Maxim.Key: Manner18.The speech sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the airstream at some point ofthe vocal tract are called_______.Key: consonants19.A linguistic study is ______ if it tries to lay down rules for the correct use of language.Key: prescriptive20.The sentence “H e married a blonde heiress.” ______ the sentence “He married a blonde.”Key: entaills21.In the course of time, the study of language has come to establish close links with other branchesof ________ studies, such as sociology and psychology.Key: social22. Clear［1］and dark［1］are allophones of the same one phoneme /1/.They never take the same position in sound combinations, thus they are said to be in ________ distribution.Key: complementary23.A ________ is often seen as part of a word, but it can never stand by itself although it bears clear, definite meaning.Key: root24.A ________ sentence contains two or more clauses, one of which is incorporated in the other.Key: complex25.That the denial of one member of two words implies the assertion of the other is the characteristic of________ antonyms.Key: complementary26.While the meaning of a sentence is abstract and decontextualized, that of an ________ is concrete and context-dependent.Key: utterance27.Phonological rules may move phonemes from one place in the string to another. For example, Modern English verb ask was Old English askian, with the /k/ preceding the/s/. Sound change as a result of sound movement is known as ________.Key: metathesis28.In many societies of the world, we find a large number of people who speak more than one language. Asa characteristic of societies, ________ inevitably results from the coming into contact of people with different cultures and different languages.Key: bilingualism29.The brain’s neurological specialization for language is called linguistic ________, which is specific to human beings.Key: lateralization30.In order to acquire a second language, learners will subconsciously use their first language knowledge in learning a second language. This is known as language ________.Key: transfer31. _______ phonetics studies the physical properties of speech sounds when they are transmitted between mouth and ear.Key: Acoustic32. The function of establishing a set of vowels is to facilitate the_______ of vowels of languages.Key: description33. If two sounds occurring in the same environment do not contrast, that is, the substitution of one for the other does not produce a different word form, but merely a different pronunciation of the same word, then the two sounds are in ________variation.Key: free34. The principal _________features are stress, length, pitch and intonation, as all of them can be used to distinguish meaning.Key: suprasegmental35.________is the method of creating words by removing the supposed suffixes.Key: Back-formation36. Pronouns and prepositions are two kinds of ________ words to which new members are not regularly added.Key: closed-class37. The sentence “I promise to come here earlier tomorrow morning.” can be used as an example to indicate the ________ function of language.Key: performative38. A linguistic study is ________ if it tries to lay down rules for the correct use of language.Key: perspective39. The sounds in the production of which no articulators come very close together and the air-stream passes through the vocal tract without _________are called vowels.Key: obstruction40. The word “gentlemanly” consists of 4 syllables an d ________morphemes.Key: 341. Positional ______, or word order, refers to the sequential arrangement of words in a language.Key: relation42. English gender contrast can only be observed in pronouns and a small number of nouns, and they are mainly of the _________gender type.Key: natural43. Componential analysis defines the meaning of a lexical element in terms of _______ components. Key: semantic44. ________refers to the process of construction where one clause is included in the sentence (main clause) in syntactic subordination.Key: subordination45. ________ construction refers to a group of syntactically related words where none of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as a whole.Key: exocentric46. The _______function is the use of language to reveal something about the emotions and attitudes of the speaker.Key: expressive47. As language is a product and capacity of the human brain, many psychologists and linguists have tried to examine the relation between language and the brain, developing a new branch of science called________.Key: psycholinguistics48. The production of any speech sound involves the movement of an airstream. The majority of sounds used in languages of the world are produced by ______ egressive airstream mechanism.Key: oral49. Some speech sounds involves the simultaneous use of two places of articulation. For example, the English [w] has both an approximation of the two lips and that of the back of the tongue and the soft palate, and may be termed______.Key: labial-velar50. ________ is used to mean sameness or close similarity of meaning.Key: synonymy51. The ________family includes most of the European languages and marry languages spoken in North India and in the two Americas and Australia.Key: Indo-European52. _________or analytic languages refer to those which depend on invariable roots or stems and word order to indicate their grammatical relations.Key: Isolating53. When we consider the variation relating to what the user is trying to do with language, whether teaching, persuading, advertising or instructing, we are dealing with addressee relationship, contextually categorized as __________.Key: tenor of discourse54. ________means that any human being can be both a producer and a receiver of messages, but the communication systems of certain animals do not have this feature. For instance, some male birds posses calls which female birds do not have.Key: Interchangeability55. ________ refers to the influence exercised by one sound segment upon the articulation of another sound, so that the sounds become less alike.Key: dissimilation56. The __________ is the smallest unit in terms of relationship between expression and content, a unit which cannot be divided without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical.Key: morpheme57. In English, prepositions and verbs determine particular forms of pronouns according to their syntactic relation with them. This requirement is called _______ in linguistics.Key: collocation58. The _______ meaning of a word consists of the associations it acquires on account of the meanings of。

一、单项选择题1.The manager would rather his daughter _____ in the same company.DA、would not workB、will not workC、does not workD、did not work2.Mike promised to keep me ______ how our business was going on.BA、informedB、informed ofC、to be informedD、to be informed of3.I have no objection ______ for a hike on the mountains with Cynthia.CA、to goB、goingC、to goingD、of going4.____ a teacher in our college, it is necessary to have at least a master’s degree.AA、To becomeB、One becomesC、Becoming ofD、Who becomes5.All the task ______ ahead of time, we planned to go on holiday for a week.DA、had fulfilledB、having fulfilledC、were fulfilledD、having been fulfilled6.Not until the game had begun ______ the sports ground.AA、did Peter arrive atB、Peter arrived atC、didn’t Peter arrive atD、Peter didn’t arrive at7.I didn’t send out my application form last week, but I ________.DA、had toB、might have toC、have hadD、should have8.I will give the ticket to _______ wants to have it.BA、whomeverB、whoeverC、some oneD、anyone9.The reason _______ I did not go to the lecture yesterday was that I had something important to do.DA、whichB、for thatC、becauseD、why10.Be careful with those explosives _______ end up killing ourselves.CA、then we won’tB、but we won’tC、or we willD、and we will11.The two scholars worked at the task of writing a preface to the new dictionary for three hours ____ last night.CA、at lengthB、in fullC、on endD、in time12.I don’t play basketball any more, _________ when I was a child.AA、but I used toB、I used toC、but I used to doD、I used to do13.Living here at the top of the mountain with no one else near, the old man must be very ____. DA、onlyB、aloneC、loneD、lonely14.I can’t read the marks and notes Jim made in the margin. They are too____.AA、faintB、foggyC、transparentD、misty15. A highly organized system of irrigation is ____ Chinese agriculture.AA、typical ofB、consistent withC、famous forD、subject to16.Jack is very ____ about wines.BA、awareB、knowledgeableC、learnedD、informed17.As for Ann, I am not sure about her ____ in Italian.AA、fluencyB、clarityC、coherenceD、excellency18.It was _____ that we went for a picnic in the country.CA、such nic e a dayB、such nice dayC、so nice a dayD、so nice day19.By the end of next month I ______ here for five years.DA、will workB、have been workingC、have workedD、will have been working20.Much research _______ into the possible causes of the disease in the past few years.AA、has been doneB、was doneC、have been doneD、were done21.The teacher told us that we didn’t have to _____ every new word we ran into when reading. CA、look overB、look throughC、look upD、look into22.When he wrote to his father that he wanted to ____ his education and get married, his father cut off his allowance.AA、give upB、give outC、give inD、give away23.His speech was warmly received. It was several minutes before the applause _______.AA、died downB、died ofC、died outD、died off24.Mr. Zhang makes _____ a point to keep up with the latest development in his field.CA、thisB、thatC、itD、these25.In many countries now seat belts are _____ for the driver and front seat passengers at least.。

2011年10月广东省高等教育自学考试英语语言学问卷（课程代码06422）I.Blank-filling (20%)Fill in the following blanks with a word, whose initial letter has been given.1. The totality of linguistic varieties possessed by an individual constitutes his linguistic r_______.2. I________ motivation refers to learners learning the second language for enjoyment or pleasure from learning.3. The phonetic transcription, n______ transcription ,is normally used by phoneticians to give minute and detailed descriptions of speech sounds.4. The way that new words are coined from already existing words by “subtracting ” an affix thought to be part of the old word is called b_______.5. The meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components called semantic f_______.6. In addition to social changes, one of the most pervasive sources of language change seems to be the continual process of cultural t________ across generations.7. P______ is the study of sounds used in linguistic communication.8. When the vocal cords are drawn wide apart to let air go through without vibration, the sounds thus produced are v_________.9. The social group that is singled out for any special study is named as the s_______ community.10. According to N. Chomsky, c________ refers to the ideal user ‟s knowledge of the rules of his language .11. P_____ refers to the realization of langue in actual use.12. The notion of c_______ is essential to the pragmatic study of language.13. Damage to parts of the left cortex behind the central sulcus results in a type of aphasia called f_____ aphasia.14. The c__________ view of meaning is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from or reduce meaning to observable contexts.15. Lexical d________ task is a kind of experiment psycholinguistics employ to investigate lexical access.16. A theory which explicitly employs the notion “concept ”is the semantic t________ proposed by Ogden and Richards in their book The Meaning of Meaning.17. Clear [ l ] and dark [ l ] are allophones of the same one phoneme /l/. They never take the same position in sound combinations, thus they are said to be in c_________ distribution.18. Since there are often intermediate forms between the two members of an antonymous pair, so they are called g________ antonyms.19. S_______ is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.20. A t_______ experiment is a technique that is used to study the determinants of sentence processing difficulty.II. Multiple choice(15%)Choose the best answer to the following items.21. Changes in a language are changes in the grammar of the speakers of the language. This means that phonemes,_______, words and grammatical rules may be borrowed , added , lost or altered.A. phrasesB. sentencesC. morphemesD. utterance22. The consonant [ f ] in English can be correctly described as having the following phonetic features :A. voiceless, bilabial, stopB. voiceless, labiodental, fricativeC. voiced , bilabial, stopD. voiced, labiodental, fricative23.The study of language as a whole is often called ______.A. universal linguisticsB. common linguisticsC. prescriptive linguisticsD. general linguistics24.In the phrase structure rule “S→NP VP”，the arrow can be read as _______.A. is equal toB. consists ofC. hasD. generates25.The illocutionary point of _____is to express the psychological state specified in the utterance.A. representativesB. commissivesC. expressives D declarations26.Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by _____ in 1957.A. L. BloomfieldB. F. SaussureC. N. ChomskyD.M.A.F. Halliday27._____ motivation occurs when the learner desires to learn a second language because of the wish to identify with the target culture.A. InstrumentalB. FunctionalC. IntegrativeD. Social28.While different words may have the same or similar meaning , the same word may have more than one meaning. This kind of words are called _________.A. polysemic wordsB. homographsC. homonymsD. synonyms29.The term _____ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language changes over various periods of time and at various historical stages.A. synchronicB. diachronicC. comparativeD. historical comparative30.Speech act theory was originated with the British philosopher ____ in the late 50‟s of the 20th century.A. M.A.F. HallidayB. L. Bloomfield C . J. Searle D. J. Austin31.If the linguistic study aims to lay down rules for correct and standard behavior in using language ,it is said to be _______.A. descriptiveB. prescriptiveC. synchronicD. diachronic32.In the case of spit, the consonant [ p ] is said to be _____.A. aspiratedB. voicedC. unaspiratedD. unprounceable33.What the element “-es ” indicates is third person singular ,present tense ,the element “-ed ” past tense, and“-ing ”progressive aspect .Since they are the smallest units of language and meaningful ,they are also _______.A. phonemesB. phonesC. allophonesD. morphemes34.Synoymous are classified into several kinds .This kind to which …girl ‟ and…lass ‟ belong is called ___ synonyms.A. stylisticB. dialectalC. emotiveD. collocational35.In a speech community People have something in common _____:a language or a particular variety of language and rules for using it..A.sociallyB. linguisticallyC. culturallyD. pragmaticallyIII. True of false judgement (20%)36. The interactionist view holds that language develops as a result of the complex interplay between the human characteristics of the child and the environment in which the child develops .37. A creole is said to be formed when a pidgin has become the primary language of a speech community ,and is acquired by the children of that speech community as their native language .38. Garden path sentence is an awkward sentence that misleads the speakers and takes them down the garden path to a wrong direction .39. A phoneme is the smallest linguistic unit of sound that can distinguish two words .40. Register refers to the type of utterance which is selected as appropriate to the type oftypology .41. Phonology studies the functioning of the speech sounds.42. Predication analysis was proposed by the British linguist J. Searle to analyze the meaning of utterance .43. Specifiers have both special semantic and syntactic roles since they help make more precise the meaning of the head and mark a phrase boundary.44. Different language offer people different ways of expressing the world around, they think and speak differently, this is also known as linguistic relativity.45. Metacognitive strategies deal with the wayside learners interact or communicate with other speakers, native or non-native .IV. Explain the following notions briefly (25%)46. derivational morpheme47. IPA( International Phonetic Alphabet)48. cultural transmission49. Deep Structure vs. Surface Structure50. The naming theoryV. Essay question (20%)51. According to Austin ,what are the three acts a person is possibly performing while making an utterance ? Give an example.部分参考答案（非官方答案，但大部分正确）：1.repertoire2.Intrinsic3.narrow4.back-formation5.features6.transmission7.Phonology8.voiceless9.speech petence 11.Parole 12.context 13. fluent 14.contextualist 15.dicision 16.triangle plementary 18.gradable 19.Sense20.timed-reading21. C 22. B 23.D 24. B 25.C 26.C 27.C 28. A 29.B 30.C 31.B 32.C 33.D 34.B 35.B36.T 37.T 38.F 39.T 40.F 41.T 42. F 43. T 44.T 45. F。

北京外国语大学英语语言学真题2011年(总分：150.01，做题时间：90分钟)ⅠBriefly explain the following terms. （分数：20.00）(1).perlocutionary act（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).minimal pair（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).distinctive feature（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).linguistic variable（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (5).lingua franca（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ ⅡAnswer the following questions.（分数：30.00）(1).Why do we say linguistics is a science?（分数：10.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Briefly explain how language is (a) systematic (b) symbolic, and (c) social.（分数：10.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).Linguists have taken an internal and/or external focus to the study of language acquisition. What is the difference between the two?（分数：10.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ ⅢRead the following paragraphs and then answer four questions.The idea behind the experiential vision of learning is that the use of the target language for communicative purposes is not only the goal of learning, but also a means of learning in its own right. This may clearly involve students using language which they may not have fully mastered, and contrasts with other more "traditional" approaches which emphasize part practice (i. e., isolating parts of the whole for explicit study and learning) leading up in a more or less controlled manner to integrated language use for communicative purposes. An experiential approach to learning may therefore involve a degree of what Johnson (1982) refers to as an "in at the deep end strategy". Simply throwing learners into wholly uncontrolled and undirected language use is, of course, as dubious a strategy with respect to language learning as doing the same with someone who is learning to swim. For this reason, considerable effort has been devoted by methodologists, material writers, and teachers in recent decades to the way in which two sets of factors can be combined. One is the basic insight that language use can serve a significant role in promoting learning, and the other is the acknowledgement that use of the language needs to be structured in a coherent and pedagogically manageable way. The experiential vision of learning has evolved in a variety of ways since the 1960s and is now encountered in a number of differing forms. Nevertheless, most experiential approaches to learning rest on five main principles which were developed in the earlier days of the communicative movement, even if certain receive more attention in one variant than in another. These principles are the following: message focus, holistic practice, the use of authentic materials, the use of communication strategies, and the use of collaborative modes of learning. (Tudor 2001:79)An analytical view of learning posits that according explicit attention to the regularities oflanguage and language use can play a positive role in learning. Each language manifests a number of structural regularities in areas such as grammar, lexis and phonology, and also with respect to the ways in which these elements are combined to communicate messages. The question, therefore, is not whether languages have structural regularities or not, but whether and in which way explicit attention to such regularities can facilitate the learning of the language. An analytical approach to learning rests on a more or less marked degree of part practice, i. e., isolating parts of the whole for explicit study and learning, even if its ultimate goal remains the development of learners" ability to put these parts together for integrated, holistic use. At least, two main considerations lend support to an analytical approach to learning. First, in terms of learning in general, the isolation and practice of sub-parts of a target skill is a fairly common phenomenon... Second, explicit identification of regularities in a language has advantages which Johnson (1996:83) refers to as "generativity" and "economy". Mastering a regularity in a language gives learners access to the generative potential of this regularity in new circumstances Explicit presentation or discovery of the structural regularities of a language can therefore represent a short-cut to mastery of this language and support learners" ability to manipulate these regularities for communicative purposes. (Tudor 2001:86-7)（分数：50.00）(1).What are the differences between experiential and analytical modes of language learning?（分数：12.50）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What serves as the theoretical foundation for the experiential mode of language learning and what are its advantages and disadvantages?（分数：12.50）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).What serves as the theoretical foundation for the analytical mode of language learning and what are its advantages and disadvantages?（分数：12.50）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).How would you balance the two modes of learning in your teaching or learning of a foreign language?（分数：12.50）__________________________________________________________________________________________ⅣRead the following passage and answer three questions.Teachers employ different types of conceptual organization and meaning. One level of meaning relates to subject matter knowledge and how curricular and content aspects of teaching are conceptualized (Shulman 1987). Woods (1996) describes teachers" conceptions of lessons as made up of conceptual units at different levels of abstraction. He distinguishes between the following: overall conceptual goals—the overall purposes teachers identify for a course; global conceptual units—the individual subcomponents of the curriculum (e. g., the grammar, reading, writing, and listening components of an integrated skills course); intermediate conceptual units-activities or clusters of activities framed in terms of accomplishing one of the higher-level conceptual goals; and local conceptual units—the specific things teachers do to achieve particular instructional effects. Other constructs that have been proposed to account for how teachers realize the curricular agendas they set for lessons and the kinds of cognitive processes they employ include lesson formats (Wong-Fillmore 1985), tasks (Doyle 1983), scripts , and routines(Shavelson and Stem 1981). Constructs such as these seek to describe how teachers approach the subject matter of teaching and how they transform content into learning. Much of this research draws on a framework of cognitive psychology and has provided evidence of the kinds of pedagogical content knowledge, reasoning, and problem solving teachers make use of as they teach (Cliff 1991). In addition to the curricular goals and content, teachers have other more personal views of teaching (Johnston 1990). Zeichner, Tabachnick, and Densmore (1987) try to capture this with the notion of perspective, which they define as the ways in which teachers understand, interpret,and define their environment and use such interpretation to guide their actions. They followed teachers through their year-long professional training and their first year in the classroom, and found that their personal perspectives served as powerful influences on how they taught. In describing the basis for teachers" conceptualizations of good practice, Clandinin (1985, 1986) introduced the concept of image , which she describes as "a central construct for understanding teachers" knowledge" (1985:362). An image is a metaphor, such as "the classroom as home," "setting up a relationship with children," or "meeting the needs of students," that teachers may have in mind when they teach. Johnston (1992) suggests that images such as these are not always conscious, that they reflect how teachers view themselves in their teaching contexts, and that they form the subconscious assumptions on which their teaching practices are based. In a study of what second language teachers perceive to be good classes, Senior (1995) found that experienced ESL teachers in an Australian educational setting attempting to implement a communicative methodology appeared to have arrived at the tacit assumption that, to promote successful language learning, it is necessary to develop a bonded class—that is, one in which there is a positive, mutually supportive group atmosphere. The teachers appeared to employ a range of both conscious and unconscious strategies in order to develop a spirit of cohesion within their class groups.Halkes and Deijkers (1984) refer to teachers" teaching criteria, which are defined as "personal subjective values a person tries to pursue or keep constant while teaching." Teachers hold personal views of themselves, their learners, their goals, and their role in the classroom and they presumably try to reflect these in their practice. Marland (1987) examined the principles used to guide and interpret teaching, and identified five such working principles that were derived from stimulated recall interviews with teachers. For example, the "principle of progressive checking" involved checking students" progress periodically, identifying problems, and providing individual encouragement for low-ability students. Conners (1978) studied elementary teachers and found that all of those in her study used three overarching principles of practice to guide and explain their interactive teaching behavior: "suppressing emotions," "teacher authenticity," and "self-monitoring." The "principle of teacher authenticity" involved the teacher presenting herself in such a way that good personal relationships with students and a socially supportive classroom atmosphere would be achieved. This principle required the teacher to attempt to be open, sincere, and honest, as well as fallible.（分数：50.01）(1).What could be the title of this passage?（分数：16.67）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What are the functions of those conceptual units as described by Woods (1996) in language teaching?（分数：16.67）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).Discuss the relationship between "perspective" and "image" and between "image" and "teaching criteria" as mentioned in this passage?（分数：16.67）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

2011年大连外国语大学英语专业（语言学）真题试卷(总分152,考试时间90分钟)1. 判断题1. The clear /l/ and the dark // are in free variation.A. TrueB. False2. Anaphor is used in a broad sense to include only reflexives like myself and reciprocals like each other.A. TrueB. False3. Language is not an isolated phenomenon; it is a social activity carried out in a certain social environment by human beings.A. TrueB. False4. A stem is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be added.A. TrueB. False5. Two words, or two expressions, which have the same **ponents, will be synonymous to each other.A. TrueB. False6. To tell whether a sound is a vowel or not, we should judge its manners of articulation and the places of articulation.A. TrueB. False7. A single phoneme always represents a single morpheme.A. TrueB. False8. Gender contrast in English language can only be observed in a small number of nouns, and, they are mainly of the natural gender type.A. TrueB. False9. A phoneme is further analyzable because it consists of a set of simultaneous distinctive features.A. TrueB. False10. WORD refers to **mon factor underlying a set of forms, a unit of vocabulary, a lexical item ora lexeme.A. TrueB. False11. Neurocognition is one of the major subjects of research in the area of psycholinguistics.A. TrueB. False12. A locutionary act is the act of uttering words, phrases, and clauses. It is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology.A. TrueB. False13. Some polymorphemic words **pounds.A. TrueB. False14. English sounds[1]and[r]are liquids.A. TrueB. False15. Chomsky"s T. G. grammar has been considered by many people as an insurrection against Bloomfieldian linguistics and behaviorist psychology.A. TrueB. False16. If someone actually says "Sximtrapmytaah" , she/he has made an utterance.A. TrueB. False17. Presuppostion is a logical relationship between two sentences in which the truth of the first necessarily follows from the truth of the second, while the falsity of the first follows from the falsity of the second.A. TrueB. False18. A corpus is a collection of linguistic data, **piled as written texts or as recorded speech.A. TrueB. False19. Duality means that language has the property of having two levels of structures, such that units of the primary level consists of elements of the secondary level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization.A. TrueB. False20. New information is generally located in the THEME. Of course, high pitch and key also reveals where the new information is.A. TrueB. False2. 填空题1. Fill in each of the following blanks with an appropriate word with the hint of the initial letter.(**plete word forms on your answer sheet).(10 points)The p______function of language is primarily to maintain the social status of people.2. Chomsky"s I______Hypothesis believes that children are born with what he calls a language acquisition device, which is a unique kind of knowledge that fits them for language learning.3. S______ relation is the relation between one item and others in a sequence, or between elements which are all present.4. Grammatical words are also known as f______words.5. Prepositional 1______is the study of the truth conditions for propositions.6. Pairs of words which show the reversal of a relationship between the two are categorized as c______ antonymy.7. Developmental errors are errors within the target language itself, such as o______.8. Optimal r______is said to reduce all Gricean maxims, including the CP itself, to a single principle.9. Words such as prince and princess are cases that show English g______contrast.10. When constituent items are subordinate to the Head, they form e______ constructions.3. 单项选择题1. The ______ nature of language is a sign of sophistication and it makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions.A. recursiveB. creativeC. arbitraryD. culturally transmissible2. ______ manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree and case.A. RootsB. StemsC. Derivational affixesD. Inflectional affixes3. Retire is a______.A. compound wordB. free morpheme with a prefix re-C. morpheme wordD. bound morpheme with a prefix re-4. The phenomenon that Americans and British people pronounce some words differently can be interpreted in terms of______.A. phonetic similarityB. free variationC. complementary distributionD. allomorphs5. The following terms all refer to changes in sound leading to changes in form EXCEPT______.A. metathesisB. assimilationC. additionD. narrowing6. The constraints on words in a paradigmatic relation, different from those in a syntagmatic relation, are ______only.A. semanticB. lexicalC. syntacticD. sequential7. The following segmentation of the sentence "The student//likes/the new linguistic professor" truthfully reveals the______nature of sentence structure.A. hierarchicalB. linearC. horizontalD. parallel8. The word fan is formed by the way of______.A. acronymyB. clippingC. back-formationD. blending9. ______refers to the abstract properties of an entity; while______ refers to the concrete entities having these properties.A. Reference, denotationB. Connotation, denotationC. Sense, connotationD. Denotation, connotation10. The following sounds share one feature EXCEPT______.A. [n]B. [η]C. [m]D. [p]11. That the use of language involves a network of systems of choices is the opinion of______.A. HallidayB. SaussureC. ChomskyD. Firth12. Of the following______does NOT belong to the three sub-types of antonymy.A. gradable antonymyB. converse antonymyC. complementary antonymyD. complete antonymy13. ______is not included in Firth"s famous Context of Situation theory.A. The non-verbal action of the participantsB. The properties of the phonematic unitsC. The relevant objectsD. The effects of the verbal action14. The phrase backwash effect is often used in______.A. systemic functional grammarB. error analysisC. testingD. sociolinguistics15. We can often find the phrase immediate constituents in ______.A. transformational generative grammarB. systemic functional grammarC. traditional grammarD. structural grammar16. The following ideas about language are wrong EXCEPT______.A. Language evolves within specific historical, social and cultural contextB. Language has a form-sound correspondenceC. Language is a means of communicationD. Language is not related to any of the individuals who use it17. Because______ can distinguish one phoneme from another, it is a distinctive feature for English obstruents.A. voicingB. nasalizationC. placeD. aspiration18. Syntactic deep structure was developed to______.A. explain relations between the sentences with the same meaningB. explain a single sentence with more than one meaningC. explain relations between the sentences with different meaningD. both A and B19. In general, linguistic change in______of a language is more noticeable than that in other systems of the grammar.A. the sound systemB. the vocabularyC. the syntaxD. the sound system and the vocabulary20. Although English has borrowed most heavily from French, other languages have also made contributions. For example, tea, typhoon, and silk are from______, and seminar, noodle andpoodle are from______.A. China; GermanB. Hindi; GermanC. China; HindiD. Turkish; China21. ______does NOT belong to semantic changes.A. BroadeningB. BorrowingC. Folk etymologyD. Class shift22. The meaning of a sentence is abstract and de-contextualized, while the meaning of an utterance is ______.A. context-independentB. concrete and context-dependentC. the sum total of **ponentsD. never remains stable23. Obstruction between the back of the tongue and the velar area results in the pronunciation ofA. [k]and[g]B. [k]and[n]C. [g]and[h]D. [h]and[k]24. ______represents the deep structure Q Mary pres be pleased SOME REASON.A. For some reason Mary is pleased.B. Mary is pleased for some reason.C. Why is Mary pleased?D. Why Mary is pleased?25. Pair______belongs to the category of gradable antonyms.A. over/underB. weak/strongC. open/shutD. sell/buy26. Promises and offers are characteristic of the group of______ of illocutionary acts.A. representativesB. declarativesC. commissivesD. expressives27. Speakers of particular social groups, such as teenagers, criminals, soldiers, or pop-groups, have their "in-group" language called ______.A. tabooB. jargonC. pidginD. dialect28. ______ refers to an abnormal type of word-formation where a shorter word is formed by deleting an imagined affix from a longer form already in the language.A. Analogical creationB. AcronymC. AbbreviationD. Back-formation29. The process of word formation by shifting the word class to change the meaning of a word is called ______.A. broadeningB. meaning shiftC. conversionD. narrowing30. The characteristics of conversational implicature are the following EXCEPT______.A. CalculabilityB. Non-detachabilityC. Non-conventionalityD. Non-relevancy31. ______ are pitch variations, which are caused by the different rates of vibration of the vocalcords.A. StressesB. LiaisonsC. IntonationsD. Tones32. The following factors contribute to the formation of new pronunciation EXCEPT______.A. loss of soundB. additionC. assimilationD. gliding33. The sense relation which holds the pair of words guest—host is ______.A. homonymyB. complementary antonymyC. hyponymyD. converse antonymy34. A curriculum does NOT provide ______.A. a specification of what takes place in the classroomB. detailed specification of aims, objectives in learningC. implementation of a programD. general statements about the rationale about language35. ______can be regarded as one of the intralingual errors(developmental errors).A. Because it was raining, so we took a taxi home.B. Though it was late, but we went on working.C. He goed to school earlier that day.D. He teach chemistry in a middle school.36. The sense relation which holds the pair of words beef—meat is ______.A. synonymyB. hyponymyC. homonymyD. converse antonymy37. In plain English BECOME(x,(~ALIVE(x)))means______.A. x becomes xB. x does not become xC. x becomes not aliveD. x becomes alive not38. The principal representative of American descriptive linguistics is ______.A. BoasB. SapirC. BloomfieldD. Nida39. Chomsky follows______._ in philosophy and mentalism in psychology.A. relationalismB. behaviorismC. empiricismD. formalism40. In Halliday"s view, ______processes are those in which something is done.A. materialB. relationalC. verbalD. mental4. 简答题1. Use your knowledge of semantics to explain what makes the following humorous.(10 points)a. Question: How do you stop an elephant from charging? Answer:Take away his credit card.b. "巴乔在前有追兵、后有堵截的情况下带球冲入禁区。

保定学院学历教育 2011 级 英语 专业 考试科目： 语言学概论 A 卷 题号 一 二 三 四 五 总分 得分参 考 答 案 DIRECTIONS: PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON THE ANSWER SHEET! I. Complete each of the following statements. (20%)1. prescriptive2. meaning3. langue4.displacement5. arbitrary vocal6. allophones7. nucleus8. primary9. supersegmentals 10. bound 11. roots affixes 12. syntax 13. coordination subordination 14. masculine feminine neuter 15.hyponyms 评分标准：每空1分，拼写错误不得分。

II. Multiple Choice: Choose ONE best answer from the following choices to complete the each of the statements.(20%) 1-5_BCBAB_____ 6-10_ADBCC_____ 评分标准：每题2分。

III. Describe the following speech sounds. (25%) /s/: voiceless alveolar fricative /d/: voiced alveolar stop /l/: alveolar approximant /v/: voiced labiodental fricative 系别年级专业 班级姓名学号…………………………………装………………………………………………订………………………………………线…………………………………系别年级专业班级姓名学号…………………………………装………………………………………………订………………………………………线…………………………………/e/: mid front lax unrounded vowel评分标准：每题5分。

英语语言学试题B卷I.Define the following linguistic terms: (2%×10=20%)1)government:It is a type of control over the form of some words by other words in certain syntactic constructions.2) exocentric construction(离心结构): It is an construction whose distribution is not functionally equivalent to any of its constituents.3) complementary antonym(互补反义关系):It is a form of antonym that the assertion of one means the denial of the other, or vice versa.4) perlocutionary force (取效行为): It is an act which is performed by means of a locutionary act.5) applied linguistics: It is a discipline that links the theories of linguistics with the practice of foreign language teaching.6) allophone(音位变体): Variants of a phoneme are called its allophones.7) bound morpheme(粘着语素): The morphemes that do not occur alone.8) interlanguage(中介语): It is formed when the learner attempts to learn a new language, and it has features of both the first language and the second language but is neither.9) arbitrariness(任意性): The forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning.10) assimilation:A process by which one sound takes on some or all the characteristics of a neighboring sound.II. Translation (0.5%×20=10%)Translate the following terms into Chinese: (0.5%×10=5%)1) lateral 边音2) linguistic determinism 语言决定论3)anthropological linguistics 人类语言学4) locutionary act发话行为5) transformation 转换 6) co-hyponym同下义词7) context of situation情景语境8) allomorph语素变体 9) theme主位10) primary stress主重音Translate the following terms into English: (0.5%×10=5%)11) 语篇功能textual function 12) 意义潜势meaning potential13) 直接成分分析法immediate component analysis14) 最大节首辅音原则maximal onset principle 15) 聚合关系paradigmatic relation16) 音位规则phonological structure 17) 前缀prefix 18) 语境context19) 皮钦语/洋泾浜语pidgin 20) 历时语言学historical linguisticsIII. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the corresponding letter A, B, C or D in the brackets. (1%×20=20%)1)The study of language at one point of time is a _______ study.A. synchronic(共时)B. historicC. diachronic(历时)D. descriptive2) Synonyms are classified into several kinds. The kind to which “fall” and “autumn” belong is called _____ synonyms.A. stylisticB. dialectalC. emotiveD. collocational (搭配)3) The sentence “Joh n likes ice-cream” contains ________ arguments (论元).A. oneB. twoC. noneD. three4) Semantics can be defined as the study of ________.A. namingB. meaningC. communicationD. context5) Once the notion of ________ was taken into consideration, semantics spilled into pragmatics.A. meaningB. contextC. formD. content6) Of the three speech acts, linguists are most interested in the _______.A. locutionary act (发话行为)B. perlocutionary act(取效行为)C. illocutionary act (行事行为)D. none of the above7) Most of the violations of the maxims of the Cooperative Principle give rise to _____.A. utterance meaningB. speech act theoryC. conversational implicaturesD. none of the above8) The significance of Grice’s CP lies in that it explains how it is possible for the speaker to convey ______ is literally said.A. more thanB. less thanC. the same asD. none of the above9) The goal of ______ is to explore the nature of language variation and language use among a variety of speech communities and different social situations.A. psycholinguisticsB. sociolinguisticsC. historical linguisticsD. general linguistics10) Black English has a number of distinctive features in its phonological, morphological and syntactic systems which are _______.A. rule-governedB. systematicC. arbitraryD. both A and B11) As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior, it is said to be ___.A. prescriptiveB. sociolinguisticC. descriptiveD. psycholinguistic12) Language is a system of arbitrary _________ symbols used for human communication.A. culturalB. conventionalC. decodedD. vocal13) A word with several meanings is called _________.A. an abnormal wordB. a polysemous wordC. a synonymous wordD. none of the above14) There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed” in the word “learned” is known as a(n) __________.A. derivational morphemeB. free morphemeC. inflectional morphemeD. free form15) The syntactic rules of any language are ________ in number.A. largeB. smallC. finiteD. infinite16) “I bought some roses” __________ “I bought some flowers”.A. entailsB. presupposesC. is inconsistent withD. is synonymous with17) The phrase “boys and girls” belongs to the ____________ construction.A. predicateB. endocentricC. subordinateD. exocentric18) Can I borrow your bike?" ___ "You have a bike."A. is synonymous withB. is inconsistent withC. entailsD. presupposes19) Of all the speech organs, the ___ is/are the most flexible.A. mouthB. lipsC. tongueD. vocal cords20) Chomsky uses the term _______ to refer to the actual realization of a language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language in linguistic communication.A. langue (语言)B. competence (语言能力)C. parole (言语)D. performance (语言表现)IV. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false: (1%×15=15%)T 1) Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.T 2) The writing system of a language is always a later invention used to record speech; thus there are still many languages in today’s world that can only be spoken, but not written.F 3) The open-class (开放类) words include prepositions.F 4) In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria can be applied.T 5) According to semantic triangle (语义三角), there is no direct link between a symbol and referent, i.e. between a word and a thing it refers to.F 6) Syntactic categories (句法范畴) refer to sentences (S) and clauses (C) only.F 7) By synchrony we mean to study language change and development.T 8) The IC analysis (直接成分分析法) is not able to analyze split verbs like “do sb. in”.T 9) The relationship of “flower”, “violet”, “rose” and “tulip” is hyponymy (上下义关系).F 10) A syllable without a coda(结尾) is a closed syllable.F 11) Parole refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.F 12) Phonology is a branch of linguistics which studied the sentences patterns of a language.F 13) Human capacity for language has a genetic basis, i.e. we are all born with the ability to acquire language and the details of a language system are genetically transmitted.F 14) Only words of the same parts of speech can be combined to form compounds.F 15) Sentences are strings of words put together in a random order.V. 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%)1) The modern linguistics is d escriptive, not prescriptive, and its investigations are based on authentic and mainly spoken language data.2) M orpheme_ is the smallest meaningful unit of language.3) Langue refers to the language system shared by a community of speaker while p arole contrasted with langue is the concrete act of speaking in actual situations by an individual speaker..4) The transformational component has transformational rules, which change the deep structures generated by the phrase structure component into s urface structure.5) In semantic triangle, the relation between a word and a thing it refers to is not direct, and it is mediated byc oncept..6) H. Sweet made a distinction between narrow and b road transcription.7) In the cooperative principle, Grice introduced four categories of maxims (准则). They are maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of r elation and maxim of manner.8) The strong version of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is that language d etermine s our thinking pattern.9) There are two major approaches to error analysis: c ontrastive and non-contrastive analysis.10) P ragmatics is the study of language in use.VI. The following two are ambiguous in their meanings. Give your understanding of the different meanings of each expression. (2.5%×2=5%)1) Smoking cigar is very harmful.The cigar that is smoking is very harmful.The act of smoking the cigar is very harmful.2) The boy saw the man with the telescope.The boy saw the man who had a telescope.Using the telescope, the boy saw the man.VII. Answer the following questions in English.(4%×5=20%)1) What are the four maxims under the cooperative principle ?A. The maxim of quantity1. Make your contribution as informative as required (for the current purpose of the exchange) .2. Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.B. The maxim of quality1. Do not say what you believe to be false.2. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.C. The maxim of relation Be relevant.D. The maxim of manner1. Avoid obscurity of expression.2. Avoid ambiguity.3. Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity).4. Be orderly.2) What are the design features of language ?Arbitrariness; Productivity; Duality; Displacement; Cultural transmission;3) What are the differences between modern linguistics and traditional grammar ?A. Linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptiveB. Linguistics regards the spoken language as primary, not the written.C. Linguistics differs from traditional grammar in that it does not force languages into a Latin-based framework.4) Why do we say that a meaning of a sentence is not the sum total of the meanings of all its components ? The meaning of a sentence is not the sum total of the meanings of all its components because it cannot be worked out by adding up all the meanings of its constituent words. For example;(A) The dog bit the man.(B) The man bit the dog.If the meaning of a sentence were the sum total of the meanings of all its components, then the above two sentences would have the same meaning. In fact they are different in meanings.As we know, there are two aspects to sentence meaning: grammatical meaning and semantic meaning. The grammatical meanings of “the dog” and “the man” in(A) are different from the grammatical meanings of “the dog” and “the man” in (B). The meaning of a sentence is the product of both lexical and grammatical meaning. It is the product of the meaning of the constituent words and of the grammatical constructions that relate one word syntagmatically to another.5) What do you know about linguistics.Linguistics is usually defined as the science of language or, alternatively, as the scientific study of language. It is bound to be an academically and economically favored pursuit. Contemporary linguistics still has a long way to go to enjoy a “boom”. As a science, linguistics now has a set of established theories, methods and sub-branches.。

2011年天津外国语大学英语专业（语言学）真题试卷(总分：62.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.______ is a central vowel.（分数：2.00）A.[e]B.[i]C.[u]D.[a]2.Which of the following is a pair of relational opposites?（分数：2.00）A.single vs. marriedB.hot vs. coldC.alive vs. deadD.husband vs. wife3.Which of the following is a minimal pair?（分数：2.00）A.pet, kidB.put, pestC.cave, shaveD.must, taste4.Which of the following ways of word-formation does not change the grammatical class of the stems?（分数：2.00）poundB.inflectionC.derivationD.coinage5.Which of the following statements is true?（分数：2.00）rynx is what we sometimes call "Adam"s apple".B.The International Phonetic Alphabet uses narrow transcription.C.There are two nasal consonants in English.D.It is sounds by which we make communicative meaning.6.A ______has been added to Chomsky"s first model of grammar as shown in his Aspects of the Theory of Syntax(1965).（分数：2.00）A.set of rewriting rulesponent of categoriesC.semantic componentD.word classification7.According to the manner of articulation,[m]is a______.（分数：2.00）A.bilabialB.plosiveC.nasalteral8."I can refer to Confucius even though he was dead 2,000 years ago. " This shows that language has the design feature of______.（分数：2.00）A.arbitrarinessB.creativityC.dualityD.displacement9.______ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.（分数：2.00）nguepetencemunicative competenceD.Linguistic potential10.Which of the following is an "inflectional suffix"?（分数：2.00）A.-istB.-aryC.-ingD.-ify11.In today"s grammar we normally say that English does not have a " future tense". This is because in English ______.（分数：2.00）A.the future is not expressed by morphological changeB.the future can be expressed in many waysC.the future belongs to the category of "aspect"D.the future is expressed by modal verbs12.______is a phenomenon that in some speech communities two languages exist side by side with each having a different role to play; and language switching occurs when the situation changes.（分数：2.00）A.BilingualismB.DiglossiaC.PidginD.Creole13.______ is a personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines elements regarding regional, social, gender, and age variations.（分数：2.00）A.RegisterB.Linguistic repertoireC.IdiolectD.Dialect14.Which of the following is NOT included in the three classes of syntactic relations?（分数：2.00）A.positional relationsB.relations of co-occurrenceC.relations of expansionD.relations of substitutability15.All of the following are characteristics of implicature EXCEPT______.（分数：2.00）A.conventionalityB.non-detachabilityC.cancellabilityD.calculability16."He has already trunked two packs" is an example of______error.（分数：2.00）A.anticipationB.exchangeC.morpheme-exchangeD.perception17.The criterion used in IC analysis is______.（分数：2.00）A.constructionB.constituentC.structureD.substitutability18.According to G. Leech, who recognizes 7 types of meaning in his Semantics, ______ makes up the central part.（分数：2.00）A.conceptual meaningB.connotative meaningC.social meaningD.thematic meaning19."The Club" is a device for blocking an automobile"s steering wheel, thus protecting the car from being stolen. And one of its ads reads:The Club ! FD Anti-theft device for cars Police Say: " Use it" or Lose It In terms of the Gricean theory, what maxim is exploited here?（分数：2.00）A.the maxim of mannerB.the maxim of relevanceC.the maxim of qualityD.the maxim of quantity20.What semantic relation do the following sentences have?A. I saw a girl.B. I saw a child.（分数：2.00）A.contradictionB.entailmentC.synonymD.Presupposition二、名词解释(总题数：6，分数：12.00)21.semantic field theory(3 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 22.favourite sentence type(4 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 23.free variation(3 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 24.Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis(4 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 25.endocentric construction(3 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 26.back formation(3 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________三、写作题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)27.Choose any THREE of the following questions to analyze. Write the number of the question and your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.Discuss the major contributions of Saussure to modern linguistics.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ ment on the "innateness hypothesis".（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 29.Explain the purpose and significance of reconstruction in historical linguistics and the method employed by historical linguists.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 30.How do you interpret the distinctions between language acquisition and language learning?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________31.How do you comment on the two frequently used analogies for attempted inference on the origin of language: the acquisition of speech by children and the structures and characteristics of so-called "primitive" languages?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

13. There are two methods of forming endocentric constructions:_________ and____________.14. Gender is a grammatical category dividing nouns into classes basicallycharacterizable by reference to sex. Gender is also mostly a category of nouns andpronouns. The grammatical gender includes_________, ________and _______.15. "Nation" is the _________of "internationalism".II. Multiple Choice: Choose ONE best answer from the following choices tocomplete the each of the statements.(20%)1. _______________proposes a theory of metafunctions of language, that is,language has IDEATIONAL, INTERPERSONAL and TEXTUAL functions.A. ChomskyB. HallidayC. BloomfieldD.John Lyons.2. Which of the following is the most important function of language?A. interpersonal functionB. performative functionC. informative functionD. recreational function3. Human language is different from animal communication systems because itis_______.A. under immediate stimulus controlB. utimulas freeC. stimulus boundD. stimulated by some occurrence of communal interest4. When APPLE is said slowly, ________sound segments can be recognized.A. threeB. fourC. fiveD. six5. Broad transcription is the phonetic transcription without_________.A. distinctive featuresB. diacriticsC. articulationD. voicing6. To be specific, ________deals with how speech sounds are produced.A. articulatory phoneticsB. acoustic phoneticsC. auditory phoneticsD. phonological phonetics.7. The process involving an alternation in the sequence of sounds is_______.A. lossB. additionC. class shiftD. metaphesis8. ___________refers to those words which are made by combining the initial lettersof a composite name.A. BorrowingB. AcronymC. CoinageD. Blending9. Classical Greek and Arabic have a third number:________, something like theEnglish "both".A. singleB. pluralC. dualD. trial10. The structural approach to the analysis of language was started by the Swisslinguist________ in the beginning of the twentieth century. He is also known as "the father of modern linguistics".A. ChomskyB. HallidayC. SaussureD. FillmoreIII. Describe the following speech sounds. (15%)/z//k//h//v//i:/IV. Define the following terms with examples if necessary.(20%)1. coarticulation2. morpheme3. performative function4. endocentric constructionV. Answer the following questions.(15%)1. What is meant by "arbitrariness" according to Saussure?2.3.4.V. Answer the following questions.(15%)。

2011年职称英语综合类B级考试试题12011年职称英语综合类B级考试试题(word完整版) 第1部分：词汇选项（第1—15题，每题-1分；共15分）下面每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。

1.We need to extract the relevant flnancial data.A. storeB. obtainC. saveD. review2.His shoes were shined to perfection.A. clearedB. polishedC. washed .D. mended3.She always finds fault with everything. .A.simplifiesB. evaluatesC. criticizesD. Examines4.Anderson left the table, remarking that he had some work.to doA. doubtingB. thinkingC. sayingD. Knowing5.They converted the spare bedroom into an office.A. reducedB. movedC. reformedD. turned.6.Mr. Henley has accelerated his sale of shares over the past yearA. heldB. increased .A. admittedB. reportedC. hopedD. answered12.The police believe the motive for the murder was jealousy.A. choiceB. ideaC. decisionD. reason13.The high-speed trains can have a major impact on ourlivesA. effortC. concernB. problemD. influence14.We explored the possibility of expansion at the conference.A. offeredC. acceptedB. includedD. investigated15. The study also notes a steady decline in the number of college students taking science courses.A. continuousC. generalB. relativeD. sharp第2部分：阅读判断（第16—22题，每题1分，共7分）下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A：如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。