北京林业大学
2004年硕士研究生入学考试语言学基础知识试题I. Below are some questions and statements with missing words, each followed by four possible answers or fillers marked A, B, C and D. In some cases, only one choice is correct while in others more than one should be chosen. Choose ALL the correct ones. (30 points, 2 points each)
1. Language is ______.
A. a means of verbal communication
B. a purposeful act
C. social and conventional
D. true of both human beings and animals
2. A linguistic study is ______ if it describes and analyses facts observed.
A. prescriptive
B. synchronic
C. diachronic
D. descriptive
3. The sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the airstream at
some point of the vocal tract are known as ______.
A. consonants
B. places of articulation
C. vowels
D. manners of articulation
4. [f] is a ______.
A. voiced bilabial stop
B. voiceless bilabial fricative
C. voiceless labiodental fricative
D. voiced labiodental fricative
5. [i] is a ______.
A. high front unrounded vowel
B. high front rounded vowel
C. high middle vowel
D. high back vowel
6. Which of the following is a broad transcription of the word rap?
A. [ræp]
B. [λæ?p]
C. [λæ☐h]
D. [λæ☐¬]
7. The basic unit of phonological analysis is the ______.
A. allophone
B. phoneme
C. sound
D. minimal pair
8. Look at the following examples:
i) the man went to the theater ii) *man to the theater went the
It shows the importance of ______ in producing the acceptable utterance in a language.
A. word order
B. substitutability
C. co-occurrence
D. constituents
9. Which of the following are instances of Case?
A. Animate
B. Accusative
C. Nominative
D. Dative
10. Which of the following are related to Noam Chomsky?
A. Generative Grammar.
B. Functional Grammar.
C. Standard Theory.
D. GB Theory.
11. Which of the following are related to M A K Halliday?
A. Transformational Grammar.
B. Functional Grammar.
C. Binding Theory.
D. Theme and Rheme.
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