《英语语言学》作业1-00001

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 12 道试题,共 60 分)

1.The ________ rules are the rules that group words and phrases to form grammatical sentences.

A.lexical

B.morphological

C.linguistic

D.combinational

2.The syntactic rules of any language are ____ in number.

A.large

B.small

C.finite

D.infinite

3.According to F. de Saussure, _______ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.

A.parole

B.performance

C.langue

D.Language

4.The sound /f/ is _________________.

A.voiced palatal affricate

B.voiced alveolar stop

C.voiceless velar fricative

D.voiceless labiodental fricative

5.The initial step in understanding any message is ___

A.the recognition of words

B.lexical ambiguity

C.syntactic processing

D.sentence memory

6.____ occurs when a word is spoken earlier in the sentence than it should be.

A.Spoonerism

B.Anticipation error

C.Exchange error

D.Morpheme-exchange error

7._______ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.

A.Prefixes

B.Suffixes

C.Roots

D.Affixes

8.“Alive” and “dead” are ______________.

A.gradable antonyms

B.relational opposites

C.complementary antonyms

D.None of the above

9.__________ is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance.

A.A locutionary act

B.An illocutionary act

C.A perlocutionary act

D.A performative act

10.___, proposed by D.Wilkins and J.A.van Ek, has received considerable attention since the 70s.

A.Structural syllabus

B.Situational syllabus

C.Notional-functional syllabus

D.Communicative syllabus

11.___________ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form.

A.Polysemy

B.Synonymy

C.Homonymy

D.Hyponymy

12.Which of the following is true?

A.Utterances usually do not take the form of sentences

B.Some utterances cannot be restored to complete sentences

C.No utterances can take the form of sentences

D.All utterances can be restored to complete sentences.

二、判断题 (共 8 道试题,共 40 分)

13.Linguistic research aims at the learner＇s mastery of language, whereas language teaching is concerned with the establishment of theories which explains the phenomena of language.

14.The meaning of a sentence is the sum total of the meanings of all its components.

15.Firth got his BA in Chinese language and literature at London University in 1947.

16.The comprehension process involves parsing, i.e. working out the grammatical structure of the sentence.

17.Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.

18.Sapir-Whorf Hypotheses are developed from the experience and study of Hopi.

19.In semantics, meaning of language is considered as the intrinsic and inherent relation to the physical world of experience.

20.The Classic Theory deals with how semantics should be studied in a linguistics theory.

《英语语言学》作业2-00001

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 12 道试题,共 60 分)

1._________ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.

A.Reference

B.Concept

C.Semantics

D.Sense

2.A sentence is a _________ concept, and the meaning of a sentence is often studied in isolation.

A.pragmatic

B.grammatical

C.mental

D.conceptual

3.___serves as a mediating area which interprets the results of linguistic theories and make them user-friendly to the language teacher and learner.

A.Applied linguistics

B.Sociolinguistics

C.Psycholinguistics

D.Computational linguistics

4.A sentence is considered ____ when it does not conform to the grammatical knowledge in the mind of native speakers.

A.right

B.wrong

C.grammatical

D.ungrammatical

5.The morpheme “vision” in the common word “television” is a(n) ______.

A.bound morpheme

B.bound form

C.inflectional morpheme

D.free morpheme

6.The sound /f/ is _________________.

A.voiced palatal affricate

B.voiced alveolar stop

C.voiceless velar fricative

D.voiceless labiodental fricative

7.Which of the following is not true?

A.Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form

B.Sense is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form

C.Sense is abstract and decontextualized

D.Sense is the aspect of meaning dictionary compilers are not interested in

8.If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be _______.

A.Prescriptive

B.Analytic

C.Descriptive

D.Linguistic

9.Of all the speech organs, the _______ is/are the most flexible.

A.mouth

B.lips

C.tongue

D.vocal cords

10.According to F. de Saussure, _______ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.

A.parole

B.performance

C.langue

D.Language

11.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

12.___ is the degree to which a test measures what it is meant to measure.

A.Reliability

B.Validity

C.Error

D.Mistake

二、判断题 (共 8 道试题,共 40 分)

13.The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology.

14.In semantics, meaning of language is considered as the intrinsic and inherent relation to the physical world of experience.

15.Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication.

16.A scientific study of language is based on what the linguist thinks.

17.Syntax is a subfied of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language, including the combination of morphemes into words.

18.Phonology is concerned with how the sounds can be classified into different categories.

19.What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning the context of use is considered.

20.Delicacy refers to the dimension which recognises increasing depth of detail.

《英语语言学》作业3-00001

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 12 道试题,共 60 分)

1.___ is the degree to which a test measures what it is meant to measure.

A.Reliability

B.Validity

C.Error

D.Mistake

2.“Alive” and “dead” are ______________.

A.gradable antonyms

B.relational opposites

C.complementary antonyms

D.None of the above

3.A historical study of language is a _______ study of language.

A.synchronic

B.diachronic

C.prescriptive

D.comparative

4.___can be traced back to its first meeting under the leadership of V.Mathesius in 1926.

A.the Prague School

B.the London School

C.A.K.Halliday

D.Boas

5.Saussure took a(n) _______ view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a ________ point of view.

A.sociological...psychological

B.psychological…sociological

C.applied…pragmatic

D.semantic…linguistic

6.___is the planning of a course of instruction.

A.Syllabus

B.Curriculum

C.Topics

D.Analysis

7.The ________ rules are the rules that group words and phrases to form grammatical sentences.

A.lexical

B.morphological

C.linguistic

D.combinational

8.A sentence is considered ____ when it does not conform to the grammatical knowledge in the mind of native speakers.

A.right

B.wrong

C.grammatical

D.ungrammatical

9._________ are often thought to be the smallest meaningful units of language by the linguists.

A.Words

B.Morphemes

C.Phonemes

D.Sentences

10.The sound /f/ is _________________.

A.voiced palatal affricate

B.voiced alveolar stop

C.voiceless velar fricative

D.voiceless labiodental fricative

11.__________ is advanced by Paul Grice

A.Cooperative Principle

B.Politeness Principle

C.The General Principle of Universal Grammar

D.Adjacency Principle

12.Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called _______,

A.displacement

B.duality

C.flexibility

D.cultural transmission

二、判断题 (共 8 道试题,共 40 分)

13.Functional Sentence Perspective is a theory of linguistic analysis which refers to an analysis of utterances in terms of the information they contain.

14.In semantics, meaning of language is considered as the intrinsic and inherent relation to the physical world of experience.

15.The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology.

16.Austin made the distinction between a constative and a performative.

17.Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.

18.Syntax is a subfied of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language, including the combination of morphemes into words.

19.Both semantics and pragmatics study meanings.

20.Speech act theory was originated with the British philosopher John Searle.

《英语语言学》作业4-00001

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 12 道试题,共 60 分)

1.___serves as a mediating area which interprets the results of linguistic theories and make them user-friendly to the language teacher and learner.

A.Applied linguistics

B.Sociolinguistics

C.Psycholinguistics

D.Computational linguistics

2.___is the term used in linguistics to describe the relationship between a particular style of language and its context of use.

A.Register

B.Couplet

C.Blank verse

D.Meter

3.Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called _______,

A.displacement

B.duality

C.flexibility

D.cultural transmission

4.Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?

A.Arbitrariness

B.Displacement

C.Duality

D.Meaningfulness

5.A (An)___foot contains two syllables, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

A.iambic

B.trochaic

C.anapestic

D.spondaic

6.The initial step in understanding any message is ___

A.the recognition of words

B.lexical ambiguity

C.syntactic processing

D.sentence memory

7.Modern linguistics regards the written language as _______.

A.Primary

B.Correct

C.Secondary

D.stable

8.A __________ in the embedded clause refers to the introductory word that introduces the embedded clause.

A.coordinator

B.particle

C.preposition

D.subordinator

9.__________ is a voiced alveolar stop.

A./z/

B./d/

C./k/

D./b/

10.____ occurs when a word is spoken earlier in the sentence than it should be.

A.Spoonerism

B.Anticipation error

C.Exchange error

D.Morpheme-exchange error

11.“Alive” and “dead” are ______________.

A.gradable antonyms

B.relational opposites

C.complementary antonyms

D.None of the above

12.__________ is advanced by Paul Grice

A.Cooperative Principle

B.Politeness Principle

C.The General Principle of Universal Grammar

D.Adjacency Principle

二、判断题 (共 8 道试题,共 40 分)

13.In English the subject usually precedes the verb and the direct object usually follows the verb.

14.The cohort theory represents the relationships between various semantically related words.

15.The comprehension process involves parsing, i.e. working out the grammatical structure of the sentence.

16.Functional Sentence Perspective is a theory of linguistic analysis which refers to an analysis of utterances in terms of the information they contain.

17.Sapir-Whorf Hypotheses are developed from the experience and study of Hopi.

18.Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different references in different situations.

19.Literary stylistics focuses on the study of linguistic features related to literary style.

20.Austin made the distinction between a constative and a performative.