英语语言学各章节题目
1. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human __________
A. contact
B. communication
C. relation
D. community
2. Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?
A. tree
B. typewriter
C. crash
D. bang
3. Which of the following property of language enables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, due to this feature of language, speakers of a language are free to talk about anything in any situation?
A. Transferability
B. Duality
C. Displacement
D. Arbitrariness
4. __________ refers to the actual realization of the ideal language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language in utterances.
A. Performance
B. Competence
C. Langue
D. Parole
5. __________ deals with language application to other fields, particularly education.
A. Linguistic theory
B. Practical linguistics
C. Comparative linguistics
D. Applied linguistics
II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
6. Language is written because writing is the primary medium for all languages.
7. We were all born with the ability to acquire language, which means the details of any language system can be genetically transmitted.
8. Only human beings are able to communicate.
9. F. de Saussure, who made the distinction between langue and parole in the early 20th century, was a French linguist.
10. The conventional nature of language is illustrated by a famous quotation from Shakespear’s play Romeo and Juliet: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.
11. Speech and writing came into being at much the same time in human history.
III. Fill in the blanks.
12. Linguistics is the __________ study of language.
13. Modern linguistics is __________ in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rather than lay down some rules for people to observe.
14. One general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of __________ over writing.
15. The description of a language as it changes through time is a __________ study.
16. Saussure put forward two important concepts. __________ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all members of a speech community.
17. Linguistic potential is similar t o Saussure’s langue and Chomsky’s __________.
Explain the following terms:
syntax
anthropological linguistics
Explain Halliday's theory of metafunctions of language.
Sounds
1. Pitch variation is known as __________ when its patterns are imposed on sentences.
A. intonation
B. tone
C. pronunciation
D. voice
2. Which branch of phonetics concerns the production of speech sounds?
A. Acoustic phonetics
B. Articulatory phonetics
C. Auditory phonetics
D. None of the above
3. Which one is different from the others according to places of articulation?
A. [n]
B. [m]
C. [ b ]
D. [p]
4. Which vowel is different from the others according to the characteristics of vowels?
A. [i:]
B. [ u ]
C. [e]
D. [ i ]
5. What kind of sounds can we make when the vocal cords are vibrating?
A. Voiceless
B. V oiced
C. Glottal stop
D. Consonant
II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
6. Suprasegmental phonology refers to the study of phonological properties of units larger than the segment-phoneme, such as syllable, word and sentence.
7. [p] is a voiced bilabial stop.
8. Acoustic phonetics is concerned with the perception of speech sounds.
9. According to the length or tenseness of the pronunciation, vowels can be divided into long vs. short or tense vs. lax.
10. In English, all the back vowels are rounded.
11. In English, all the front vowels and the central vowels are unrounded.
III. Fill in the blanks.
12. According to the feature of voicing, consonant sounds can be either __________ or __________, while all vowel sounds are __________.
13. Consonants differ from vowels in that the latter are produced without __________.
14. In phonological analysis the words fail / veil are distinguishable simply because of the two phonemes /f/ - /v/. This is an example for illustrating __________.
15. In English there are a number of __________, which are produced by moving from one vowel position to another through intervening positions.
takes place when the organs of speech move to produce patterns of sound. These movements have an effect on the __________ coming from the lungs.
17. Write the symbol that corresponds to each of the following phonetic descriptions; then give an English word that contains this sound. Example: voiced alveolar stop [d] dog.
(1) voiceless bilabial unaspirated stop
(2) low front vowel
(3) lateral liquid
(4) velar nasal
(5) voiced interdental fricative
1. Nouns, verbs and adjectives can be classified as __________.
A. content words
B. grammatical words
C. function words
D. form words
2. Morphemes that represent tense, number, gender and case are called __________ morpheme.
A. inflectional
B. free
C. bound
D. derivational
3. There are __________ morphemes in the word denationalization.
A. three
B. four
C. five
D. six
4. In English –ise and –tion are called __________.
A. prefixes
B. suffixes
C. infixes
D. stems
5. The three subtypes of affixes are: prefix, suffix and __________.
A. derivational affix
B. inflectional affix
C. infix
D. back-formation
6. __________ is a way in which new words may be formed from already existing words by subtracting an affix which is thought to be part of the old word.
A. affixation
B. back-formation
C. insertion
D. addition
7. The word DINK is formed in the way of __________.
A. acronymy
B. clipping
C. compounding
D. blending
8. The words like smog and motel are formed by __________.
A. blending
B. clipping
C. back-formation
D. acronymy
II. Fill in the blanks.
9. A small set of conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns belong to __________ class, while the largest part of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs belongs to __________ class.
10. __________ is a reverse process of derivation, and therefore is a process of shortening.
11. __________ is extremely productive, because English had lost most of its inflectional endings by the end of Middle English period, which facilitated the use of words interchangeably as verbs or nouns, verbs or adjectives, and vice versa.
12. A word formed by derivation is called a __________ , and a word formed by compounding is called a __________ .
13. Bound morphemes are classified into two types: __________ and __________ .
Explain the following term, using examples.
Allomorph
Inflection
Bound root
1. The sentence structure is ________.
A. only linear
B. only hierarchical
C. complex
D. both linear and hierarchical
2. The syntactic rules of any language are ____ in number.
A. large
B. small
C. finite
D. infinite
3. 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
4. A __________ in the embedded clause refers to the introductory word that introduces the embedded clause.
A. coordinator
B. particle
C. preposition
D. subordinator
5. Phrase structure rules allow us to better understand _____________.
A. how words and phrases form sentences.
B. what constitutes the grammaticality of strings of words
C. how people produce and recognize possible sentences
D. all of the above.
6. The phrase “on the shelf” belongs to __________ construction.
A. endocentric
B. exocentric
C. subordinate
D. coordinate II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. (10%)
12. The syntactic rules of any language are finite in number, but there is no limit to the number of sentences native speakers of that language are able to produce and comprehend.
13. In a complex sentence, the two clauses hold unequal status, one subordinating the other.
14. Constituents that can be substituted for one another without loss of grammaticality belong to the same syntactic category.
16. In English syntactic analysis, four phrasal categories are commonly recognized and discussed, namely, noun phrase, verb phrase, infinitive phrase, and auxiliary phrase.
17. In English the subject usually precedes the verb and the direct object usually follows the verb.
III. Fill in the blanks. (20%)
21. A __________ sentence consists of a single clause which contains a subject and
a predicate and stands alone as its own sentence.
23. A __________ may be a noun or a noun phrase in a sentence that usually precedes the predicate.
24. The part of a sentence which comprises a finite verb or a verb phrase and which says something about the subject is grammatically called __________.
25. A __________ sentence contains two, or more, clauses, one of which is incorporated into the other.
Explain the term "IC analysis".
Explain the three types of syntactic relations
Distinguish the two possible meanings of “more beautiful flowers”
37. Draw a tree diagram of the sentence:
The student wrote a letter yesterday.
1. According to the “semantic triangle” presented by Ogden and Richards, the symbol or ________ refers to the linguistic elements(words, sentences, etc.), the ___________ refers to the object in the world of experience and the thought or reference refers to concept.
2. __________ analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can be divided into meaning components.
3. The semantic component of the word _________ are +Human, +Adult, +male, -Married.
4. ________ opposites may be seen in terms of degrees of the quality involved.
5. We call the relation between “animal” and “cow” as___________.
A. polysemy
B. antonymy
C. homophony
D. hyponymy
6. The pair of words “wide/narrow” are called__________.
A. gradable opposites
B. complementary antonyms
C. co-hyponyms
D. relational opposites
7. What is the meaning relationship between the two words “rose/tulip”?
A. polysemy
B. hyponymy
C. homophony
D. co-hyponyms
8. A word with several meaning is called___________.
A. an abnormal word
B. a polysemic word
C. a synonymous word
D. None of the above
9. “Words are names or labels for things.” This view is called _________ in semantic theory. A. mentalism B. conceptualism C. naming theory D. contexualism
10. The pair of words “borrow/lend” are called __________.
A. relational opposites
B. synonyms
C. complementaries
D. gradable opposites
11. Which description of componential analysis for the word “woman” is right?
A. +human, -adult, -male
B. +human, +adult, -male
C. +human, +adult, +male
D. +human, -adult, +male
12. What is the meaning relationship between the two words “flower/tulip”?
A. Polysemy
B. Homonymy
C. Hyponymy
D. Antonymy
13. The semantic components of the word “man” can be expressed as________.
A. +human, +male, -adult
B. +human, -male, -adult
C. +human, +male, +adult
D. +human, -male, +adult
Explain the following term, using examples.
1) Componential analysis
2) Semantic triangle
Explain the three kinds of antonymy.
1. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning _________ is considered.
A. reference
B. speech act
C. practical usage
D. context
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. If we think of a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes a (n) _________.
A. constative
B. directive
C. utterance
D. expressive
4. __________ 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
5. According to Searle, the illocutionary point of the representative is ______.
A. to get the hearer to do something
B. to commit the speaker to somethi ng’s being the case
C. to commit the speaker to some future course of action
D. to express the feelings or attitude towards an existing state of affairs
6. All the acts that belong to the same category share the same purpose, but they differ __________.
A. in their illocutionary acts
B. in their intentions expressed
C. in their strength or force
D. in their effect brought about
7. When any of the maxims under the cooperative principle is flouted, _______ might arise.
A. impoliteness
B. contradictions
C. mutual understanding
D. conversational implicatures
II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.
8. Pragmatics treats the meaning of language as something intrinsic and inherent.
9. It would be impossible to give an adequate description of meaning if the context of language use was left unconsidered.
10. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning the context of use is considered.
11. The meaning of a sentence is abstract, but context-dependent.
12. The meaning of an utterance is decontexualized, therefore stable.
13. Utterances always take the form of complete sentences
14. Speech act theory was originated with the British philosopher John Searle.
15. __________ were statements that either state or describe, and were thus verifiable.
16. __________ were sentences that did not state a fact or describe a state, and were not verifiable.
17. A(n) __________ act is the act of uttering words, phrases, clauses. It is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology.
18. A(n) __________ act is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention; it is the act performed in saying something.
19. A(n) _________ is commit the speaker himself to some future course of action.
20. A(n) ________ is to express feelings or attitude towards an existing state.
21. There are four maxims under the cooperative principle: the maxim of __________ , the maxim of quality, the maxim of relation and the maxim of manner.
IV Analyze the implicatures in the dialogues
1) A: Can you answer the phone?
B: I’m in the bath.
2) A: I have to leave now.
B: It’s raining hard outside.
V . What type of illocutionary act do the following utterances involve?
1)‘I suggest that you see a dentist as soon as possible.’
2) ‘I will pay you the money I owe you next time.’
3) ‘Passengers are reminded that flight No. 2284 leaves here at 7:00 sharp.’
4)‘Shut up! Leave me alone!’
5)‘I’m very sorry to hear that you’ve just lost your pet dog.’
study of _ is Syntax.
A textual organization
B sentence structures
C word formation
D language functions
of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?
A arbitrariness
B productivity
C cultural transmission
D finiteness
speech act theory was first put forward by_.
A John Scarl
B Johan Austin
C Noam Chomsky
D Halliday
study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in condition is_.
A morphology
B general linguistics
C phonology
D semantics
of the following is NOT a compound word?
A Landlady
B Greenhouse
C Uplift
D Unacceptable
word holiday originally meant holy day; but now the word sign ifies any which we don’t have to work. This is an example of
A meaning shift
B widening of meaning
C narrowing of meaning
D loss of meaning essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is the notion of___
A. reference
B. meaning
C. antonymy
D. context
words "kid, child, offspring” are examples of___
A. dialectal synonyms
B. stylistic synonyms
C. emotive synonyms
D. collocational synonyms
distinction between parole and langue was made by____
A. Halliday
B. Chomsky
C. Bloomfield
D. Saussure
refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation. A. Phonology B. Morphology C. Semantics D. Sociolinguistics
distinctive features of a speech variety may be all the following EXCEPT
A. lexical
B. syntactic
C. phonological
D. psycholinguistic
word tail once referred to “the tail of a horse”, but now it is used to mean “the tail of any animal.” This is an example of
A. widening of meaning
B. narrowing of meaning
C. meaning shift
D. loss of meaning
of the following is NOT a design feature of human language?
A. Arbitrariness
B. Displacement.
C. Duality.
D. Diachronicity.
type of sentence is "Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry"?
A. A simple sentence.
B. A coordinate sentence.
C. A complex sentence.
D. None of the above.
phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called___
A. hyponymy.
B. synonymy.
C. polysemy.
D. homonymy.
16. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is ____
A. corpus linguistics.
B. sociolinguistics.
C. theoretical linguistics.
D. psycholinguistics.
special language variety that mixes languages and is used by speakers of different languages for purposes of trading is called( )
A. dialect.
B. idiolect.
C. pidgin.
D. register.
a speaker expresses his intention of speaking, such as asking someone to open the window, he is performing____
A. an illocutionary act.
B. a perlocutionary act.
C. a locutionary act.
D. none of the above.
19. _____ refers to the learning and development of a language.
A. Language acquisition
B. Language comprehension
C. Language production
D. Language instruction
word “' Motel” comes from “motor + hotel”. This is an example of_____ in morphology. A. backformation B. conversion C. blending D. acronym
is the tool of communication. The symbol “' Highway Closed” on a highway serves( ) A. an expressive function. B. an informative function.
C. a performative function.
D. a persuasive function.
22. ______ is defined as the study of the relationship between language and mind.
A. Semantics
B. Pragmatics
C. Cognitive linguistics
D. Sociolinguistics
23. A vowel is different from a consonant in English because of
A. absence of obstruction
B. presence of obstruction
C. manner of articulation
D. place of articulation
24. The definition ”the act of using , or promoting the use of, several lan guages ,either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers” refer to
A. Pidgin
B. Creole
C. Multilingualism
D. Bilingualism
25. ____ is a language phenomenon in which words sound like what they refer to.
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Collocation
C. Denotation
D. Assimilation
sentence "Close your book and listen to me carefully!" performs a(n) _____ function.
A. interrogative
B. informative
C. performative
D. directive
27. Which of the following pairs of words are homophones?
A. wind (v.) / wind (n.)
B. suspect (v.) / suspect (n.)
C. bare (adj.) / bear (v.)
D. convict (v.) /convict (n.)
English, if a word begins with a [l] or a [r], then the next sound must be a vowel. This is a(n)( ) A. assimilation rule B. sequential rule C. deletion rule D. grammar rule
of the following is an example of clipping? A. APEC B. Motel C. Xerox D. Disco
30. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a particular type of situation is called A. register B. dialect C. slang. D. variety
31. Which of the following italicized parts is an inflectional morpheme?
A. unlock
B. government.
C. goes D off-stage
32. Which of the following sentences has the "S + V + O" structure?
A. He died a hero.
B. I went to London.
C. She became angry.
D. Mary enjoyed parties.
33. Which of the following CAN NOT be used as an adverb?
A. Heart and soul.
B. The lion's share.
C. Null and void.
D. Hammer and tongs.
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