1、语言学概论练习测试题库及参考答案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/she has never heard before. This property of language is called _.A. duality B. productivity C. displacement D.
2、 arbitrarinessKey: B2. The _ function refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing a favorable atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas. A. phatic B. directive C. evocative D. performativeKey: A3. From a functional approach, the _ mean
3、ing of a language use consists of what is communicated of the feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer.A. affective B. associative C. stylistic D. collocativeKey: A4. When ing in gangling is removed to get a verb gangle, we call this way of creating words _.A. suffixation B. back-formation C. bl
4、ending D. acronymyKey: B5. _ refers to the process by which words rise from humble beginnings to positions of importance.A. Degradation B. Specialization C. Elevation D. ExtensionKey: C6. As we know, every speaker has his own pet words and expressions and special way of expressing his ideas in langu
5、age. This language variety of individual users is called _.A. idiolect B. regional dialect C. temporal dialect D. social dialectKey: A7. When pitch, stress and length variations are tied to the sentence rather than to the word, they are collectively known as _.A. intonation B. tone C. phoneme D. sen
6、tence stressKey: A8. _ refers to the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound.A. Addition of sound B. Loss of sound C. Metathesis D. AssimilationKey: D9. Basically, all the languages in the world can be classified in terms of language family. Vietnamese and Korean are two
7、languages in the _ family.A. Indo-European B. Sino-Tibetan C. Hamito-Semitic D. Malayo-PolynesianKey: B10. A _ is the minimal contrastive unit in the writing system of a language.A. morpheme B. phoneme C. grapheme D. letterKey: C11. All mono-morphemic words are constituted by free morphemes, and tho
8、se poly-morphemic words which consist wholly of free morphemes are called_.A. hyponyms B. compounds C. blends D. allomorphsKey: B12. The requirement that the forms of two or more words of specific word classes which stand in specific syntactic relationship with one another shall also be characterize
9、d by the same paradigmatically marked category or categories is called _. A. concord B. government C. recursiveness D. cohesion Key: A13. The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another is called _. A. blending B. clipping C. acronymy D. compoundingKey: A1
10、4. The distinction of linguistic potential and actual linguistic behavior is proposed by _.A. N. Chomsky B. F. de Saussure C. M. A. Halliday D. J. Austin Key: C15. The word meaning given in the dictionary is called _ meaning.A. denotative B. connotative C. collective D. stylistic Key: A16. When we c
11、onsider the variation relating to what a user is trying to do with language, we are dealing with addressee relationshipcontinually categorized as “_”. A. tenor of discourse B. mode of discourse C. field of discourse D. idiolect Key: A17. According to words structures, Turkish is a typical _ language
12、.A. isolating B. fusional C. analytic D. agglutinative Key: D18. _ refer to the fact that one type of utterance is typically followed by a special type of utterance. A. Minimal pairs B. Illocutionary acts C. Social dialects D. Adjacency pairs Key: D19. The relation between “dead” and “alive” is labe
13、led as _. A. gradability B. complementarity C. hyponymy D. homonymy Key: B20. The words “encore” and “au pair ” are loanwords from _. A. French B. German C. Italian D. Spanish Key: A21. The distinction of langue and parole is proposed by_.a. N. Chomsky b. F. de Saussure c. M. A. Halliday d. J. Austi
14、nKey: b22. Which of the following is the exception to the feature of arbitrariness of language?a. native English words b. borrowed words c. echoic words d. one-syllable wordsKey: c23. Which of the following feature cannot be used to describe the phone s?a. voiceless b. oral c. alveolar d. lateralKey
15、: d24. In terms of place of articulation, the two consonants f, v are _.a. dental b. alveolar c. palatal d. labiodentalKey: d25. In terms of manner of articulation, the sounds p, b, t, d, k, g are _.a. affricates b. fricatives c. bilabial d. oral stopsKey: d26. Which of the following statements about allophone is NOT correct?a. Allophones are different
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