英语语言学判断题.docx

1、英语语言学判断题判断题：正确写A，错误写BChapter 1:1. Linguistics is the systematic study of language. True.2. Linguistics deals with a particular language. False.3. Linguistics is scientific because it is helpful to language use. False.4. The task of a linguist is to discover the nature and rules of the underlying lan

2、guage system. True.5. Linguistics is generally divided into general and specific linguistics. False.6. General linguistics deals with the general aspects of language application. False.7. General linguistics does not study theories of language. False.8. Phonetics studies human sound patterning and t

3、he meaning of sounds in communication. False.9. Phonology studies how a sound is produced. False.10. Morphology is the study of sentences. False.11. Syntax is the study of the rules of words. False.12. Semantics is the study of word meaning. False.13. Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context of

4、 language use. True.14. Sociolinguistics deals with the relation between language and society. True.15. Psycholinguistics deals with the relation of language to psychology. True.16. Applied linguistics means the language application to specific areas. False.17. Modern linguistics aims at prescribing

5、 models for language users to follow.False. 18. Synchronic linguistics deals with a series of language phenomena at the same time. False.19. Diachronic linguistics is also called historical linguistics. True.20. Langue means competence. False.21. Parole is a French word; it means the concrete langua

6、ge events. True.22. F. de Saussure was a Swiss linguist. True.23. N. Chomsky is an American linguist. True.24. According to Chomsky, the internalization of a set of rules about his language enables a speaker to produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences and recognize sentences th

7、at are ungrammatical and ambiguous. True.25. Chomsky regards competence as an act of doing things with a sentence. False.26. Performance is the focus of Chomskys linguistic study. False. Competence, instead.27. Details of language system are genetically transmitted. False.28. Displacement of languag

8、e means language use in a far-away place. False.29. Arbitrariness of language means language can be used freely. False.30. Duality of language means language is a two-level system. True.Chapter 2:1. Writing is more basic than speech. False.2. There have been some 2,500 languages in the world. False.

9、3. About two thirds of languages in the world have not had written form. True.4. Linguists are interested in all sounds. False.5. The limited range of sounds that are meaningful in human communication constitute the phonic medium of language. True.6. Phonetic similarity, not phonetic identity, is th

10、e criterion with which we operate in the phonological analysis of languages. True.7. The greatest source of modification of the air stream is found in the oral cavity. True.8. The narrowing of space between the hard palate and the front of the tongue results in the sound j. True.9. k, g and n are ve

11、lar sounds. False.10. i is a semi-close vowel. False.11. h is the glottal sound. True.12. ei is a monophthong. False.13. Phonology is of a general nature. False.14. Phonetics deals with speech sounds in all human languages. True.15. A phone does not necessarily distinguish meaning. True.16. A phonem

12、e is a phonetic unit. False.t.17. Tsled is a possible word in English. False.18. English is a tone language. False.Chapter 3:1. The word predigestion is composed of two morphemes. False.2. Teach-in is a compound word. True.3. Pronouns belong to closed class words. True.4. The word unacceptability ha

13、s four morphemes. True.5. The word boy is a free morpheme. True.6. The morpheme or in actor is an inflectional morpheme. False.7. The s in works of He works hard. is a bound morpheme. False.8. The word unsad is acceptable in English. False.9. Compounding is a very common and frequent process for enl

14、arging the vocabulary of the English language. True.10. The prefix a- in asexual means without. True.Chapter 4:1. Phrases can consist of just one word, but more often they contain other elements as well.True.2. In XP, X refers to any such head as N, V, A or P.True.3. In a book about ghosts, the comp

15、lement is ghosts.False.The complement is aboutghosts.4. In TG, determiner is often written as Det.True.Chapter 5:1. Hyponymy is a relation of exclusion of meaning. False.2. The words alive and dead are relational opposites. False.3. The words lead(领导) and lead(铅球) are homographs. True.4. The words f

16、lat and apartment are stylistic synonyms. False.5. The words politician and statesman are collocational synonyms. False.6. The words buy and purchase are dialectal synonyms. False.7. The words shock and surprise are semantically different synonyms. True.8. In the sense set , junior and senior are co

17、-hyponyms. True.9. The words doctor and patient are relational synonyms. True.10. I have been to Beijing. entails I have been to North China. True.11. His friend is coming. presupposes He has a friend. True.12. Mary is single. is inconsistent with Mary is married. True.13. His dumb boy spoke good En

18、glish. is a contradiction. True.Chapter 6:1. Pragmatics is a linguistic branch that developed in the 1890s. False.2. Course in General Linguistics was published in 1889. False.3. Context refers to the relation between lines or paragraphs of a text. False.4. If I said to you, Its very stuffy here., t

19、hen my illocutionary act may be asking you to switch on the air-conditioner. True.5. If Smith said to you in a supermarket, I am thirsty now, but I have no money with me, then his perlocutionary act is your buying him a coca-cola. True.6. According to Austin, He is a boy. is a constative. True.7. Ac

20、cording to Austin, I bet you sixpence it will be fine this evening. is a performative. True.8. Open the door! is a directive. True.9. The room is air-conditioned. is an expressive. False.10. We have never met before. is a representative. True.11. I fire you! is a commissive. False. is a declaration.

21、12. I will return the book to you soon. is an expressive. False.13. Do not say what you believe to be false is a maxim of relation. False.14. Be brief belongs to the maxim of manner. True.15. Make your contribution as informative as required (for the current purpose of the exchange). belongs to the

22、maxim of quality. False.16. Bs reply violates the maxim of quality in the dialogue below: A: Where do you live? B: In South China Normal University. False. 17. B probably means that he doesnt want to make any comment on the lecture, in the dialogue below: A: What do you think of the lecture? (The sp

23、eech maker is coming) B: Do we have classes this evening? True.18. B probably means that it is impolite to ask about her age, in the dialogue below: A: How old are you? B: I am 80. True.19. B probably means that A should not laugh at him since they know each other, in the dialogue below: A: Are you

24、a good student? B: Are you? True.Chapter 7:1. Sound changes tend to be systematic. True.2. The word home was written as hm in Old English. True.3. The word mice, which is pronounced as mais, was pronounced as mi:s in Middle English. True.4. In Chaucers the Canterbury Tales, we can find his to replac

25、e it in Modern English, as in Whan that Aprille with his shoures sooth. This reflects the change in the agreement rule. True.5. I love thee not. before the 16th century, has now become I do not love you. This means the change in negation rule. True.6. The English pronoun our has experienced a proces

26、s of simplification from Old English. True.7. The word fridge is a loan word. False.8. The word walkman is a blend. False.9. The word mike is a clipped word. True.10. The word videophone is an acronym. False.11. UNESCO is a blend. False.12. The word quake is the result of back-formation. False.13. I

27、SBN means International Standard Book Number. True.14. The word baby-sit is a word from back-formation. True.15. The word question is a word borrowed from French. True.16. The word tea is a loan word from Chinese. True.17. The word education comes from Latin. True.18. The word dinner comes from Fren

28、ch. True.19. The word beer comes from German. True.20. The word meat we use now has gone through the narrowing of meaning. True.21. The word holiday has gone through the widening of meaning. True.22. The word silly used to mean happy in Old English. True.23. The use of the expressions to update, to

29、host and to check up indicates the influence of American English. True.24. Computer language is one of the sources that have influenced the English language. True.25. One possible account of the increasing use of cheap instead of cheaply in He got it cheap. is that of the theory of least effort. Tru

30、e.26. The expression Its me is Not acceptable in English. False.Chapter 8:1. The term diglossia was first used by Ferguson in 1959. True.2. Pidgins came from a blending of a few languages. True.3. A typical example of a bilingual community is an ethnic ghetto where most of the inhabitants are either immigrants or children of immigrants. True.4. Different styles of the same language can be revealed through differences at syntactic, lexical and phonological levels. True.5. One of the most important features of bili