1、Quizforlinguistics习题集汇总整编含规范标准答案Quiz for linguistics:Chapter 1: Linguistics and Language语言和语言学1. Which of the following is the most important function of language?a. Interpersonal function b. Performative functionc. Informative function d. Recreational function2. _ studies speech sounds, including t
2、he production of speech, the sounds of speech, the description and classification of speech sounds, words and connected speech, etc.a. Phonology b. Phonetics c. Morphology d. Pragmatics3. _ function refers to expressions that help define and maintain interpersonal relations.a. Performative b. Interp
3、ersonal c. Phatic d. Metalingual4. _ means the property of having two levels of structures, such that units of the primary level are composed of elements of the secondary level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization.a. Creativity b. Duality c. Arbitrariness d. Displacement
4、5. By _ it means that language can be used to refer to things which are present or not present, real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future, or in far-away places.a. arbitrariness b. duality c. creativity d. displacement6. _ distinguishes the linguistic competence of the speaker and the
5、 actual production of speeches.a. Chomsky b. Saussure c. Gilman d. Brown7. _ refers to the actual use of language in concrete situations.a. Competence b. Performance c. Eloquence d. Action8. _ is the study of the characteristics of language varieties, the characteristics of their functions and the c
6、haracteristics of their speakers as these three constantly interact and change within a speech community.a. Psycholinguistics b. Sociolinguistics c. Anthropological linguistics d. Computational linguistics9. _ studies the rules governing the combination of words into sentences.a. Pragmatics b. Seman
7、tics c. Syntax d. Phonetics10. _ is a branch of linguistics concerned in principle with the physical representation of language or linguistic processes in the brain.a. Anthropological linguistics b. Psychological linguisticsc. Computational linguistics d. Neurolinguistics11. The study of how sounds
8、are put together and used to convey meaning in communication is _ (大纲样题)a. morphology b. general linguistics c. phonology d. semantics12. Syntax is the study of _. (2005年真题)a. language function b. sentence structures c. textual organization d. word formation13. Which of the following is NOT a distin
9、ctive feature of human language? (2005年真题)a. arbitrariness b. productivity c. cultural transmission d. finiteness14. The distinction between parole and langue was made by _. (2006年真题)a. Halliday b. Chomsky c. Bloomfield d. Saussure15. _ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the
10、rules of word formation. (2007年真题)a. Phonology b. Morphology c. Semantics d. Sociolinguistics16. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language? (2008年真题)a. Arbitrariness b. Displacement c. Duality d. Diachronicity17. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and
11、production is _. (2009年真题)a. corpus linguistics b. sociolinguistics c. theoretical linguistics d. pysholinguistics18. Language is a tool of communication. The symbol “Highway Closed” on a highway serves _. (2010年真题)a. an expressive function. b. an informative function.c. a performative function. d.
12、a persuasive function.19. _ is defined as the study of the relationship between language and mind. (2011年真题)a. Semantics b. Pragmatics c. Cognitive linguistics d. Sociolinguistics20. Saussure distinguishes the linguistic competence of the speaker as _a. parole b. language c. system d. langue语音学1. _
13、is the study of the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech.a. Acoustic phonetics b. Articulatory phoneticsc. Auditory phonetics d. Pragmatics2. When _ is produced, complete closure of the articulators is involved so that the airstream cannot escape through the mouth.a. fricative b. sto
14、p c. affricate d. lateral3. In the production of vowels, air is _ as is the case with consonants.a. not obstructed b. obstructed c. semi-obstructed d. half-obstructed4. The idea of establishing a phonetic alphabet was first proposed by the _ grammarian Otto Jespersen in 1886.a. English b. American c
15、. Danish d. French5. The present system of the IPA derives mainly from one developed in the _ by the British phonetician, Daniel Jones and his colleagues at University of London.a. 1910s b. 1920s c. 1930s d. 1940s6. To be specific, _ deals with how speech sounds are produced.a. articulatory phonetic
16、s b. acoustic phonetics c. auditory phonetics d. phonological phonetics7. All the following are the description of P EXCEPT _.a. stop b. bilabial c. alveolar d. consonant8. If a single movement from one element to a second element of the tongue is involved, the combine vowels are called _.a. monopht
17、hongs b. triphthongs c. cardinal vowels d. diphthongs9. The most famous cardinal vowel system put forward by Daniel Jones defines _ primary cardinal vowels.a. 7 b. 8 c. 9 d. 1010. The followings belong to affricates EXCEPT _.a. ts b. l c. D d. tr11. According to the part of the tongue which is raise
18、d, the vowels can be divided into the following three kinds, EXCEPT for _.a. front b. middle c. central d. back12. A vowel is different from a consonant in English because of _. (2011年真题)a. absence of obstruction b. presence of obstructionc. manner of articulation d. place of articulation13. If the
19、air stream meets with no obstruction when a sound is pronounced, it is a(n) _.a. voiced consonant b. voiceless consonant c. vowel d. explosive14. The internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription is _.a. I.P.A b. I.A.P.S c. I.S.S d. S.S.I.P音位学1. _ refers to two words in a language which
20、differ from each other by only one distinctive sound (one phoneme) and which also differ in meaning.a. Ahoneme b. A minimal pair c. Allophone d. Free variation2. Phonology is the study of _.a. how speech sounds are made b. the sound system of languagesc. speech sounds are transmitted d. how speech s
21、ounds are received3. The following are the principle suprasegmental features EXCEPT _.a. syllable b. stress c. tone d. phoneme4. Which aspect does NOT belong to the phonological process?a. A set of sounds to undergo the processb. A set of sounds produced by the processc. The length of the sounds in
22、the processd. A set of situations in which the process applies5. _ refers to the sound which is capable of distinguishing one word or one shape of word from another in a given language.a. Phone b. Allophone c. Phoneme d. Morpheme6. The open syllable refers to the syllable that has no _.a. coda b. on
23、set c. nucleus d. rhyme7. The meaning-distinctive function of the tone is especially important in what we call tone languages. Which of the following is tone language?a. English b. Chinese c. both English and Chinese d. Neither English nor Chinese8. If two phonetically similar sounds are two distinc
24、tive phonemes, they are said to form a _.a. minimal pair b. complementary distributionc. phonemic contrast d. minimal set9. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature in English phonology?a. aspiration b. plosiveness c. bilabiality d. voicelessness形态学1. _ is a unit that cannot be divided in
25、to smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical.a. Phoneme b. Morpheme c. Lexeme d. Phone2. The words such as dog, nation and close are _.a. affixes b. free morphemes c. bound morphemes d. compounds3. The words such as “smog” and ”brunch”
26、 are called _.a. abbreviation b. acronym c. back-formation d. blending4. For example, the word bead originally means “prayer”, but later it refers to “the prayer bead”, and finally “small, ball-shaped piece of glass, metal or wood”. It is called _.a. meaning shift b. broadening c. narrowing d. borro
27、wing5. “Kodak” is a/an _.a. acronym b. blending c. coinage d. clipping6. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are _.a. grammatical wordsb. lexical wordsc. both grammatical words and lexical wordsd. neither grammatical words nor lexical words7. Pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and articles are
28、_.a. open-class wordsb. closed-class wordsc. both open-class words and closed wordsd. neither open-class nor closed-class words 8. In terms of _, words can be divided into closed-class words and open-class words.a. meaning b. variability c. quality d. membership9. _ refers to any morphemes or combin
29、ation of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added. It can be equivalent to a root, or a root and a derivational affix.a. affix b. root c. stem d. suffix10. In the following words foot/feet, goose/geese, the affixes belong to _.a. suffix b. infix c. prefix d. root 11. Which of the follow
30、ing is NOT a compound word? (大纲样题)a. Landlady b. Greenhouse c. Uplift d. Unacceptable12. The word holiday originally meant “holy day”; but now the word signifies “any day on which we dont have to work”. This is an example of _. (大纲样题)a. meaning shift b. widening of meaningc. narrowing of meaning d. loss of meaning13. The word “motel” comes from “motor + hotel”. This is a
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