语言学教程课后答案.docx

1、语言学教程课后答案Define the following terms:1. design feature: are features that define our human languages, such as arbitrariness, duality, creativity, displacement, cultural transmission, etc.2. function: the use of language tocommunicate, to think ,etc. Language functions inclucle imformative function, i

2、nterpersonal function, performative function, interpersonal function, performative function, emotive function, phatic communion, recreational function and metalingual function.3. etic: a term in contrast with emic which originates from American linguist Pikes distinction of phonetics and phonemics.

3、Being etic mans making far too many, as well as behaviously inconsequential, differentiations, just as was ofter the case with phonetic vx. phonemic analysis in linguistics proper.4. emic: a term in contrast with etic which originates from American linguist Pikes distinction of phonetics and phonemi

4、cs. An emic set of speech acts and events must be one that is validated as meaningful via final resource to the native members of a speech communith rather than via qppeal to the investigators ingenuith or intuition alone.5. synchronic: a kind of description which takes a fixed instant(usually, but

5、not necessarily, the present),as its point of observation. Most grammars are of this kind.6. diachronic: study of a language is carried through the course of its history.7. prescriptive: the study of a language is carried through the course of its history.8. prescriptive: a kind of linguistic study

6、in which things are prescribed how ought to be, i.e. laying down rules for language use.9. descriptive: a kind of linguistic study in which things are just described.10. arbitrariness: one design feature of human language, which refers to the face that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural r

7、elationship to their meaning.11. duality: one design feature of human language, which refers to the property of having two levels of are composed of elements of the secondary. level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization.12. displacement: one design feature of human langua

8、ge, which means human language enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present c in time and space, at the moment of communication.13. phatic communion: one function of human language, which refers to the social interaction of language.14. metalanguage: certain kin

9、ds of linguistic signs or terms for the analysis and description of particular studies.15. macrolinguistics: he interacting study between language and language-related disciplines such as psychology, sociology, ethnograph, science of law and artificial intelligence etc. Branches of macrolinguistics

10、include psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, etc.16. competence: language users underlying knowledge about the system of rules.17. performance: the actual use of language in concrete situation.18. langue: the linguistic competence of the speaker.19. parole: the actual ph

11、enomena or data of linguistics (utterances).20. Articulatory phonetics: the study of production of speechsounds.21. Coarticulation: a kind of phonetic process in which simultaneous or overlapping articulations are involved. Coarticulation can be further divided into anticipatory coarticulation and p

12、erseverative coarticulation.22. Voicing: pronouncing a sound (usually a vowel or a voiced consonant) by vibrating the vocal cords.23. Broad and narrow transcription: the use of a simple set of symbols in transcription is called broad transcription; while, the use of more specific symbols to show mor

13、e phonetic detail is referred to as narrow transcription.24. Consonant: are sound segments produced by constricting or obstructing the vocal tract at some place to divert, impede, or completely shut off the flow of air in the oral cavity.25. Phoneme: the abstract element of sound, identified as bein

14、g distinctive in a particular language.26. Allophone: any of the different forms of a phoneme(e.g. is an allophone of /t/in English. When /t/occurs in words like step, it is unaspirated .Both and are allophones of the phoneme /t/.27. Vowel: are sound segments produced without such obstruction, so no

15、 turbulence of a total stopping of the air can be perceived.28. Manner of articulation; in the production of consonants, manner of articulation refers to the actual relationship between the articulators and thus the way in which the air passes through certain parts of the vocal tract.29. Place of ar

16、ticulation: in the production of consonants, place of articulation refers to where in the vocal tract there is approximation, narrowing, or the obstruction of air.30. Distinctive features: a term of phonology, i.e. a property which distinguishes one phoneme from another.31. Complementary distributio

17、n: the relation between two speech sounds that never occur in the same environment. Allophones of the same phoneme are usually in complementary distribution.32. IPA: the abbreviation of International Phonetic Alphabet, which is devised by the International Phonetic Association in 1888 then it has un

18、dergone a number of revisions. IPA is a comprised system employing symbols of all sources, such as Roman small letters, italics uprighted, obsolete letters, Greek letters, diacritics, etc.33. Suprasegmental: suprasegmental features are those aspects of speech that involve more than single sound segm

19、ents. The principal supra-segmental features are syllable, stress, tone, and intonation.34. Suprasegmental: aspects of speech that involve more than single sound segments. The principle suprasegmental features are syllable, stress, tone, and intonation.第三章1. morpheme: the smallest unit of language i

20、n terms of relationship between expression and content, a unit that cannot be divided into further small units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical.2 .compound : oly morphemic words which consist wholly of free morphemes, such as classroom, bla

21、ckboard, snow-white, etc.3. inflection: the manifestation of grammatical relationship through the addition of inflectional affixes, such as number, person, finiteness, aspect and case, which do not change the grammatical class of the stems to which they are attached.4. affix: the collective term for

22、 the type of formative that can be used only when added to another morpheme(the root or stem).5. derivation: different from compounds, derivation shows the relation between roots and affixes.6. root: the base from of a word that cannot further be analyzed without total lass of identity.7. allomorph:

23、 any of the different form of a morpheme. For example, in English the plural mortheme is but it is pronounced differently in different environments as /s/in cats, as /z/ in dogs and as/iz/ in classes. So /s/, /z/, and /iz/ are all allomorphs of the plural morpheme.8 Stem: any morpheme or combination

24、 of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added.9. bound morpheme: an element of meaning which is structurally dependent on the world it is added to, e.g. the plural morpheme in “dogs”.10. free morpheme: an element of meaning which takes the form of an independent word.11. lexeme: A separa

25、te unit of meaning, usually in the form of a word(e.g. “dog in the manger”)12. lexicon: a list of all the words in a language assigned to various lexical categories and provided with semantic interpretation.13. grammatical word: word expressing grammatical meanings, such conjunction, prepositions, a

26、rticles and pronouns.14. lexical word: word having lexical meanings, that is ,those which refer to substance, action and quality, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and verbs.16. open-class: a word whose membership is in principle infinite or unlimited, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and many adve

27、rbs.17. blending: a relatively complex form of compounding, in which two words are blended by joining the initial part of the first word and the final part of the second word, or by joining the initial parts of the two words.18. loanword: a process in which both form and meaning are borrowed with on

28、ly a slight adaptation, in some cases, to eh phonological system of the new language that they enter.19. loanblend: a process in which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed.20. leanshift: a process in which the meaning is borrowed, but the form is native.

29、21. acronym: is made up form the first letters of the name of an organization, which has a heavily modified headword.22. loss: the disappearance of the very sound as a morpheme in the phonological system.23. back-formation: an abnormal type of word-formation where a shorter word is derived by deleti

30、ng an imagined affix from a long form already in the language.24. assimilation: the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound, which is more specifically called. “contact” or “contiguous” assimilation.25. dissimilation: the influence exercised. By one sound segment upon the

31、 articulation of another, so that the sounds become less alike, or different.26. folk etymology: a change in form of a word or phrase, resulting from an incorrect popular nation of the origin or meaning of the term or from the influence of more familiar terms mistakenly taken to be analogous.60. cat

32、egory: parts of speech and function, such as the classification of words in terms of parts of speech, the identification of terms of parts of speech, the identification of functions of words in term of subject, predicate, etc.61. concord: also known as agreement, is the requirement that the forms of two or more words in a syntactic relationship should agree with each other in terms of some categories.62. syntagmatic relation between one item and others in a sequence, or betwee