语言学选择题附答案.docx

1、语言学选择题附答案语言学1._A_ is the study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.A. Phonology B. Lexicography C. Lexicology D. Morphology2. _C_ is defined as the scientific study of language, studying language in

2、 general.A. Psycholinguistics B. Neurolinguistics C. Linguistics D. Phonetics3. Which of the linguistic items listed below is best described as the smallest unit of meaning? B A. the word B. the morpheme C. the phoneme D. the clause4. A prefix is an affix which appears _B_.A. after the stem B. befor

3、e the stem C. in the middle of the stem D. below the stem 5. Which of the following is true? _C_A. Phonetics is the study of pronunciation. B. Phonetics is the scientific study of the movement of sound waves. C. Phonetics is the scientific study of the sounds of language. D. Phonetics is the scienti

4、fic study of the organs of speech.6. “Whats in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,” (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2, 435)To what characteristic of language dose Shakespeare refer? _D_ A. Creativity B. Productivity C. Du

5、ality D. Arbitrariness7. Language, as a system, consists of two sets of structures or two levels, which is known as _A_, one of a design features of human language. A. Duality B. Displacement C. Productivity D. Arbitrariness 8. The different members of a phoneme, sounds which are phonetically differ

6、ent but do not make one word different from another in meaning, are _D_. A. phonemes B. phones C. sounds D. allophones9. What is complementary distribution? _A_ A. Different places of occurrence of allophones within a word. B. When a phone can only occur at the end of a word. C. When an allophone oc

7、curs at the beginning of a word. D. Contrastive distribution of allophones10. _D_ deals with the analysis and creation of words, idioms and collocations. A. Morpheme B. Vocabulary C. Root D. Lexicon1. Cold and hot are called _B_ antonyms. A. complementary B. gradable C. reversal D. converse2. “I reg

8、ret that I cant help you.” This is an example of _C_. A. representatives B. directivesC. expressives D. commissives3. What is the duality of the language? _D_ A. Letters and sounds B. Sounds and symbolsC. Symbols and meaning D. sounds and meaning4. “I bought some roses” _A_ “I bought some flowers”.

9、A. entails B. presupposes C. is inconsistent with D. is synonymous with5. Of the following linguists, _C_ should be grouped into Prague School. A. Bloomfield B. SaussureC. Jakobson D. Firth6. Damage in and around the angular gyrus of the parietal lobe often causes the impairment of reading and writi

10、ng ability, which is often referred to as acquired _C_. A. diglossia B. aphasiaC. dyslexia D. dysgraphia 7. _A_ A Dictionary of the English Language established a uniform standard for the spelling and word use. A. Samuel Johnsons B. Bishop Lowths C. Firths D. Samuel Johns8. What is phonology? _B_ A.

11、 The study of how speech sounds are made, transmitted and received B. The study of the function, behavior and organization of speech sounds as linguistic items. C. The study of the International Phonetic Alphabet. D. The study of all possible speech sounds. 9. The morpheme “cast” in the common word

12、“telecast” is a (n) _D_. A. bound morpheme B. bound form C. inflectional morpheme D. free morpheme10. A phoneme is _D_. A. a set of different realization of a phone B. a set of contrastive allophones in free variation C. a set of phones in complementary distribution D. a set of phonetically similar

13、noncontrastive phones 1. Firstly, to which of these language groups dose English belong? _A_ A. Germanic B. Slavonic C. romance D. Baltic2. What is defined as “the study of sentence structure”? _D_ A. Morphology B. SemanticsC. Phonology D. Syntax3. According to Krashen, _D_ refers to the gradual and

14、 subconscious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally in daily communicative situations. A. learning B. competenceC. performance D. acquisition4. There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed” in the word “learned” is known as a(n) _C_. A. derivational m

15、orpheme B. free morpheme C. inflectional morpheme D. free form5. _C_ studies the total stock of morphemes of a language, especially those items which have clear semantic references. A. Phonology B. LexicologyC. Morphology D. Lexicography6. As a type of linguistic system in L2 learning, _A_ is a prod

16、uct of L2 training, mother tongue interference, overgeneralization of the target language rules, and learning and communicative strategies of the learner. A. interlanguage B. interferenceC. language transfer D. linguistic relativity7. _A_ means the lack of a logical connection between the form of so

17、mething and its expression in sounds. A. Arbitrariness B. Abstractness C. Ambiguity D. Fuzziness8. The term _B_ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages. A. synchronic B. diachronicC.

18、comparative D. historical comparative 9. When a speech sound changes and becomes more like another sound that follows or precedes it, it is said to be _D_. A. nasalized B. voiced C. aspirated D. assimilated10. F. de Saussure is a (n) _C_ linguist. A. American B. British C. Swiss D. Russian1. N. Chom

19、sky is a (n) _A_ linguist. A. American B. CanadaC. Swiss D. French2. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis has two thrusts: _B_ and _. A. Linguistic description, Linguistic determinism B. Linguistic determinism, Linguistic relativity C. Linguistic relativity, Linguistic description D. Linguistic determinism, L

20、inguistic performance3. A special language variety that mixes or blends languages and used by people who speak different language for restricted purpose is _A_. A. pidigin B. creoleC. dialect D. blends4. By _B_, we refer to word forms which differ from each other only by one sound, e.g. “pin” and “b

21、in”. A. complementally distribution B. minimal pair C. Adjacency pair D. codeswitching5. When two sounds never occur in the same environment they said to be in _A_. A. complementary distribution B. free variation C. co-occurrence D. minimal pair6. _D_ century is considered to be the beginning of Mod

22、ern English. A. 18th B. 17thC. 19th D. 16th7. Conventionally a _B_ is put in slashes. A. allophone B. phoneme C. phone D. morpheme8. _D_ is a principle of scientific method, based on the belief that the only things valid enough to confirm or refute o scientific theory are interpersonally observable

23、phenomena, rather than peoples introspections or intuitions. A. Mentalism B. Functional grammar C. Case grammar D. Behaviorism9. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called _C_. A. expressives B. directives C. commisiv

24、es D. declaratives*10. A _C_ is often seen as part of a word, but it can never stand by itself although it bears clear, definite meaning. A. morpheme B. wordC. root D. phoneme1. Linguistics is the scientific study of _C_. A. a particular language B. the English languageC. human language in general D

25、. the system of a particular language2. _A_ is the language that a learner constructs at a given stage of SLA. A. Interlanguage B. IdeologyC. Dialect D. Interference3. Phonological rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language are called _ B_ rule. A. Deletion B. SequentialC.

26、superasegmental D. Assimilation4. “There is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to”. This is the _B_ view concerning the study of meaning. A. naming theory B. conceptualistC. contextualist D. behaviorist5. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, e

27、tc. , in terms of _A_. A. manner of articulation B. openness of mouthC. place of articulation D. voicing6. According to Chomsky, _A_ is the ideal users internalized knowledge of his language. A. competence B. paroleC. performance D. langue7. _A_ is not a suprasegmental feature. A. Aspiration B. Into

28、nationC. Stress D. Tone8. _A_ is a phenomenon that L2 learners subconsciously use their L1language in their learning process. A. Language transfer B. BlendingC. Interference D. Cooperative9. _C_ are affixes added to an existing form to create a new word, e.g. in-,-er. A. inflectional morpheme B. fre

29、e morphemeC. derivational morpheme D. root10. Writing is the secondary language form based on _B_. A. sound B. speech C. gesture D. sign1. _C_ covers the study of language use in relation to context, and in particular the study of linguistic communication. A. Semantics B. SociolinguisticsC. Pragmati

30、cs D. Linguistics2. Morphemes that represent “tense”, “number”, “gender”, “case” and so on are called _A_ morphemes. A. inflectional B. freeC. bound D. derivational 3. Which of the following is not a compound word? _C_ A. clearway B. rainbowC. scarcity D. without4. The fact that ability to speak a l

31、anguage is transmitted from generation to generation by process of learning, and not genetically is referred to as _A_. A. culture transmission B. performanceC. competence D. acquisition5. _C_ is the language of Angles, Saxons and Jutes who invaded Britain after AD 450. A. Old Norse B. CleticC. Old English D. Middle English6. A group of two or more consonants together in a syllable is called a (n) _C_. A. arresting cluster B. releasing clusterC. consonant cluster D. syllable7. The semantic features