22春《英语语言学》作业1题目

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 12 道试题,共 60 分)

1.The ________ rules are the rules that group words and phrases to form grammatical sentences.

A.lexical

B.morphological

C.linguistic

D.combinational

2.The syntactic rules of any language are ____ in number.

A.large

B.small

C.finite

D.infinite

3.According to F. de Saussure, _______ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.

A.parole

B.performance

C.langue

D.Language

4.The sound /f/ is _________________.

A.voiced palatal affricate

B.voiced alveolar stop

C.voiceless velar fricative

D.voiceless labiodental fricative

5.The initial step in understanding any message is ___

A.the recognition of words

B.lexical ambiguity

C.syntactic processing

D.sentence memory

6.____ occurs when a word is spoken earlier in the sentence than it should be.

A.Spoonerism

B.Anticipation error

C.Exchange error

D.Morpheme-exchange error

7._______ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.

A.Prefixes

B.Suffixes

C.Roots

D.Affixes

8.“Alive” and “dead” are ______________.

A.gradable antonyms

B.relational opposites

C.complementary antonyms

D.None of the above

9.__________ is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance.

A.A locutionary act

B.An illocutionary act

C.A perlocutionary act

D.A performative act

10.___, proposed by D.Wilkins and J.A.van Ek, has received considerable attention since the 70s.

A.Structural syllabus

B.Situational syllabus

C.Notional-functional syllabus

D.Communicative syllabus

11.___________ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form.

A.Polysemy

B.Synonymy

C.Homonymy

D.Hyponymy

12.Which of the following is true?

A.Utterances usually do not take the form of sentences

B.Some utterances cannot be restored to complete sentences

C.No utterances can take the form of sentences

D.All utterances can be restored to complete sentences.

二、判断题 (共 8 道试题,共 40 分)

13.Linguistic research aims at the learner＇s mastery of language, whereas language teaching is concerned with the establishment of theories which explains the phenomena of language.

14.The meaning of a sentence is the sum total of the meanings of all its components.

15.Firth got his BA in Chinese language and literature at London University in 1947.

16.The comprehension process involves parsing, i.e. working out the grammatical structure of the sentence.

17.Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.

18.Sapir-Whorf Hypotheses are developed from the experience and study of Hopi.

19.In semantics, meaning of language is considered as the intrinsic and inherent relation to the physical world of experience.

20.The Classic Theory deals with how semantics should be studied in a linguistics theory.