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1、 东北林业大学20112012学年第一学期2009级英语专业期末考试试题A装 订 线课程名称：英语语言学概论 班级： 学号： 姓名：考试科目：英语语言学概论 考试时间:120分钟 试卷总分:100分Part I True or False (10 points)Directions: Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False.1. Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.2. Pragmatics is dif
2、ferent from semantics in that pragmatics studies meaning not in isolation, but in context.3. Vowel sounds can be differentiated by a number of factors: the position of tongue in the mouth, the openness of the mouth, the shape of the lips, and the length of the vowels.4. Phonetically, the stress of a
3、 compound always falls on the first element, while the second element receives secondary stress.5. The meaning-distinctive function of the tone is especially important in English because English, unlike Chinese, is a typical tone language.6. In a complex sentence, the two clauses hold unequal status
4、, one subordinating the other.7. The syntactic rules of any language are finite in number, but there is no limit to the number of sentences native speakers of that language are able to produce and comprehend.8. “It is hot.” is a no-place predication because it contains no argument.9. In the sentence
5、 “Money is often said to be the root of all evil”, “root” is used in its conceptual meaning. 10. It would be impossible to give an adequate description of meaning if the context of language use was left unconsidered.Part II Multiple Choices (40 points)Directions: There are four choices following eac
6、h statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement.1. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be _. A. prescriptiveB. analytic C. descriptiveD. linguistic2. According to F. de Saussure, _ refers to the abstract linguistic system sha
7、red by all the members of a speech community. A. paroleB. performance C. langue D. Language3. A historical study of language is a _ study of language. A. synchronicB. diachronic C. prescriptiveD. comparative4. A _ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highes
8、t position. A. back B. central C. front D. middle 5. The informative function is predominantly the major-role of language, it is also called _ function in the framework of functional grammar. A. ideational B. descriptive C. prescriptive D. textual6. The sound f is _. A. voiced palatal affricate B. v
9、oiced alveolar stop C. voiceless velar fricative D. voiceless labiodental fricative7. The open syllable refers to the syllable that has no _. A. coda B. onset C. nucleus D. rhyme8. Saussure took a (n)_ view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a _ point of view. A. sociologicalpsycholog
10、ical B. psychologicalsociological C. applied pragmatic D. semantic and linguistic9. _ refers to any morpheme or combination 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. RootC. Stem D. Suffix10. The morpheme
11、“vision” in the common word “television” is a(n) _. A. bound morpheme B. bound form C. inflectional morpheme D. free morpheme11. The phrase “on the shelf” belongs to _ construction.A. endocentric B. exocentric C. subordinate D. coordinate12. “John married a blond heiress.”_ “John married a blond.”A.
12、 is synonymous with B. is inconsistent withC. entails D. presupposes13. _ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form. A. PolysemyB. Synonymy C. HomonymyD. Hyponymy 14. _ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience. A. ReferenceB. Concept C. Semantics D. Sense 15. By componential analysis, BECOME(x, ( ALIVE(x) is an explanation of _. A. die B. dead C. kill D. murder16. Endocentric construction is one whose distribution is functionally equivalent to that of oneor more of its _
