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1、安徽大学外语学院20092010学年第 1 学期及答案 英语语言学 考试试卷A卷（闭卷 时间120分钟）院/系年级专业姓名学号题 号一二三四五六七总分得 分第一部分 选择题I. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets. (2%X10=20%)1.Saussures distinction
2、and Chomskys are very similar, but they differ in that _.A. Saussure took a sociological view of language while Chomsky took a psychological point of viewB. Saussure took a psychological view of language while Chomsky took a sociological point of viewC. Saussure took a pragmatic view of language whi
3、le Chomsky took a semantic point of viewD. Saussure took a structural view of language while Chomsky took a pragmatic point of view2. Language is a system of _ vocal symbols used for human communication.A. unnatural B. artificial C. superficial D. arbitrary3. We are born with the ability to acquire
4、language, _.A. and the details of any language system are genetically transmitteB. therefore, we neednt learn the details of our mother tongueC. but the details of language have to be learnt.D. and the details are acquired by instinct4. A(n)_ is a phonological unit of distinctive value. It is a coll
5、ection of distinctive phonetic features.A. phone B. allophone C. phoneme D. sound5. The morpheme ed in the word “worked” is a(n) _ morpheme.A. derivational B. inflectional C. free D. word-forming6. WH-movement is _ in English which changes a sentence from affirmative to interrogative.A. obligatory B
6、. optional C. selectional D. arbitrary7. Naming theory, one of the oldest notions concerning meaning, was proposed by _.A. Grice B. Plato C. Saussure D. Ogden and Richards8. “John married a blond heiress.”_ “John married a blond.”A. is synonymous with B. is inconsistent with C. entails D. presuppose
7、s9. In semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is called _, which is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.A. utterance B. reference C. predication D. morpheme10. In Austins speech act theory, _ is the act of expressing the speakers intention; it is the act performed in saying somethi
8、ng.A. a perlocutionary act B. a locutionary act C. a constative act D. an illocutionary act第二部分 非选择题II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in One word only, and you are not a
9、llowed to change the letter given. (1%X10=10%)11. P_ relates the study of language to psychology. It aims to answer such questions as how the human mind works when people use language.12. A d_ study of language is a historical study; it studies the historical development of language over a period of
10、 time.13. Language is a system, which consists of two sets of structures, or two levels. At the lower level, there is a structure of meaningless sounds, which can be combined into a large number of meaningful units at the higher level. This design feature is called d_.14. The articulatory apparatus
11、of a human being is contained in three important areas: the pharyngeal cavity, the o_ cavity and the nasal cavity.15. The localization of cognitive and perceptual functions in a particular hemisphere of the brain is called l_.16. S_ features such as stress, tone and intonation can influence the inte
12、rpretation of meaning.17. Phrase structure rules can generate an infinite number of sentences, and sentences with infinite length, due to their r_ properties.18. H_ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.19. Some important mission
13、s of historical linguists are to identify and classify families of related languages in a genealogical family tree, and to reconstruct the p_, the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist.20. In Sociolinguistics, speakers are treated as members of social groups. The social group i
14、solated for any given study is called the speech c_.III. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. (2%X10=20%)( ) 21. Linguists believe that whatever occurs in the language people use should be described and analyzed in their investigation.( ) 22. Language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between words and what these words actually refer
