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1、胡壮麟语言学教程课后参考答案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 to ommunicate, to think ,etc. anguage functions inclucle imformative functi
2、on, interpersonal 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 phone
3、mics. 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 p
4、honemics. 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(usuall
5、y, but 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
6、 study 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 na
7、tural relationship 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 hum
8、an language, 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:
9、certain kinds 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 macro
10、linguistics include psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, et 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: t
11、he actual phenomena 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 coarticul
12、ation and perseverative 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; the use of a simple set of symbols in tra
13、nscription is called broad transcription; while, the use of more specific symbols to show more 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
14、flow of air in the oral cavity. 25 Phoneme:the abstract element of sound, identified as being distinctive in a particular language. 26 Allophone:any of the different forms of a phoneme(eg.is an allophone of /t/in English. When /t/occurs in words like step, it is unaspirated.Bothand are allophones of
15、 the phoneme/t/. 27 Vowl:are sound segments produced without such obstruction, so no 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
16、way in which the air passes through certain parts of the vocal tract. 29 Place of articulation: 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 distribution:the relation between tow speech sounds that never occur in the same environment. Allopho
