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1、-第2学期期末考试（B）卷 课程名称 英语语言学概论 任课教师签名 程建山 出题教师签名 程建山 审题教师签名 王婉华考试方式 （闭）卷 合用专业 级英语专业 考试时间 （120）分钟题号IIIIIIIVV总分得分评卷人I. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the ANS
2、WER SHEET. (2%10=20%)1. According to Saussure, _ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, the set of conventions and rules which language users all have to abide by.A. language B. langueC. parole D. competence2. Vowels can be classified in terms of ea
3、ch of the following ways EXCEPT _.A. position of the tongue B. openness of the mouthC. manner of articulation D. shape of the lips3. In terms of manner of articulation, the English consonants s and z are classified as _.A. liquidsB. affricatesC. stopsD. fricatives4. There are _ morphemes in the word
4、 “frightening.”A. 2 B. 3C. 4 D. 55. Semantically, the sentence “I regret stepping on your book” _ the sentence “I stepped on your book.”A. presupposes B. entailsC. contradicts D. is synonymous with6. According to John Austins speech act theory, a(n) _ act is the act performed by saying something.A.
5、prelocutionary B. locutionaryC. illocutionary D. perlocutionary7. All the following words EXCEPT _ are the examples which can be used to illustrate semantic narrowing.A. aunt B. wifeC. hound D. fowl8. In many cultures, words relating to sex, sex organs, and natural bodily functions make up a larger
6、part of _ vocabulary.A. gender B. euphemismC. slang D. taboo9. Speaker A: Im out of petrol.Speaker B: Theres a garage round the corner.Speaker B is violating the maxim of _.A. quantity B. qualityC. relation D. manner10. A typical example of a _ community is an ethnic ghetto where most, if not all, o
7、f its inhabitants are either immigrants or children of immigrants.A. diglossic B. bilingualC. pidginized D. creolizedII. 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,
8、and you are not allowed to change the letter given. (1%10=10%)11. Cultural t refers to the fact that the details of the linguistic system must be learned anew by each speaker, and they are not simply biologically passed on from generation to generation.12. The phonemic features that occur above the
9、level of the segments are called s features, which are the phonological properties of such units as the syllable, the word, and the sentence.13. D affixes are added to an existing form to create a word. This is a very common way to create new words in English.14. A c sentence contains two or more cl
10、auses, one of which is incorporated into the other.15. If we say “The baby is crying,” we must be talking about a certain baby crying in a certain situation; the word “baby” means a baby known to both the speaker and the hearer, which is the r of the word “baby” in this particular situation.16. The
11、relationship between the words in such pairs as “buy” and “by,” “stationary” and“stationery” can be labeled as h_.17. In an a process, successive sounds are made identical, or more similar, to one another in terms of place or manner of articulation, or of haplology.18. In sociolinguistic studies, a
12、pidginized dialect may expand and eventually become the native language of a certain population, which is known as c .19. A linguistic t _ refers to a word or expression that is prohibited by the “polite” society from general use.20. Speech v_ refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a s
13、peaker or group of speakers.III. Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false on the Answer Sheet. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version. (2%10=20%)21. Speech and writing
14、are the two major media of communication. In linguistic evolution, however, speech is prior to writing, therefore, the spoken language rather than the written should be given priority in modern linguistics.22. There are two ways now available to transcribe speech sounds: broad transcription and narr
15、ow transcription, of which the really required and used by popular textbook and dictionary writers is the latter.23. Prefixes are added to the beginning of stems; they modify the meaning of the stem, but do not change the part of speech of the original word.24. Compounds have different stress patterns from non-compounded word sequences. In general, the stress of a compound always falls on the second word,
