1、胡壮麟 语言学教程（修订版）测试题 Chapter 1 Introductions to Linguistics I. Choose the best answer. (20%) 1. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human _ A. contact B. communication C. relation D. community 2. Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary? A. tree B. typewriter C. crash D.
2、bang 3. The function of the sentence Water boils at 100 degrees Centigrade. is _ errogative B. directive C. informative D. performative 4. In Chinese when someone breaks a bowl or a plate the host or the people present are likely to say碎碎（岁岁）平安 as a means of controlling the forces which they believe
3、s feel might affect their lives. Which functions does it perform? A. Interpersonal B. Emotive C. Performative D. Recreational 5. Which of the following property of language enables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, due to this feature of language, speakers of a langua
4、ge are free to talk about anything in any situation? A. Transferability B. Duality C. Displacement D. Arbitrariness 6. Study the following dialogue. What function does it play according to the functions of language? A nice day, isnt it? Right! I really enjoy the sunlight. A. Emotive B. Phatic C. Per
5、formative D. Interpersonal 7. _ refers to the actual realization of the ideal language users knowledge of the rules of his language in utterances. A. Performance B. Competence C. Langue D. Parole 8. When a dog is barking, you assume it is barking for something or at someone that exists hear and now.
6、 It couldnt be sorrowful for some lost love or lost bone. This indicates the design feature of _. A. cultural transmission B. productivity C. displacement D. duality 9. _ answers such questions as how we as infants acquire our first language. A. Psycholinguistics B.Anthropological linguistics C. Soc
7、iolinguistics D. Applied linguistics 10. _ deals with language application to other fields, particularly education. A. Linguistic theory B. Practical linguistics C. Applied linguistics D. Comparative linguistics II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. (10%) 11. Language is a m
8、eans of verbal communication. Therefore, the communication way used by the deaf-mute is not language. 12. Language change is universal, ongoing and arbitrary. 13. Speaking is the quickest and most efficient way of the human communication systems. 14. Language is written because writing is the primar
9、y medium for all languages. 15.We were all born with the ability to acquire language, which means the details of any language system can be genetically transmitted. 16. Only human beings are able to communicate. 17. F. de Saussure, who made the distinction between langue and parole in the early 20th
10、 century, was a French linguist. 18. A study of the features of the English used in Shakespeares time is an example of the diachronic study of language. 19. Speech and writing came into being at much the same time in human history. 20.All the languages in the world today have both spoken and written
11、 forms. III. Fill in the blanks. (10%) 21. Language, broadly speaking, is a means of _ communication. 22. In any language words can be used in new ways to mean new things and can be combined into innumerable sentences based on limited rules. This feature is usually termed _. 23.Language has many fun
12、ctions. We can use language to talk about itself. This function is _. 24.Theory that primitive man made involuntary vocal noises while performing heavy work has been called the _ theory. 25. Linguistics is the _ study of language. 26. Modern linguistics is _ in the sense that the linguist tries to d
13、iscover what language is rather than lay down some rules for people to observe. 27. One general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of _ over writing. 28. The description of a language as it changes through time is a _ study. 29. Saussure put forward two important concepts. _ refers to t
14、he abstract linguistic system shared by all members of a speech community. 30. Linguistic potential is similar to Saussures langue and Chomskys _. Chapter 2 Speech Sounds I. Choose the best answer. (20%) 1. Pitch variation is known as _ when its patterns are imposed on sentences. A. intonation B. to
15、ne C. pronunciation D. voice 2. Conventionally a _ is put in slashes (/ /). A. allophone B. phone C. phoneme D. morpheme 3. An aspirated p, an unaspirated p and an unreleased p are _ of the p phoneme. A. analogues B. tagmemes C. morphemes D. allophones 4. The opening between the vocal cords is somet
16、imes referred to as_. A. glottis B. vocal cavity C. pharynx D. uvula 5. The diphthongs that are made with a movement of the tongue towards the center are known as _ diphthongs. A. wide B. closing C. narrow D. centering 6. A phoneme is a group of similar sounds called _. A. minimal pairs B. allomorph
17、s C. phones D. allophones 7. Which branch of phonetics concerns the production of speech sounds? A. Acoustic phonetics B. Articulatory phonetics C. Auditory phonetics D. None of the above 8. Which one is different from the others according to places of articulation? A. n B. m C. b D. p 9. Which vowe
18、l is different from the others according to the characteristics of vowels? A. i: B. u C. e D. i 10. What kind of sounds can we make when the vocal cords are vibrating? A. Voiceless B. Voiced C. Glottal stop D. Consonant II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. (10%) 11. Suprase
19、gmental phonology refers to the study of phonological properties of units larger than the segment-phoneme, such as syllable, word and sentence. 12. The air stream provided by the lungs has to undergo a number of modification to acquire the quality of a speech sound. 13. Two sounds are in free variat
20、ion when they occur in the same environment and do not contrast, namely, the substitution of one for the other does not produce a different word, but merely a different pronunciation. 14.p is a voiced bilabial stop. 15. Acoustic phonetics is concerned with the perception of speech sounds. 16. All sy
21、llables must have a nucleus but not all syllables contain an onset and a coda. 17. When pure vowels or monophthongs are pronounced, no vowel glides take place. 18. According to the length or tenseness of the pronunciation, vowels can be divided into tense vs. lax or long vs. short. 19.Received Pronu
22、nciation is the pronunciation accepted by most people. 20.he maximal onset principle states that when there is a choice as to where to place a consonant, it is put into the coda rather than the onset. III. Fill in the blanks. (20%) 21. Consonant sounds can be either _ or _, while all vowel sounds ar
23、e _. 22.Consonant sounds can also be made when two organs of speech in the mouth are brought close together so that the air is pushed out between them, causing _. 23. The qualities of vowels depend upon the position of the _ and the lips. 24. One element in the description of vowels is the part of t
24、he tongue which is at the highest point in the mouth. A second element is the _ to which that part of the tongue is raised. 25. Consonants differ from vowels in that the latter are produced without _. 26. In phonological analysis the words fail / veil are distinguishable simply because of the two ph
25、onemes /f/ - /v/. This is an example for illustrating _. 27. In English there are a number of _, which are produced by moving from one vowel position to another through intervening positions. 28. _ refers to the phenomenon of sounds continually show the influence of their neighbors. 29. _ is the sma
26、llest linguistic unit. 30. Speech takes place when the organs of speech move to produce patterns of sound. These movements have an effect on the _ coming from the lungs. Chapter 3 Lexicon I. Choose the best answer. (20%) 1. Nouns, verbs and adjectives can be classified as _. A. lexical words B. gram
27、matical words C. function words D. form words 2. Morphemes that represent tense, number, gender and case are called _ morpheme. A. inflectional B. free C. bound D. derivational 3. There are _ morphemes in the word denationalization. A. three B. four C. five D. six 4. In English ise and tion are call
28、ed _. A. prefixes B. suffixes C. infixes D. stems 5. The three subtypes of affixes are: prefix, suffix and _. A. derivational affix B. inflectional affix C. infix D. back-formation 6. _ _ is a way in which new words may be formed from already existing words by subtracting an affix which is thought t
29、o be part of the old word. A. affixation B. back-formation C. insertion D. addition 7. The word TB is formed in the way of _. A. acronymy B. clipping C. initialism D. blending 8. The words like comsat and sitcom are formed by _. A. blending B. clipping C. back-formation D. acronymy 9. The stem of di
30、sagreements is _. A. agreement B. agree C. disagree D. disagreement 10. All of them are meaningful except for _. A. lexeme B. phoneme C. morpheme D. allomorph II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. (10%) 11.Phonetically, the stress of a compound always falls on the first elem
31、ent, while the second element receives secondary stress. 12. Fore as in foretell is both a prefix and a bound morpheme. 13. Base refers to the part of the word that remains when all inflectional affixes are removed. 14. In most cases, prefixes change the meaning of the base whereas suffixes change t
32、he word-class of the base. 15.Conversion from noun to verb is the most productive process of a word. 16. Reduplicative compound is formed by repeating the same morpheme of a word. 17. The words whimper, whisper and whistle are formed in the way of onomatopoeia. 18.In most cases, the number of syllab
33、les of a word corresponds to the number of morphemes. 19. Back-formation is a productive way of word-formations. 20.Inflection is a particular way of word-formations. III. Fill in the blanks. (20%) 21. An _ is pronounced letter by letter, while an _ is pronounced as a word. 22. Lexicon, in most case
34、s, is synonymous with _. 23. Orthographically, compounds are written in three ways: _, _ and_. 24. All words may be said to contain a root _. 25. A small set of conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns belong to _ class, while the largest part of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs belongs to _ clas
35、s. 26. _ is a reverse process of derivation, and therefore is a process of shortening. 27. _ is extremely productive, because English had lost most of its inflectional endings by the end of Middle English period, which facilitated the use of words interchangeably as verbs or nouns, verbs or adjectiv
36、es, and vice versa. 28. Words are divided into simple, compound and derived words on the _ level. 29. A word formed by derivation is called a _, and a word formed by compounding is called a _. 30. Bound morphemes are classified into two types: _ and _. Chapter 4 Syntax I. Choose the best answer. (20
37、%) 1. The sentence structure is _. A. only linear B. only hierarchical C. complex D. both linear and hierarchical 2. The syntactic rules of any language are _ in number. A. large B. small C. finite D. infinite 3. The _ rules are the rules that group words and phrases to form grammatical sentences. A
38、. lexical B. morphological C. linguistic D. combinational 4.A sentence is considered _ when it does not conform to the grammatical knowledge in the mind of native speakers. A. right B. wrong C. grammatical D. ungrammatical 5. A _ in the embedded clause refers to the introductory word that introduces
39、 the embedded clause. A. coordinator B. particle C. preposition D. subordinator 6. Phrase structure rules have _ properties. A. recursive B. grammatical C. social D. functional 7. Phrase structure rules allow us to better understand _. A. how words and phrases form sentences. B. what constitutes the
40、 grammaticality of strings of words C. how people produce and recognize possible sentences D. all of the above. 8. The head of the phrase the city Rome is _. A. the city B. Rome C. city D. the city Rome 9. The phrase on the shelf belongs to _ construction. A. endocentric B. exocentric C. subordinate
41、 D. coordinate 10. The sentence They were wanted to remain quiet and not to expose themselves. is a _ sentence. A. simple B. coordinate C. compound D. complex II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. (10%) 11. Universally found in the grammars of all human languages, syntactic
42、rules that comprise the system of internalized linguistic knowledge of a language speaker are known as linguistic competence. 12. 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 compre
43、hend. 13. In a complex sentence, the two clauses hold unequal status, one subordinating the other. 14. Constituents that can be substituted for one another without loss of grammaticality belong to the same syntactic category. 15. Minor lexical categories are open because these categories are not fix
44、ed and new members are allowed for. 16. In English syntactic analysis, four phrasal categories are commonly recognized and discussed, namely, noun phrase, verb phrase, infinitive phrase, and auxiliary phrase. 17. In English the subject usually precedes the verb and the direct object usually follows
45、the verb. 18. What is actually internalized in the mind of a native speaker is a complete list of words and phrases rather than grammatical knowledge. 19. A noun phrase must contain a noun, but other elements are optional. 20. It is believed that phrase structure rules, with the insertion of the lexicon, generate sentences at the level of D-structure.
