华中师范大学《英语语言学入门》期末考试必备题集

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156488–华中师范大学《英语语言学入门》奥鹏期末考试题库合集

单选题：
（1）Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called ( )
A.displacement
B.duality
C.flexibility
D.cultural transmission
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（2）The details of any language system is passed on from one generation to the next through ( ), rather than by instinct.
A.learning
B.teaching
C.books
D.both A and B
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（3）
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（4）The morpheme "vision" in the common word "television" is a(n) ( ) .
A.bound morpheme
B.bound form
C.inflectional morpheme
D.free morpheme
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（5）"Can I borrow your bike?" ( ) "You have a bike."
A.is synonymous with
B.is inconsistent with
C.entails
D.presupposes
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（6）The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ( ).
A.semantics
B.pragmatics
C.sociolinguistics
D.psycholinguistics
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（7）Psychologists, neurologists and linguists have concluded that, in addition to the motor area which is responsible for physical articulation of utterances, three areas of the left brain are vital to language, namely, ( ) .
A.Broca's area, Wernicke's area and the angular gyrus
B.Broca's area, Wernicke's area and cerebral cortex
C.Broca's area, Wernicke's area and neurons
D.Broca's area, Wernicke's area and Exner's area
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（8）The syntactic rules of any language are ( )in number.
A.large
B.small
C.finite
D.infinite
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（9）
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（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
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（11）The naming theory is advanced by ( ).
A.Plato
B.Bloomfield
C.Geoffrey Leech
D.Firth
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（12）“We shall know a word by the company it keeps.” This statement represents ( ).
A.the conceptualist view
B.contexutalism
C.the naming theory
D.behaviorism
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（13）( ) refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form.
A.Polysemy
B.Synonymy
C.Homonymy
D.Hyponymy
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（14）The grammaticality of a sentence is governed by ( ).
A.grammatical rules
B.selectional restrictions
C.semantic rules
D.semantic features
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（15）A sentence is a ( ) concept, and the meaning of a sentence is often studied in isolation.
A.pragmatic
B.grammatical
C.mental
D.conceptual
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（16）It is generally agreed that linguistics should include at least five parameters, namely, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and .
A.social
B.psychology
C.cultural
D.pragmatic
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（17）The study of language at one point in time is a study.
A.historical
B.synchronic
C.descriptive
D.diachronic
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（18）When a child uses “mummy” to refer to any women, most probably his “mummy” means .
A.+Human
B.+Human + Adult
C.+Human + Adult –Male
D.+Human + Adult –Male + Parent
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（19）Chomsky follows in philosophy and mentalism in psychology.
A.rationalism
B.behaviorism
C.empiricism
D.formalism
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（20）Which is not the feature of language?
A.arbitrariness
B.duality
C.creativity
D.replacement
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（21）________refers to a marginal language of few lexical items and straightforward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication.
A.Dialect
B.Idiolect
C.Pidgin
D.Register
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（22）
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（23）Lexical change cannot be a result of __ .
A.phonological change
B.semantic change
C.analogical change
D.orthographic change
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（24）Study the following dialogue. What function does it play according to the functions of language?
—A nice day, isn’t it?
— Right! I really enjoy the sunlight.
A.Emotive
B.Phatic
C.Performative
D.Interpersonal
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多选题：
（1）Which of the followings are fricatives?( )
A.[p]
B.[e]
C.[s]
D.[z]
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（2）Which of the followings are interdentals? ( )
A.[p]
B.[e]
C.[t]
D.[]
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（3）Which of the followings are alveolars ? ( )
A.[t]
B.[d]
C.[s]
D.[f]
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（4）Which of the followings are glides? ( )
A.[b]
B.[w]
C.[e]
D.[j]
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（5）Which of the followings are not nasals? ( )
A.[m]
B.[]
C.[k]
D.[v]
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（6）Which of the following is not true? ( )
A.Utterances usually do not take the form of sentences.
B.Some utterances cannot be restored to complete sentences.
C.No utterances can take the form of sentences.
D.All utterances can be restored to complete sentences.
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判断题：
（1）Father of modern linguistics is Swiss F. de Saussure.( )
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（2）
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（3）Language acquisition is a hot research topic today, and social, cultural, personal factors are also observed to be affecting.( )
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（4）Realations between meanings of words can be synonymy, antonymy or hyponymy.( )
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（5）The meaning of a sentence is always the sum total of the words in that sentence.( )
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（6）The compound word "bookstore" is the place where books are sold. This indicates that the meaning of a compound is the sum total of the meanings of its components.( )
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（7）In most bilingual communities, two languages have the same in speech situations known as domains. ( )
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（8）The meaning of a sentence is abstract, but context-dependent.
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（9）[b] is a consonant.
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（10）Chomsky put forward the term of “metalanguage” and thinks that there are three kinds of function – ideational function, interpersonal function and textual function.
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（11）Bran奥鹏期末考核ches of macrolinguistics include sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics.
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（12）Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.
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（13）The optimum age for the acquisition of the first language coincides with the period of brain lateralization.
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（14）The maxim of quantity in Cooperative Principle means to make your contribution as informative as required and do not make your contribution more informative than is required.
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（15）According to the conversational maxim of quality suggested by Grice, one should speak truthfully.
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（16）Corpus linguistics is an approach to investigate language structure and use through the analysis of large database to real language examples stored on computer.
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（17）Language is arbitrary by nature but it is not completely arbitrary.
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（18）
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论述题：
（1）List the seven functions of human languages.
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（2）How are sentence meaning and utterance meaning related, and how do they differ?
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