英语语言学试题A卷及答案(重庆三峡学院)

英语语言学试题A卷及答案（重庆三峡学院） 　　I. Define the following linguistic terms：（2%×10=20%） 　　1） duality                            2） displacement                           3） phonology   　　4） morphology           5） concord　                      6） endocentric construction 　　7） hyponymy                      8） pragmatics　　            9） illocutionary force                           10)    error analysis 　　II. Translation （0.5%×20=10%） 　　Translate the following terms into Chinese：（0.5%×10=5%） 　　1） affricate        　               2）distinctive feature　                 3） parole         　　4） generative grammar　 　　5） bilingualism            　     6） felicity condition 　　 7）　design feature　　8） denotation　　 9） labiodental　　　　         10） linguistic relativity   　　Translate the following terms into English： （0.5%×10=5%）   　　11）人际功能     　               12）　真值条件                   13）女性语域             14）音节划分　         15）结构主义 　　16）社会语言学                  17）　论元                 18）单元音      　　19）衔接    　　           20）对比分析   　　III. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the corresponding letter A， B， C or D on the answer sheet. （1%×20=20%）   　　1）. language is a system of arbitrary _________ symbols used for human communication. 　　 A. cultural                                                                 B. conventional 　　 C. decoded                                                                           D. vocal 　　2）. A word with several meanings is called _________. 　　A. an abnormal word                                          B. a polysemous word 　　C. a synonymous word                                      D. none of the above 　　3）. There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed” in the word “learned” is known as a（n） __________. 　　A. derivational morpheme                                  B. free morpheme 　　C. inflectional morpheme                                   D. free form 　　4）. The syntactic rules of any language are ________ in number. 　　 A. large                                                                       B. small 　　 C. finite                                                                      D. infinite 　　5）. “I picked some tulips.” __________ “I picked some flowers.”. 　　A. entails                                                            B. presupposes 　　C. is inconsistent with                              D. is synonymous with 　　6）. Y's utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maxim of __________. 　　X： Who was that you were with last night？ 　　Y： Did you know that you were wearing odd socks？ 　　A. quality            B. quantity                           C. relation                             D. manner 　　7） “Can I borrow your bike？” _____ “You have a bike.” 　　A. is synonymous with                                      B. is inconsistent with 　　C. entails                                                                      D. presupposes　　8） The study of language at one point of time is a _______ study. 　　 A. synchronic                                                             B. historic 　　 C. diachronic                                                              D. descriptive 　　9） Which of the following is a typical tone language？ 　　 A. English                                                                   B. Chinese 　　 C. French                                                                    D. All of the above 　　10） Two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in ___________. 　　 A. phonemic contrast                                       B. complementary distribution 　　 C. minimal pair                                                 D. none of the above 　　11） In terms of the place of articulation， the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of _________. 　　A. palatal　　 B. alveolar     　　C. bilabial　　               D. dental 　　12） Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by _______ in 1957. 　　A. L. Bloomfield                                                 B. N. Chomsky 　　C.　F. Saussure　　                                          D. M. A. K. Halliday 　　13） Which of the following is a correct description of reference？ 　　 A. a relationship between an expression and other expressions which have the same meaning 　　 B. the set of all objects which can potentially be referred to by an expression 　　 C. a relationship between a particular object in the world and an expression used in an utterance to pick out that object 　　 D. an intra-linguistic relationship between lexical items 　　14） What is function of the sentence “How do you do’？ 　　 A. Directive                          B. Phatic             C. Informative     　D. Evocative 　　15） In the following sounds， ________is a central vowel. 　　 A. /?/　　　　 B. /u/                    C. /æ/                            　D. /з/ 　　16） Which of the following languages has the syllabic writing system？ 　　 A. Chinese                           B. Japanese                  C. English            　D. French 　　17） Which description of the meaning components of the word “father” is right？ 　　 A. [+human， +adult，-male]                                  B. [+human， -adult， +male] 　　 C. [–human， +adult， -male]                       D. [+human， +adult， +male] 　　18） Once the notion of ________ was taken into consideration， semantics spilled into pragmatics. 　　 A. meaning                                                                           B. context 　　 C. form                                                                       D. content 　　19） Black English has a number of distinctive features in its phonological， morphological and syntactic systems which are _______. 　　 A. rule-governed                                               B. systematic 　　 C. arbitrary                                                         D. both A and B 　　20） “Hot dog” with the first syllable stressed means _________. 　　 A. an overheated animal                                    B. a kind of food 　　 C. a barking dog                                                D. a dead dog   　　IV. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false：（15 pts， 1 point for each） 　　Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false：（1%×15=15%） 1)  Animal call systems are not ge