I. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or fal. (20%)
1. T /Concerning the origin of the first language, there are two main hypothes, or beliefs: belief in divine creation and natural evolution hypothesis. The allophones of a phoneme must bear some phonetic remblance.
婚礼风格True
2. T/ Allophones of the same phoneme are in complementary distribution. They do not distinguish meaning. They occur in different phonetic contexts.
3. T/ The allophones of a phoneme must bear some phonetic remblance
4. F/ Of the two media of language, writing is more basic than speech (反)
5. F/ The esntial difference between consonants and vowels is that in the production of consonants/vowels绿草茵茵, the airstream meets with no obstruction of any kind in the throat, the no or the mouth, while in that of the latter it is somehow obstructed.
6. Phonetics/Phonology aims to ‘discover the principles that govern the way sounds are organized in languages, and to explain the variations that occur’.
7. F /There are four 绪论和引言的区别necessity(imitation) hypothes that hold that language began through some sort of human mimicry of naturally occurring sounds or movements.
8. Nouns, verbs and adjectives are open-class items. ( 鼻贴T )
9. Allomorphs can be defined as the variant forms of a morpheme. ( T )
10. The four words “go, goes, going, gone” are related to one another by process of derivation. ( F ) inflection.
11. Roots and affixes can be free morphemes. ( F ) affixes are bound morphemes
12. F/ Language is a system of arbitrary written/vocal symbols ud for human communication.
致命的顺从13. F/ A linguist makes obrvations about language in general or about individual langua
军旅生活ges/Deletion
14. F/Grammar(Syntax) is a branch of linguistics that studies the rules that govern the formation of ntences.
15. T/Adopting the term generative from mathematics, linguist Noam Chomsky introduced the concept of generative grammar in the 1950s.
16. F/ Simply put, a generative grammar is a theory of performance/competence: a model of the psychological system of unconscious knowledge that underlies a speaker's ability to produce and interpret utterances in a language.
17. T/ A syntactic category is a t of words and/or phras in a language, which share common characteristics
18. T／The two words “borrow” and “lend” are antonyms but the two ntences “Jane lent some money to Jack” and “Jack borrowed some money from Jane” are synonymous.
19. T／ Conceptualists maintain that there is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to.
20. T／ Two ntences using the same words may mean quite differently.
21. T／The linguistic context considers the probability of one word’s co-occurrence or collocation with another.
22. T／语录歌Sen is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
23. T／A pair of complementary antonyms is characterized by the feature that the denial of one member implies the asrtion of the other.
24. F／The grammatical form of the ntence affects the mantic predication of the ntence. does not affect
25. F／ Componential analysis is bad on the belief that the meaning of a word cannot be discted into meaning components. can
26. F／Every word has a n and a reference. Not every word has a reference
27. F／“Bird” and “cuckoo” have the n relation of polymy. hyponymy
I. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement: (20%)
1. The morpheme “vision” in the common word “television” is a(n) __ D. free morpheme
2. The compound word “looking-glass” means “opposite to what is normal”. This indicates that the meaning of a compound ____D____.
A. is the sum total of the meaning of its components
B. can always be worked out by looking at the meanings of morphemes
C. is the same as the meaning of a free phra.
D. None of the above.
3. Words like pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, articles are B. clod-class items.
4. Bound morphemes do not include ___D. words
5. Which of the following words are formed by blending? C
A. girlfriend B. television C. smog D. bunch
6. “-s” in the word “books” is _C. an inflectional affix _.
7. A suffix is an affix which appears __A. after the root____.
独一无二的近义词8. __D. Affixes__ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.
