Chapter I Introduction
T 1. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.
F 2.Linguistics studies particular language, not languages in general.
F 3. A scientific study of language is bad on what the linguist thinks.
T 4. In the study of linguistics, hypothes formed should be bad on language facts and checked against the obrved facts.
T 5. General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole.
T 6. General linguistics, which relates itlf to(in contrast to) the rearch of other areas, studies the basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicable in any linguistic study.
T 7. Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication.
F 8. Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful ntences.
T 9. The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology.
F 10. Syntax(rules that govern the combination of words to form grammatically permissible ntences in L) is different from morphology in that the former not only studies the morphemes, but also the combination of morphemes into words and words into ntences.
T 11. The study of meaning in language is known as mantics.
F 晚上吃苹果有什么好处和坏处12. Both mantics(L is ud to convey meaning- the study of meaning) and pragmatics( the study of meaning is conducted in the context of language u) study meanings.
T 13. Pragmatics is different from mantics in that pragmatics studies meaning not in isolation, but in context.
T 张海迪事迹14.Social changes can often bring about language changes.
T 15. Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society.
F 16. Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.
T 17. Modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar.
F 18. A diachronic历时（it changes through time） study of language is the description of language at some point in time. Synchronic 共时
F 19 Modern linguistics regards the 中国诗词大会开场白written2008北京奥运会奖牌榜 language as primary, not the spoken language.
F 20. The distinction between competence语言能力 and performance语亲吻的好处言运用 was propod by F. de Saussure. N. Chomsky
Chapter 2：Phonology
1. Voicing is a phonological feature that distinguishes meaning in both Chine and English. (T)
2. If two phonetically similar sounds occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning, they are said to be in complementary distribution. 快的成语有哪些（F）
3. A phone is a phonetic unit that distinguishes meaning. （F）
4. English is a tone language while Chine is not. （F）
5. In linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing. （T）
6. In everyday communication, speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed. （T）
7. Articulatory phonetics tries to describe the physical properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues with the help of a machine called spectrograph. （F）
8. The articulatory apparatus of a human being are contained in three important areas: th
e throat, the mouth and the chest. 贺新婚（F）
9. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing. （T）回到从前
10. English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tongue that is raid the highest. （F）
11. According to the manner of articulation, some of the types into which the consonants can be classified are stops, fricatives, bilabial and alveolar. （F）
12. Vowel sounds can be differentiated by a number of factors: the position of tongue in the mouth, the openness of the mouth, the shape of the lips, and the length of the vowels. （T）
13. According to the shape of the lips, vowels can be classified into clo vowels, mi-clo vowels, mi-open vowels and open vowels. （F）
14. Any sound produced by a human being is a phoneme. （F）
15. Phones are the sounds that can distinguish meaning. （F）
16. Phonology is concerned with how the sounds can be classified into different categories. （F）
17. A basic way to determine the phonemes of a language is to e if substituting one sound for another results in a change of meaning. （T）
18. When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound gment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two words are said to form a phonemic contrast. （F）
