英语语言学复习资料
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Chapter 1 Language and Linguistics: An Overview
1.1 What is language?证明范本
1.2 Features of human languages
(i) Creativity (or productivity)
Productivity is the first and foremost striking feature of human language.
_________ is the first and foremost striking feature of human language.
A. Duality B. Arbitrariness C. Creativity D. Displacement
(ii) Duality
( ) Language contains two subsystems, one of speaking and the other of writing.
(iii) Arbitrariness
( ) The Swiss linguist de Saussure regarded the linguistic sign as compod of sound image and referent.
(iv) Displacement
( ) Modern linguistics is prescriptive rather than descriptive.
( ) Language can be ud to refer to things real or imagined, past, prent or future.
(v) Cultural transmission
(vi) Interchangeability
(vii) Reflexivity
1.3 Functions of language
(i) The ideational function
(ii) The interpersonal function
(iii) The textual function
Which of the following does not belong to the language metafunctions illustrated by M.A.K. Halliday?
A.Ideational function B. Interpersonal function
C． Textual function. D. Logical function
1.4 Types of language
花盛开( ) Chine is an agglutinating language.
1.5 The myth of language: language origin
酒文化图片1.6 Linguistics: the scientific study of language
1.6.1 Linguistics as a science
1.6.2 Branches of linguistics
(i) Intra-disciplinary divisions
(ii) Inter-disciplinary divisions
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Chapter 2 Phonetics: The Study of Speech Sounds
2.1 The study of speech sounds
The study of speech sounds is called ________.
A. Phonetics B. Articulatory phonetics
C. Phonology D. Acoustic Phonetics
2.2 The sound-producing mechanism
2.3 Phonetic transcription of speech sounds
2.3.1 Unit of reprentation
2.3.2 Phonetic symbols
2.4 Description of English consonants
2.5 Description of English vowels
( ) Not all vowels are voiced.
2.6 Phonetic features and natural class
I. Write the phonetic symbol that corresponds to the articulatory description. (10%)
Example: vowel front high [i:]
1．bilabial nasal
2．voiced labiovelar glide
3．literal liquid
4．voiced bilabial stop
5．front high lax
II. Transcribe the sound reprented by the underlined letter(s) in the words and then describe it. (10%)
Example: heat [i:] vowel front high
1．write
2．actor
3．city
4．worry
1．yes
Chapter 3 Phonology: The Study of Sound Systems and Patterns
3.1 The study of sound systems and patterns
( ) The study of speech sounds is called Phonology.
3.2 Phonemes and allophones
3.3 Discovering phonemes
3.3.1 Contrastive distribution
Sip and zip, tip and dip, map and nap, etc, are all ______.
A. minimal pairs B. minimal ts C. allophones D. phomes
3.3.2 Complimentary distribution
( ) The voiceless bilabial stop in pin and the one in spin are in complementary distribution.
Pronounce the words key and core, ski and score, paying attention to the phoneme /k/. What difference do you notice between the first pair and the cond pair in terms of the phonetic features of the voiceless velar stop? (10%)
3.3.3 Free Variation
( ) If gments appear in the same position but the mutual substitution does not result in change of meaning, they are said to be in free variation.
一个动作瘦全身 3.3.4 The discovery procedure
3.4 Distinctive features and non-distinctive features
3.5 Phonological rules
3.6 Syllable structure
Every syllable has a(n) _______, which is usually a vowel.
A. ont B. nucleus C. coda D. rhyme
3.7 Sequence of phonemes
3.8 Features above gments
3.8.1 Stress
实习经验 3.8.2 Intonation
3.8.3 Tone
( ) Tone is the variation of pitch to distinguish utterance meaning.
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Which of the following does not belong to supragmental features?
B.Stress B. Intonation C. Tone D. Syllable
3.8.4 The functioning of stress and intonation in English
I.How would you read the phras in the two columns? What does each of them mean? (10%)
Column I Column II
a. a bluebird a blue bird
b. a lighthou keeper a light houkeeper
II.Explain the ambiguity of the following ntences. (10%)
1. Tho who went there quickly made a fortune.
2. A woman murderer
Chapter 4 Morphology: The Study of Word Structure
