2013-14 CUHK Recruitment Test
MA in Linguistics
MA in Chine Linguistics and Language Acquisition应急知识
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Section One
Answer all the questions in this ction.
首先英语短语
Question 1
Focus on [s] and [t] in the following t of data from Daga
‘I am licking [jamosivin] ‘they will lick’[jamotain] ‘grunt’[asi] ‘we should go’[anet]
‘shout’[nao] ‘hole’[ura]
‘drum’[sinao] ‘holiday’[wagat]
‘whisper’[simura] ‘little’[otu]
‘hit’[topen] ‘there’[u]
‘old’[tave] ‘salt’[siuran]
‘I kill’[tuian]
(1)Describe the distribution of [s] and [t].
(2)What type of distribution do they reprent?
(3)Determine their phonemic status.
i.If they belong to different phonemes, justify your answer.
ii.If they belong to the same phoneme, give the name of the
phonological process involved.
Compare the Italian and Spanish cognates:
Italian Spanish
Spagna [spa.ɲa] España [ɛs.pa.ɲa] ‘Spain’
stato [] estado [ɛs.ta.do] ‘state’
scuola [skʊɔ.la] escuela [ɛs.kʊe.la] ‘school’
signore [si.ɲo.re] ñor [.ɲor] ‘mister’
schiavo [skɪa.vo] esclavo [ɛs.kla.vo] ‘slave’
blasfema [blas.fe.ma] blasfemia [blas.fe.mɪa] ‘blasphemy’
tragico [tra.ʤi.ko] tragico [tra.hi.ko] ‘tragic’
How do you account for the organization of the syllable structure in the two languages?
Consider the following data from Samoan
[manao] ‘he wishes’[mananao] ‘they wish’
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[matua] ‘he is old’[matutua] ‘they are old’
[malosi] ‘he is strong’[malolosi] ‘they are strong’
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[punou] ‘he bends’[punonou] ‘they bend’
[atamaki] ‘he is wi’[atamamaki] ‘they are wi’
[savali] ‘he travels’[pepe] ‘they sing’
[laga] ‘he weaves’
1.What is the Samoan word for:
高中必背英语单词a.they weave
b.they travel
c.he sings
2.Formulate a morphological rule that states how to form the plural verb form
from the singular verb form.
Question 4
In the English ntences (a)—(c), all the relative pronouns are preceded by a preposition (underlined). However, relative pronouns in (d) and (e) are not preceded by a preposition. Explain why prepositions are inrted before the relative pronoun in (a)—(c) but not in (d) and (e).
(a) That is the officer to who John was talking yesterday.
(b) The police have surrounded the hou in which the robbers are hiding.
(c) John has been working on a cret project about which I know nothing.
(d) That is the singer who John hates.
(e) John ud to work for a company which sold computer accessories
Section Two
Answer one of the questions in either English or Chine:
Question 1
以下每對句子的語義相同嗎？他們的句法結構相同嗎？用擴展法分析比較每對句子在句法結構上的異同。
A.
1. 他耳朵軟。
2. 他的耳朵軟。
B.注意力集中训练
1. 今兒他來。
2. 他今兒來。
C.
1. 這人脾氣急。
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2. 這人急脾氣。
会计资格证查询Question 2
Compare and contrast the English oral expression ‘his book’ and its Chine
equivalent ‘ta de shu’, and discuss the similarities and differences between the two expressions in terms of syntactic constructions and grammatical meanings.
