----------------------------装-----------------------------------------------------------订---------------------------------------------------------------线----------------------------- 南京师范大学2010-2011学年第一学期
金陵女子/中北学院实用/传媒专业2011年级语言学课程期中试卷（A） 班 级： 任课教师： 王海波 学 号： 姓 名：
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一 二 三 四 五 总分 得分 一、单项选择题（共40分，每小题40分，每小题只有一个最合适的答案）
1. Edward Sapir stated that \
communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols\
A. instinctive B. non-instinctive C. human-specific D. inherited
2. ____ introduced Design Features of language in the 1960s.
A. C. F. Hockett B. Noam Chomsky C. F.de Saussure D. M. A. K. Halliday
3. _____ is one of the popular views about the origin of language.
A. The bow-wow theory B. The meow-meow theory C. The pooh-pooh theory D. The yo-he-yo theory
4. ____ function is not one of the seven functions of language, according to the
textbook.
A. Informative B. Interpersonal
C. Emotive D. Swearing
5. _____ function is one of the seven functions of language, according to the
textbook.
A. Recreational B. Literary
C. Persuasive D. Dissuasive
6. _____ function is not one of the functions of language put forward by Halliday.
A. Metalingual B. Ideational C. Textual D. Interpersonal
7. _____ is not one of the six functions of language, put forward by Jacobson.
A. Conative
B. Phatic C. Performative
D. Emotive
8. Which of the following words is completely arbitrary?
A. typewriter B. bowwow
C. tree
D. bang
9. The description of a language at some point of time is a ____ study.
A. descriptive B. prescriptive
C. synchronic D. diachronic
10. The fact that there is no intrinsic connection between the word pen and the thing
we write with indicates that language is ______.
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A. arbitrary B. rule-governed C. applied D. illogical
11. _____ means language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate
situations of the speaker. A. Duality
B. Displacement
C. Productivity
D. Arbitrariness
11. Examines how meaning is encoded in a language.
A. Phonetics
B. Syntax C. Semantics
D. Phonology
12. _____ is concerned with the internal organization of words.
A. Morphology B. Syntax C. Semantics
D. Pragmatics
13. In _____ phonetics, we investigate the properties of the sound waves. 14.
French English Tu You aimera will love Jean. Jean. A. articulatory B. auditory C. sound
D. acoustic
The French sentence in the above table has the same meaning as the English sentence.
This shows us that _______.
A. both languages are alike in expressing future time
B. both languages have a future tense but English requires more words C. English is loose while French is compact
D. French forms its future tense by adding a special suffix
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15. An asperated [p], an unasperated [p°] and an unreleased [p?] are _____ of the
/p/ phoneme. A. analogues
B. tagmemes
C. morphemes
D. allophones
16. Which of the following sounds is a voiceless bilabial stop?
A. [p]
B. [m]
C. [b]
D. [t]
17. Which one is different from the others according to the places of articulation?
A. [n]
B. [m]
C. [b]
D. [p]
18. The sound [l] in _______ is a clear one.
A. tell
B. quilt
C. leaf
D. peel
19. _____ does not form a minimal pair.
A. Gap and cap B. Pat and pad C. Tip and dip D. Map and tam 20. ____ is not in complementary distribution.
A. Spot and pot
B. Stop and top
C. School and cool D. Light and glad
21. The distinctive feature of the sound [s] is _____.
A. voiceless alveolar fricative B. voiced alveolar fricative
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C. voiceless dental affricative D. voiced dental fricative
22. The sound with the features of bilabial nasal is ______.
A. [j]
B. [t]
C. [m]
D. [n]
23. Diphthongal glides in English can be heard in following words EXCEPT _____.
A. way
B. tower
C. tide
D. how
24. If three consonants should cluster together at the beginning of a word, the first
phoneme must be ____. A. /p/
B. /t/
C. /l/
D. /s/
25. The vowel in _____ should be nasalized according to the assimilation rules.
A. tea
B. peep
C. flee
D. bean
26. When we produce the back vowels, we hold the ____ part of the tongue higher than
the rest of it. A. central B. front
C. back
D. tip
27. _____ is not the term used to classify the English consonants in terms of manner
of articulation. A. Stops
B. Liquids
C. GLides
D. Dental
28. The one that does not belong to the alveolar is ______.
A. [t]
B. [m]
C. [n]
D. [r]
27. The distinctive features of the sound [?]are _____.
A. voiced, nasal
B. velarlabial, nasal, palatal D. voiced, labial, palatal
C. voiced, alveolar, nasal
29. The labial dental sounds in English are ______.
A. [p] and [b] C. [θ] and [e]
B. [f] and [v] D. [k] and [ɡ]
30. According to the rule of _____, the article an, instead of a, is used before
the word apple. A. nasalization
B. dentalization
C. epenthesis D. velarization
31. The sound ____ does not belong to the group of fricative.
A. [f]
B. [v]
C. [k]
D. [h]
32. If we follow the English vowel system of Radford, we can describe the vowel [i:] in the way of _____.
A. high front tense rounded vowel B. high back lax unrounded vowel C. high front tense unrounded vowel D. low back lax rounded vowel
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33. _______ does not contain a bilabial sound.
A. My
B. You
C. Buy
D. Pie
34. _____ ends with an affricate.
A. Rack
B. Such
C. Booze
D. Tip
35. The word ______ contains a high vowel.
A. lot
B. mat
C. mud
D. boot
36. All the following words contain front vowels EXCEPT _____.
A. book
B. sleep
C. slip
D. shed
37. In the word _____, there is no syllabic consonant.
A. cotton B. bottom C. table
D. lantern
38. In the word _____, there is no syllabic consonant.
A. film
B. column C. camel
D. season 39. In the word _____, there is no syllabic consonant.
A. realm
B. Marxism C. travel D. beaten 40. [p] in the word peak can be described as _____.
A. voiced bilabial stop
B. voiceless bilabial stop
C. voiced bilabial plosive D. voiceless labiodental stop
41. The description voiceless alveolar fricative describes the following consonant
______. A. [p]
B. [b]
C. [s]
D. [z]
42. Which branch of phonetics concerns the production of speech sounds?
A. Acoustic Phonetics. B. Articulatory Phonetics. C. Auditory Phonetics. D. None of the above.
43. Among the following words, ____ does not form a minimal pair with the sound of
the word high. A. buy
B. foe
C. lie
D. shy
44. Which two terms can best describe the following pairs of words: table--tables,
day break--daybreak. A. Inflection and compound.
B. Compound and derivation.
C. Inflection and derivation. D. Derivation and inflection.
45. Which of the following is NOT a process of lexical change?
A. Invention.
B. Acronym.
C. Lexicon.
D. Blending.
46. Which of the following is not a pre-determiner?
A. all
B. three times
C. half
D. that
47. Nouns, verbs and adjectives can be classified as ____.
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A. lexical words B. grammatical words
C. function words D. form words
48. Morphemes that represent tense, number, gender and case are called ____
morphemes. A. inflectional
B. free
C. bound
D. derivational
49. There are ____ morphemes in the word denationalization.
A. three
B. four
C. five
D. six
50. In English, -ise and -al are called _____.
A. prefixes
B. suffixes
C. infixes
D. stems
51. The stem of internationalists is ____.
A. nationalist C. nationalists
B. nation
D. internationalist
52. All of them are meaningful EXCEPT for _____.
A. lexeme
B. phoneme
C. morpheme
D. allomorph
53. A morpheme that must occur with at least one other morpheme to form a word is called a ____.
A. free morpheme C. stem
B. bound morpheme D. none of the above
54. In the word carelessness, careless is ____.
A. a suffix
B. a root
C. a stem
D. a prefix
55. In the words maps, dogs, watches, mice and sheep, each of /s/, /z/, / ?z/, /a?/
and /i:/ is a(an) ____of the plural form. A. allomorph
B. allophone
C. similar phoneme D.counter phoneme
56. Lexeme is _____.
A. a physically definable unit B. a grammatical unit C. an indefinable unit
D. the common factor underlying a set of forms
57. Which of the following process of lexical change has the Chinese word \十七
大\A. Abbreviation.
B. Back-formation. C. Blending.
D. Borrowing.
58. Which of the following term does NOT mean the same as the relation of
substitutability? A. Associative relation. C. Vertical relation.
B. Paradigmatic relation. D. Horizontal relation.
59. The three basic tyles of subordinate clauses are complement clauses, adjunct
clauses and _______.
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