考研真题与典型题详解
I. Fill in the blanks. 1. The features that define our human languages can be called ______ featu
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2. Linguistics is usually defined as the ______study of language. (
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3. Language, broadly speaking, is a means of______ communication.
4. In any language words can be used in new ways to mean new things and can be combined i
nto innumerable sentences based on limited rules. This feature is usually termed______
5. Linguistics is the scientific study of______.
6. Modern linguistic is______ in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rat
her than lay down some rules for people to observe.
7. One general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of ______ over writing.
8. The branch of linguistics which studies the sound patterns of a language is called ______. (
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9. The branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words is called______. (
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10. ______mainly studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their d
escription, classification and transcription. (
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