福建师范大学《现代语言学》在线作业一

共50道题 总分：100分

一、单选题(共25题，50分)

1.( ) refers to a variety of language which is appropriate for a particular situation

A、register

B、Style

C、genre

D、Form

2.( ) is the study of speech, focusing specially on the relation between discourse and its contexts.

A、Pragmatics

B、Discourse analysis

C、Dialectology

D、Morphology

3.’Language has （ ） that distinguish it from other semiotic systems used by humans and animals.

A、function

B、design features

C、importance

D、performance

4.（ ）is a morphological variant of morpheme.

A、Allomorph

B、Word

C、Segment

D、Morph

5.( ) is a minimal unit which is formally composed of meaningless linguistic symbols at the lower level of the language

A、Phoneme

B、Stress

C、Tempo

D、Morpheme

6.( ) refers to the primary and commonly accepted meaning of linguistic forms.

A、Lexical meaning

B、Sentential meaning

C、Utterance meaning

D、Literal meaning

7.( ) refers to regional phonological or phonetic distinctions in speech.

A、Accent

B、Dialect

C、Sentence

D、Utterance

8.A ( ) is one that may be used to distinguish one speech sound from another.

A、perfomation

B、feature

C、distinctive feature

D、function

9.In the tree diagram ( ) is the point from which two or more lines descend.

A、Node

B、Initial node

C、Branching

D、Intermediate node

10.The transformational generative grammar was proposed by ( ).

A、Noam Chomsky

B、Jacobson

C、Haliday

D、Nida

11.’The transformational generative grammar was proposed by ( ).

A、Noam Chomsky

B、Jacobson

C、Haliday

D、Nida

12.( ) are a group of words and expressions that refer to the personal, temporal or spatial characteristics of the context within which a text is produced.

A、Nouns

B、Adjectives

C、Verbs

D、Deictics

13.( ) refers to the perceived regularity of prominent units in speech.

A、Loudness

B、Rhythm

C、Tempo

D、Tone

14.Language has （ ） that distinguish it from other semiotic systems used by humans and animals.

A、function

B、design features

C、importance

D、performance

15.’The locutionary act ( ) refers to the act of saying something meaningful in a particular language

A、illocutionary act福建师范大学泽学网微信：zexue66

B、locutionary act

C、perlocutionary act

16.Productivity is characterised by the feature of ( ).

A、Arbitrariness

B、Genetic-cultural transmission

C、Non-arbitrariness

D、Duality

17.Phonemes in contrast are differentiated and related by their ( ).

A、perfomation

B、feature

C、function

D、distinctive feature

18.’Productivity is characterised by the feature of ( ).

A、Arbitrariness

B、Genetic-cultural transmission

C、Non-arbitrariness

D、Duality

19.Collocation (p.261) refers to the juxtaposition of two elements which are semantically in opposition (or complementary) to each other

A、Collocation

B、Reiteration

C、Lexical cohesion

D、Coherence

20.( )the main source of energy for speaking, initiating the airflow for speech, hence pulmonic airstream mechanism.

A、Mouth

B、Heart

C、Nose

D、Lung

21.（） studies the ways words are combined to form sentences in a language .

A、Phonetics

B、Phonology

C、Morphology

D、Syntax

22.Which h of the following disciplines doen’t belong to micro-linguistics?

A、Phonetics

B、Phonology

C、Morphology

D、Dialectology

23.Linguists introduce the notion of ( )to categorise speech sounds that do or do not make phonological contrasts in conveying meanings.

A、perfomation

B、feature

C、distinctive feature

D、function

24.( ) is the study of the relation between language and mind, especially language acquisition and learning, and language comprehension and prod uction.

A、Pragmatics

B、Phonology

C、Dialectology

D、Psycholinguistics

25.'( ) refers to the sameness in meaning between two or more words.

A、Synonymy

B、Polysemy

C、Homonymy

D、Antonymy

二、判断题(共25题，50分)

1.Duality is a concretisation of arbitrariness and non-arbitrariness of language.

A、错误

B、正确

2.Constituency approach is bottom-up in nature.

A、错误

B、正确

3.When a node directly descends from another, without any other nodes intervening, the hierarchical relationship between them is called immediate domination.

A、错误

B、正确

4.When a node directly descends from another, without any other nodes intervening, the hierarchical relationship between them is called immediate domination.

A、错误

B、正确

5.Field theory suggests that lexical meanings are not exclusive and mutually independent.

A、错误

B、正确

6.Oral cavity is the place where oral, nasal and nasalised oral sounds are shaped.

A、错误

B、正确

7.Consonants are sounds made by a closure or narrowing somewhere in the vocal tract.

A、错误

B、正确

8.’English is a tone language.

A、错误

B、正确

9.Cohesionrefers to the linguistic property of units larger than the morpheme to bind together in construction, or the relations of meaning that exist within the text and that define it as a text.

A、错误

B、正确

10.’Consonants all involve the vibration of the vocal folds

A、错误

B、正确

11.Endocentric compounding means the meaning of the compound cannot be inferred from the meanings of its componential free morphemes.

A、错误

B、正确

12.The distinctive feature of place of articulation alone can make necessary distinction between some consonants

A、错误

B、正确

13.’Affix hopping refers to the bound morphemes in the verb group hop backward to join the following member in the verb group .

A、错误

B、正确

14.Cataphoric reference refers to the reference where the presupposed occurs in the text after the word or expression that is presupposing.

A、错误

B、正确

15.Phoneme is a group of sounds that are phonetically similar and show certain characteristic patterns of distribution in the language under consideration .

A、错误

B、正确

16.’The meaning of a sentence is a simple concatenation of individual lexical meanings of the words that form the sentence.

A、错误

B、正确

17.Diachronic linguistics focuses on a particular phase in its development.

A、错误

B、正确

18.’Cataphoric reference refers to the reference where the presupposed occurs in the text after the word or expression that is presupposing.

A、错误

B、正确

19.There is a three-word sentence stage in first language acquisition.

A、错误

B、正确

20.Sometimes bound morphemes can be used by themselves.

A、错误

B、正确

21.The same conjunction may indicate different cohesive relation in different contexts.

A、错误

B、正确

22.Homonymy refers to the linguistic phenomenon that a word may be used in a number of different senses or is said to have a range of different meanings.

A、错误

B、正确

23.’Endocentric compounding means the meaning of the compound cannot be inferred from the meanings of its componential free morphemes.

A、错误

B、正确

24.’Utterance meaning is context-independent

A、错误

B、正确

25.’Duality makes it possible for second/foreign language learning

A、错误

B、正确