福建师范大学《现代语言学》在线作业二

共50道题 总分：100分

一、单选题(共25题，50分)

1.According to ( ), language determines the framework of speaker’s perception and thought.

A、Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

B、Positivist theory

C、Use theory

D、Speech Acts theory

2.( ) is the first stressed syllable in the tone-unit.

A、pre-head

B、head

C、nuclear tail

D、nucleus

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

A、Pragmatics

B、Discourse analysis

C、Dialectology

D、Morphology

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

A、Noam Chomsky

B、Jacobson

C、Haliday

D、Nida

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

A、Lexical meaning

B、Sentential meaning

C、Utterance meaning

D、Literal meaning

6.( ）is a concretisation of the biological and sociological aspects of arbitrariness and non-arbitrariness of language

A、Arbitrariness

B、Genetic-cultural transmission

C、Non-arbitrariness

D、Duality

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

A、Loudness

B、Rhythm

C、Tempo

D、Tone

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

A、illocutionary act

B、locutionary act

C、perlocutionary act

9.( ) 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

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

A、Mouth

B、Heart

C、Nose

D、Lung

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

A、Synonymy

B、Polysemy

C、Homonymy

D、Antonymy

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

A、perfomation

B、feature

C、distinctive feature

D、function

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

A、perfomation

B、feature

C、function

D、distinctive feature

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

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B、design features

C、importance

D、performance

15.( ) reference refers to the reference where the presupposed occurs in the text before the word or expression that is presupposing.

A、Exophoric

B、Anaphoric

C、Endophoric

D、Cataphoric

16.( ) is the science that studies how speech sounds are used in language to convey meanings.

A、Phonetics

B、Phonology

C、Morphology

D、Dialectology

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

A、illocutionary act

B、locutionary act

C、perlocutionary act

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

A、Loudness

B、Rhythm

C、Tempo

D、Tone

19.( ) 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

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

A、Phonetics

B、Phonology

C、Morphology

D、Dialectology

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

A、perfomation

B、feature

C、distinctive feature

D、function

22.’The phones that can be grouped together as variants of one phoneme have to be ( ) similar

A、phonetically

B、phonologically

C、sound

D、seem

23.( )of language refers to the property of language in having the structure of two levels.

A、Arbitrariness

B、Genetic-cultural transmission

C、Non-arbitrariness

D、Duality

24.( ) refers to the speed of speech.

A、Loudness

B、Stress

C、Tempo

D、Tone

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

A、Arbitrariness

B、Genetic-cultural transmission

C、Non-arbitrariness

D、Duality

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

A、错误

B、正确

3.A simple sentence consists of a single clause which contains a subject and a predicate and stands alone as its own sentence.

A、错误

B、正确

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

A、错误

B、正确

5.’ An inflectional morpheme does not change the grammatical class of the word.

A、错误

B、正确

6.A constituent structure rule is one that governs selecting from the lexicon a lexical item and inserting it into a terminal node of a constituent structure as its daughter.

A、错误

B、正确

7.Affixation changes the grammatical class of the word .

A、错误

B、正确

8.The implementation of lexical insertion rules need to be subject to no restrictions.

A、错误

B、正确

9.Language is entirely arbitrary.

A、错误

B、正确

10.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

11.’Grammatical morpheme must be a bound morpheme.

A、错误

B、正确

12.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

13.Sometimes bound morphemes can be used by themselves.

A、错误

B、正确

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

A、错误

B、正确

15.Reference relates linguistic forms to some other related linguistic forms

A、错误

B、正确

16.’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

17.A language is an isolating language if its morphemes are all bound morphemes

A、错误

B、正确

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

A、错误

B、正确

19.Inflection means forming a new word by adding an element such as an affix.

A、错误

B、正确

20.Inflectional morpheme may be a free morpheme.

A、错误

B、正确

21.Compared to phonetics, phonology is more concerned with the organisation of speech sounds in relation to the conveyance of meaning.

A、错误

B、正确

22.Different language make use of the same set of speech sounds.

A、错误

B、正确

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

A、错误

B、正确

24.Discourse analysis is more concerned with conventional implicatures than conversational ones.

A、错误

B、正确

25.’Traditional notional grammar is a bottom-up approach,

A、错误

B、正确