【电大代做】中央电大形成性测评系统 5107420 语言学入门(省) 网上在线形考作业

Language and thought may be viewed as two independent circles overlapping in some parts. When language and thought are identical or closely parallel to each other, we may regard thought as “subvocal speech,” and speech as “_______”.

A. vocal thought
B. subvocal thought

C. covert thought
D.
overt thought
【答案】:D

The term _______ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.

A. synchronic
B. diachronic
C. comparative
D. historical comparative
【答案】:B

The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ___.

A. semantics

B. pragmatics

C. sociolinguistics

D. psycholinguistics
【答案】:B

Predication analysis is a way to analyze _______ meaning.

A. phoneme
B. word
C. phrase
D. sentence
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The famous quotation from Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ well illustrates _______.

A. the conventional nature of language

B. the creative nature of language
C. the universality of language
D. the big difference between human language and animal communication
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The way in which people address each other depends on their age, sex, social group, and personal relationship. The English system of address forms frequently used includes first name, last name, title+last name, _______,and kin term.

A. title+first name
B. title+title
C. title alone
D. first name+last name+title
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Psychologists, neurologists and linguists have concluded that, in addition to the motor area which is responsible for physical articulation of utterances, three areas of the left brain are vital to language, namely, ___ .

A. Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and the angular gyrus角回

B. Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and cerebral cortex

C. Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and neurons

D. Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area and Exner’s area
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Of the following sound combinations, only _______ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English.

A. kibl
B. bkil
C. ilkb
D. ilbk
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According to Krashen, ___ refers to the gradual and subconcious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.

A. learning

B. competence

C. performance

D.
acquisition
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The sentence that has a NP and a VP can be shown in a _______ formula “S→NP VP”.

A. hierarchical
B. linear
C. tree diagram
D. vertical
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It is the _______ on Case assignment that states that a Case assignor and a Case recipient should stay adjacent to each other.

A. Case Condition
B. parameter
C. Adjacent Condition
D. Adjacent Parameter
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Whcih of the following best states the behaviorist view of child language acquisition?_______.

A. Language acquisition is a process of habit formation

B. Language acquisition is the species-specific property of human beings

C. Children are born with an innate ability to acquire language

D. Humans are equipped with the neural prerequisites for language and language use
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___ refers to a marginal language of few lexical items and straightforward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication.

A. Lingua franca通用语
B. Creole

C. Pidgin

D.
Standard language标准语言
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Grammatical changes may be explained, in part, as analogic changes, which are ___ or generalization泛化.

A. elaboration

B. simplification精简

C. external borrowing

D. internal borrowing
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According to Searle,those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called _______.

A. commisives
B. directives
C. expressives
D. declaratives
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Phrase structure rules can generate an infinite number of sentences and sentences with infinite length, due to their recursive properites.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Speakers of different languages are capable of distinguishing and recognizing experiences of the same objective world according to their respective different linguistic coding system.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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An important difference between traditional grammarians and modern linguists in their study of language is that the former tended to over-emphasize the written form of language and encourage people to imitate the “best authors” for language usage.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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We can always tell by the words a compound contains what it means because the meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meanings of its parts.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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The sentences “He crazy” and “He be sick all the time” are both acceptable in Black English vernacular because copula deletion and habitual be are two famous features of Black English.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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The conceptualist view of meaning holds that there is no direct link between a symbol and reference, i.e. between language and thought.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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In first language acquisition children’s grammar models exactly after the grammar of adult language.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Instruction and correction are key factors in child language development.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria can be applied.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Of the views concerning the study of semantics, the contextual view, which places the study of meaning in the context in which language is used, is often considered as the initial effort to study meaning in a pragmatic sense.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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In a speech community people have something in common __________a language or a particular variety of language and rules for using it.

A. socially
B. linguistically

C. culturally
D. pragmatically
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The function of the sentence “Water boils at 100 degrees Centigrade.” is __________

A. interrogative
B. directive
C. informative
D. performative
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Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human __________

A. contact
B. communication
C. relation
D. community
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The consonant f in English can be correctly described as having the following phonetic features: __________.

A. voiceless, bilabial, stop

B. voiceless, labiodental, fricative
C. voiced, bilabial, stop
D. voiced, labiodental, fricative
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In Chinese when someone breaks a bowl or a plate the host or the people present are likely to say“碎碎(岁岁)平安”as a means of controlling the forces which they believes feel might affect their lives. Which functions does it perform?

A. Interpersonal
B. Emotive
C. Performative
D. Recreational
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In the phrase structure rule “S→NP VP”, the arrow can be read as __________.

A. is equal to
B.
consists of

C. has
D. generates
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Which of the major mental functions listed below is not under the control of the left hemisphere in most people? __________.

A. language and speech

B. visual and spatial skills
C. reading and writing
D. analytic reasoning
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Linguistics is the scientific study of __________.

A. a particular language

B. the English language

C. human languages in general

D. the system of a particular language
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Y’s utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maxim of __________.
X: Who was that you were with last night?
Y: Did you know that you were wearing odd socks?

A. quality
B. quantity

C. relation
D. manner
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“I bought some roses” __________ “I bought some flowers”.

A. entails
B. presupposes

C. is inconsistent with

D. is synonymous with
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Changes in a language are changes in the grammar of the speakers of the language. This means that phonemes, __________, words and grammatical rules may be borrowed, added, lost or altered.

A. phrases
B. sentences

C. morphemes
D. utterances
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In general, the __________ stage begins roughly in the second half of the child’s second year.

A. babbling
B. one-word

C. two-word
D. multiword
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There are different types of affixes or morphemes. The affix “ed” in the word “learned” is known as a(n) __________.

A. derivational morpheme
B. free morpheme

C. inflectional morpheme

D. free form
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Which of the following property of language enables language users to overcome the barriers caused by time and place, due to this feature of language, speakers of a language are free to talk about anything in any situation?

A. Transferability
B. Duality
C. Displacement
D. Arbitrariness
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Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary?

A. tree
B. typewriter
C. crash
D. bang
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In the history of any language the writing system always came into being before the spoken form.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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In English, long vowels are also tense vowels because when we pronounce a long vowel such as/i:/,the larynx is in a state of tension.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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The division of English into Old English, Middle English, and Modern English is nonconventional and not arbitrary.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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A compound is the combination of only two words.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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If a child is deprived of linguistic environment, he or she is unlikely to learn a language successfully later on.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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An important difference between presupposition and entailment is that presupposition, unlike entailment, is not vulnerable to negation. That is to say, if a sentence is negated, the original presupposition is still true.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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“The student” in the sentence “The student liked the linguistic lecture.”,and “The linguistic lecture” in the sentence “The linguistic lecture liked the student.”belong to the same syntactic category.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different references in different situations while linguistic forms with the same reference always have the same sense.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Language reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist, just as it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudes about social taboos or racism.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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When children learn to distinguish between the sounds of their language and the sounds that are not part of the language, they can acquire any sounds in their native language once their parents teach them.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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A phoneme is a group of similar sounds called __________.

A. minimal pairs
B. allomorphs
C. phones
D. allophones
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An aspirated p, an unaspirated p and an unreleased p are __________ of the p phoneme.

A. analogues
B. tagmemes
C.
MORPHEMES
D. allophones
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Which vowel is different from the others according to the characteristics of vowels?

A. [i:]
B. [ u ]
C. [e]
D. [ i ]
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Pitch variation is known as __________ when its patterns are imposed on sentences.

A. intonation
B. tone
C. pronunciation
D. voice
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Which one is different from the others according to places of articulation?

A. [n]
B. [m]
C. [ b ]
D.
[p]
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What kind of sounds can we make when the vocal cords are vibrating?

A. Voiceless
B. Voiced
C. Glottal stop
D. Consonant
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__________ answers such questions as how we as infants acquire our first language.

A. Psycholinguistics
B.
Anthropological linguistics
C. Sociolinguistics
D. Applied linguistics
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__________ deals with language application to other fields, particularly education.

A. Linguistic theory
B. Practical linguistics
C. Applied linguistics
D. Comparative linguistics
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When a dog is barking, you assume it is barking for something or at someone that exists hear and now. It couldn’t be sorrowful for some lost love or lost bone. This indicates the design feature of __________.

A. cultural transmission
B. productivity
C. displacement
D. duality
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The opening between the vocal cords is sometimes referred to as __________.

A. glottis
B. vocal cavity
C. pharynx
D. uvula
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Which branch of phonetics concerns the production of speech sounds?

A. Acoustic phonetics
B. Articulatory phonetics
C. Auditory phonetics
D. None of the above
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The diphthongs that are made with a movement of the tongue towards the center are known as __________ diphthongs.

A. wide
B. closing
C. narrow
D. centering
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__________ refers to the actual realization of the ideal language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language in utterances.

A. Performance
B. Competence
C. Langue
D. Parole
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Study the following dialogue. What function does it play according to the functions of language?
— A nice day, isn’t it?
— Right! I really enjoy the sunlight.

A. Emotive
B. Phatic
C. Performative
D.
Interpersonal
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Conventionally a __________ is put in slashes (/ /).

A. allophone
B. phone
C. phoneme
D. morpheme
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Semantics is the main part of linguistics.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Historical linguistics equals to the study of synchronic study.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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All words may be said to contain a root morpheme.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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The term dialect,as a technical term in linguistics,carries value judgement and not simply refers to a distinct form of language.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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The smallest meaningful unit of language is allomorph.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Tense and reference are two terms often encountered in the study of meaning.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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The word “photographically” is made up of 4 morphemes.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Linguistics is the course of language

A. 错误
B. 正确
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The part of a sentence which compriese comprises an infinite verb or a verb phrase is grammatically called predicate.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Morphology is translated as 形态学。

A. 错误
B. 正确
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“Can I borrow your bike?” ___ “You have a bike.”

A. is synonymous with

B. is inconsistent with

C. entails

D. presupposes
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Of all the speech organs, the ___ is/are the most flexible.

A. mouth
B. lips

C. tongue
D. vocal cords
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The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as __.

A. +animate,+male,+human,-adult
B. +animate,+male,+human,+adult

C. +animate,-male,+human,-adult

D. +animate,-male,+human,+adult
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__deals with the way in which a language varies through geographical space.

A. Linguistic geography
B. Lexicology

C. Lexicography
D. Sociolinguistics
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The function of the sentence “A nice day, isn’t it?”is __.

A. informative
B.
phatic
C. directive
D. performative
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The discovery of Indo-European language family began with the work of the British scholar _____ .

A. Jacob Grimm
B. Rasmus Rask

C. Franz Bopp
D. Sir William Jones
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Some Southern learners of English in China tend to say “night” as “light”.This shows: _______.( )

A. They cannot pronounce/n/
B. Interlangue interference because there is notthe sound /n/in their mother tongue

C. The teachers do not have a good teaching method

D. They do not like to pronounce nasal sounds
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The most recognizable differences between American English and British English are in __ and vocabulary.

A. usage
B. grammar
C. pronunciation
D. structure
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A ___ in the embedded clause refers to the introductory word that introduces the embedded clause.

A. coordinator

B. particle

C. preposition

D. subordinator主从连词
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__produce fast and fluent speech with good intonation and pronunciation but the content of their speech ranges from mildly inappropriate to complete nonsense,often as unintelligible.( )

A. Broca’s aphasic
B. The linguistic deprivation
C. The damage on the angular gyrus
D. Wernicke’s aphasic
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The morpheme “vision” in the common word “television” is a(n) ___.

A. bound morpheme

B. bound form

C. inflectional morpheme

D. free morpheme
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In modern linguistic studies, the written form of language is given more emphasis than the spoken form for a number of reasons.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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In most bilingual communities, two languages have the same in speech situations known as domains.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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The territory in which the Indo-European languages are mainly spoken today also includes languages that are not Indo-European.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Only when a maxim under Cooperative Principle is blatantly violated and the hearer knows that it is being violated do conversational implicatures arise.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Voicing is a phonological feature that distinguishes meaning in both Chinese and English.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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The compound word “bookstore” is the place where books are sold. This indicates that the meaning of a compound is the sum total of the meanings of its components.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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According to the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, speakers’ perceptions determine language and pattern their way of life.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Syntactic categories refer to sentences (S) and clauses (C) only.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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All normal children have equal ability to acquire their first language.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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Dialectal synonyms can often be found in different regional dialects such as British English and American English but cannot be found within the variety itself, for example, within British English or American English.

A. 错误
B. 正确
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