英语语言学判断题

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Chapter 1:

1. Linguistics is the systematic study of language.

True.

2. Linguistics deals with a particular language.

False.

3. Linguistics is scientific because it is helpful to language use.

False.

4.

The

task

of

a

linguist

is

to

discover

the

nature

and

rules

of

the

underlying

language

system.

True.

5. Linguistics is generally divided into general and specific linguistics.

False.

6. General linguistics deals with the general aspects of language application.

False.

7. General linguistics does not study theories of language.

False.

8.

Phonetics

studies

human

sound

patterning

and

the

meaning

of

sounds

in

communication.

False.

9. Phonology studies how a sound is produced.

False.

10. Morphology is the study of sentences.

False.

11. Syntax is the study of the rules of words.

False.

12. Semantics is the study of word meaning.

False.

13. Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context of language use.

True.

14. Sociolinguistics deals with the relation between language and society.

True.

15. Psycholinguistics deals with the relation of language to psychology.

True.

16. Applied linguistics means the language application to specific areas.

False.

17. Modern linguistics aims at prescribing models for language users to .

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18. Synchronic linguistics deals with a series of language phenomena at the same time.

False.

19. Diachronic linguistics is also called historical linguistics.

True.

20. Langue means competence.

False.

21. Parole is a French word; it means the concrete language events.

True.

22. F. de Saussure was a Swiss linguist.

True.

23. N. Chomsky is an American linguist.

True.

24. According to Chomsky, the internalization of a set of rules about his language enables

a

speaker

to

produce

and

understand

an

infinitely

large

number

of

sentences

and

recognize sentences that are ungrammatical and ambiguous.

True.

25. Chomsky regards competence as an act of doing things with a sentence.

False.

26

. Performance is the focus of Chomsky’s linguistic study.

False.

Competence, instead.

27. Details of language system are genetically transmitted.

False.

28. Displacement of language means language use in a far-away place.

False.

29. Arbitrariness of language means language can be used freely.

False.

30. Duality of language means language is a two-level system.

True.

Chapter 2:

1. Writing is more basic than speech.

False.

2. There have been some 2,500 languages in the world.

False.

3. About two thirds of languages in the world have not had written form.

True.

4. Linguists are interested in all sounds.

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False.

5. The limited range of sounds that are meaningful in human communication constitute

the phonic medium of language.

True.

6. Phonetic similarity, not phonetic identity, is the criterion with which we operate in the

phonological analysis of languages.

True.

7. The greatest source of modification of the air stream is found in the oral cavity.

True.

8. The narrowing of space between the hard palate and the front of the tongue results in

the sound [j].

True.

9. [k], [g] and [n] are velar sounds.

False.

10. [i] is a semi-close vowel.

False.

11. [h] is the glottal sound.

True.

12. [ei] is a monophthong.

False.

13. Phonology is of a general nature.

False.

14. Phonetics deals with speech sounds in all human languages.

True.

15. A phone does not necessarily distinguish meaning.

True.

16. A phoneme is a phonetic unit.

False.t.

17

. ‘Tsled’ is a possible word in English.

False.

18. English is a tone language.

False.

Chapter 3:

1. The word ‘predigestion’ is composed of

two morphemes.

False.

2. ‘Teach

-

in’ is a compound word.

True.

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3. Pronouns belong to closed class words.

True.

4. The word ‘unacceptability’ has four morphemes.

True.

5. The word ‘boy’ is a free morpheme.

True.

6. T

he morpheme ‘–or’ in ‘actor’ is an i

nflectional morpheme.

False.

7. The

–s in ‘works’ of ‘He works hard.’ is a bound morpheme.

False.

8. The word ‘unsad’ is acceptable in English.

False.

9. Compounding is a very common and frequent process for enlarging the vocabulary of

the English language.

True.

10. The prefix a-

in ‘asexual’ means ‘without’.

True.

Chapter 4:

1. Phrases

can

consist

of

just

one

word,

but

more

often

they

contain

other

elements

as

well.

True.

2. In XP, X refers to any such head as N, V, A or P.

True.

3. In ‘a book about ghosts’, the complement is ‘ghosts’.

False.

The complement is ‘about

ghosts’.

4. In TG, determiner is often written as Det.

True.

Chapter 5:

1. Hyponymy is a relation of exclusion of meaning.

False.

2. The words ‘alive’ and ‘dead’ are relational opposites

.

False.

3. The words

< br>‘

lead

’

(

领导

) and

‘

lead

’

(

铅球

) are homographs.

True.

4. The words ‘flat’ and ‘apartment’ are stylistic synonyms.

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False.

5. The words ‘politician’ and ‘statesman’ are collocational synonyms.

False.

6. The words ‘buy’ and ‘purchase’ are

dialectal synonyms.

False.

7. The words ‘shock’ and ‘surprise’ are semantically different synonyms.

True.

8.

In

the

sense

set

sophomore,

junior,

senior>,

‘junior’

and

‘senior’

are

co- hyponyms.

True.

9. The words ‘doctor’ and ‘patient’ are rel

ational synonyms.

True.

10. ‘I have been to Beijing.’ entails ‘I have been to North China.’

True.

11. ‘His friend is coming.’ presupposes ‘He has a friend.’

True.

12. ‘Mary is single.’ is inconsistent with ‘Mary is married.’

True.

13. ‘His dumb boy spoke good English.’ is a contradiction.

True.

Chapter 6:

1. Pragmatics is a linguistic branch that developed in the 1890s.

False.

2. Course in General Linguistics was published in 1889.

False.

3. Context refers to the relation between lines or paragraphs of a text.

False.

4. If I said to you, ‘It’s very stuffy here.’, then my illocutionary act may be asking you to

switch on the air-conditioner.

True.

5. If Smith said to you in a supermarket, ‘I am thirsty now, but I have no money with me’,

then his perlocutionary act is your buying him a coca- cola.

True.

6. According to Austin, ‘He is a boy.’ is a constative.

True.

7. According to Austin, ‘I bet you sixpence it will be fine this evening.’ is a performative.

True.

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8. ‘Open the door!’ is a directive.

True.

9. ‘The room is air

-

conditioned.’ is an expressive.

False.

10. ‘We have never met before.’ is a representative.

True.

11. ‘I fire you!’ is a commissive.

False.

… is a declaration.

12. ‘I will return the book to you soon.’ is an expressive.

False.

13. ‘Do not say what you believe to be false’ is a maxim of relation.

False.

14. ‘Be brief’ belongs to the maxim of manner.

True.

15.

‘Make

your

contribution

as

informative

as

required

(for

the

current

purpose

of

the

exchange).’ belongs to the maxim of q

uality.

False.

16. B’s reply violates the maxim of quality in the dialogue below:

A: Where do you live?

B: In South China Normal University.

False.

17. B probably means that he doesn’t want to make any comment on the lecture, in the

dialogue below:

A: What do you think of the lecture? (The speech maker is coming)

B: Do we have classes this evening?

True.

18. B probably means that it is impolite to ask about her age, in the dialogue below:

A: How old are you?

B: I am 80.

True.

19. B probably means that A should not laugh at him since they know each other, in the

dialogue below:

A: Are you a good student?

B: Are you?

True.

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