英语自考语言学判断题

1.(T) linguistics studies not any particular language ,but language in general.

2. (F)a scientific study of language is based on what the linguist thinks

3.(T)in linguistics ,as in any other discipline ,data and theory stand in a dialectical complementation.

4.(T)general linguistics studies the basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicable in any linguistic study.

5. (F)language is a simple entity with multiply layers and facets.

6. (F)phonetic deals with how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning.

7. (F)morphology and syntax study the same aspect of language.

8. (T)the study of meaning in language is known as semantics .

9. (T)language is social activity carried out in a certain social environment by human being .

10(F)sociolinguistics has nothing to do with language or society.

11. (F)modern linguistics is mostly descriptive but sometimes prescriptive.

12. (T)modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar/

13. (F)a synchronic study of language is a historical study.

14. (F)traditional grammar regards the spoken language as primary, not the written language.

15. (T)the writing system of any language is always a later invention ,used to record the speech.

16(F)the distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F.de Sausure.

17. (T)language is vocal because the primary medium is sounds for all language .

18. (F)language is entirely arbitrary.

19. (F)productivity is unique to animal language .

20. (T)language is culturally transmitted while animal call system are genetically transmitted.

1. Human capacity for language has a genetic basis, but the detail of language have to be taught and learned.

2. displacement means that language can be used to refer to thing which present or not present ,real or imagined matter in the past ,present or future or in far-away places.

3. language is a system considering of two sets of structures ,or two levels.

4. language is a system of arbitary vocal symbols used for human communication.

5. Chomsky defined competence as the ideal speaker’s knowledge of the rules of his language.

6. parolerefers to the realization of langue in actual use.

7. modern linguistics gives priority to the spoken from of language.

8. the description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study.

9. psycholinguistic relates the study of language to psychology.

10. linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.

11. of the two media of language, speech is more basic than writing.

12. vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing

13. of all the speech organs , the tongue is the most flexible, and is responsible for varieties of articulation than any other.

14. when the obstruction is partial and the air if forced through a narrow passage in the mouth so as to cause definite local friction at the point ,the speech sound thus produced is a fricative in the production of bilabialsounds ,the upper and the lower lips are brought together to create obstruction.

15. the long vowels are all tense vowels and the short vowels are laxvowels.

16. phonology is interested in the system of sounds of a particular language.

17. Aspiration refers to a strong puff of air stream in the production of speech sounds.

18. complementarydistribution means that the allophones of the same phoneme always occur in different phonetic environment.

19. the rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language are called sequential rules.

20. the phonemic features that occur above the level of the segment are called suprasegmental features.

21. the location of stress in English distinguishes meaning .

22. sentence stress refers to the relative force which is given to the words in a sentences.

23. tones are pitch variation ,which are caused by the different rates of vibration of the vocal cords.

24. English is an intonation language.

25. morpheme is the smallest meaning unit of language.

26. the affix-es conveys a grammatical.

27. free morphemes are independent units of meaning and can be used freely all by themselves.

28. inflectional affixes manifest various grammatical relation or grammatical categories such as number degree and case.

29. the affixes occurring at the beginning of a word are called prefixes.

30. the combination of two or sometimes more than two words to create new words Is called derivation

31. semantically the meaning of a compound is often idiomatical ,not always being the sum total of the meaning of its components

32. derivation morphology studies word formation.

33. a root can never stand by itself although it bears clear ,difinite meaning .

34. suffixes are added to the end of stems.