1、 1 全國(guó) 2001 年 10 月自學(xué)考試現(xiàn)代語(yǔ)言學(xué)試題及答案 一、單項(xiàng)選擇題(本大題共 10 小題，每小題 2 分，共 20 分)在每小題列出的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中只有 一個(gè)選項(xiàng)是符合題目要求的，請(qǐng)將正確選項(xiàng)前的字母填在題后的括號(hào)內(nèi)。 1.The famous quotation from Shakespeares 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

2、 nature of language C.the universality of language D.the big difference between human language and animal communication 2.Of the following sound combinations, only _ is permissible according to the sequential rules in English.( ) A.kibl B.bkil C.ilkb D.ilbk 3.The sentence that has a NP and a VP can

3、be shown in a _ formula SNP VP.( ) A.hierarchical B.linear C.tree diagram D.vertical 4.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 5.Predication anal

4、ysis is a way to analyze _ meaning. A.phoneme B.word C.phrase D.sentence 6.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 7.The term _ linguistics may be defined

5、 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 8.The way in which people address each other depends on their age, sex, social group, and personal rela

6、tionship. 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 9.Language and thought may be viewed as two independent circles overlapping in some parts. When l

7、anguage 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 10.Whcih of the following best states the behaviorist view of child language acquisition?_.( ) A.Lang

8、uage 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 第二部分 非選擇題 2 二、填空題(本大題共 10 小題，每小題 1

9、 分，共 10 分。) 11.In the course of time, the study of language has come to establish close links with other branches of s_ studies, such as sociology and psychology. 12.Clear 1 and dark are allophones of the same one phoneme /1/.They never take the same position in sound combinations, thus they are sai

10、d to be in c_ distribution. 13.A r_ is often seen as part of a word, but it can never stand by itself although it bears clear, definite meaning. 14.A c_ sentence contains two or more clauses, one of which is incorporated in the other. 15.That the denial of one member of two words implies the asserti

11、on of the other is the characteristic of c_ antonyms. 16.While the meaning of a sentence is abstract and decontextualized, that of an u_ is concrete and context-dependent. 17.Phonological rules may move phonemes from one place in the string to another. For example, Modern English verb ask was Old En

12、glish askian, with the /k/preceding the/s/.Sound change as a result of sound movement is known as m_. 18.In many societies of the world, we find a large number of people who speak more than one language. As a characteristic of societies, b_ inevitably results from the coming into contact of people w

13、ith different cultures and different languages. 19.The brains neurological specialization for language is called linguistic I _, which is specific to human beings. 20.In order to acquire a second language, learners will subconsciously use their first language knowledge in learning a second language.

14、 This is know as language t_. 四、名詞解釋題(本大題共 10 小題，每小題 3 分，共 30 分。) 31.cultural transmission (as a defining feature of human language) 32.phonic medium of language 33.voicing 34.inflectional morphemes 35.reference 36.locutionary act 37.protolanguage 38.ethnic dialect 39.registers 40.acculturation 五、論述

15、題(本大題共 2 小題，每小題 10 分，共 20 分。) 41.Why do we say tree diagrams are more advantageous and informative than linear structure in analyzing the constituent relationship among linguistic elements? Support your statement with examples. 42.Describe the process of language perception, comprehension and produc

16、tion. 答案 一、單項(xiàng)選擇題(本大題共 10 小題，每小題 2 分，共 20 分) 1.A 2.A 3.B 4.C 5.D 6.A 7.B 8.C 9.D 10.A 3 二、填空題(本大題共 10 小題，每小題 1 分，共 10 分) 11.social plementary 13.root plex plementary 16.utterance 17.metathesis 18.bilingualism 19.lateralization 20.transfer Children first acquire the sounds found in all languages of th

17、e world, no matter what language they are exposed to ,and in later stages acquire the more difficult sounds. 四、名詞解釋題(本大題共 10 小題，每小題 3 分，共 30 分) 31.One of the major defining features of human language.Humans are born with the ability to acquire a language, but different from animals, the actual use o

18、f human language is not genetically transmitted, rather it is culturally transmitted, i.e.it has to be taught and learnt. 32.The limited range of sounds that are used in human language communication, i.e.the speech sounds. 33.Voicing is a phonetic feature of some sounds.It is caused by the vibration

19、 of the vocal cords. 34.Inflectional morphemes are morphemes that are used to indicate the grammatrcal relations and categories,such as-ed,-(e)s,-est in English. 35.Reference is what a linguistic form refers to in the real world; it is a matter of the relationship between the form and the reality.Fo

20、r example ,if we say, The dog is barking, we must be talking about a certain dog known to both the speaker and the hearer in the situation.The actual dog the word dog refers to in this particular situation is the reference of the word dog. 36.Locutionary act refers to the act of uttering words, phra

21、ses, and clauses.It is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology. For example, by saying You have left the door wide open,the locutionary act performed by the speaker is that he has uttered all the words and expressed what the words literally mean. 37.A protolang

22、uage is the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist.The proto form can be reconstructed by identifying and comparing similar linguistic forms with similar meanings across related languages. 38.An ethnic dialect is a social dialect of a language,often cutting across regional diffe

23、rences. It is spoken mainly by a less privileged population that has experienced some form of social isolation, such as racial discrimination or segregation. 39.Registers are language varieties appropriate for use in particular speech situations,in contrast to language varieties that are associated

24、with the social or regional grouping of their customary users. For this reason, registers are also known as situational dialects. 40.Acculturation refers to a process of adapting to the culture and value system of the second language community. 五、論述題(本大題共 2 小題，每小題 10 分，共 20 分) 41.In addition to reve

25、aling a linear order, a constituent structure tree has a hierarchical structure that groups words into structural constituents and shows the syntactic category of each structural constituent, and consequently is believed to most truthfully illustrate the constituent relationship among linguistic ele

26、ments. For example, the phrase the old men and women may have two interpretations, i.e.the adjective old”may modify the noun men, or the following two nouns men and 4 women.Linear order analysis cannot tell this difference, so it is ambiguous.Whereas,the constituent or tree diagrams analysis can mak

27、e this difference clear.So,we say tree diagrams are more advantageous and informative than linear structure analysis. NP NP NP NP NP NP The old men and the women the old men and the old women 42.From the perspective of psycholinguistic analysis,language use in terms of perception,comprehension and p

28、roduction follows a certain pattern which involves the coordination of various language centers. When we speak,words are drawn from Wernickes area and transferred to Brocas area, which determines the details of their form and pronunciation.The appropriate instructions are then sent to the motor area

29、 which controls the vocal tract to physically articulate the words. When we hear something and try to comprehend it,t he stimulus from the auditory cortex is transmitted to Wernickes area,where it is then interpreted. When we perceive a visual image,a message is sent to the angular gyrus,where it is

30、 converted into a visual pattern 1. The study of language as a whole is often called _ _ linguistics. A. general B. applied B. generative D. particular 2. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a good illustration of the _ nature of la nguage. A. productive B.

31、dual C. arbitrary D. displacing 3. English consonants can be classified in terms of _ _. A. manner of articulation B. place of articulation C. force of articulation D. Both A and B 4. Which of the following vowel is not a front vowel in English？ A. i： B. e C. ： D. i 5. Inflectional morphology studie

32、s _. A. word-formation B. sentence 5 C. inflections D. none of the above 6. Which of the following morphemes can function as both an in flectional affix and a derivational affix？ A. dis- B. uni- C. er D.-ful 7. The two clauses in a _ sentence are structurally equal parts of the sentence. A. simple B

33、. complete C. complex D. coordinate 8. Which of the following does not belong to the major lexical c ategories？ A. Verb B. Noun C. Determiner D. Adjective 9. Bloomfield drew on _ psychology when tryin g to define the meaning of linguistic forms. A. naming B. conceptualist C. contextual D. behavioris

34、t 10. “rebuke”， “accuse”， and “charge” are _ synon yms. A. dialectal B. stylistic C. collocational D. semantically different 11. P_ is the study of language with reference t o psychology. 12. D_ features refer to the defining properties of h uman language that distinguish it from any animal system o

35、f comm unication. 13. A_ refers to a strong puff of air stream in the production of speech sounds. 14. Sentence s_ refers to the relative force which is gi ven to the words in a sentence. 15. In terms of morphological analysis， d_ can b e viewed as the addition of affixes to stems to form new words.

36、 16. F_ morpheme are independent units of meaning and can be used freely all by themselves. 17. Phrase structure rules， with the insertion of the lexicon， ge nerate sentences at the level of D-_. 18. Since early 1980s Noam Chomsky and other generative ling uists proposed and developed the p_ _ theor

37、y. 19. The word which is more general in meaning is called the s_ _， and the more specific words are called its hyp onyms. 6 20. In the sense relations between sentences， e_ i s a relation of inclusion. Reference answers I. Directions： Read each of the following statements caref ully. Decide which o

38、ne of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A， B， C or D in the brackets. （2%X10=20%） 1.A 2. C 3. D 4. C 5. C 6. C 7. D 8. C 9. D 10. C II. Directions： Fill in the blank in each of the following st atements with one word， the first letter of which is already given as a clu

39、e. Note that you are to fill in One word only， a nd you are not allowed to change the letter given. （1%X10= 10%） 11. Psycholinguistics 12. Design 13. Aspiration 14. str ess 15. derivation 16. Free 17. D-structure 18. principles-and-parameters 19. s uperordinate 20. entailment III. Directions： Judge

40、whether each of the following stat ements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false， you must explain why you think so and give the co rrect version. （2%X10=20%） 2002.10 自考語(yǔ)言學(xué)真題 1.The fact that different languages

41、have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is _. A. arbitrary B.non-arbitrary C. logical D.non-productive 2.All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips,i.e. rounded, EXCEPT _. 3.The level of syntactic representation that exists before movement take

42、s place is commonly termed the _. A.phrase structure B.surface structure 7 C.syntactic structure D.deep structure 4.The theory of _ accounts for the fact that noun phrases appear only in subject and object positions. A.Case Condition B.Adjacent Condition C.parameter D.Adjacent parameters 5.The pheno

43、menon that words having different meanings have the same form is called _. A.polysemy B.hyponymy C.antonymy D.homonymy 6.The utterance Were already working 25 hours a day,eight days a week.obviously violates the maxim of _. A.quality B.quantity C.relation D.manner 7.In first language acquisition chi

44、ldren usually _ grammatical rules from the linguistic information they hear. A.use B.accept C.generalize D.reconstruct 8.Standardization known as _ is necessary in order to facilitate communications. A.language interpretation B.language identification C.language choice D.language planning 9.Which of

45、 the following choices is not the key biological basis for human language acquisition? _. A.Cerebral cortex B.Neurons C.Eyes D.Angular gyrus 10.Basically all the following categories except _ are always missing in the childrens telegraphic speech stage. A.the copula verb be B.inflectional morphemes

46、C.function words D.content words 第二部分 非選擇題 11.Language exists in time and changes through time. The description of a language at some point of time is called a _s_ study of language. 12.An essential difference between consonants and vowels is whether the air coming up from the lungs meets with any _

47、o_ when a sound is produced. 13.The morphemes that cannot be used by themselves, but must be combined with other morphemes to form words are called _b_ morphemes. 14.XP may contain more than just X.For example,the NP the boy who likes his puppy consists of Det,N and S,with Det being the _s_,N the he

48、ad and S the complement. 15.According to Searles classification of illocutionary acts,to suggest that someone should see the doctor should fall into the category of _d_. 16.Hyponymy is the relationship which obtains between specific and general lexical items.The word that is more general in meaning

49、is called _s_. 17.Vowels can be nasalized.The vowel nasalization rule is an _a_ rule,which,for the most part, is caused by articulatory or physiological process in which successive sounds are made identical, or more similar, to one another. 18.One mark of an informal style is the frequent occurrence

50、 of _s_ words and expressions, 8 which make sense only to the people of particular social groups and serve as a mark of membership and solidarity within a given social group. 19.The brain is divided into two roughly symmetrical halves, called _h_, one on the right and one on the left. 20.Linguists o

51、ften use the term native language or mother tongue instead of first language, and _t_ language instead of second language in second language acquisition literature. .Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration. (3%10=30%) 31.narrow transcription 32.stem 33.der

52、ivational affixes 34.grammatical relation 35.predication 36.semantic narrowing 37.nonstandard languages 38.linguistic taboo 39.angular gyrus 40.interlanguage .Answer the following questions.(10%2=20%) 41.Explain with examples the three notions of phone, phoneme and allophone, and also how they are r

53、elated. 42.Explain what is sense and what is reference with examples. 2006.1 9 10 11 2006.10 12 13 2006.10 1Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing, which is a feature of（ ） Aall consonants Bvowels only Call consonants and some vowels Dall vowels and some co

54、nsonants 2The negative prefix“ in-”in English, when added to the adjective “possible”, is actually pronounced/im/,and spelt as “im”. This is the result of the _rule at work. （ ） Adeletion Bassimilation Cphonetic Dsequential 3The word “ecology” is a two-morpheme cluster that contains_.（ ） Atwo roots

55、Ba root and a suffix Ca root and a free morpheme Da prefix and a root 4 When we move the adverbial phrase “every day” in the sentence “Every day, we study English” to the end of the sentence, we are now _ the phrase to the right.（ ） Arewriting Bpreposing Cpostposing Dmaintaining 5Antonyms are divided into several kinds .Which of the following is NOT a kind of antonyms? （ ） Acomplementary Brelational Csuperordinate Dgradable 6In terms of predication analysis , the