大学英语语言学练习试题.docVIP

Chapter One 重点 language 2．creativity 3．arbitrariness 4．duality 5． features of human language 6．linguistics 7．sociolinguistics 8．psycholinguistics 9．applied linguistics 10．features of modern linguistics 难点 1．meta-function 2．ideational function 3．interpersonal function 4．textual function 练习 I. Indicate the following statements true or false. Put T for true and F for false in the brackets. 1. The Swiss scholar, Ferdinand de Saussure, is the founder of Modern Linguistics. 2. The relationship between speech sounds and the meanings they present in the languages of the world is not arbitrary. 3. English is a tone language. 4. General linguistics is based on the view that language is a system which is composed of three aspects: sound, structure, and meaning. 5. Cultural transmission is one of the features of human language. 6. The focus of traditional linguistics is on synchronic study of language rather than on diachronic study of language. 7. the most frequent word orders found in languages of the world are SVO, SOV, and VSO. 8. A number of divisions of linguistics can be put into two categories: intra-disciplinary division and inter-disciplinary division. 9. Linguists attempt to discover the universals of human language. 10. Language can be used to refer to things real or imagined, past, present or future because it has the feature of interchangeability. II choose the best answer among a, b, c, d and put the letter you choose in the brackets. Morphologically, Chinese is a ___ language. a. analytic b. synthetic c.agglutinating d. infecting ___ hold that language is a product of evolutionary development of the human species. a. the Yo-he-ho theory b. the Pooh-pooh theory c .the evolution theory d. the Bow-wow theory Syntactically, English is an example of __ language SVO b. SOV c. VSO d. VOS It is the ___ function of language, in a sense, that brings the world into our mind. a. ideational b. interpersonal c. logical d. textual The study of language