《英语语言学概论》期末考试样卷doc.docVIP

I．Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (10 points, 1 point each) Articulatory Phonetics studies the physical properties of speech sounds. djectives belong to open class words. John Austin made the distinction between a constative and a performative. What essentially distinguishes semantics and pragmatics is whether in the study of meaning the context of use is considered. English is a typical intonation language. Phones in complementary distribution should be assigned to the same phoneme. Pragmatics treats the meaning of language as something intrinsic and inherent. There are words of more or less the same meaning used in different regional dialects. Transformations are the rules which can change the meaning of sentence. Sense and reference are two different notions of semantics, and they are related to each other. II. Fill in the following blanks. (10 points, 1 point each) The word “and” is a c____________ conjunction. Linguistic c__________ is a native speaker’s linguistic knowledge of his language. The relationship between the sound and the meaning of a word is a________. A m________ is the smallest linguistic unit that carries meaning. A sentence is formed by phonological rules, m______ rules, syntactic rules and semantic rules. The most recognizable difference between American English and British English are in p________ and vocabulary. Speech v________refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker or a group of speakers. P ____ refers to the realization of langue in actual use. Linguistics is generally defined as the s ____ study of language. As a type of linguistic system in L2 learning, i_______ is a product of L2 training, mother tongue interference, overgeneralization of the target language rules, and learning and communicative strategies of the learner.. ? III. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement. (20 points, 1 point each) 1. Which of the following branch of linguistics ta