2012-13香港中文大学MA语言学部试题.docxVIP

2012-13 CUHK Recruitment Test MA in Linguistics MA in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition Name __________________________ Email __________________________ Phone __________________________ University __________________________ City __________________________ Province __________________________ Section One Answer all the questions in this section. Question 1 Analyze the following data and decide if [s] and [z] are allophones of the same phoneme or belong to different phonemes. Question 2 Look at the following data involving allomorphic variation: (a) What kind of morphological means does this language employ to express the meaning ‘in/at’? (b) What are the allomorphs of this morpheme? (c) Describe their distribution in the data. (d) What phonological process is involved in such distribution? Question 3 What are the possible meanings of ‘unlearnable’ and ‘undoable’? Draw tree diagrams to explain their possible meanings. Question 4 John drew two structures for the sentence “The technician will fix it tomorrow.” Professor Huang considered Structure A to be the right structure. Please give reasons why Structure A is better than Structure B. Question 5 The sentence ‘The student hit the teacher with a ruler’ is ambiguous. Illustrate the meaning differences with tree diagrams and appropriate linguistic labels. Question 6 Explain the difference in use between think of and think about. Look at the concordance lines provided below, taken from a corpus of informal spoken conversation. Are there any generalizations that can be made that would help a learner know when to use think of and when to use think about? THINK OF stank. Then, as he was trying to think of something to say to her (all yes, wedding presents. We must think of something. You probably don’t racking my brains for three hours to think of something, I simply cannot last a second catastrophe. I tried to think of something to say myself, but my