英语语言学平时测验与答案.docVIP

Quiz I. True or False (50%) 1. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. ( T ) 2. Linguistics studies particular language, not language in general. ( F ) 3. A scientific study of language is based on what the linguists think. ( F ) 4. In the study of linguistics, hypotheses formed should be based on language facts and checked against the observed facts. ( T ) 5. Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication. ( T ) 6. Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences. ( F ) 7. English is a typical tone language. ( F ) 8. The basic principle of IPA is using a different letter for each distinguishable speech sound. ( F ) 9. Both phonology and phonetics are studies of speech sound. ( T ) 10. The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar. ( T ) 11. The writing system of a language is always a later invention used to record speech; thus there are still many languages in today’s world that can only be spoken, but not writing. ( F ) 12. The open-class words include prepositions. ( F ) 13. In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria can be applied. ( F ) 14. By synchrony we mean to study language change and development. ( F ) 15. Parole refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community. ( F ) 16. Only words of the same parts of speech can be combined to form compounds. ( T ) 17. Animal call systems are not genetically transmitted. ( F ) 18. The English spelling exactly represents its pronunc