09级英语语言学期考试卷A卷.doc

2011—2012学年第1学期考试试题 （卷） 课程名称 语言学概论_ 任课教师签名 陈明芳 出题教师签名 陈明芳 审题教师签名 考试方式 （闭）卷 适用专业 0级英语 考试时间 （ 120 ）分钟 题号 总分 得分 评卷人 I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False. (1’*=20’) 1（）In everyday communication, speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed. 2（）English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tongue that is raised the highest. 3（）Phonology is concerned with how the sounds can be classified into different categories. 4（）Distinctive features of sound segments can be found running over a sequence of two or more phonemic segments. 5（）General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole. 6（）General linguistics, which relates itself to the research of other areas, studies the basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicable in any linguistic study. 7（）Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication. 8（）Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences. 9（）Inflectional morphemes manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree, and case.10( ) The existing form to which a derivational affix can be added is called a stem, which can be a bound root, a free morpheme, or a derived form itself.11 ( ) Prefixes usually modify the part of speech of the original word, not the meaning of it. 12 ( ) There are rules that govern which affix can be added to what type of stem to form a new word. Therefore, words formed according to the morphological rules are acceptable words. 13 ( ) Phonetically, the stress of a compound always falls on the first element, while the second element receives secondary stress.14 ( ) Syntax is a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language, including the combination of morphemes into words.