南昌工程学院外语系08语言学试卷A卷.doc

Part I Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully and put the letter A,B,C or D in the brackets. (2%×20=40%) 1. Saussure took a (n)__________ view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a ________ point of view. A. sociological…psychological B. psychological…sociological C. applied… pragmatic D. semantic … linguistic 2. Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called_________. A. displacement B. duality C. flexibility D. cultural transmission 3. Since /p/ and /b/ are phonetically similar, occur in the same environments and they can distinguish meaning, they are said to be ___________. A. in phonemic contrast B. in complementary distribution C. the allophones D. minimal pair 4. _________is one of the supersegmental features. A. Stop B. Voicing C. Deletion D. Tone 5. “-s” in the word “books” is _______. A. a derivative affix B. a stem C. an inflectional affix D. a root 6. _____b____ are often thought to be the smallest meaningful units of language by the linguists. A. Words B. Morphemes C. Phonemes D. Sentences 7. Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditionally called ___a_____. A. transformational rules B. generative rules C. phrase structure rules D. x-bar theory 8. “We shall know a word by the company it keeps.” This statement represents ___b____. A. the conceptualist view B. contexutalism C. the naming theory D. behaviourism 9．The pair of words “alive” and “dead” are ____c__________. A. gradable antonyms B. relational opposites C. complementary antonyms D. None of the above 10. “Can I borrow your bike?” ___d____ “ You have a bike.” A. is synonymous with B. is inconsistent with C. entails D. presupposes 11. The word “liquor” in contemporary English is an alcoholic drink, but it was once synonymous with “liqui