语言学复习模拟题.docVIP

Main points: Terms: LAD, propositional logic, critical period, construal, implicature, langue, phoneme, morpheme, IC analysis, syllogism, Assimilation, allophone, inflection, endocentric construction, exocentric construction, component analysis, recursiveness, sense, performatives Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement ( ) 1. Learning/teaching a language is also learning /teaching a culture. ( ) 2. Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive. ( ) 3. A basic way to determine the phonemes of a language is to see if substituting one sound for another results in a change of meaning. ( ) 4. Culture refers to the entire way of life of a human society. ( ) 6. Conceptual meaning is concerned with the relation between a word and the thing it denotes, or refers to. ( ) 7. The meaning of a sentence is simply the sum total of the meanings of its components words. ( ) 8. According to Chomsky, one feature of the child language is Self-regularization. ( ) 9. An utterance is an abstract unit of the language system. ( ) 10. Language is the carrier and container of cultural information, and thus culture is part of language. ( ) 11. The langue-parole distinction was propsed by Chomsky, an American linguists. ( ) 12. A language users underlying knowledge about the system of rules is called his linguistic performance. ( ) 13. UG grammar was proposed by Halliday, a famous linguist in Australia. ( ) 14. First language acquisition is a process better described as “growth” than “learning”.. ( ) 15. Speech acts are the basic or minimal units of linguistic communication. ( ) 16. Function words are used to refer to substance, action and quality.. ( ) 17. A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time. ( ) 18. All sentences can be used to do things, according to Austin. ( ) 19. The metalingual function of langu