语言学概论练习测试题库及参考答案.docVIP

. . . -可修编. ?英语语言学?练习测试题及参考答案 本科 I. Tick off the correct or the best possible answers: One of the properties of language is that a language user can understand and produce sentences he/she has never heard before. This property of language is called ________. A. duality B. productivity C. displacement D. arbitrariness Key: B The ______ function refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing a favorableatmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas. A. phatic B. directive C. evocative D. performative Key: A From a functional approach, the _______ meaning of a language use consists of what is municated of the feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer. A. affective B. associative C. stylistic D. collocative Key: A When –ing in ‘gangling’ is removed to get a verb ‘gangle’, we call this way of creating words ________. A. suffixation B. back-formation C. blending D. acronymy Key: B ______ refers to the process by which words rise from humble beginnings to positions of importance. A. Degradation B. Specialization C. Elevation D. Extension Key: C As we know, every speaker has his own pet words and expressions and special way of expressing his ideas in language. This language variety of individual users is called ______. A. idiolect B. regional dialect C. temporal dialect D. social dialect Key: A When pitch, stress and length variations are tied to the sentence rather than to the word, they are collectively known as ________. A. intonation B. tone C. phoneme D. sentence stress Key: A _______ refers to the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound. A. Addition of sound B. Loss of sound C. Metathesis D. Assimilation Key: D Basically, all the languages in the world can be classified in terms of language family. Vietnamese and Korean are two languages in the ______ family