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Revisio n I. Multiple choices. 1. _C_________ are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords. A. Stresses B. Voicings C. Tones D. Intonations 2. ______C____ plays the performative function. A. Hello, do you hear me? B. You’d better go to the clinic. C. Can’t you see people are dying? D. What a blessing! 3. The ____B______ nature of language explains the symbolic nature of language: words are just symbols; they are associated with objects, actions, ideas, etc. by convention. A. duality B. arbitrary C. productivity D. displacement 4. The two words petrol and gasoline are ___A_______. A. dialectal synonyms B. stylistic synonyms C. synonyms that differ in their emotive meaning D. collocative synonyms 5. _____C_____ is not a design feature of language. A. Arbitrariness B. Creativity C. Communicability D. Duality 6. Syntactic deep structure was developed to _______B___. A. explain relations between sentences with the same meaning B. explain a single sentence with more than one meaning C. explain relations between sentences with different meanings D. both A and B 7. Promises and offers are characteristic of the group of ____C______ of illocutionary acts. A. representatives B. declaratives C. commissives D. expressives 8. –ish in the word boyish is _______D___. A. a free morpheme B. a root C. a stem D. an affix 9. ____D______ does NOT belong to semantic changes. A. Broadening B. Borrowing C. Narrowing D. Class shift 10. The two words suite and sweet are ______D____. A. hyponyms B. relational antonyms C. homographs D. Homophones 11. According to ____A______ rule, the word sign should pronounced as [saIn]. A. deletion B. sequential C. assimilation D. suprasegmental 12. What essentially distinguishes semantics from pragmatics is ______A____. A. whether in the study