语言学概论练习测试题库及参考答案.docx

语言学概论练习测试题 库及参考答案 集团文件版本号：（M928-T898-M248-WU2669-I2896-DQ586-M1988） 《英语语言学》练习测试题及参考答案 本科 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 . duality Key: B The B. productivity C. displacement D. arbitrariness function refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing a favorable atmosphere 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 communicated of the feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer. affective collocative Key: A associative C. stylistic D. When –ing in ‘gangling’ is removed to get a verb ‘gangle’, we call this way of creating words . suffixation acronymy Key: B back-formation C. blending D. 5. refers to the process by which words rise from humble beginnings to positions of importance. A. Degradation B. Specialization Extension Key: C Elevation D. 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 . idiolect dialect Key: A regional dialect C. temporal dialect D. social When pitch, stress and length variations are tied to the sentence rather than to the word, they are collectively known as . intonation stress Key: A tone C. phoneme D. sentence 8. refers to the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound. Addition of sound Assimilation Key: D Loss of sound C. Metathesis 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. Indo-European B. Sino-Tibetan C. Hamito-Semitic D. Malayo-Polynesian Key: B A is the minimal contrastive unit in the writing syst