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语语⾔⾔学学期期末末考考试试重重点点 语⾔学重点 题型： 1.Translation (20分10个) 单词5个中翻英5个英翻中 2.Gap filling (20分10个) 3.multiple choice (20分10个) 4.T or F (10分10个) 5.Question and nswer (30分2个) I. Decide w hether each of the follow ing statements is TRUE or F LSE: 1. Competence and performance is distinguished by Saussure.(F) 2. synchronic linguistics is the study of a language through the course of its history.(F) 3. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.(T) 4. Linguistics studies particular language, not languages in general.(F) 5. Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication.(T) 6. The study of the ways in w hich morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology.(T) 7. Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.(F) 8. Modern linguistics regards the w ritten language as primary, not the spoken language.(F) 9. The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure.(F) 10. English is a tone language w hile Chinese is not.(F) 11. rticulatory phonetics tries to describe the physical properties of the stream of sounds w hich a speaker issues w ith the help of a machine called spectrograph.(F) 12. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing.(F) 13. English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tongue that is raised the highest. (F) 14. Phones are the sounds that can distinguish meaning.(F) 15. The rules governing the phonological patterning are language specific.(T) 16. The distinction between vowels and consonants lies in the obstruction of airstream.(T) 17. Words are the smallest meaningful units of language.(F) 18. Inflectional morphemes manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree, and case.(T) 19. The meaning of a compound is the combination of