英语专八语言学测试题

英语专八人文 语言学测试题 1. Which of the following features is NOT one of the design features of language? A language is a systemB language is symbolic C Animal also have languageD language is arbitrary 2. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human loanguage is __________. A arbitraryB non-arbitraryC logicalD non-productive 3. Which of the foloowing terms best describes the “-ate” in the word “affectionate”? A derivational morphemeB infectional morphemeC free morphemeD prefix 4. Which of the foloowing terms best describes the pair of words kill and dill? A minimal pairB phonemic contrastC closed class wordsD bound morphemes 5. What is the basic lexical relation between piece and peace? A synonymyB antonymyC homonymyD polysemy 6. /p/ is different from /b/ in ______. A the manner of articulationB the shape of the lips C the vibration of the vocal cordsD the place of articulation 7. Of all the speech organs, the ____ is / are the most flexible. A mouthB lipsC tongueD vocal cords 8. The phonological features of the consonant /t/ are ______. A voiced stopB voiceless stopC voiced fricativeD voiceless fricative 9. The branch of linguistics that studies show context influences the way speakers interpret sentences is called ________. A semanticsB pragmaticsC sociaolinguisticsD psycholinguistics 10. The utterance “We’ve already eaten ten tons.” Obviously violates the maxim of ______. A qualityB quantityC relationD manner 11. All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i.e. rounded, except _____. A // 12. The semantic relationship between the two sentences “Mary’s son is an engineer.” And “Mary has a son.” is _______. A entailmentB presuppositionC synonymyD inconsistency 13. Which of the following sentences is a commissive? A The eqarth is round.B I now prinounce you husband and wife. C I’m really sorry!D I’ll be here tomorrow 14. Semantic feature analysis attempts to account for the _____ of a word according to the presence or abence of a specific semantic feature in the word. A conceptual meaningB social meaningC connotative meaningD affective meaning 15. ____ act is the extra meaning of the utterance produced on the basis of its literal meaning. A SpeechB LocutionaryC IllocutionaryD Perlocutionary 16. _____is a group of people using a given language or dialect. They use the same kind of language or dialect which is highly strtified in terms of social division. A Speech communityB Individual dialectC Regional dialectD Social dialect 17. The situation where two very different varieties of the same language are used side by side for two different sets of functions is termed as _______. A diglossiaB bilingualismC multilingualismD register 18. A ____is a variety of a language that is not a native language of anynone, but is learned on co9ntact situation such as trading. A pidginB creoleC dialectD lingua franca 19. The Word“lab”is ed through _________. A back ationB blendingC clippingD