现代语言学自考历年真题2001.10 ——2011.1

全国2011年1月自学考试现代语言学试题

课程代码：00830

I . Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the

statement and put the letter A, B, C, or D in the brackets. (2% × 10=20% )

1.There is a difference between what we know, which is our linguistic competence, and how we use this knowledge in actual speech production and______, which is our linguistic performance. ( )

A. creation B. communication

C. comprehension D. perception

2.The sounds that begin and end the words church and judge are voiceless and voiced

______,respectively. ( )

A. affricates B. stops

C. velars D. palatals

3.Morphemes which represent such grammatical categories as number, tense, gender, and case are called _______ morphemes. ( )

A. free B. bound

C. derivational D. inflectional

4.XP may contain more than just X. Phrases that are formed of more than one word usually contain head, ______and complement. ( )

A. modifier B. determiner

C. qualifier D. specifier

5. ______ is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form while _______ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and non-linguistic world of experience. ( )

A. Reference, sense B. Sense, referent

C. Sense, reference D. Referent, sense

6. According to John Austin’s theory of speech act, a(n) ______ act is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention.

( )

A. prelocutionary B. locutionary

C. illocutionary D. perlocutionary

7. Sound changes may include the loss of a sound or sounds. The so-called apocope refers to the omission of a vowel segment________. ( )

A. in word-initial B. in word-middle

C. in word-final D. in syllable-initial

8. In contrast to Standard American English, Black English is the distinct variety of English native to black populations in the USA. We regard Black English as________. ( )

A. a regional dialect B. a social dialect

C. a situational dialect D. an ethnic dialect

9. Among the language centers, ______is responsible for physical articulation of utterances. ( )

A. the motor area B. Broca’s area

C. Wernicke’s area D. the angular gyrus

10. The language at ________ stage begins to reflect the distinction between sentence-types, such as negative sentences, imperatives, and questions. ( )

A. prelinguistic B. one-word

C. two-word D. multiword

II. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given. ( 1%×10=10% )

is one of the defining properties of human language, which means there is in general no natural relation between meanings and sounds.

12. Among the three branches of phonetics, the study of the physical properties of the streams of sounds produced in speech 13. In using the morphological rules, we must guard against that different words may require different affixes to create the same meaning change.

14. Universal Grammar is a set of principles and grammar which, according to Chomsky, is inherited genetically by all human beings.

15. The synonyms such as economical, thrifty, and stingymeaning.