（0181）《语言学导论》网上作业题及答
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1：第一批作业 2：第二批作业 3：第三批作业 4：第四批作业 5：第五批作业 6：第六批作业
1：[单选题]Which of the following sounds is an unvoiced dental fricative? _______ A: [s]
B:[ts]
C:[w] D:[t]
参考答案：A正确
2：[单选题]Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between _____ and meanings. A：sense
B：sounds
C：objects
D：ideas
参考答案：B正确
3：[单选题]Modern linguistics regards the written language as _____. A：primary
B：better
C：secondary
D：unchangeable
参考答案：C正确
4：[单选题]Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?
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A：Arbitrariness
B：Displacement
C：Duality
D：Meaningfulness
参考答案：D正确
5：[单选题]If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be ______. A：prescriptive
B：analytic
C：descriptive
D：linguistic
参考答案：C正确
6：[判断题]The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure.
参考答案：错误正确
7：[判断题]Modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar. 参考答案：正确正确
8：[判断题]A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time. 参考答案：错误正确
9：[判断题]Modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar. 参考答案：正确正确
10：[判断题]Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive. 参考答案：错误正确
11：[单选题]Linguistics studies particular language, not languages in general. A：False
B：True
参考答案：A正确
12：[单选题]Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. A：False
B：True
参考答案：B正确
13：[单选题]_____ is the study of meaning in language.
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A:Syntax
B:Applied linguistics
C:Morphology
D:Semantics
参考答案：D正确
14：[单选题]The branch of linguistic study called _____ is concerned with how speakers use the sentences of a language to achieve effective and successful communication. A:sociolinguistics
B:pragmatics
C:syntax
D:computational linguistics
参考答案：B正确
15：[单选题]When language is used for establishing an atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas, it serves a _____ function. A:expressive
B:evocative
C:performative
D:phatic
参考答案：D正确
16：[单选题]By _____, we mean language can refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. A:cultural transmission
B: interchangeability
C:displacement
D:creativity
参考答案：C正确
17：[单选题]Language serves the ________ function when it is used to express the speaker's feeling or attitude or to arouse a certain feeling or attitude in the hearer.
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A: phatic
B:informative
C:emotive
D:directive
参考答案：C正确
18：[单选题]Foreign language learners' errors may be caused by ________. A:borrowing patterns from the mother tongue
B:extending patterns form the target language, e.g. by analogy
C:expressing meanings using the words and grammar which are already known
D:all the above three
参考答案：D正确
19：[单选题]Which one of the following statements does not account for the primacy of speech over writing in linguistic analysis? _______
A:Speech existed long before writing systems came into being.
B:Speech is more complex than writing.
C:Genetically children learn to speak before learning to write.
D: Written forms just represent in this way or that the speech sounds.
参考答案：B正确
20：[单选题]A ______ is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to which an affix can be added. A:root
B:free morpheme
C:stem
D:suffix
参考答案：C正确
21：[单选题]_____ studies the changes in language and language use with respect to social factors.
A:Sociolinguistics
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B:Comparative linguistics
C:Syntax
D:Computational linguistics
参考答案：A正确
22：[单选题]_____ are produced when the nasal passage is opened by lowering the soft palate ant the back of the throat and the air is allowed to pass through it. A:Semi-vowels
B:Affricates
C:Nasals
D:Glides
参考答案：C正确
23：[单选题]The syllabic structure of the word \A:CVCCVC
B:CCVCCCVC
C:CCVCCVC
D:CVVCCVC
参考答案：A正确
24：[单选题]There are ______ morphemes in the word \A: two
B:three
C:four
D:five
参考答案：B正确
25：[单选题]Of the following sounds, ______ is a rounded vowel. A:[au]
B: [u:]
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