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I. Multiple choices.
1. _C_________ are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords. A. Stresses B. Voicings C. Tones D. Intonations 2. ______C____ plays the performative function. A. Hello, do you hear me? B. You’d better go to the clinic. C. Can’t you see people are dying? D. What a blessing!
3. The ____B______ nature of language explains the symbolic nature of language: words are just symbols; they are associated with objects, actions, ideas, etc. by convention. A. duality B. arbitrary C. productivity D. displacement 4. The two words petrol and gasoline are ___A_______. A. dialectal synonyms B. stylistic synonyms
C. synonyms that differ in their emotive meaning D. collocative synonyms
5. _____C_____ is not a design feature of language. A. Arbitrariness B. Creativity C. Communicability D. Duality
6. Syntactic deep structure was developed to _______B___. A. explain relations between sentences with the same meaning B. explain a single sentence with more than one meaning
C. explain relations between sentences with different meanings D. both A and B
7. Promises and offers are characteristic of the group of ____C______ of illocutionary acts. A. representatives B. declaratives C. commissives D. expressives 8. –ish in the word boyish is _______D___. A. a free morpheme B. a root C. a stem D. an affix
9. ____D______ does NOT belong to semantic changes. A. Broadening B. Borrowing C. Narrowing D. Class shift 10. The two words suite and sweet are ______D____. A. hyponyms B. relational antonyms C. homographs D. Homophones 11. According to ____A______ rule, the word sign should pronounced as [saIn]. A. deletion B. sequential C. assimilation D. suprasegmental 12. What essentially distinguishes semantics from pragmatics is ______A____. A. whether in the study of the meaning the context of use is considered
B. whether it studies the meaning or not
C. whether it studies how the speakers use language to effect communication D. whether it is a branch of linguistics
13. The sentence John likes linguistics, but Mary is interested in history is a __B________. A. simple sentence B. coordinated sentence C. complex sentence D. clause
14. _____C_____ is an error caused by negative transfer.. A. goed B. comed C. foots D. He tomorrow come
15. In general, linguistic change in ___D_______ of a language is the more noticeable than in other systems of the grammar. A. the sound system B. the vocabulary C. the syntax D. the sound system and the vocabulary
16. ____D______ manifests various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree and case. A. Roots B. Stems C. Derivational affixes D. Inflectional affixes
II. Blank-filling.
1. ___ register _______ is the term used in linguistics to describe the relationship between a particular type of language and its context of use.
2. One of the design features termed as ___ displacement _______ means that human language enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present (in time and space) at the moment of communication.
3. Foreign language learners will subconsciously use their L1 knowledge in learning the foreign language and this is called language ___ transfer _______.
4. In injustice and imperfect, in- and im- are supposed to be the __affix_______ of the same morpheme.
5. Chomsky defines _competence_________ as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language.
6. Predication analysis is to break down predications into their constituents: argument____ and predicate__________.
7. If we think of a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes an __ utterance _____.
8. If you tell someone the time instead of the price that is inquired by the person, you violate the maxim of ___relation_______.
9. The experience and his study of Hopi, an American Indian language, helped Whorf develop his unique understanding of linguistic _ relativity _________, which is widely known as the SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESE.
10. Evidence in support of lateralization for language in the left hemisphere of the brain comes from researches in __dichotic________ listening tasks.
11. __ Componential________ analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can be divided into meaning components.
12. Transformational rules are those rules which relate or transform _deep structure_________ of
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a sentence into __surface structure________.
13. The social group isolated for any given study is called the speech community________.
14. _ Interpersonal _________ function is concerned with interaction between the addresser and addressee in the discourse situation and the addresser’s attitude toward what he speaks or writes about.