A. coordinate B. simple C. subordinate D. embedded 6. “Words are names or labels for things.” This view is called _________ in semantic theory.
A. mentalism B. contextualism C. conceptualism D. naming theory 7. The semantic relationship between flower and rose is _______.
A.hyponyms B. hyponymy C. co-hyponyms D. superordinate 8. The words such as handbook and highway are ___________.
A. formed by blending B. coined by back-formation
C. compound words D. derivations 9. X-bar theory is __________________.
A. highly specific and concrete, therefore only useful to solve concrete problems
B. capable of reducing the redundancies of individual phrasal structure rules
C. so highly abstract that it can explain all the properties of all phrasal categories
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D. inefficient in coping with the language structures other than those of English
10. The words “railway” and “railroad” are __________. A. synonyms differing in emotive meaning B. synonyms differing in styles C. dialectal synonyms
D. synonyms differing in register
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.
11. A person who studies linguistics is called a l____________. 12.M_________ is the linguistic study of how morphemes are combined to form words.
13. In modern linguistics, s__________ is considered primary over writing.
14. There are two ways to classify consonants: by place of articulation and by m___________ of articulation. 15. S_________ is the linguistic study of meaning in abstraction.
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16. H___________ refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form.
17. The study of language with reference to the workings of the mind is called p________.
18. Vowels can be classified by the position of the tongue, openness of the mouth and l_________ of the sound. 19. The notion of linguistic determinism and linguistic relativism is called the S_________ hypothesis.
20. An e___________ is a mild, indirect or less offensive word or expression substituted when the speaker or writer fears more direct wording might be harsh or unpleasant.
1. B 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. B 10. C
11. linguist 12. Morphology 13. speech 14. manner 15. Semantics
16. Homonymy 17. psycholinguistics 18. length 19. Sapir-whorf 20. euphemism 第七组
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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%X10=20%)
1. The study of language development at some point in time is generally termed as ___________ linguistics. A. comparative B. applied C. synchronic D. diachronic 2. N. Chomsky is a famous _____________ linguist. A. American B. British C. Greek D. Swiss 3. In the following sounds ___________ is a voiceless affricate.
A. [d] B.[l] C. [tF] D. [w] 4. In English, “pill” and “bill” are ___________. A. a phonemic contrast B. complementary distribution
C. assimilation D a minimal pair
5. The word “unhappiness” has ____________ morpheme(s) A. one B. two C. three D. four 6. In English the letter combination “care” in the word “carelessness” is called ___________.
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A. suffix B. prefix
C. infix D. free morpheme 7. A word with several meaning is called _________. A. a synonymous word B. a polysemous word
C. an abnormal word D. none of the above 8. We call the relation between “animal” and “tiger” as ___________.
A. polysemy B. synonymy C. hyponymy D. homophony 9. The pair of words “let? and “rent” is called ___________. A. relational opposites B. gradable antonyms C. complementary antonyms D. co-hyponyms 10. Which description of the meaning components of the word “mother” is right.
A. [+human, +adult, +male] B. [-human, +adult, +male] C. [+human, +adult, -male] D. [+human, -adult,-male]
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.
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