C. the universality of language
D. the big difference between human language and animal communication
3. _____________ is a voiced alveolar stop.
A. /d/
B. /g/
C. /b/
D. /z/
4. The phenomenon that words having different meanings
share the same form is called ______________. A. polysemy
B. hyponymy C. antonymy D.
homonymy
5. The pair of words “lend” and “borrow” are ____________.
A. gradable antonymys C. complementary antonymys
6. The process that “televise” derives from “television” is known as ______________.
A. blending C. acronym language.
A.
prescriptive words.
A. invariable B.
C.
D. lexical
B.
descriptive
C. diachronic D.
synchronic
B. zero-derivation D back-formation B.converse antonymys D.co-hyponymys
7. A historical study of language is a _____________ study of
8. Nouns and verbs in English belong to ______________
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closed-class grammatical
9. There are _______________ inflectional morphemes in
“Apple's incautious claim of ?world's fastest? was severely criticized by ad watchdogs”. A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
10. The word “so” in “I think so.” is a _________________.
A. pronoun synonyms.
A. marked
B. stylistic
C. dialectical D.
connotative
12. The morpheme “-ceive” in “deceive” is ________________.
A. a derivational affix C. a free root
B. an inflectional affix D a bound root
B. pro-form
C. auxiliary
D. determiner
11. “Fall” and “autumn” form a pair of _____________
13. The classic semantic triangle reflects the _____. A. naming theory C. contextualism B. conceptual view D. behaviorist theory 14. “Radar” is a/an . A. acronym B. blending C. coinage D. clipping
15. Kodak is a(n) ____________.
A. coinage
B. blending
C. acronym
D. clipping
16. \
A. dialectal C. collocational
B. stylistic
D semantically different
17. The semantic change sometimes occurs in the process of
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language development. For example, a “silly” person was a happy person in Old English, and a naive person in Middle English, but a foolish person in Modern English. The phenomenon is called semantic ______________.
A.
broadening
18. The word “kongfu” in English is a manifestation of _______________.
A. loanshift
B. loan translation
19. The word “smog” is derived by way of _________________.
A.
B.
C. blending D.
compounding
C. loanblend D. loan word
B. narrowing C. entailment D. shift
back-formation abbreviation child language acquisition?
20. Which of the following best states the behaviorist view of A. Language acquisition is a process of habit formation B. Language acquisition is the species-specific property of human beings
C. Children are born with an innate ability to acquire language
D. Humans are equipped with the neural prerequisites for language and language use
21 Unlike animal communication systems, human language is . A. stimulus bound B. stimulus free
C. under immediate stimulus control
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D. stimulated by some occurrence of communal interest 22 Compound words consist of morphemes. A. bound C. both bound and free B. free D. neither free nor bound 23 Which of the following consonants does not exist in English?
A. dental stop B. bilabial stop C. alveolar stop D. velar stop
24 The function of the sentence “Water boils at 100 degree Centigrade” is . A. interrogative B. directive C. informative D. performative
25 A is any morpheme or combination of morphemes to
which an inflectional affix can be added.
A. stem B. root C. allomorph D. lexeme 26. The sense relationship between “John plays the violin” and “John plays a musical instrument” is . A. hyponymy B. antonymy C. polysemy D.
entailment
27 The relation between words “rose” and “flower” is that
of . A. synonymy B. antonymy C. homonymy D.
hyponymy
28 refers to the relations holding between elements replaceable with each at particular place in structure, or between one element present and the others absent. A. Syntagmatic relation C. Co-occurrence relation
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B. Paradigmatic relation D. Exocentric relation 29. Which of the following does not belong to the computational linguistics?
A. machine translation B. corpus linguistics C. speech recognition D. empirical study 30. deals with the way in which speech sounds are produced.
A. Acoustic phonetics B. Articulatory phonetics
C. Segmental phonology D. Suprasegmental phonology
31. Which of the following is the correct description of [v]? A. voiced alveolar stop labiodental fricative
C. voiced palatal affricate labiodental stop
32. The vowel is a low back vowel.
A. /i:/ B. /u/ C. /?/ D. /a:/
33. Distinctive features can be found running over a sequence
of two or more phonemic segments. The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called
D. voiced
B. voiced
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____________.
A. phonetic components B. immediate constituents
C. suprasegmental features D. semantic features 34. The word UN is formed in the way of .
A. acronymy B. clipping C. initialism D. blending
35. “New elements are not to be inserted into a word even
when there are several parts in a word.” This is known as _____.
A. uninterruptibility B. stability D. variability
C. extremity
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