loadingD. blik
26. Which pair of words below shows the relation of synonymy. ______ A. drunk—sober B. uncle—aunt C. young—old
D. casual—informal
27. The sense relationship between “He has been to France” and “He has been to Europe” is ______.
A. hyponymy B. antonymy
C. presupposition D. entailment
28. In the phrase structure rule “NP—>(Det) N (PP)…”, the arrow can be read as______. A. is equal to
B. branches into C. transforms D. generates
29. In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][r][s][l][z][n] share the feature of ______. A. palatal
B. alveolar
C. bilabial D. dental
30. Y’s utterance in the following conversation violates the maxim of ______.
X: When is Susan’s farewell party Y: Sometime next month. A. quality
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B. quantity C. relation D. manner
31. Of the three speech acts, linguists are most interested in the ______because this kind of speech act is identical with the speaker’s intention.
A. locutionary act B. constative act C. perlocutionary act D. illocutionary act
32. We call the relation between “vehicle” and “car” as ______. A. hyponymy B. synonymy C. polysemy D. homonymy
33. Which of the following pairs differs from the others in the sense relation ______ A. good, bad
B. long, short
C. big, small D. innocent, guilty
34. As far as manners of articulation are concerned, which of the following
differs from the others ______ A. [p] B. [b] C. [t] D. [f]
35. Which pair of the following belong to meronymy
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A. animal, tiger B. hand, finger C. livestock, dog
D. furniture, dresser
36. “-En” in “blacken” is a(n) ______. A. derivational affix B. inflectional affix C. free root D. bound root
37. Transformational rules do not change the basic ______ of sentences. A. form
B. structure C. meaning
D. sound pattern
38. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called____.
A.commissives B. directives
B.expressives D. declaratives
39. The illocutionary point of the____ is to express the psychological state specified in the utterance.
A. declarations B. expressives
B.commissives D. directives
40. Y’s utterance in the following conversation exchange violates the maxim of ______.
X: Who was that you were with last night？
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Y: Did you know that you were wearing odd socks？ A. quality B. quantity C. relation D. manner II. Blank filling 1.
Productivityor___ refers to man’s linguistic ability which
enables him to produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences in our native language, including the sentences which were never heard before.
2.
Some antonyms are gradable_ because there are often
intermediate forms between the two members of a pair.
3.
Duality is the way meaningless elements of language at one
level (sounds and letters) combine to form meaningful units (words) at another level.
4.
According to its position in the new word, affixes are divided
into two kinds: prefixes and suffixes.
5.
Phonological rules that govern the combination of sounds in
a particular language are called sequential rules.
6.
Root_ constitutes the core of the word and carries the major
component of its meaning.
7.
A suffix is added to the end of stems to modify the meaning
of the original word and it may change its part of speech.
8.
In terms of morphemic analysis, derivation can be viewed as
the addition of affixes to stems to form new words.
9.
Some morphemes cannot normally stand alone, but function only
as parts of words, . –s, -er, -ed and –ing, which are called bound______ morphemes.
10. When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as
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intonation.
11. Lanuguge _is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.
12. Saussure put forward two important concepts. Langue_ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all members of a speech community.
13. Broad transcription is normally used in dictionary and teaching
textbooks for general purposes.
14. The root _ constitutes the core of the word and carries the major
component of its meaning.
15. Prefixes modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the
part of speech of the original word.
16. Displacement is a design feature of human language that enables speakers
to talk about a wide range of things, free from barriers caused by separation
in time and space.
17. An independent unit of meaning that can be used freely by itself is called
a free _ morpheme.
18. Clear [l] and dark [l] are allophones of the same one phoneme /l/. They never
take the same position in sound combinations; thus they are said to be in
complementary distribution.
19. Stem is the base to which one or more affixes are attached to
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