loading37. When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string, the two sound combinations are said to form a __________.
A. adjacency pairs B. minimal pairs
C. complementary pairs D. similar pairs
38.”Brunch” is a word formed by _____.
A. clipping B. back-formation C. coinage D. blending
39.Which of the underlined morphemes below is a derivational morpheme?
A. started B. jumping C. physician D. suffixes 40.____ is concerned with the processes of language comprehension and production.
A. Pragmatics B. Morphology C. Semantics D. Psycholinguistics
III.True of false judgement (20%)
41. The brain, weighing about 1,400grams, consists of about ten billion nerve cells called neurons.
42. W hat is measured in the ing experiment is the extent to which the prime influences the subject’s psychological decision performance on the target stimulus.
43. According to Austin, a speaker might be performing three acts simultaneously when speaking: locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act.
44. Diacritics are added to the letter-symbols to bring out finer distinctions than the letters alone may possibly do.
45.Mode of discourse refers to the role of relationship in the situation in question.
46.”Language is arbitrary” means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds since different sounds are used to refer to the same object in different languages.
47.Derivational morphemes are the group of morphemes such as –en,-ate, and –ic etc. Because when they are conjoined to other morphemes (or words), a new word is derived of formed.
48. Locutionary act is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance; it is the act performed by saying something.
49.The cortex is separated by the longitudinal fissure into two parts: the left and right cerebral hemispheres.
50. Transformational Generative Grammar was introduced by N. Chomsky in 1967.
IV.Explain the following notions briefly (25%)
51.behaviourist
52.sense and reference
53.Wh-Movement
54.LAD
55.Draw a tree diagram for “The girl bought the book.”
V. Essay question (15%)
Write a passage of 120-150words on the following topic .
56. What are suprasegmental features? How do the major suprasegmental features of
English
function
your
in
conveying
with
meaning?Illustrate concrete examples.
部分参考答案
answer
1.auditory 2. complements 3. Homonymy 4 Sociolect 5. acquired 6. relativity
7. morpheme 8. interractionist 9. Context
10. Prescriptive 11. voicing 12. Reference
13. Aphasia 14 . Determiner 15. systematic
16. closed 17. pidgin 18. Acronyms
19. Integrative 20. performance
21. D 22. C 23. C 24. A 25. A
26.B 27. C 28. B 29. D 30.B
31.B 32.D 33. A 34.C 35.A
36. C 37.B 38. D 39. C 40.D
41.T 42. F 43.T 44. T 45. F 46. T 47.T 48.F 49.T 50.F