1、Language is （ ） because every language contains a set of rules which underlie people's actual speech or writing. 单选题 1分

2、Of the sub-branches of linguistics, （ ） is concerned with the sound system of a language. 单选题 1分

3、Among the following consonants, （ ） is an oral voiced alveolar plosive. 单选题 1分

4、If two sounds are found to be in contrastive distribution, then they are said to be （ ）. 单选题 1分

5、Of the suprasegmental features, （ ） refers to the phonetic boundary features which may demarcate grammatical units such as morphemes, words or clauses. 单选题 1分

6、The （ ） is defined as the most important part of a word that carries the principal meaning. 单选题 1分

7、Of the word-formation processes, （ ） refers to a process of word-formation, in which two or more free morphemes are combined to form a new word. 单选题 1分

8、The （ ） of an expression is its place in a system of semantic relationships with other expressions in the language. 单选题 1分

9、According to componential analysis, we can analyze a word as a set of （ ） with the values: plus (+)or minus(-). 单选题 1分

10、Two or more lexical items are （ ） when they have the same meaning. 单选题 1分

11、By saying language is （ ）, we mean we can＇t give a sound reason why such a form is pronounced in this way rather than in that way， and why a particular meaning should be indicated by this form rather than by that form. 填空题 1分

12、A （ ） study of a language is concerned with the historical development of the language over a period of time. 填空题 1分

13、A native speaker has several different types of knowledge about his mother tongue. （ ） knowledge is a native speaker＇s intuition about whether a sentence is grammatical or not. 填空题 1分

14、Of the three sub-branches of phonetics，（ ） phonetics investigates how a sound is perceived by the listener. 填空题 1分

15、In English， all the back vowels except [a:] are （ ）. 填空题 1分

16、A phoneme is defined as a minimal unit in the sound system of a language （ ）. 填空题 1分

17、If two sounds can occur in the same environment and the substitution of one sound for the other does not cause a change of meaning， then they are said to be in （ ）. 填空题 1分

18、The constituents which are involved directly in forming a larger constituent are called the （ ） of the larger form. 填空题 1分

19、Some transformational rules are obligatory and many are optional. The （ ） T-rules have to be applied if we want to obtain well-formed sentences. 填空题 1分

20、The semantic ambiguity which is caused by ambiguous words rather than by ambiguous structures is called （ ） ambiguity. 填空题 1分

21、According to Chomsky, langue refers to the system of a language. 判断题 2分

22、Triphthongs are produced by a glide from one vowel to another rapidly continuously. 判断题 2分

23、The sounds that are in complementary distribution and also phonetically similar are separate phonemes. 判断题 2分

24、English linguistics is a kind of general linguistics. 判断题 2分

25、Phonetics is the science that deals with the sound system of a language. 判断题 2分

26、Acoustic phonetics is concerned with how a sound is produced by the vocal organs. 判断题 2分

27、A phoneme is defined as a minimal meaningful unit in the sound system of a language. 判断题 2分

28、All bound morphemes are affixes. 判断题 2分

29、The word＂boy＂is neutral in general without any negative sense. However,when a twenty-year-old white man calls a forty-year-old black man＂boy＂，it obviously has a negative connotation reflecting the racist attitude of the speaker. 判断题 2分

30、Dynamically， we make structural descriptions of sentences to illustrate the parts of sentences and the relationships among them. 判断题 2分

31、representational function 填空题 1分

32、TG Grammar 填空题 1分

33、nasal cavity 填空题 1分

34、allophones 填空题 1分

35、infixes 填空题 1分

36、backformation 填空题 1分

37、theme-rheme theory 填空题 1分

38、sense relations 填空题 1分

39、signifier and signified 填空题 1分

40、The London School 填空题 1分

41、How can we decide a minimal pair or a minimal set？ 简答题 6分

42、What are the differences between tone languages and intonation languages？ 简答题 6分

43、List four morphological rules and give at least one example for each of them. 简答题 8分

44、Write the symbol that corresponds to each of the following phonetic description: 1)a voiceless dental fricative 2)a voiceless labiodental fricative 3)a voiced alveolar fricative 4)a mid central lax vowel 简答题 4分

45、Divide the following words into separate morphemes by placing a “+” between each morpheme and the next: 1)weakened= 2)holiday= 3)tourists= 4)television= 5)receiving= 6)childhood= 7)invisible= 8)minimize= 简答题 8分

46、Match the names of linguistics figures in column A with the schools or theories or works of linguistics in column B:  简答题 8分

47、Draw the deep structure phrase markers for the following two sentences: 1）John is not coming. 简答题 5分

48、Draw the deep structure phrase markers for the following two sentences: 2）Mary must have known it. 简答题 5分