大连外国语学院2003年语言学试题.pdfVIP

大 连 外 国 语 学 院 2003 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 学科专业：英语语言文学 外国语言学及应用语言学（英语） 考试科目： 语言学 注意：①答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试题纸上不给分； ②必须在答题纸上将题号标写清楚。 I. Mark the following statements with T if they are true or F if they are false. (20%) 1. Sonorants are always voiced. 2. [∫] is a palatal approximant. 3. English obstruents can be distinguished by voicing. 4. By creativity we mean language is resourceful because of its duality and its recursiveness. 5. A stem may contain a root and a derivational suffix. 6. Derivational affixes very often add a minute or delicate grammatical meaning to the stem. 7. In the production of consonants at least three articulators are involved. 8. [u] is a high back lax rounded vowel. 9. When allophones are in complementary distribution, they never occur in the same context. 10. A word, rather than a morpheme, is a grammatical unit. 11. Thematic meaning is what is communicated through association with another sense of the same expression. 12. In English “some books” is a case of number concord. 13. Parole is the actual phenomena or data of utterances. 14. Italian is not a member of the Indo-European Language Family. 15. If the air is stopped in the oral cavity but the soft palate is down so that it can go out through the nasal cavity, the sound produced is an oral stop. 16. All the allomorphs should have common meaning. 17. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of a particular language. 18. Some sentences may comply perfectly with the grammar rules of the language, but they may not 1 be semantically meaningful. 19. Any language can be a lingua franca. 20. Synchronic linguistics refers to the approach which studies language over various periods of time and at various historical stages. II. Fill in the following blanks. (20%) 1. Predication analysis is to break sown predications