2005年1月广东自考现代语言学真题00830

全国2005年1月高等教育自学考试

现代语言学试题

课程代码：00830

一、单项选择题(在每小题的四个备选答案中，选出一个正确答案，并将正确答案的序号填在题干的括号内。每小题2分，共20分)

1.The description of a language as it changes through time is a (      ) study.

A. comparative                     B. diachronic

C. up-to-date                    D. descriptive

2. Of the three branches of phonetics,  the longest established,  and until recently the most highly developed,  is (      ) phonetics.

A. auditory                        B. acoustic                    

C. articulatory                    D. none of the above three

3. What the element ‘-es’ indicates is third person singular,  present tense, the element ‘-ed’ past tense, and ‘-ing’ progressive aspect.  Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also (      ).

A. phonemes                      B. morphemes

C. allophones                    D. phones

4. Since early 1980s Noam Chomsky and other generatvie linguists proposed and developed a theory of universal grammar known as the (      ) theory.

A. speech act                               B. TG                    

C. principles-and-parameters               D. minimalist programme

5. One way to analyze lexical meaning is (      ).

A. predication analysis                  B. stylistic analysis                    

C. componential analysis                 D. proposition analysis

6. 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. illocutionary act                    

C. perlocutionary act              D. constative act

7. The discovery of Indo-European language family began with the work of the British scholar (      ).

A. Sir William Jones                 B. John Firth                    

C. M. A. K.  Halliday                  D. F. D. Saussure