2005年10月广东自考现代语言学真题00830

全国2005年10月高等教育自学考试

现代语言学试题

课程代码：00830

Ⅰ. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A,B,C or D in the brackets. (2%×10=20%)

1. The tone, defined as pitch variation, is an important suprasegmental feature of tone languages such as         .

A. Chinese B. English

C. Chinese and English D. English and French

2. Voicing as a quality of speech sounds is caused by the vibration of         .

A. the velum B. the vocal cords

C. the glottis D. the uvula

3. The words that contain only one morpheme are called         .

A. bound morphemes B. affixes

C. free morphemes D. roots

4. Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditionally called         .

A. phase structure rules B. syntactic rules

C. lexical rules D. transformational rules

5. The naming theory was proposed by         .

A. the Greek scholar Plato B. C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards

C. the British linguist J. Firth D. the American linguist L. Bloomfield

6. Speech act theory was first proposed by         .

A. John Austin B. John Searle

C. Noam Chomsky D. John Firth

7.          linguistics refers to the study of a language or languages at a single point in time, without reference to earlier or later stages.

A. Diachronic B. Synchronic

C. Historical D. Comparative

8. Different functional speech varieties known as          are expected in, say, a church sermon, a diplomatic encounter, a family dinner, or a sports broadcast.

A. registers B. styles

C. dialects D. accents

9.          is the study of language in relation to the mind.

A. Psycholinguistics B. Sociolinguistics

C. Linguistics D. Semantics

10. In general, children’s holophrastic sentences begin         .