2008年10月广东自考现代语言学真题00830

全国2008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 distinction between langue and parole was made by _______ early last century.(      )

A. American linguist N. Chomsky B. Swiss linguist F. de Saussure

C. American linguist Edward Sapir D. British linguist J. R. Firth

2.The sounds that begin and end the words church and judge are voiceless and voiced _______, respectively.(      )

A. stops B. fricatives

C. affricates D. plosives

3.In the word unreliable, the prefix “un-” is a(n) _______ morpheme.(      )

A. free B. bound

C. root D. inflectional

4.Words in a sentence are organized into groups of lexical _______, commonly known as parts

of speech.(      )

A. verbs B. nouns

C. phrases D. categories

5.The words stationary and stationery are identical in sound, but different in spelling and meaning. They are _______.(      )

A. complete homonyms B. homographs

C. hyponyms D. homophones

6. The illocutionary point of _______ is to express the psychological state specified in the utterance.(      )

A. directives B. expressives

C. commissives D. representatives

7. Grimm pointed out that certain phonological changes must have occurred early in the history of