2009年1月广东自考现代语言学真题00830

全国2009年1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. Phonetics provides the means to describe the speech sounds，showing how they differ； phonology tells us that they function as ______，acting to contrast words. (      )

A. sounds units B. sound features

C. phonemes D. allophones

2. Alphabetic spelling represents the pronunciation of words；but it is often the case that the sounds of the words in a language are rather unsystematically represented by ______· (      )

A. writing B. orthography

C. transcription D. phonology

3. ______morphemes are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes，either free or bound，to form a word. (      )

A. Bound B. Free

C. Inflectional D. Derivational

4. _______ categories refer to combination of words of different categories，such as noun phrases(NP)，verb phrases(VP)in English. (      )

A. Lexical B. Phrasal

C. Semantic D. Logical

5. In semantic analysis of a sentence， a(n)______ is a logical participant in a predication， largely identical with the nominal element(s)in a sentence. (      )

A. argument B. subject

C. object D. attribute

6. Of the three speech acts a speaker might be performing simultaneously when speaking， linguists are most interested in the ______ act because it is identical with the speaker’s intention. (      )

A. performative B. constative