2014春华南师范大学《英​语​语​言​学​》​复​习&am

Which of the following forms a minimal pair?
A.fear, pear
B.tip, pit
C.food, foot
D.beat, bit
答案:D
The word "realization" consists of _____ syllables as against _____ morphemes.
A.five/five
B.five/four
C.four/three
D.four/four
答案:C
Which of the following best describes the relations between “Alice is a vegetarian” and “Alice prefers eating steak”?
A.The former is synonymous with the latter.
B.The former is inconsistent with the latter.
C.The former entails the latter.
D.The former presupposes the latter.
答案:B
Which of the following underlined parts is a free morpheme?
A.understandable
B.eastward
C.otherwise
D.without
答案:D
Which of the following is a directive?
A.Your money or your life!
B.You are fired!
C.The earth is round.
D.Thank you very much.
答案:A
How many arguments are there in “I’m not feeling very well”?
A.no
B.one
C.three
D.five
答案:B
The word “boatel” is a(n) ____.
A.acronym
B.blend
C.clipped word
D.coined word
答案:B
‘Parent’ and ‘child’ are ___.
A.gradable antonyms
B.ungradable opposites
C.relational opposites
D.complementary synonyms
答案:C
Which of the following is the head of the phrase ‘often read science fictions’?
A.often
B.read
C.science
D.fictions
答案:B
‘That is a box’ is a ___-place predication.
A.no
B.one
C.two
D.three
答案:B
The word “DINK” is a(n) ____.
A.acronym
B.blend
C.clipped word
D.coined word
答案:A
Around the time of their second birthday, children begin to produce ____ utterances.
A.one-word
B.two-word
C.three-word
D.four-word
答案:B
Which of the following underlined parts is NOT an inflectional morpheme?
A.teeth
B.speaking
C.taken
D.chaos
答案:D
The design features of human language include the following features EXCEPT____.
A.duality of structure
B.genetic feature
C.arbitrariness
D.displacement
答案:B
‘Like’ and ‘dislike’ are ___.
A.gradable antonyms
B.ungradable opposites
C.relational opposites
D.complementary synonyms
答案:A
Which of the following is an expressive?
A.The earth is a globe.
B.Your money or your life!
C.I’m very grateful for your help.
D.I fire you.
答案:C
‘Slim’ and ‘skinny’ are ___.
A.dialectal synonyms
B.collocational synonyms
C.stylistic synonyms
D.synonyms that differ in their emotive meaning
答案:D
Which of the following best explains the relationship between “I like Beijing opera” and “I dislike Beijing opera”?
A.inconsistency
B.anomaly
C.contradiction
D.entailment
答案:A
The chief exponent of the behaviorist view of language acquisition is ____.
A.Bloomfield
B.Chomsky
C.Saussure
D.Skinner
答案:D
Which of the following is the correct componential analysis of the word “milk”?
A.[+DRINKS-LIQUID-COUNTABLE]
B.[+FOOD-SOLID+COUNTABLE]
C.[+FOOD+SOLID+COUNTABLE]
D.[+DRINKS+LIQUID-COUNTABLE]
答案:D
‘I like both Chinese and western food’ is a ___-place predication.
A.no
B.one
C.two
D.three
答案:C
Which of the following words is NOT a coined word?
A.dacron
B.kodak
C.xerox
D.gym
答案:D
Which of the following is a front, close and unrounded vowel?
A.[u:]
B.[i:]
C.[u]
D.[a:]
答案:B
Which of the following underlined parts is a derivational morpheme?
A.larger
B.data
C.trainee
D.Kate’s
答案:C
Which of the following underlined parts is the complement of the phrase?
A.a book on biology
B.play basketball
C.a rainy day
D.dance happily
答案:B
Which of the following is a commissive?
A.I’m really sorry to hear that.
B.I will bring you the book tomorrow without fail.
C.You’d better go and see her.
D.I now declare the meeting open.
答案:B
The word unreliable consists of _____ syllables as against _____ morphemes.
A.four/three
B.five/two
C.five/three
D.three/five
答案:A
Which of the following is a declaration?
A.Open the door, please.
B.I appoint you chairman of the committee.
C.Would you like to go to the movie with us?
D.I’ve never seen her before.
答案:B
The relation between ‘furniture’ and ‘wardrobe’ is ___.
A.homophony
B.homography
C.hyponymy
D.polysemy
答案:C
The word "realization" consists of _____ syllables as against _____ morphemes.
A.five/five
B.five/four
C.four/three
D.four/four
答案:C
‘Handsome’ and ‘pretty’ are ___.
A.dialectal synonyms
B.collocational synonyms
C.stylistic synonyms
D.synonyms that differ in their emotive meaning
答案:B
The following underlined parts are termed specifier EXCEPT___?
A.run quickly
B.always make mistakes
C.very interesting
D.the old man
答案:A
Which of the following best describes the relations between “The police stopped the minors from drinking” and “The minors were drinking”?
A.The former is synonymous with the latter.
B.The former is inconsistent with the latter.
C.The former entails the latter.
D.The former presupposes the latter.
答案:D
The first consonants the child can make are made with the lips and they are ____.
A.[p,b,n]
B.[p,b,m]
C.[t,d,n]
D.[t,d,m]
答案:B
How many morphemes are there in the word “disorderly”?
A.Two
B.Three
C.Four
D.Five
答案:B
The nativist view of language acquisition is held by ____.
A.Bloomfield
B.Chomsky
C.Saussure
D.Skinner
答案:B
Which of the following is an aspirated consonant?
A.[f]
B.[s]
C.[k]
D.[r]
答案:C
Which of the following word does NOT belong to the open classes?
A.hate
B.able
C.the
D.rapidly
答案:C
“Why don’t you ask Mary for help?” is an instance of ____.
A.representatives
B.expressives
C.directives
D.commissives
答案:C
Which of the following pairs of words are homographs?
A.sew---sow
B.tear(a drop of liquid that flows from the eye)---tear (to pull apart)
C.tec---tech
D.mouth (a speech organ)---mouth(an entrance to a cave)
答案:B
Language acquisition refers to the child’s acquisition of his ____.
A.first language
B.second language
C.foreign language
D.target language
答案:A
Which of the following word belongs to the open classes?
A.since
B.for
C.she
D.language
答案:D
‘Candy’ and ‘sweets’ are ___.
A.dialectal synonyms
B.collocational synonyms
C.stylistic synonyms
D.synonyms that differ in their emotive meaning
答案:A
How many morphemes can we find in the word ‘internationalize’?
A.Three
B.Four
C.Five
D.Six
答案:B
Which of the following is a representative?
A.You’d better go to see a doctor.
B.I promise to buy you something when I come back.
C.I now declare the meeting close.
D.I have never seen the man before.
答案:D
Which of the following pairs of words are homophones?
A.flour---flower
B.lead (to guide)---lead (a kind of metal)
C.mouth (a speech organ)---mouth(an entrance to a cave)
D.animal---cow
答案:A
‘She sings very well’ is a ___-place predication.
A.no
B.one
C.two
D.three
答案:B
Which is the feature of the sound [l]?
A.palatal
B.glottal
C.glide
D.liquid
答案:D
‘True’ and ‘false’ are ___.
A.gradable antonyms
B.ungradable opposites
C.relational opposites
D.complementary synonyms
答案:B
The words “longer” and “shorter” are ______ opposites.
A.gradable
B.ungradable
C.relational
D.complementary
答案:C
Which of the following best describes the relations between “He is an orphan” and “His parents have died”?
A.The former is synonymous with the latter.
B.The former is inconsistent with the latter.
C.The former entails the latter.
D.The former presupposes the latter.
答案:A
‘Mr. Brown teaches us linguistics.’ is a ___-place predication.
A.no
B.one
C.two
D.three
答案:D
The Great Wall belongs to ____ culture.
A.material
B.spiritual
C.folk
D.none of the above
答案:A
Instances of mother tongue interference can be found at the level of ____.
A.pronunciation
B.syntax
C.vocabulary
D.all of the above
答案:D
A linguist is interested in what is said, not what he thinks ought to be said, therefore a linguist would NOT prefer to be a(n) ____.
A.observer
B.judge
C.analyser of facts
D.recorder of facts
答案:B
Which of the following underlined parts is an inflectional morpheme?
A.books
B.rename
C.active
D.sleepy
答案:A
Which side(s) of muscles of ours does our left brain control?
A.both left and right
B.left
C.right
D.sometimes left, sometimes right
答案:C
Which of the following is an example of overgeneralization?
A.eyes
B.ears
C.sheep
D.foots
答案:D
Which of the following is the hyponym of the word “furniture”?
A.house
B.kitchen
C.article
D.wardrobe
答案:D