全国2010年1月高等教育自学考试现代语言学试题自考

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全国2010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. The language behavior of particular persons on particular occasions is determined by many
other factors over and above their linguistic ______. ( )
A. system
B. structure
C. competence
D. performance

2. When we pronounce the long vowels [i:] or [u:], our ______, which is a bony structure at the end of the windpipe, is in a state of tension. ( )
A. larynx
B. hard palate
C. glottis
D. vocal cords

3. The word “manuscript” is a two-morpheme cluster which contains ______. ( )
A. two roots
B. a root and a prefix
C. a root and a suffix
D. a root and a free morpheme

4. The grammatical knowledge is represented through Phrase Structure Rules, which state explicitly all and only the possible combinations of the ______ of a language, for example, in English, NP → ( Det ) (Adj) N (PP) (S). ( )
A. phrases
B. clauses
C. sentences
D. constituents

5. The view that the meaning of a linguistic form is defined as the “situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer” was proposed by ______. ( )
A. Plato
B. Ogden and Richards
C. John Firth
D. Bloomfield

6. According to John Austins theory of speech act, a(n) ______ act is the change brought about by the utterance. ( )
A. prelocutionary
B. locutionary
C. illocutionary
D. perlocutionary

7. In 1786, Sir William Jones suggested that ______ bore to Greek and Latin a stronger affinity than could possibly have been produced by accident.（ ）
A. Germanic
B. Persian
C. Sanskrit
D. Lithuanian

8. The existence of taboo words and taboo ideas stimulates the creation of euphemism, which shows that a word or phrase not only has a linguistic denotative meaning but also has a ______.( )
A. conceptual meaning
B. connotative meaning
C. cultural meaning
D. social meaning

9. Dichotic listening research tells us a signal coming in the left ear will first go to the ______ hemisphere, from where it is transferred to the left side of the brain for processing. （ ）
A. right
B. left
C. front
D. back

10. Studies of the effects of formal instruction on second language acquisition suggest that formal instruction may help learners perform some of the following types of tasks except ______.
( )
A. planned speech
B. writing
C. casual and spontaneous conversation
D. career-oriented examination