全國2011年1月高等教育自學(xué)考試

　　現(xiàn)代語言學(xué)試題

　　課程代碼：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.There is a difference between what we know, which is our linguistic competence, and how we use this knowledge in actual speech production and______, which is our linguistic performance. ( )

　　A. creation B. communication

　　C. comprehension D. perception

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

　　A. affricates B. stops

　　C. velars D. palatals

　　3.Morphemes which represent such grammatical categories as number, tense, gender, and case are called _______ morphemes. ( )

　　A. free B. bound

　　C. derivational D. inflectional

　　4.XP may contain more than just X. Phrases that are formed of more than one word usually contain head, ______and complement. ( )

　　A. modifier B. determiner

　　C. qualifier D. specifier

　　5. ______ is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form while _______ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and non-linguistic world of experience. ( )

　　A. Reference, sense B. Sense, referent

　　C. Sense, reference D. Referent, sense

　　6. According to John Austin’s theory of speech act, a(n) ______ act is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention. ( )

　　A. prelocutionary B. locutionary

　　C. illocutionary D. perlocutionary

　　7. Sound changes may include the loss of a sound or sounds. The so-called apocope refers to the omission of a vowel segment________. ( )

　　A. in word-initial B. in word-middle

　　C. in word-final D. in syllable-initial

　　8. In contrast to Standard American English, Black English is the distinct variety of English native to black populations in the USA. We regard Black English as________. ( )

　　A. a regional dialect B. a social dialect

　　C. a situational dialect D. an ethnic dialect

　　9. Among the language centers, ______is responsible for physical articulation of utterances. ( )

　　A. the motor area B. Broca’s area

　　C. Wernicke’s area D. the angular gyrus

　　10. The language at ________ stage begins to reflect the distinction between sentence-types, such as negative sentences, imperatives, and questions. ( )

　　A. prelinguistic B. one-word

　　C. two-word D. multiword