第一章语言和语言学试题.pdf

第一章语言和语言学试题

1．Thestudyof__doesNOTformcoreoflinguistics.

A.syntax

B.pragmatics

C.morphology

D.sociolinguistics

2.Ifthestudyofmeaningisconductedinthecontextof

languageuse,a

branchoflinguisticstudycalled__comesintobeing.

A.syntax

B.semantics

C.pragmatics

D.morphology

3.Whichofthefollowingstatementsisnottheconcernof

psycholinguistics?

A.Itaimstoanswersuchquestionsashowthehumanmind

works

whenweuselanguage.

B.Itfocusesonthewayofprocessingtheinformationwe

receivein

thecourseofcommunication.

C.Itpaysmoreattentiontothestudyoflanguageacquisition

in

children.

D.Itrelatesthesocialnormsthatdeterminethetypeof

languageto

beusedinacertainoccasion.

4.Whichofthefollowingwordsistheentirearbitraryone?

A.Crash

B.Book

C.Newspaper

D.Beautiful

5.Whichofthefollowingitemsisnotdesignfeatureof

human

language?

A.Competence

B.Arbitrariness

C.Displacement

D.Productivity

6.ThedifferencesbetweenTraditionalGrammarandModern

LinguisticsareallofthefollowingEXCEPT__.

A.descriptivevs.prescriptive

B.spokenvs.written

C.non-Latin-basedframeworkvs.Latin-basedframework

D.competencevs.performance

7.Theterm__linguisticsmaybedefinedasawayofreferring

tothe

approachwhichstudieslanguagechangeovervarious

periodsoftimeandatvarioushistoricalstages.

A.synchronic

B.diachronic

C.comparative

D.historicalcomparative

8.Whichwordistheabsolutearbitraryone?

A.careful

B.crack

C.handbag

D.table

9.Theapplicatio