全国2005年1月高等教育自学考试现代语言学试题
课程代码：00830
一、单项选择题(在每小题的四个备选答案中，选出一个正确答案，并将正确答案的序号填在题干的括号内。每小题2分，共20分)
1.The description of a language as it changes through time is a (      ) study.
A. comparative                    B. diachronic
C. up-to-date                    D. descriptive

2. Of the three branches of phonetics,  the longest established,  and until recently the most highly developed,  is (      ) phonetics.
A. auditory                       B. acoustic                   
C. articulatory                   D. none of the above three

3. What the element ‘-es’ indicates is third person singular,  present tense, the element ‘-ed’ past tense, and ‘-ing’ progressive aspect.  Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also (      ).
A. phonemes                      B. morphemes
C. allophones                    D. phones

4. Since early 1980s Noam Chomsky and other generatvie linguists proposed and developed a theory of universal grammar known as the (      ) theory.
A. speech act                           B. TG                   
C. principles-and-parameters            D. minimalist programme

5. One way to analyze lexical meaning is (      ).
A. predication analysis                B. stylistic analysis                   
C. componential analysis               D. proposition analysis

6. Of the three speech acts,  linguists are most interested in the (      ) because this kind of speech act is identical with the speaker’s intention.
A. locutionary act                B. illocutionary act                   
C. perlocutionary act             D. constative act

7. The discovery of Indo-European language family began with the work of the British scholar (      ).
A. Sir William Jones                B. John Firth                   
C. M. A. K.  Halliday                  D. F. D. Saussure

8. A bilingual speaker often uses two languages alternatively during a conversation with another bilingual speaker,  a speech situation known as (      ).
A. discourse role-switching             B. activity role-switching           
C. social role-switching                D. code-switching

9. A focal point of SLA research has been the nature and development of L2 learners’(      ).
A. second language                      B. first language                   
C. foreign language                     D. interlanguage

10. It is estimated that the number of basic words known by English-speaking school children of age six is around (      ).
A. 7800                      
B. 6800                  
C. 5800                     
D. 4800

二、填空题(每小题1分，共10分)
11. The description of a language at some point in time is a s________ study.
 
12. When pitch,  stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation,  they are collectively known as i________.

13. According to its position in the new word,  a________ are divided into two kinds: prefixes and suffixes.

14. P________ refers to the phenomenon that the same word may have a set of different meanings.

15. Whether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules called s________ restrictions.

16. The u________ meaning of the sentence varies with the context in which it is uttered.

17. Some important missions of historical linguists are to identify and classify families of related languages in a genealogical family tree,  and to reconstruct the p________,  the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist.

18. R________ are language varieties appropriate for use in particular speech situations.

19. Learners will subconsciously use their L1 knowledge in learning a second language.  This is known as language t________.

20. A related issue with integrative motivation has been the extent to which learners differ in the process of adapting to the new culture of the L2 community.  This adaptation process is called a ________.

三、判断说明题(判断下列各题，正确的在题干后面的括号内填“T”，错误的填“F”，并说明理由。每小题2分，共20分)
21. Modern linguistics is mainly diachronic. (      )

22. The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme,  thus making the two phones similar. (      )

23. Semantically,  the meaning of a compound is often idiomatic,  always being the sum total of the meanings of its components. (      )

24. Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditionally called transformational rules,  whose operation may change the syntactic representation of a sentence. (      )

25. Componential analysis is a way proposed by the generative semanticists to analyze meaning. (      )

26. Linguists found that it would be possible to give an adequate description of meaning even if the context of language use was left unconsidered. (      )

27. It is generally accepted that the history of the English language is divided into the periods of Old English,  Middle English and Modern English. (      )

28. When people of a community speak the same language for different purposes, sociolinguistic situations known as diglossia and bilingualism emerge. (      )

29. Linguistic lateralization in terms of right hemispheric dominance for language is found to exist in an overwhelming majority of human beings. (      )

30. In order to identify the areas of learning difficulty,  an interlingual contrastive procedure Contrastive Analysis was developed.
 (      )