语言学复习考试提纲.doc

Understanding linguistic terms 1. Blending; Acronym， back-formation 2. sociolinguistics speech community, speech variety, regional dialect, sociolect, idiolect, ethnic dialect, register, standard dialect, pidgin and creole, bilingualism and diglossia 3. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, intercultural communication 4. language acquisition, CPH (Critical Period Hypothesis); N. Chomsky’s LAD; Telegraphic speech 5. learning strategies; interlanguage; comprehensible input; language aptitude; motivation; language transfer; cross-association; contrastive analysis; SLA(second language acquisition) 6. Neurolinguistics; cerebral Cortex; Broca’s Aphasia; Spoonerism, priming experiment; syntactic parser garden path sentence; psycholinguistics Question Answering 1. What are the major causes of language change? 2. Give examples to show vocabulary change. 3. Give at least three examples to show the influence of American English on British English. 4. What are the three major theories of child language acquisition? 5. Give brief account of the important role that linguistic environment plays in child language development. 6. What is the role of native language in second or foreign language learning? 7. What are the individual differences in second or foreign language acquisition? 8. Describe Levelt’s speech production model in your own words. 9. What are the major psycholinguistics methods? 10. Describe the major symptoms of Broca’s aphasia. 11. what is the significance of cultural teaching and learning? Part I. Blank Filling ( 20 x 1.5 30 marks) Directions: Complete the flowing statements concerning some basic linguistic concepts. According to Chomsky, when we determine a word’s category, three criteria are usually employed, namely ____________, inflection and ____________. The description of a language at some point of time in history is a ____________ study; the description of a language as it changes through time is a ____________ study. In modern linguistics, the for