英语词汇学实用教程 陈新仁 课后答案.doc

A word of warning: Not all the keys provided here are correct. Use your brains!!! Unit 1 pp. 9-16 P.9 Check Your Understanding: a-d: F e. T In-Class Activities 1 … f. Word has it they’re divorcing. ? a. Something he would talk about b. things that are said, contrasted with things that are done c. the promise one has made d. spoken command or signal e. information f. piece of news; message P10 2. (1) five criteria: Potential pause: The pause , which happens when you say a sentence, will tend to fall between words, and not within words. Indivisibility: The extra items will be added between the words and not within them. Minimal free forms: the smallest units of speech that can meaningfully stand on their own. Phonetic boundaries: It is sometimes possible to tell from the sound of a word where it begins or ends. Semantic units: each word in a sentence has a clear meaning. (2) Do you think these criteria are questionable in any way? Can they be applied to the identification of zi, the rough Chinese equivalent of the English “word”? No, as the above analysis explained. No, they cannot. For example, 流连and 蹒跚 are danchuci (单纯词) which cannot be analyzed independently. P11 3. (1) Suppose we want to know what are the ten most frequently used English words. What are they, as far as you can tell? How about Chinese? The, of, to, and, a, in, is, it, you, that 的、一、是、在、了、不、和、有、大、着 3. (2) They are basically functional words. possessive words (of, 的) number words (a,一) copula words (is, 是) conjunctions (and, 和) and localizers (in, 在); English has the definite article the and several pronouns, you, that and it which are absent in Chinese. words are arbitrary (i.e. not motivated) onomatopoeic words “sl-” is highly suggestive of the meaning of the words that contain it, such as “slide”, “slip”, and “slush”. (1) Babble, bang, grunt, splash; 噼啪、嗡嗡、滴滴哒、吱嘎吱 No, these words are only a small part of English or Chinese vocabulary (2) Football and h