全国2011年10月高等教育自学考试现代语言学试题课程代码00830.doc

全国2011年10月高等教育自学考试 现代语言学试题 课程代码: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.Often referred to as a design feature of language, ________ enables speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences that they have neither spoken nor heard before. A.duality B.productivity C.displacement D.arbitrariness 2.________ phoneticians study speech sounds from the speaker’s point of view.They study the process of how a speaker uses his/her speech organs to produce sounds. A.Articulatory B.Auditory C.Acoustic D.General 3.Morphemes such as -er, -en, in-are all called ________. A.free morphemes B.inflectional morphemes C.affixes D.roots 4.________ is of critical importance because it allows the grammar to generate an infinite number of sentences and sentences with infinite length. A.Recursiveness B.Phrase structure C.Transformation D.Movement 5.Synonyms are classified into several kinds.The words such as start, begin, and commence can be called ________ synonyms. A.dialectal B.stylistic C.emotive D.collocational 6.According to John Austin’s speech act theory, a n ________ act is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology. A.prelocutionary B.locutionary C.illocutionary D.perlocutionary 7.Grimm’s Law can be expressed in terms of natural classes of speech sounds: voiced aspirates become unaspirated; voiced stops become voiceless; voiceless stops become ________. A.affricates B.fricatives C.voiced D.aspirates 8._________is characterized by the innovative, vivid and expressive use of nonstandard vocabulary as well as newly coined words, but it has traditionally carried a negative connotation. A.Linguistic taboo B.Euphemism C.Slang D.Vernacular language 9.Which of the following cases supports the idea that the language faculty of an average human degenerates after the critical peri