全国2011年1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.There is a difference between what we know, which is our linguistic competence, and how we use this knowledge in actual speech production and______, which is our linguistic performance. ( )
A. creation
B. communication
C. comprehension
D. perception
2.The sounds that begin and end the words church and judge are voiceless and voiced ______,respectively. ( )
A. affricates
B. stops
C. velars
D. palatals
3.Morphemes which represent such grammatical categories as number, tense, gender, and case are called _______ morphemes. ( )
A. free
B. bound
C. derivational
D. inflectional
4.XP may contain more than just X. Phrases that are formed of more than one word usually contain head, ______and complement. ( )
A. modifier
B. determiner
C. qualifier
D. specifier
5. ______ is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form while _______ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and non-linguistic world of experience. ( )
A. Reference, sense
B. Sense, referent
C. Sense, reference
D. Referent, sense
6. According to John Austin’s theory of speech act, a(n) ______ act is the act of expressing the speaker’s intention. ( )
A. prelocutionary
B. locutionary
C. illocutionary
D. perlocutionary
7. Sound changes may include the loss of a sound or sounds. The so-called apocope refers to the omission of a vowel segment________. ( )
A. in word-initial
B. in word-middle
C. in word-final
D. in syllable-initial
8. In contrast to Standard American English, Black English is the distinct variety of English native to black populations in the USA. We regard Black English as________. ( )
A. a regional dialect
B. a social dialect
C. a situational dialect
D. an ethnic dialect
9. Among the language centers, ______is responsible for physical articulation of utterances. ( )
A. the motor area
B. Broca’s area
C. Wernicke’s area
D. the angular gyrus
10. The language at ________ stage begins to reflect the distinction between sentence-types, such as negative sentences, imperatives, and questions. ( )
A. prelinguistic
B. one-word
C. two-word
D. multiword
