全国2008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 bracket.(2%×10=20%)
1. The phonetic form of the prefix meaning “not” is phonetically variant; it is before a vowel or an alveolar consonant, before a labial consonant, and before a _____, for example, inoperable , indiscrete , impossible , and inconceivable . ( )
A. velar B. palatal
C. fricative D. stop
2. Tones are pitch variations that refer to morphologically defined segments to the extent that different _______ in a language are distinctive. Pitch variations can distinguish meaning just like phonemes.( )
A. sounds B. patterns
C. pitches D. features
3. Some of the ______ rules are productive; they can be used freely to form new words.( )
A. syntactic B. morphological
C. semantic D. phonological
4. VP, AP and PP share similar syntactic properties with NP in that they allow for _______ and complements in phrases. ( )
A. heads B. specifiers
C. lexical items D. obligatory words
5. Bloomfield drew on _______ psychology when trying to define the meaning of linguistic forms. ( )
A. contextual B. conceptualist
C. behaviorist D. mentalist
