A. symbolize objects, events and concepts that are present
B. communicate in an arbitrary manner
C. create more words
D. symbolize objects, events and concepts that are not present
2. ______ investigates the interrelation of language and mind, in processing and producing utterances and in language acquisition.
A. Psycholinguistics B. Sociolinguistics
C. Macrolinguistics D. Pragmatics
3. A language user’s underlying knowledge about the system of rules is called his _____ . And _____ refers to the actual use of language in concrete situation.
A. intercultural communicative competence ….. performance
B. performance ….. competence
C. linguistic competence …… performance
D. linguistic competence …… pragmatics
4. All monomophemic words are ______ . And polymorphemic words are called _____.
A. compounds …… free compounds
B. bound morphemes …… compounds
C. free morphemes ….. compounds
D. bound morphemes ….free morphemes
5. Different from compounds, derivation shows the relation between _______ .
A. roots and affixes
B. roots and stems
C. stems and prefixes
D. words formation and backformation
6. The idea that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meaning of the constituent words and the way they are combined is usually known as the principle of ______ .
A. compositionality B. proposition
C. integrated theory D. configuration
7. Which of the following pairs is NOT an example of converse antonymy?
A. buy, sell B. husband, wife
C. uncle, nephew D. long, short
8. ______ is an example of the type of word formation called “back-formation”.
A. television → televise B. edit → editor
C. smoke +fog → smog D. possible → impossible
9. /p/ and /b/ can occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning. Therefore they are ___ .
A. in phonemic contrast B. in complementary distribution
C. a minimal pair D. allophones
10. ____ is not a suprasegmental feature.
A. Aspiration B. Intonation C. Stress D. Tone
11. _______ are examples of grammatical or function words.
A. become, run, feel B. the, on, and
C. clever, green, beautiful D. quickly, always, smoothly
12. The word “politician” differs from the word “statesman” in its _______ .
A. conceptual meaning B. denotative meaning
C. referential meaning D. connotative meaning
13. Saussure’s linguistic theories are best summarized in his book ______ .
A. Syntactic Structures B. The Philosophy of Grammar
C. Course in General Linguistics D. Language
14. “We can do things with words” ----- this is the main idea of _____ .
A. the Speech Act Theory
B. the Cooperative Principle
C. the Politeness Principle
D. semantics
15. In order to reduce the ambiguity of the term “word”, the term _____ is postulated as the ____ unit underlying the smallest unit in the lexical system of a language.
A. lexicology ….. abstract B. morpheme ….. abstract
C. phoneme …… abstract D. lexeme …… abstract
8. 1. By creativity we mean language is resourceful because of its _______ .
A. duality and conventionality
B. duality and recursiveness
C. arbitrariness and conventionality
D. duality and displacement
2. ______ is concerned with the internal organization of words. It studies the minimal units of meaning --- morphemes and word-formation process.
A. Semantics B. Syntax C. Phonology D. Morphology
3. A language user’s underlying knowledge about the system of rules is called his _____ . And _____ refers to the actual use of language in concrete situation.
A. intercultural communicative competence ….. performance
B. performance ….. competence
C. linguistic competence …… performance
D. linguistic competence …… pragmatics
4. In order to reduce the ambiguity of the term “word”, the term _____ is postulated as the ____ unit underlying the smallest unit in the lexical system of a language.
A. lexicology ….. abstract B. morpheme ….. abstract
C. phoneme …… abstract D. lexeme …… abstract
5. ____ is not a suprasegmental feature.
A. Aspiration B. Intonation C. Stress D. Tone
6. All words contain a ___ .
A. root B. bound morpheme C. prefix D. suffix
7. Nasalization, dentalization and velarization are all instances of ______ , a process by which one sound takes on some or all characteristics of a neighboring sound.
A. assimilation B. allophonic variation
C. phonemic transcription D. syllabification
8. The word “politician” differs from the word “statesman” in its _______ .
A. conceptual meaning B. denotative meaning
C. referential meaning D. connotative meaning
9. Which of the following pairs of words best exemplifies the sense relation hyponymy?
A. flower, rose B. rose, peony
C. car, engine D. dead, alive
10. The idea that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meaning of the constituent words and the way they are combined is usually known as the principle of ______ .
A. compositionality B. proposition
C. integrated theory D. configuration
11. When the notion of _____ was taken into consideration, semantics spilled over into pragmatics.
A. text B. context C. texture D. intertextuality
12. “We can do things with words” ----- this is the main idea of _____ .
A. the Speech Act Theory
B. the Cooperative Principle
C. the Politeness Principle
D. semantics
13. The meaning of “desk” is included in that of furniture. Here, the lower term in this sense relation is called a ____ .
A. antonym B. hyponym C. . derivative D. acronym
14. ____ is the correct description of the word “bridegroom”.
A. +human -male +adult
B. +human +male +adult
C. +human +male -adult
D. –human +male +adult
15. ______ occur when the learner misuses an item because it shares features with an item in the native language while _____ arises when the learner apllies a rule in a situation where the rule does not apply.
A. Interlingual errors …. overgeneralizatio
B. Interlingual errors … intralingual errors
C. Intralingual errors …. Interlingual errors
D. Overgeneralization …. Intralingual errors
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1. Among the following descriptions about senses of language, which one is unacceptable?
A. Language is a means of verbal communication
B. Language is a system of vocal sounds and combinations of such sounds to which meaning is attributed
C. Language is a system used for the expression or communication of thoughts or feelings
D. Language refers to such sound system shared by human and animal
2. studies the rules governing the structure, distribution, and sequencing of speech sounds and the shape of syllables.
A. Phonetics B. Phonology C. Morphology D. Syntax
3. The description of the sound [s] includes the following except .
A. voiceless B. alveolar C. fricative D. bialabial
4. The principal supresegmetals include the following ones except .
A. intonation B. syllable C. tone D. assimilation
5. Words can be identified by the following features except .
A. stability
B. convention
C. relative uninterruptability
D. a minimum free form
6. Syntactic relations can be analysed into the following three types, except .
A. sense relation B. positional relation
C. relation of substitutability D. relation of co-occurrence
7. Which of the following terms is not included in An Integrated Theory?
A. trace marker B. syntactic marker
C. semantic marker D. distinguisher
8. The grammatical criteria Austin provided to identify a sentence is a performative includes the following except .
A. the first person singular subject B. simple past tense
C. indictive mood D. active voice
9. Among the following description of interlanguage, which one is not correct?
A. Interlanguage is the type of language constructed by second or foreign language learners who are still in the process of learning a language.
B. Interlanguage is often understood as a language system between the target language and the learner’s native language.
C. Interlanguage is perfect compared with the target language, it is mere translation from the learner’s native language.
D. Interlanguage is a dynamic language system, which is constantly moving from the departure level to the native-like level.
10.. The idea that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meaning of the constituent words and the way they are combined is usually known as the principle of ______ .
A. compositionality B. proposition
C. integrated theory D. configuration