2003年1月福建自考现代语言学真题00830

福建省2003年1月高等教育自学考试

现代语言学试题

课程代码：00830

一、单项选择题(在每小题的四个备选答案中，选出一个正确答案，并将正确答案的序号填在题干的括号内。每小题2分，共20分)

1.______ is NOT a design feature of human language. (      )

A. Cultural transmission    B. Displacement

C. Duality of structure       D. Prescriptivism

2. Vibration of the vocal cords results in ______. (      )

A. aspiration            B.nasality

C. obstruction            D. voicing

3. The word “simplifications” has ______ morphemes in it. (       )

A. 2      B. 3       C. 4       D. 5

4. “ We vowed to fight on until all our demands were met” is a sentence. (      )

A. coordinate      B. complex      C. compound       D.simple

5. The relationship between “fruit” and “apple” is ______. (      )

A. homonymy       B. hyponymy      C. polysemy      D. synonymy

6. “Interviewer” and “ interviewee” are a pair of ______ opposites. (      )

A. complementary      B. gradable      C. complete      D. relational

7. The maxim of ______ requires that a participant's contr

ibution be relevant to the conversation. (      )

A. quantity      B. quality      C. relation      D. manner

8. The regular consonant changes found among cognates in the Germanic  languages were known as ______Law. (      )

A. Bopp's      B. Grimm's       C. Jones'      D. Rask's

9. When a ______ comes to be adopted by a population as its primary language and children learn it as their first language, it becomes . (      )

A. creole... pidgin      B. pidgin... creole

C. regional dialect...lingua franca     D. lingua franca...regional dialect

10. A child who knows the general plural form may apply the rule to irregular nouns and produce “foots”. This is called ______. (      )

A. assimilation     B. transfer

C. overgeneralization     D. underextension

二、填空题(在下列空格中填上以给出字母开始的恰当的单词。每空1分，共16分)

1. In F. de Saussure's dichotomy, l______ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community; p          is its realization in actual use.

2. Language is a system of a______ vocal symbols for human communication.

3. M______ studies how words are formed, while s          studies how words are combined to form sentences.

4. In the study of meaning, s______ is only concerned with relations between  linguistic elements; r______ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and nonlinguistic world of experience.

5. Conversational i______ may arise as a result of a speaker's violation of the cooperational principle.