2007年10月福建自考现代语言学真题00830

全国2007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. Design features refer to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any

 _______________system of communication.  

A. artificial B. non-linguistic

C. animal D. abstract

2. If you put a finger in each ear and say “z-z-z-z-z”, you can feel the vibrations of the _______________.

A. glottis B. windpipe

C. larynx D. vocal cords

3. In the word suitable, “-able” is a _______________morpheme.

A. derivational B. inflectional

C. root D. stem

4. _______________is a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language,

i.e. how words are arranged in a sentence and in what order.

A. Morphology B. Syntax

C. Phonology D. Semantics

5. Whether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules called _______________.

A. selectional restrictions B. grammatical rules

C. phrase structure rules D. phonological rules

6. If a sentence is regarded as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes a(n) _______________  .

A. clause B. speech

C. utterance D. predication

7.The discovery of Indo-European began with the work of ____________, who delivered an important paper in 1786 in which he suggested that Sanskrit bore a stronger affinity to Greek and Latin.

A. the British scholar Sir William Jones B. the German linguist Franz Bopp

C. the Danish scholar Rasmus Rask D. the German scholar Jacob Grimm

8.The important characteristic of a speech community is that the members of the group must,

in some reasonable way, interact _______________with other members of the community.  

A. geographically B. linguistically

C. socially D. psycholinguistically