全国2011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.Often referred to as a design feature of language, ________ enables speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences that they have neither spoken nor heard before.

(      )

A.duality B.productivity

C.displacement D.arbitrariness

2.________ phoneticians study speech sounds from the speaker’s point of view.They study the process of how a speaker uses his/her speech organs to produce sounds.(      )

A.Articulatory B.Auditory

C.Acoustic D.General

3.Morphemes such as -er, -en, in-are all called ________.(      )

A.free morphemes B.inflectional morphemes

C.affixes D.roots

4.________ is of critical importance because it allows the grammar to generate an infinite number of sentences and sentences with infinite length.(      )

A.Recursiveness B.Phrase structure

C.Transformation D.Movement

5.Synonyms are classified into several kinds.The words such as start, begin, and commence can be called ________ synonyms.(      )

A.dialectal B.stylistic

C.emotive D.collocational

6.According to John Austin’s speech act theory, a(n)________ act is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology.(      )

A.prelocutionary B.locutionary

C.illocutionary D.perlocutionary