2024年4月29日发(作者：)

华中师范大学网络教育学院

《英语语言学入门》练习测试题库

一、选择题

1. It is generally agreed that linguistics should include at

least five parameters, namely, phonological, morphological,

syntactic, semantic and .

A. social B. psychology C. cultural

D. pragmatic

2. A language user’s underlying knowledge about the system of

rules is called his linguistic .

A. comprehension B. performance C. perception

D. competence

3. The distinction between competence and performance was put

forward by .

A. Bloomfield B. Saussure C. Chomsky D.

Halliday

4. The description of a language as it changes through time is

a study.

A. comparative B. diachronic C. up-to-date

D. descriptive

5. “I can refer to Confucius even though he was dead 2000

years ago.” This shows that language has the design feature

of .

A. arbitrariness B. creativity C. duality

D. displacement

6. The study of language at one point in time is a

study.

A. historical B. synchronic C. descriptive

D. diachronic

7. function constructs a model of experience and

logical relations.

A. Ideational B. Textual C. Interpersonal

D. Logical

8. Which is the description of the consonant [b]?

A. voiceless bilabial stop B. voiced bilabial

stop

C. voiceless alveolar fricative D. voiced alveolar

fricative

9. Saussure distinguished the linguistic competence of the speaker

and the actual phenomena or data of utterances as langue and .

A. grammar B. lexicon C. parole

D. syntax

10. The principle suprasegmentals are .

A. syllable, stress, tone and intonation

B. monosyllabic and polysyllabic

C. stressed and unstressed

D. rhyme, onset, outset and coda

11. Which of the following is a suprasegmental feature?

A. Deletion. B. Voiced C. Stress D.

Stop

12. The number of morphemes in the word “girls” is .

A. one B. two C. three D. four

13. Which of the following is not a bound root morpheme?

A.

–put

B.

–ceive

C.

–mit

D.

–tain

14. in the word “international” is called ROOT.

A. nation B. inter- C. –tion D. –al

15. The morpheme “vision” in the word “television” is

a(n) .

A. bound morpheme B. bound form

C. inflectional morpheme D. free morpheme

16. is the smallest unit of language in regard to

the relationship between sounding and meaning, a unit that cannot be

divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically

altering the meaning.

A. Allomorph B. Word C. Morpheme D. Root

17. The case category is used in the analysis of word classes to

identify the

relationship between words in a sentence.

A. pragmatic B. syntactic C. phonetic D.

semantic

18. We can often find the phrase immediate constituents

in .