语言学概论练习测试题库及参考答案

《英语语言学》练习测试题及参考答案本科I. Tick off the correct or the best possible answers: 1.One of the properties of language is that a language user can understand and produce sentences he/she has never heard before. This property of language is called ________. A. duality B. productivity C. displacement D. arbitrariness Key: B 2.The ______ function refers to the fact that language can be used for establishing a favorable atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas. A. phatic B. directive C. evocative D. performative Key: A 3.From a functional approach, the _______ meaning of a language use consists of what is communicated of the feelings and attitudes of the speaker/writer. A. affective B. associative C. stylistic D. collocative Key: A 4.When –ing in ‘gangling’is removed to get a verb ‘gangle’, we call this way of creating words ________. A. suffixation B. back-formation C. blending D. acronymy Key: B 5.______ refers to the process by which words rise from humble beginnings to positions of importance. A. Degradation B. Specialization C. Elevation D. Extension Key: C 6.As we know, every speaker has his own pet words and expressions and special way of expressing his ideas in language. This language variety of individual users is called ______. A. idiolect B. regional dialect C. temporal dialect D. social dialect Key: A 7.When pitch, stress and length variations are tied to the sentence rather than to the word, they are collectively known as ________. A. intonation B. tone C. phoneme D. sentence stress Key: A 8._______ refers to the change of a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound. A. Addition of sound B. Loss of sound C. ...