语言学概论试卷（一）I.Fill in the following blanks with appropriate words and expressions. (10%, one point for each blank)1.The __________ study of a language is concerned with a “state” of a language at a particular point of time.2.__________ knowledge is a native speaker’s intuition about the sounds and sound patterns of his language.3.When the vocal cords are nearly touching each other but not completely closed, the air-stream passing through the glottis has to cause vibration. The sounds made in this way are called ______________.4.The lowering of the soft palate brings about the production of ________ consonants.5.We can define a phoneme as a minimal ________ unit in the sound system of a language.6.__________, one of the suprasegmental features in English, refers to the phonetic boundary features that may mark grammatical units such as word and clause.7.___________ are the realizations of a specific morpheme.8.The linguistic forms that have substitutional relations belong to the same __________________.9.The linguists who intend to find out how a sentence is generated by rules follow the theory of ______________.10. A deep structure corresponds most closely to the ________________ of words.II.Choose the right answer that fits each blank in the sentences from the four choices given. (25%, one point for each)1.The sound [v] is a(n) ________.A.oral voiced alveolar affricateC.oral voiced labiodental fricativeB.oral voiceless dental liquid D.nasal voiced postalveolar fricative2.Dentals are different from velars in terms of ________.A.the position of the soft velumB.the presence or the absence of vocal-cord vibrationC.the place of articulation D.the manner of articulation3.Which of the following is a minimal pair?...
