2025 年硕士讨论生招生入学考试试题科目代码及名称: 817 英语语言学 A 卷 适用专业：英语语言文学I. Explain the following terms. (25%)1.endocentric construction; 2. denotation; 3. psycholinguistics; 4. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; 5. minimal piarsII. Decide whether each of the given statements is TRUE or FALSE. If it is true, write down A on your ANSWER SHEET; if it is false, write down B on it. (20%)1. Acoustic phonetics is the study of the perception of sounds by the human ear.2. Morphemes such as –ing, -ed, -able, are known as inflectional morphemes.3.The affixes in the English language are traditionally called bound morphemes.4.In separating langue from parole we are at the same time separating (1) what is social from what is individual; and (2) what is essential from what is accessory.5.By Saussure, arbitrariness refers to the fact that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning.6.Suprasegmentals mainly include syllables, tone, intonation, distinctive features.7.In English, we can have the syllable structure of CCCVCCCC.8.By Leonard Bloomfield (1933), word should be treated as “the minimum free form”.9.The different shapes or phonetic forms of a morpheme are allomorphs of this morpheme, e.g. the different forms of the plural morpheme in English are /s/, /z/, /iz/, and so on.10. ad, bike, math, etc. are instances of backformation.11. Noam Chomsky is hailed as the father of modern linguistics.12. Systemic-Functional grammar consists of the two inseparable components --- Systemic Grammar and Functional Grammar.13. The TEXTUAL FUNCTION refers to the fact that language has mechanisms to make any stretch of spoken or written discourse into a coherent and unified text and make a living pa...
