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语言区材料投放与指导要点

CHAPTER 1

I. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false:

T 1. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.

F 2. A scientific study of language is based on what the linguist thinks.

T 3. General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole

T 4. Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of

the sounds to convey meaning in communication.

T 5. The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is

called morphology.

T 6. Applied linguistics is the application of linguistic principles and theories to language

teaching and learning

T 7 Competence and performance refer respectively to a language user’s underlying

knowledge about the system of rules and the actual use of language in concrete

F 8 Language is a means of verbal communication. Therefore, the communication way

used by the deaf-mute is not language

T 9. By diachronic study we mean to study the changes and development of language

F 10. Language change is universal, ongoing and arbitrary

F 11. There is universal agreement about the origin of language.

F 12. Pet dogs can speak human languages.

F 13. All human infants can speak some language.

F 14. By creativity we mean the creative use of language as often practiced by poets.

F 15. With different cultures there will be different languages.

T 16. Not all uses of language are meant to convey new information.

III. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best

complete the statement.

1. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to

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语言区材料投放与指导要点

be ______________.

A. prescriptive B. analytic C. descriptive D. linguistic

2. Which of the following is not a design feature of human language?

A. Arbitrariness B. Displacement C. Duality D. Meaningfulness

3. Modern linguistics regards the written language as ____________.

A. primary B. correct C. secondary D. stable

4. The function of the sentence “water boil at 100 degrees centigrade”

A interrogative B directive C informative D performative

5. A historical study of language is a ____ study of language.

A. synchronic B. diachronic C. prescriptive D. comparative

6. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols for human __________.

A contact B communication C relation D community

7. Languages is _______

A instinctive B non-instinctive C static D genetically transmitted

8. A linguist regards the change in language and language use as _______

A unnatural B something to be feared C natural D abnormal

9. Which of the following words is entirely arbitrary

A tree B crash C typewriter D bang

10. In modern linguistics, speech is regarded as more basic than writing, because

___________.

A. in linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing

B. speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information

conveyed.

C. speech is always the way in which every native speaker acquires his mother tongue

D. All of the above

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