东北师范大学2015年英语专业基础试题【荐】.pdf

东北师范大学 2005 年英语专业研究生入学考试英语专业基础试题 Part One: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (50’) I. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false on the answer sheet. (10’) 1. The representational approach in the study of meaning is that from the perspective of reference. 2. In language use, speaker meaning is what is said, rather than what is intended. 3. The ostensive-inferential model expresses the view that communication involves inferring, rather than coding. And this is a crucial point which distinguishes it from the code of communication. 4. Many Chinese learners of English may utter sentences like “Because he was ill, so he didn’t go to work.” This is a case of negative transfer in foreign language learning. 5. According to linguistic determinism, the ways people from different cultures think through language are different, especially in the classification of the experienced world. 6. The syntactic rules permit speakers to produce and understand an unlimited number of sentences never produced or heard before. This refers to the arbitrary nature of language. 7. One of the features of modern linguistics is that modern linguists are modern linguists are more interested in the diachronic study of language. 8. Application and implication are two major contributions of linguistics to foreign language teaching. 9. To put it simply, the distinctive features of sounds are those which distinguish phonemes. 10. The component “boy” is an immediate constituent of the construction “The boy kicked the ball.” II. Short answer questions (20’) 1. S. Pit Corder, a famous applied linguist wr