南京师范大学03-07语言学真题.doc

2003年南师大英语语言学考试题目---初试 一、单选题。1.The scholars who put forward interaction hypothesis hold ________.A) language acquisition is a process of “stimulus-response”.B) humans are predisposed to acquire a language.C) human’s linguistic potentiality must be combined with the environment.D) human’s linguistic environment can be ignored as long as humans have language acquisition device.2.American Black English is _______.A) a social variety? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? B) a regional variety? ? C) a combination of social and regional dialect.? ? D) a temporal dialect3.According to Basil Bernstein, elaborated code is extensively used by _________.A) middle class people and their children.? ? B) working-class people and their children.C) both middle class and working class people D) parents of children without any distinction of social background.4.??Read the following two sentences and decide what kind of error the learner commits in the second sentence:? ? He practiced English a lot last month.? ?(1)? ? *She comed back home early yesterday.??(2)? ? The error in the second sentence belongs to the category of ___________.? ? A) mother tongue interference? ???B) overgeneralization??? ? C) cross-association? ?? ?? ?? ???D) performance error5.In the Semantic Triangle advanced by Ogden and Richards, “thought or reference” is ______.? ?A) word, sentence? ?? ???B) the object? ?C) concept? ?D) symbol6.The word “laze” is an example of _______ in word formation.? ? A) acronym? ???B) blending??C) functional shift? ? D) back formation7.??Pragmatics is a study of ________.? ?A) language learning? ???B) language acquisition ? ?C) language planning? ???D) language in use8. A linguist is interested in _________.? ?A) what is said? ???B) what is right both in syntax and in semantics? ?C) what is grammatical? ?? ?D) what ought to be said9. In English elements in construction are generally _______.? ?A) linear? ? B) continuous? ? C) discon