英语语言学19春在线作业1-0004

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is defined as the scientific study of language.
A:Morphology
B:Linguistics
C:Phonology
D:Phonetics

A minimal distinctive linguistic unit is a__________.
A:morpheme
B:word
C:phoneme
D:allophones

Every syllable has a(n) ____, which is usually a vowel.
A:nucleus
B:onset
C:code
D:rhyme

Human languages can be used to describe themselves. The language used to talk about language is called        .
A:special language
B:local language
C:metalanguage
D:human language

Minimal pairs can be  exemplified by ____________.
A:moon/noon
B:foot/food
C:she/sheet
D:sea/sea

Words like pass and fail, male and female, etc. are ________ antonyms.
A:gradable
B:complementary
C:reversal
D:relative

______ is a minimal pair.
A:moon/noon
B:foot/food
C:she/sheet
D:sea/sea

refers to a statement in which you say the same thing using different words unnecessarily twice, for example, “He sat alone by himself”.
A:Tautology
B:Rhetorical device
C:Truth condition
D:Prototype

______ is a term widely used to refer to varieties according to use in sociolinguistics.
A:Register
B:Dialect
C:Tenor
D:Variety

__________ is defined as the study of meaning.
A:linguistics
B:semantics
C:morphology
D:pragmatics

specifies all the fricatives and glides.
A:错误
B:正确

Stress does not belong to suprasegmental features.
A:错误
B:正确

An expression used by a speaker/writer to identify something is called deictic expression.
A:错误
B:正确

Bound morphemes are always attached to free morphemes to form new words.
A:错误
B:正确

Backformation is a process that puts an existing word of one class into another class.
A:错误
B:正确

The evolution theory holds that language is a product of evolutionary development of the human species.
A:错误
B:正确

Register is concerned with the purpose and subject-matter of communications.
A:错误
B:正确

The meaning of compounds is not always the sum of meaning of the components.
A:错误
B:正确

Linguistics, created by linguists in their analysis of the sound system, the lexicogrammar and the meaning of a language, makes it possible to talk about what to teach.
A:错误
B:正确

“My father has deceased to join the heavenly choir” is of the frozen style.
A:错误
B:正确

The  language used to talk about language is called metalanguage.
A:错误
B:正确

Semantics is defined as the study of meaning.
A:错误
B:正确

A creole is a mixed language which has become the mother tongue of a speech community.
A:错误
B:正确

Eponyms is a process that puts an existing word of one class into another class.
A:错误
B:正确

Tenor depends on the relations between the participants.
A:错误
B:正确

We use language as symbolic code to represent the world around us.
A:错误
B:正确

Hyponymy is used to refer to a specific-general semantic relationship between lexical items.
A:错误
B:正确

The syllabus and the textbooks are prepared according to the social aim for teaching a language.
A:错误
B:正确

The Swiss linguist de Saussure regarded the linguistic sign as composed of sound image and referent.
A:错误
B:正确

he idea that the learners have a sense of achievement as long as they learn if of vital importance. This kind of motivation may be termed integrative motivation.
A:错误
B:正确

Textual function does not belong to the language metafunctions illustrated by M.A.K. Halliday.
A:错误
B:正确

Chinese is an agglutinating language.
A:错误
B:正确

Two words that differ by only one sound in the same position are called minimal pairs.
A:错误
B:正确

Typical contrastive distribution of sounds is found in allophones.
A:错误
B:正确

Consonants can be described in terms of places of articulation, manners of articulation, and vibrating.
A:错误
B:正确

Motivation is not an important factor in second language acquisition except.
A:错误
B:正确

Immediate constituent analysis adds a new dimension to the analysis of sentence structure.
A:错误
B:正确

Sociolects are used most widely in a community.
A:错误
B:正确

Mood is a syntactic constituent made up of the Subject and the Predicate.
A:错误
B:正确

Pragmatics is concerned with conventional meaning.
A:错误
B:正确