英语语言学19春在线作业2-0005

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

The term ______ is used for less drastic difference restricted to variation in pronunciation.
A:sociolect
B:dialect
C:geographical dialect
D:accent

______ is, fundamentally speaking, logic-oriented.
A:Sperber and Wilson’s principle of Relevance
B:Leech’s theory of Politeness Principle
C:Grice’s theory of Cooperative Principle
D:Horn’s Q-principle and R-principle

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

The vibrating of the vocal cords when sounds produced is regarded as__________.
A:Voicing
B:voiced
C:nasalization
D:aspiration

__________ refers to the vibrating of the vocal cords when sounds produced.
A:Voicing
B:voiced
C:nasalization
D:aspiration

infotech（为下列单词选择相对应的构词法）
A:Conversion
B:Backformation
C:Blending
D:Compounding

Orlon  （为下列单词选择相对应的构词法）
A:Sound Reduplication
B:Coinage
C:Eponym
D:Clipping

The road was （enlarged ）the year before the last. （为括号部分的单词选择相对应的构词法）
A:Derivation
B:Conversion
C:Backformation
D:Blending

impossible  （为下列单词选择相对应的构词法）
A:Derivation
B:Conversion
C:Backformation
D:Blending

Blending is a process that creates new words by putting together non-morphemic parts of existing words. A well-known example is smog (smoke and fog).
A:错误
B:正确

Field is a term widely used in sociolinguistics to refer to “varieties according to use.”
A:错误
B:正确

When we speak or write we usually confine ourselves to single phrases or sentences.
A:错误
B:正确

A social dialect is a variety of a language spoken by people living in an area.
A:错误
B:正确

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

The relationship between speech sounds and the meanings they present in the languages of the world is not arbitrary.
A:错误
B:正确

The longest coda in English may contain four consonants, as shown by prompts.
A:错误
B:正确

Coinage is a process of inventing words not based on existing morphemes.
A:错误
B:正确

The process of becoming adapted to a new culture is called acculturation.
A:错误
B:正确

Dog and cat are subordinates of livestock.
A:错误
B:正确

Age is an important factor in second language acquisition.
A:错误
B:正确

The experiential function (sometimes also referred to as ideational function) is realized by the transitivity system of language.
A:错误
B:正确

Metaphor is an essential element in our categorization of the world and our thinking process.
A:错误
B:正确

Cognition refers to the process by which people use language to classify the world around and inside them.
A:错误
B:正确

English is not an example of SVO languages.
A:错误
B:正确

Cultural transmission is one of the features of human language.
A:错误
B:正确

[+sonorant] is only shared by all the vowels.
A:错误
B:正确

Duality is the first and foremost striking feature of human language.
A:错误
B:正确

Free morphemes were traditionally called root.
A:错误
B:正确

The method linguists use is mainly induction.
A:错误
B:正确

Pedagogic grammars, 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

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

The term Creole is the label given to the form of a language used by any group of speakers or used in a particular field.
A:错误
B:正确

Oxymoron , a rhetorical device, is based on antonymy.
A:错误
B:正确

The voiceless bilabial stop in pin and the one in  spin are in complementary distribution.
A:错误
B:正确

An allophone is the minimal or the smallest distinctive linguistic unit in a language.
A:错误
B:正确

Phonology and phonetics are both concerned with the study of speech sounds, but the two differ in perspectives.
A:错误
B:正确

[+continuant] specifies all the fricatives.
A:错误
B:正确

A textbook is an official document that authoritatively determines the content and principles of teaching and learning.
A:错误
B:正确

Supersegmatal features are non-distinctive features.
A:错误
B:正确