【题型：简答】【100分】
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Why is language not entirely arbitrary?
得分：100分
答：imitating natural sounds|compound words|not entirely arbitrary
【题型：简答】【100分】
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Why does modern linguistics regard the spoken form of language as primary?
得分：100分
答：spoken and written|spoken is prior to written|written is derived from spoken
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Why do you think the sound produced by human is the language in a sense?
得分：100分
答：arbitrariness|productivity|duality|displacement| cultural transmission
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What is the major difference between Saussure's distinction between langue and parole and Chomsky's distinction between compe 得分：100分
答：langue is social product|competence as a property of the mind |sociological point of view |psychological
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Exemplify the relationship between phone, phoneme and allophone.
得分：100分
答： A phone is phoentic unit or segment| phones may or may not distinguish meaning| A phoneme is not any part representented or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context|The phones representing a ph allophones
【题型：简答】【100分】
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What are the major periods in the history of English and how is it classified?
得分：100分
答：old English|middle English| modern English|conventional and arbitrary
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What is the difference between a pidgin and Creole?
得分：100分
答：variety of language|native speakers|medium of communication|practical purpose|native language|some speec 【题型：简答】【100分】
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What are the two major functions of language?
得分：100分
答：interpersonal communication|intrapersonal coummunication
【题型：简答】【100分】
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How are sentence meaning and utterance meaning related, and how do they differ?
得分：100分
答：realization|context|concrete
【题型：简答】【100分】
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Briefly discuss the individual factors which affect the acquisition of a second language.得分：100分
答：age|motivation|acculturation|personality。