I. Decide whether the following statements are True or False.
( )1.The word “above” includes 2 syllables, in which the sound [b] is the onset of the second syllable.
( )2.Modern linguistics are mainly diachronic.
( )3.All rounded vowels are back vowels.
( )4.The word “in” i s an open class word.
( )5.An inflectional morpheme alters the grammatical category of a word.
( )6.Linguistic forms with the same reference always have the same sense.
( )7.Context is not important to the semantic study of language.
( )8.Predication analysis is a way to analyze word meaning.
( )9.The pronunciation of English consonants only involves manner of articulation and place of articulation.
( )10. A small child may call any man “Dad”. This phenomenon is termed as underextension in psycholinguistics.
( )11.Grammatically well-formed sentences are not necessarily semantically well-formed.
( )12.The word chaos does not contain any inflectional suffix.
( )13.According to John Austin, performatives do not descript or report, and therefore, cannot be verified as true or false.
( )pounding is the addition of affixes to stems to form new words.
( )15.Roots are always free.
( )16.In the antonym pair tall: short, tall is the unmarked item.
( )17.Warning performs a commissive act.
( )18. A Creole language is originally a pidgin that has become established as a native language in some speech community.
II. Fill in the blanks with proper terms.
1.Phoneme __________can be described as voiceless alveolar fricatives.
2.Phoneme __________can be described as voiced dental fricatives.
3._____________ is the study of language in relation to society; it studies how social
factors influence the structure and use of language.
4.English has only _____________ inflectional morphemes.
5.While the meaning of a sentence is decontextualized, that of a(n) _________ is
context-dependent.
6.If A is a kind of B, then in terms of semantic relation, B is a(n) _____ of A.
7.All lexical items can be analyzed into a set of semantic features or semantic
components which may be universal. This semantic theory is called ___________ Analysis.
8.The hypothesis that claims that language shapes the way we think and determines
what we can think about is called_______.
9.If three consonants could cluster together at the beginning of a word, the first phoneme must
be __________.
10.That it is wrong to split an infinitive is an example of __________ rules.
11.A bilingual speaker often uses two languages alternatively during a conversation with another
bilingual speaker; this phenomenon is known as ____________.
12.The difference between consonants and vowels lies in_____________.
13.Words that share the same spelling but have different pronunciations and different
meanings are called _____________
14.Those morphemes that can be used on their own are called __________.
15.____________ deals with how language is acquired, understood and produced.
16.Acco rding to Searle’s classification of illocutionary acts, “to suggest that someone
should see the doctor” should fall into the category of ______________.
17.That the denial of one member of two words implies the assertion of the other is the
characteristic of c__________ a__________ .
III. Define following terms.
1. Fossilization
2. Language planning
3. Tenor of discourse
4. Obstruent
5.Diphthong
6.Creole
7.Aphasia
8. Locutionary act
IV. Questions. Answer the following questions.
1. In English, the utterance “Can you answer the phone?” can be used to ask someone to answer the phone. Why cannot the utterance “Can you eat the apple?” be used to ask someone to eat the apple?
2. Draw tree diagrams to represent the following words: unlockable, unusable and reusable, and explain their meanings.
3.Explain with examples the three notions of morph, morpheme and allomorph?
4.Discuss the individual factors which affect the acquisition of a second language.。