【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：A
16. The evolution theory holds that language is a product of evolutionary development of the human species.
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：B
17. Register is concerned with the purpose and subject-matter of communications.
【选项】：
A moon/noon
B foot/food
C she/sheet
D sea/sea
【答案】：A
8. refers to a statement in which you say the same thing using different words unnecessarily twice, for example, “He sat alone by himself”.
【答案】：B
2. A minimal distinctive linguistic unit is a__________.
【选项】：
A morpheme
B word
C phoneme
D allophones
【答案】：C
3. Every syllable has a(n) ____, which is usually a vowel.
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：B
14. Bound morphemes are always attached to free morphemes to form new words.
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：B
15. Backformation is a process that puts an existing word of one class into another class.
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：A
18. The meaning of compounds is not always the sum of meaning of the components.
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：B
19. 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.
【选项】：
A nucleus
B onset
C code
D rhyme
【答案】：A
4. Human languages can be used to describe themselves. The language used to talk about language is called .
【选项】：
【选项】：
A Register
B Dialect
C Tenor
D Variety
【答案】：A
10. __________ is defined as the study of meaning.
【选项】：
A linguistics
B semantics
C morphology
D pragmatics
【答案】：B
11. specifies all the fricatives and glides.
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：B
12. Stress does not belong to suprasegmental features.
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：A
13. An expression used by a speaker/writer to identify something is called deictic expression.
A special language
B local language
C metalanguage
D human language
【答案】：C
5. Minimal pairs can be exemplified by ____________.
【选项】：
A moon/noon
B foot/food
C she/sheet
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：B
22. Semantics is defined as the study of meaning.
【选项】：
Aቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ误
B正确
D sea/sea
【答案】：A
6. Words like pass and fail, male and female, etc. are ________ antonyms.
【选项】：
A gradable
B complementary
C reversal
D relative
【答案】：B
7. ______ is a minimal pair.
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英语语言学20春在线作业1
1. is defined as the scientific study of language.
【选项】：
A Morphology
B Linguistics
C Phonology
D Phonetics
【选项】：
A Tautology
B Rhetorical device
C Truth condition
D Prototype
【答案】：A
9. ______ is a term widely used to refer to varieties according to use in sociolinguistics.
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：A
20. “My father has deceased to join the heavenly choir” is of the frozen style.
【选项】：
A错误
B正确
【答案】：B
21. The language used to talk about language is called metalanguage.