Chapter One Invitations to Linguistics
1 M.A.K Halliday proposes that language is, above all, for communicaiton.
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2 All the language now have both spoken and written form.
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3 Language is arbitrary on all the aspects.
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4 The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure.
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5 Modern linguistics regards the speech as primary, not the written language.
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6 A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time.
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7 Linguistics studies particular language, not languages in general.
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8 In the study of linguistics, hypotheses formed should be based on language facts and checked against the observed facts.
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9 A scientific study of language is based on what the linguist thinks.
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10 Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive.
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11 _________ is the study of language in terms of the internal structure of words.
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12 Linguistics is generally defined as a _______ study of language.
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13 Findings in linguistic studies can often be applied to the settlement of some practical problems. The study of such applications is generally known as ________ linguistics.
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14 _______ refers to the realization of langue in actual use.
喵查答案:Parole
15 Human capacity for language has a _______ basis, but the details of language have to be taught and learned.
喵查答案:general##%_YZPRLFH_%##universal
16 The discipline that studies the rules governing the formation of words into permissible sentences in languages is called ________.
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17 Language is a system of a_________ vocal symbols used for human communication.
喵查答案:arbitrary
18 _________ is one of the design features of human language which refers to the phenomenon that language consists of two levels: a lower level of meaningless individual sounds and a higher level of meaningful units.
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19 _______
refers to the lexicon, grammar, and phonology implanted in each
individual by his upbringing in society and on the basis of which he
speaks and understands his language.
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20 Chomsky defines _________ as the ideal user’s knowledgy of the rules of his language.
喵查答案:competence
Chapter Two Speech Sounds
1 The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the ____ of that phoneme.
phones
sounds
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phonemes
2 A(n) ___________ is a unit that is of distinctive value. It is an abstract unit, a collection of distinctive phonetic features.
phone
sound
allophone
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3 Distinctive features can be found running over a sequence of two or more phonemic segments. The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called _______.
phonetic components
immediate constituents
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semantic features
4 A ____ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highest position.
back
central
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middle
5 The sound /f/ is _________________.
voiced palatal affricate
voiced alveolar stop
voiceless velar fricative
喵查答案:voiceless labiodental fricative
6 Since /p/ and /b/ are phonetically similar, occur in the same environments and they can distinguish meaning, they are said to be ___________.
minimal pair
allophones
in complementary distribution
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7 __________ is a voiced alveolar stop.
[z]
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[k]
[b]
8 The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ____ sounds.
voiced
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vowel
consonant
9 Of all the speech organs, the _______ is/are the most flexible.
mouth
lips
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vocal cords
10 Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing.
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11 Articulatory phonetics tries to describe the physical properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues with the help of a machine called spectrograph.
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12 A phone is a phonetic unit that distinguishes meaning.
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13 In linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing.
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14 When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two words are said to form a phonemic contrast.
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15 A basic way to determine the phonemes of a language is to see if substituting one sound for another results in a change of meaning.
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16 Phonology is concerned with how the sounds can be classified into different categories.
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17 Any sound produced by a human being is a phoneme.
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18 According to the shape of the lips, vowels can be classified into close vowels, semi-close vowels, semi-open vowels and open vowels.
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19 Vowel sounds can be differentiated by a number of factors: the position of tongue in the mouth, the openness of the mouth, the shape of the lips, and the length of the vowels.
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20 According to the manner of articulation, some of the types into which the consonants can be classified are stops, fricatives, bilabial and alveolar.
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21 The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the ____ of that phoneme.
phones
sounds
喵查答案:allophones
phonemes
22 A(n) ___________ is a unit that is of distinctive value. It is an abstract unit, a collection of distinctive phonetic features.
phone
sound
allophone
喵查答案:phoneme
23 Distinctive features can be found running over a sequence of two or more phonemic segments. The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called _______.
phonetic components
immediate constituents
喵查答案:suprasegmental features
semantic features
24 A ____ vowel is one that is produced with the front part of the tongue maintaining the highest position.
back
central
喵查答案:front
middle
25 The sound /f/ is _________________.
voiced palatal affricate
voiced alveolar stop
voiceless velar fricative
喵查答案:voiceless labiodental fricative
26 Since /p/ and /b/ are phonetically similar, occur in the same environments and they can distinguish meaning, they are said to be ___________.
minimal pair
allophones
in complementary distribution
喵查答案:in contrast distribution
27 __________ is a voiced alveolar stop.
[z]
喵查答案:[d]
[k]
[b]
28 The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are ____ sounds.
voiced
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vowel
consonant
29 Of all the speech organs, the _______ is/are the most flexible.
mouth
lips
喵查答案:tongue
vocal cords
30 Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing.
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31 Articulatory phonetics tries to describe the physical properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues with the help of a machine called spectrograph.
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32 A phone is a phonetic unit that distinguishes meaning.
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33 In linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing.
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34 When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two words are said to form a phonemic contrast.
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35 A basic way to determine the phonemes of a language is to see if substituting one sound for another results in a change of meaning.
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36 Phonology is concerned with how the sounds can be classified into different categories.
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37 Any sound produced by a human being is a phoneme.
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38 According to the shape of the lips, vowels can be classified into close vowels, semi-close vowels, semi-open vowels and open vowels.
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39 Vowel sounds can be differentiated by a number of factors: the position of tongue in the mouth, the openness of the mouth, the shape of the lips, and the length of the vowels.
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40 According to the manner of articulation, some of the types into which the consonants can be classified are stops, fricatives, bilabial and alveolar.
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41 English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tongue that is raised the highest.
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42 A_______ phonetics studies how speech sounds are perceived by the hearer.
喵查答案:Auditory
43 The articulatory apparatus of a human being are contained in three important cavities: the pharyngeal cavity, the o_______ cavity and the nasal cavity.
喵查答案:oral
44 P___________ is a discipline which studies the system of sounds of a particular language and how sounds are combined into meaningful units to effect linguistic communication.
喵查答案:Phonology
45 The transcription of speech sounds with letter-symbols only is called broad transcription while the transcription with letter-symbols together with the diacritics is called n_________ transcription.
喵查答案:narrow
46 S_________ features are the phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments. They include stress, tone, intonation, etc.
喵查答案:Suprasegmental
47 When the obstruction created by the speech organs is total or complete, the speech sound produced with the obstruction audibly released and the air passing out again is called a s________.
喵查答案:stop
48 English consonants can be classified in terms of manner of articulation or in terms of p_______ of articulation.
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