第九套1. Saussure’s distinction and Chomsky’s are very similar, but they differ in that ____________.A. Saussure took a sociological view of language while Chomsky took a psychological point of viewB. Sa...
第十套1. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be _______.A. prescriptive B. analytic C. descriptive D. linguistic2. Which of the following is not a...
第十一套1. Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar for it is mostly _________.A. prescriptive B. descriptive C. subjective D. Latin-based2. A linguist regards the changes in language and lan...
第六套1. English consonants can be classified into stops. fricatives, nasals, etc. , in terms of ( ).A. manner of articulation B. openness of mouthC. place of articulation D. voicing2. The study of how w...
第七套1. The famous quotation from Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ well illustrates _______.( )A. the conventional nature of languageB .the creative ...
第一套1、As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for “correct“ linguistic behavior, it is said to be ___.A、 prescriptive B、 socioling...
第二套1. The pair of words “lend” and “borrow” are ___.( )A. gradable opposites B. relational oppositesC. co-hyponyms D. synonyms2. The discovery of Indo-European language family began with the work of t...
第三套1. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is ______.A. arbitrary B. non-arbitrary C. logical D. non-productive2. All the back v...
第四套1. The description of a language as it changes through time is a ( ) study.A. comparative B. diachronicC. up-to-date D. descriptive2. Of the three branches of phonetics, the longest established, an...
第五套1. Chomsky uses the term ( ) to refer to the actual realization of a language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language in linguistic communication.A. langue B. competence C. parole D. performa...