Part I. Multiple choice.（10%）
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________ 4. ________
5. ________ 6. ________ 7. ________ 8. ________
9. ________ 10. ________
1. The followings are all features of language except __________.
A. duality B. productivity C. changeability D. displacement
2. The lexical sense relation between flour and flower is __________.
A. synonymy B. antonym C. polysemy D. homonymy
3. ______ is a process that puts an existing word of one class into another class.
A. Conversion B. Abbreviation C. Eponyms D. Blending
4. Children all undergo ________ stages of language development.
A. babbling, two-word, holophrastic and the telegraphic speech
B. babbling, two-word, telegraphic speech and the holophrastic
C. babbling, holophrastic, two-word, and the telegraphic speech
D. babbling, holophrastic, telegraphic speech and the two-word
5. The followings are acknowledged as important factors in second language acquisition except _________.
A. motivation B. nationality C. age D. learning strategy
6. Speakers consider the matter of face for themselves and others. Based on this observation, Leech (1983) proposes _____________.
A. the cooperative principle B. the principle of relevance
C. the politeness principle D. speech acts
7. Minimal pairs can be exemplified by ____________.
A. moon/noon B. foot/food C. she/sheet D. sea/sea
8. The features that are found over a segment or a sequence of two or more segments are called ___________.
A. distinctive features B. non-distinctive features
C. suprasegmental features D. free variation
9. The ____________ function (sometimes also referred to as experiential function) is realized by the transitivity system of language.
A. ideational B. interpersonal C. textual D. logical
10. Free morphemes were traditionally called roots, and bound morphemes _________.
A. prefixes B. suffixes C. affixes D. inflectional morphemes
Part II. Indicate the following statements true or false.（10%）
Put T for true and F for false in the spaces given below.
1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________ 4. ________
5. ________ 6. ________ 7. ________ 8. ________
9. ________ 10. ________
1. English is a tone language.
2. Bound morphemes are always attached to free morphemes to form new words.
3. Associative meanings are meanings that hinge on referential meanings.
4. Metaphor is an essential element in our categorization of the world and our thinking process.
5. Overgeneralization is found universal in second language acquisition.
6. Phonology and phonetics are both concerned with the study of speech sounds, but the two differ in perspectives.
7. Typical contrastive distribution of sounds is found in allophones.
8. The voiceless bilabial stop in pin and the one in spin are in complementary distribution.
9. Distinctive features in one language must be distinctive in another.
10. Nasalization of English vowels is also rule-governed.
Part III State what semantic property or properties are shared by the group of words.(10%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
For example: typewriter, ruler, notebook
1. king, bachelor, son _________________________________________
2. bull, rooster, stallion _______________________________________
3. pine, rose, elm ______________________________________________
4. bravery, charity, devotion ___________________________________
5. car, bike, plane_____________________________________________
Part IV. Explain the following terms. (20%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
1. language and linguistics
2. semantics and pragmatics
3. arbitrariness
4. voicing
1._________________________________________________________
2._________________________________________________________
3._________________________________________________________
4._________________________________________________________
Part V. Complete the blanks with necessary words beginning with the letter given. (10%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
1. Specially, there are four m__________ under cooperative principle generalized by Grice.
2. M__________ is unanimously acknowledged by researchers and language teachers as an important factor in second language acquisition.
3. A speech act consists of three dimensions. The act of producing a meaningful linguistic expression is called l_____________ act. The act of communicating intention through utterance is termed i_____________ act. The act of bringing about an effect is known as p____________ act.
4. The transference of properties of the source domain to the target domain is referred to by some cognitive linguists as m____________.
5. C__________ is a process that shortens a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables.
6. A morpheme may be represented by different forms, called a___________,
7.The term language a___________ refers to the natural process of children’ language development.
8. A d___________ is a variety of a language that is distinctive from other regional varieties in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.
1.m_____________ 2.M_____________ 3.l_____________ i__________
p______________ 4.m______________5.C_____________ 6.a__________
7.a_____________ 8.d______________
Part VI. Explain the ambiguity in the following two sentences. (10%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
1.Those who went there quickly made a fortune.
(1) ____________________________________________________________
(2) ____________________________________________________________
2.Flying planes can be dangerous.
(1)____________________________________________________________
(2)____________________________________________________________
3.They can fish.
(1)____________________________________________________________
(2)____________________________________________________________
4.The design is full of big squares and circles.
(1)____________________________________________________________
(2)____________________________________________________________
5.I saw the couple in the cafeteria.
(1)____________________________________________________________
(2)____________________________________________________________
Part VII. Draw two phrase structure trees representing the two meanings of the sentence the magician touched the child with the wand. Be sure you indicate which meaning goes with which tree. (20%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
Part VIII Transcribe the sound underlined in the words and then describe it. (10%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
1. Geographic 2.Red 3.Song 4.Clock 5.Psychopathy
1._________________________________________________________
2._________________________________________________________
3._________________________________________________________
4._________________________________________________________
5._________________________________________________________
