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 word “antidisestablishmentariaism” is composed of ______ morphemes.
A. six B. seven C. eight D. nine
2. __________ refers to the vibrating of the vocal cords when sounds are produced.
A. Voicing B. Voiced C. Nasalization D. Aspiration
3. Smog is a ___________ word.
A. derived B. clipped C. blended D. compound
4. The idea that the learners have a sense of achievement as long as they learn if of vital importance. This kind of motivation may be termed ____ motivation.
A. instrumental B. integrative C. cognitive D. none of them
5. [u:] possesses the features _____________.
A. [+high][+back][+round][-tense]
B. [+high][-back][+round][+tense]
C. [+high][+back][+round][+tense]
D. [-high][+back][+round][+tense]
6. _________ is a term widely used in sociolinguistics to refer to “varieties according to use”, in contrast with regional dialects and sociolects, both of which are “varieties according to user”.
A. field B. mode C. tenor D. register
7. __________ are a fundamental unit of conversational structure.
A. back-channel signals B. adjacency pairs
C. pre-sequences D. insertion sequences
8. The idea that people cooperate with each other in conversing is generalized by Grice (1975) as ____________.
A. the principle of relevance B. cooperative principle
C. the politeness principle D. the theory of prototypes
9. Beauty and siren both refer to a good-looking woman, but they differ in __________.
A. affective meaning B. style C. collocation D. register
10. “John explained the theory” is a ___________ process according to Halliday.
A. material B. mental C. verbal D. behavioral
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. Psycholinguistics studies language in relation to society. Language varies from region to region, from class to class.
2. The whole process of our talking is a chain of events: production of speech sounds → perception of speech sounds → speech sounds traveling in the air.
3. Out of the glottis, the air stream goes through the pharynx, the area of the throat between the larynx and the uvula.
4. Consonants can be described in terms of places of articulation, manners of articulation, and vibrating.
5. Classes of sounds that share a feature or features are called hierarchical classes.
6. The distinction between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme is whether it can be used independently in speech or writing.
7. In English, the two liquids [l] and [r] are phonemes, but in Korean, they are allophones.
8. Mood is a syntactic constituent made up of the Subject and the Predicate.
9. Compounding is one type of word formation by combining both free morphemes and bound morphemes.
10. The total number of words stored in the brain is called the lexicon.
Part III Match the terms in column A with the phrases in column B. (10%)
Please write down a, b…j in the spaces given below.
1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________ 4. ________
5. ________ 6. ________ 7. ________ 8. ________
9. ________ 10. ________
A
( ) 1. Socialinguistics
( ) 2. Applied Linguistics
( ) 3. Morphology
( ) 4. Phonetics
( ) 5. Linguistics
( ) 6. Syntax
( ) 7. Psycholinguistics
( ) 8. Pragmatics
( ) 9. Phonology
( ) 10 Semantics
B
a. the analysis of sentence structure
b. the analysis of meaning in context
c. the analysis of meaning
d. the study of sound systems and patterns
e. the application of linguistic theories to other spheres
f. the study of speech sounds
g.the study of the relationship between language and society
h.the study of word structure
i. the scientific study of language
j. the study of the relationship between language and mind
Part IV. Each of the following columns illustrates a different morphological process. (10%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
Column Ⅰ A. chairs B. wider C.looked D. Tom’s
Column Ⅱ A. reality B. movement C.malcontent D. stepmother
Column Ⅲ A. blackboard B. greenhouse C. makeshift D. paintwork
(1) What morphological process is shown by Column Ⅰ, Ⅱand Ⅲ.
(2) What is the morphological difference between a),b) and c),d) in Column Ⅱ.
1._________________________________________________________
2._________________________________________________________
Part V. Tell whether polarity or modality is expressed in the following sentences if modality, then identify the type (modalization or modulation). (10%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
1. I have not finished the task.
2. He often comes to my office.
3. I will show you how to make up the bed.
4. He hardly came back to see his mother.
5. The company ought to cut the price of the products.
1._____________________________2.______________________________
3.______________________________4.______________________________
5.______________________________
Part VI. Interpretate the following sentences. (10%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
1. She can not bear children.
(1) ____________________________________________________________
(2) ____________________________________________________________
(3) ____________________________________________________________
2. He hates old men and women.
(1)____________________________________________________________
(2)____________________________________________________________
Part VII. Explain the following terms. (10%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
1.Compounding 2.Free variation
1._________________________________________________________
2._________________________________________________________
Part VIII. Answer the following questions. (30%)
Please write down your answers in the spaces given below.
1. What is the difference between “a red coat and a redcoat”?
2. What are the features of modern linguistics?
3. According to Austin, what does a speech act consist of?
1._________________________________________________________
2._________________________________________________________
3._________________________________________________________
