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1、Chapter 1IntroductionI. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement. 1. If a study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be CA. prescriptiveB. analytic C. descriptiveD. linguistic2. Which of the following is n

2、ot a design feature of human language? DA. Arbitrariness B. Displacement C. Duality D. Meaningfulness3. Modern linguistics regards the written language as _C_. A. primary B. correct C. secondary D. stable4. In modern linguistics, speech is regarded as more basic than writing, because _D_. A.in lingu

3、istic evolution, speech is prior to writingB.speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed.C.speech is always the way in which every native speaker acquires his mother tongue.D.All of the above5. A historical study of language is a _B_ study of language. A.

4、synchronicB. diachronic C. prescriptiveD. comparative6. Saussure took a(n) _A_ view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a _ point of view. A. sociological, psychological B. Psychological, sociologicalC. applied, pragmatic D. semantic, linguistic7. According to F. de Saussure, _C_ refer

5、s to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.A. parole B. performance C. Langue D. language8. Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between _B_ and meanings. A. sense B. Sounds C. objects D. ideas9. Language can be used to refe

6、r to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called_A_. A. displacement B. duality C. flexibility D. cultural transmission 10. The details of any language system is passed on from one generation to the next through _D_ , rather than by instinct. A. learning B.

7、teaching C. books D. both A and BII. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given.1. 1. Duality 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

8、 and a higher level of meaningful units. 2. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. 3. The discipline that studies the rules governing the formation of words into permissible sentences in languages is called _syntax . 4. Human capacity for language has a genetic

9、_ basis, but the details of language have to be taught and learned. 5. Parole _ refers to the realization of langue in actual use.6. Findings in linguistic studies can often be applied to the settlement of some practical problems. The study of such applications is generally known as applied_ linguis

10、tics.7. Language is productive_ in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its users. In other words, they can produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences which they have never heard before.III. Define the following terms.1. Syntax: The study o

11、f how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax. 2. Applied linguistics: In a narrow sense, applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning, especially the teaching of foreign and second languages. In a b

12、road sense, it refers to the application of linguistic findings to the solution of practical problems such as the recovery of speech ability. 3. Arbitrariness: It is one of the design features of language. It means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds. 4. Displacement: Dis

13、placement means that language can be used to refer to things which are present or not present, real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future, or in far-away places. In other words, language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. 5. Duality:

14、The duality nature of language means that language is a system, which consists of two sets of structure, or two levels, one of sounds and the other of meanings. 6. Design features: Design features refer to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of commun

15、ication. IV. Answer the following questions. 1. A wolf is able to express subtle gradations of emotion by different positions of the ears, the lips, and the tail. There are eleven postures of the tail that express such emotions as self-confidence, confident threat, lack of tension, uncertain threat,

16、 depression, defensiveness, active submission, and complete submission. This system seems to be complex. Suppose there were a thousand different emotions that the wolf could express in this way. Would you then say a wolf had a language similar to mans? If not, Why not?答案1. No. Hint: Wolfs way of exp

17、ressing emotions does not present the defining features of human language. Examine them one by one.2. Why does modern linguistics regard the spoken form of language as primary, not the written? 答案2. While speech is the vocal/spoken form of language, writing is the written form of language. They belo

18、ng to different systems though they may overlap.That speech is primary over writing is a general principle of linguistic analysis. First, speech existed long before writing systems came into being. Second, written forms just represent in this way or that the speech sounds. Third, genetically childre

19、n learn to speak before learning to write. However, emphasizing the primacy of speech is by no means to deny the importance of writing, which gives language new scope and uses that speech does not have. First, with writing, messages can be carried through space and time. Second, oral message are sub

20、ject to distortion, either intentional or otherwise, causing misunderstanding, while written messages remain exactly the same whether read a thousand years later or ten thousand miles away. Everything considered, speech is believed to more representative of human language than writing. Most modern l

21、inguistic analysis is thus focused on speech, different from traditional grammar of the 19th century and therebefore.3. How is modern linguistics different from traditional grammar?答案3. First, linguistics is descriptive, while traditional grammar is prescriptive. Linguistics describes languages as t

22、hey are and does not lay down rules of correctness; traditional grammar emphasizes such matters as correctness and aims to prescribe what is right.Second, linguistics regards the spoken language as primary, not the written.Third, traditional grammar is based on Latin and it tries to impose the Latin

23、 categories and structures on other languages (Latin patterns and categories, especially its case system and tense divisions of past, present and future), while linguistics describes each language on its own merits. Linguists are opposed to the notion that any one language can provide an adequate fr

24、amework for the others. They are trying to set up a universal framework, but that will be based on the features shared by most of the languages used by mankind.(Traditional grammar is usually based on earlier grammars of Latin and applied them, often inappropriately, to some other language. For exam

25、ple, some grammarians stated that English had six cases because Latin had six cases. )4. Saussures distinction between langue and parole seems similar to Chomskys distinction between competence and performance. What do you think are their major differences?答案4. According to Saussure, langue refers t

26、o the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use. Langue is the set of conventions and rules which language users all have to follow while parole is the concrete use of the conventions and the application o

27、f the rules. Langue is abstract; it is not the language people actually use, but parole is concrete; it refers to the naturally occurring language events. Langue is relatively stable, it does not change frequently; while parole varies from person to person, and from situation to situation. According

28、 to Chomsky, competence is the ideal users knowledge of the rules of his language. This internalized set of rules enables the language user to produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences and recognize sentences that are ungrammatical and ambiguous. However, performance is the actu

29、al realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication. Although the speakers knowledge of his mother tongue is perfect, his performances may have mistakes because of social and psychological factors such as stress, embarrassment, etc. Chomsky believes that what linguists should study is the c

30、ompetence, which is systematic, not the performance, which is too haphazard.Although Saussures distinction and Chomskys are very similar, they differ at least in that Saussure took a sociological view of language and his notion of langue is a mater of social conventions, and Chomsky looks at languag

31、e from a psychological point of views and to him, competence is a property of the mind of each individual.Chapter 2 The Sounds of Language1. If two phonetically similar sounds occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning, they are said to be in complementary distribution. F 2. A phone

32、 is a phonetic unit that distinguishes meaning. F 3. English is a tone language while Chinese is not.F 4. In linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing. T 5. In everyday communication, speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed. T 6. Vibration of th

33、e vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing.T 7. English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tongue that is raised the highest. F 8. According to the manner of articulation, some of the types into which the consonants can be class

34、ified are stops, fricatives, bilabial and alveolar. F 9. 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. T 10. According to the shape of the lips, vowels can be classified

35、into close vowels, semi-close vowels, semi-open vowels and open vowels. F II. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given: 1. Of all the speech organs, the t _1. tongue _ is the most flexible, and is responsible for varieties of articulation than any other.

36、2. English consonants can be classified in terms of manner of articulation or in terms of p_2. place_ of articulation. 3. 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

37、s_3. stop. 4. S_4. Suprasegmental_ features are the phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments. They include stress, tone, intonation, etc. 5.The rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language are called s_5. sequential_ rules. 6.The transcription of speech so

38、unds with letter-symbols only is called broad transcription while the transcription with letter-symbols together with the diacritics is called n_6. narrow _ transcription. 7.When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as

39、 i_ 7. intonation _. 8.P_8. Phonology_ 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. 9.T_9. Tone_ are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the voca

40、l cords and which can distinguish meaning just like phonemes. 10.Depending on the context in which stress is considered, there are two kinds of stress: word stress and s_10. sentence_ stress. III. Define the terms below:1 Phoneme: The basic unit in phonology is called phoneme; it is a unit of distin

41、ctive value. But it is an abstract unit. To be exact, a phoneme is not a sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.2. Allophone: The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the allophones of that phoneme.3. International phonetic

42、alphabet: It is a standardized and internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription. 4. Intonation: When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation.5. Auditory phonetics: It studies the speech sounds f

43、rom the hearers point of view. It studies how the sounds are perceived by the hearer.6. Acoustic phonetics: It studies the speech sounds by looking at the sound waves. It studies the physical means by which speech sounds are transmitted through the air from one person to another.7. Minimal pair: Whe

44、n 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 minimal pair.Phoneme: The basic unit in phonology is called phoneme; it is a unit of distinctive value. But it is an abstract unit. To be exac

45、t, a phoneme is not a sound; it is a collection of distinctive phonetic features.IV.1What are the major differences between phonology and phonetics?答案. They differ in their approach and focus. Phonetics is of a general nature; it is interested in all the speech sounds used in all human languages: ho

46、w they are produced, how they differ from each other, what phonetic features they possess, how they can be classified. Phonology, on the other hand, is interested in the system of sounds of a particular language; it aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds

47、are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication. 1. Illustrate with examples how suprasegmental features can affect meaning. 答案 1) The location of stress in English distinguishes meaning, such as import and import. The similar alternation of stress also occurs between a compound noun and a ph

48、rase consisting of the same elements. A phonological feature of the English compounds, is that the stress of the word always falls on the first element and the second element receives secondary stress, for example: blackbird is a particular kind of bird, which is not necessarily black, but a black b

49、ird is a bird that is black. 2) The more important words such as nouns, verbs adjectives, adverbs, etc. are pronounced with greater force and made more prominent. But to give special emphasis to a certain notion, a word in sentence that is usually unstressed can be stressed to achieve different effe

50、ct. Take the sentence “He is driving my car.” for example. To emphasize the fact that the car he is driving is not his, or yours, but mine, the speaker can stress the possessive pronoun my, which under normal circumstances is not stressed. 3) English has four basic types of intonation, known as the

51、four tones: When spoken in different tones, the same sequence of words may have different meanings. Generally speaking, the falling tone indicates that what is said is a straight-forward, matter-of-fact statement, the rising tone often makes a question of what is said, and the fall-rise tone often i

52、ndicates that there is an implied message in what is said. 2. In what way can we determine whether a phone is a phoneme or not? 答案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. If it does, the two sounds then repres

53、ent different phonemes. Chapter 3 MorphologyExercise and Discussion Questions1. D2. D3. B4. B5. C6. D7. A8. CI. In each question there are four choices. Decide which one will be the best answer to the question, or will best complete the sentence.1. The morpheme “vision” in the common word “televisio

54、n” is a(n) _. A. bound morphemeB. bound formC. inflectional morphemeD. free morpheme2. The compound word “bookstore” is the place where books are sold. This indicates that the meaning of a compound _.A.is the sum total of the meaning of its componentsB.can always be worked out by looking at the mean

55、ings of morphemesC.is the same as the meaning of a free phraseD.None of the above3. The part of speech of the compounds is generally determined by the part of speech of _.A.the first elementB.the second elementC.either the first or the second elementD.both the first and the second elements4. _ are t

56、hose that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.A. Free morphemesB. Bound morphemesC. Bound wordsD. Words 5. The meaning carried by the inflectional morpheme is _. A. lexical B. morphemicC. grammatical D. semantic6. Bound morp

57、hemes are those that _. A.have to be used independentlyB.cannot be combined with other morphemesC.can either be free or boundD.have to be combined with other morphemes7. _ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word. A. PrefixesB. SuffixesC. Root

58、s D. Affixes8. “-s” in the word “books” is _. A. a derivative affixB. a stemC. an inflectional affixD. a root1. T2. T3. F4. T5. F6. T7. T8. T9. F10. FII. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False.1. Although the vast majority of prefixes do not change the original word class,

59、there are prefixes that are class-changing: a-, be-, em-, en-. 2. Inflectional ending can be added to derivational ones, but not vice-versa. 3. The syllabic structure of a word and its morphemic structure must correspond. 4. Derivations can make the word class of the original word either changed or

60、unchanged. 5. Words are the smallest meaningful units of language. 6. The smallest meaningful units that can be used freely all by themselves are free morphemes.7. Inflectional morphemes manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree, and case.8. The e

61、xisting form to which a derivational affix can be added is called a stem, which can be a bound root, a free morpheme, or a derived form itself.9. Prefixes usually modify the part of speech of the original word, not the meaning of it.10. There are rules that govern which affix can be added to what ty

62、pe of stem to form a new word. Therefore, words formed according to the morphological rules are acceptable words.III. Define the following terms.1. Morphology: Morphology is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed. 2. Morpheme: It is

63、the smallest meaningful unit of language. 3. Free morpheme: Free morphemes are the morphemes which are independent units of meaning and can be used freely all by themselves or in combination with other morphemes. 4. Bound morpheme: Bound morphemes are the morphemes which cannot be used independently

64、 but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word. 5. Root: A root is often seen as part of a word; it can never stand by itself although it bears clear, definite meaning; it must be combined with another root or an affix to form a word. 6. Affix: Affixes are of two types: inflectional and derivational. Inflectional affixes manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categorie