Which of the following branches of linguistics takes the inner structure of word as its main object of study? （ ）
A:Morphology
B:Semantics
C:Phonetics
D:Syntax
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The sounds produced without the vocal cords vibrating are sounds.（ ）
A:vowel
B:consonantal
C:voiced
D:voiceless
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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:performance
C:parole
D:competence
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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:descriptive
C:sociolinguistic
D:psycholinguistic
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The term _______ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.（ ）
A:synchronic
B:diachronic
C:historical comparative
D:comparative
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In the phrase structure rule "S→NP VP", the arrow can be read as __________.（ ）
A:consists of
B:has
C:generates
D:is equal to
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Which of the following words contains an inflectional morpheme? （ ）
A:eaten
B:minibus
C:biology
D:careful
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Saussure took a(n) view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a _______ point of view. （ ）
A:semantic...linguistic
B:sociological...psychological
C:applied...pragmatic
D:psychological...sociological
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According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called_________.（ ）
A:expressives
B:commissives
C:directives
D:declaratives
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When a child uses“mummy”to refer to any woman, most probably his“mummy”means_________. （ ）
A:+ Human + Adult - Male + Parent
B:+ Human + Adult
C:+ Human
D:+ Human + Adult – Male
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One way to analyze lexical meaning is _________. （ ）
A:componential analysis
B:predication analysis
C:proposition analysis
D:stylistic analysis
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_________is made up from the first letters of the name of an organization, which has a heavily modified headworD.（ ）
A:Category
B:Acronym
C:Antonymy
D:Synonymy
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The syntactic rules of any language are_________in number. （ ）
A:infinite
B:large
C:finite
D:small
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--- What did Tom give Mary as a Christmas gift? The answer is _________ . （ ）
A:He gave her a book.
B:Tom gave a book to Mary.
C:He gave a book to her.
D:Tom gave a book.
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_________ in a person's speech or writing usually ranges on a continuum from casual or colloquial to formal or polite according to the type of communicative situation. （ ）
A:Variation in connotations
B:Changes in emotions
C:Stylistic variation
D:Regional variation
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Lexical ambiguity arises from polysemy or_________ which can not be determined by the context.（ ）
A:homonymy
B:meronymy
C:synonymy
D:antonymy
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What are the dual structures of language? （ ）
A:Sounds and meaning.
B:Sounds and symbols.
C:Sounds and letters.
D:Letters and meaning
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In Halliday’s view, the_________function of language is realized as the transitivity system in clauses as a representation of experience. （ ）
A:social
B:textual
C:interpersonal
D:ideational
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Interviewer and interviewee, are a pair of _________opposites. （ ）
A:complete
B:Relational
C:complementary
D:gradable
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Linguistics is the scientific study of __________. （ ）
A:human languages in general
B:a particular language
C:the English language
D:the system of a particular language
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Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called_________. （ ）
A:displacement
B:cultural transmission
C:duality
D:flexibility
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/e/ is different from /a/ in_________.（ ）
A:the position of the soft palate
B:the shape of the lips
C:the height of the tongue
D:the part of the tongue that is raised
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_________ is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence or the change brought about by the utterance. （ ）
A:A perlocutionary act
B:A locutionary act
C:An illocutionary act
D:A performative act
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Cold and hot are a pair of_________ antonyms. （ ）
A:complementary
B:gradable
C:reversal
D:Converseness
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Language is said to be arbitrary because there is no logical connection between _________ and meanings. （ ）
A:objects
B:sounds
C:sense
D:ideas
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_________refers to a marginal language of few lexical items and straight forward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication. （ ）
A:Standard language
B:Creole
C:Pidgin
D:Lingua franca
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"I bought some roses" __________ "I bought some flowers". （ ）
A:presupposes
B:entails
C:is synonymous with
D:is inconsistent with
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What the element‘-es’indicates is third person singular, present tense, the element‘-ed’ past tense, and‘-ing’progressive aspect. Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also_________. （ ）
A:morphemes
B:phonemes
C:allophones
D:phones
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The word “prediction” contains_____ morphemes. （ ）
A:three
B:two
C:four
D:five
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The actual production and comprehension of the speech by speakers of a language is called _________. （ ）
A:language device
B:grammar rules
C:competence
D:performance
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