全國2008年1月高等教育自學(xué)考試現(xiàn)代語言學(xué)試題

課程代碼：00830 

I. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C, or D in the bracket.(2%×10=20%)

1. The phonetic form of the prefix meaning “not” is phonetically variant; it is  before a vowel or an alveolar consonant,  before a labial consonant, and  before a _____, for example, inoperable , indiscrete , impossible , and inconceivable . (      )

A. velar                                                          B. palatal

C. fricative                                                     D. stop

2. Tones are pitch variations that refer to morphologically defined segments to the extent that different _______ in a language are distinctive. Pitch variations can distinguish meaning just like phonemes.(      )

A. sounds                                                       B. patterns

C. pitches                                                       D. features

3. Some of the ______ rules are productive; they can be used freely to form new words.(      )

A. syntactic                                                    B. morphological

C. semantic                                                    D. phonological

4. VP, AP and PP share similar syntactic properties with NP in that they allow for _______ and complements in phrases. (      )

A. heads                                                         B. specifiers

C. lexical items                                                D. obligatory words

5. Bloomfield drew on _______ psychology when trying to define the meaning of linguistic forms. (      )

A. contextual                                                  B. conceptualist

C. behaviorist                                                 D. mentalist