Ⅳ. Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration, if necessary. (3%×10=30%)

31. synchronic study

32. competence

33. sentence stress

34. free morpheme

35. major lexical category

36. behaviourism as a semantic view

37. stylistic synonyms

38. expressives

39. euphemism轉(zhuǎn)自:考試網(wǎng) - [Examw.Com]

40. Broca’s area 

Ⅴ. Directions: Answer the following questions. ( 10% ×2=20% )

41. In some dialects of English, the word “ask” is pronounced [æks], and children’s speech shows a number of cases of sound movement, for example, “aminal” for “animal”. Now explain sound movement by giving examples. State the difference between sound movement and sound addition by examples.

42. Describe the distinctive features of Black English in its syntactic system by using examples.

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