新编简明英语语言学教程第二版-练习题-参考答案

《新编简明英语语言学教程》第二版练习题参考答案

Chapter 1 Introduction

1. How do you interpret the following definition of linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

答： Linguistics is based on the systematic investigation of linguistic data, conducted with reference to some general theory of language structure. In order to discover the nature and rules of the underlying language system, the linguists has to collect and observe language facts first, which are found to display some similarities, and generalizations are made about them; then he formulates some hypotheses about the language structure. The hypotheses thus formed have to be checked repeatedly against the observed facts to fully prove their validity. In linguistics, as in any other discipline, data and theory stand in a dialectical complementation, that is, a theory without the support of data can hardly claim validity, and data without being explained by some theory remain a muddled mass of things.

2. What are the major branches of linguistics? What does each of them study?答： The major branches of linguistics are:

(1) phonetics: it studies the sounds used in linguistic communication;

(2) phonology: it studies how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication;

(3) morphology: it studies the way in which linguistic symbols representing sounds are arranged and combined to form words;

(4) syntax: it studies the rules which govern how words are combined to form grammatically permissible sentences in languages;

(5) semantics: it studies meaning conveyed by language;

(6) pragmatics: it studies the meaning in the context of language use.

3. In what basic ways does modern linguistics differ from traditional grammar?答： The general approach thus traditionally formed to the study of language over the years is roughly referred to as “traditional grammar.” Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar in several basic ways.

Firstly, linguistics is descriptive while traditional grammar is prescriptive. Second, modem linguistics regards the spoken language as primary, not the written. Traditional grammarians, on the other hand, tended to emphasize, maybe over-emphasize, the importance of the written word, partly because of its permanence.

Then, modem linguistics differs from traditional grammar also in that it does not force languages into a Latin-based framework.

4. Is modern linguistics mainly synchronic or diachronic? Why?

答： In modem linguistics, a synchronic approach seems to enjoy priority over a diachronic one. Because people believed that unless the various states of a language in different historical periods are successfully studied, it would be difficult to describe the changes that have taken place in its historical development.

5. For what reasons does modern linguistics give priority to speech rather than to writing?

答： Speech and writing are the two major media of linguistic communication. Modem linguistics regards the spoken language as the natural or the primary medium of human language for some obvious reasons. From the point of view of linguistic evolution, speec h is prior to writing. The writing system of any language is always “invented” by its users to record speech when the need arises. Even in today's world there are still many languages that can only be spoken but not written. Then in everyday communication, speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed. And also, speech is always the way in which every native speaker acquires his mother tongue, and writing is learned and taught later when he goes to school. For modern linguists, spoken language reveals many true features of human speech while written language is only the “revised” record of speech. Thus their data for investigation and analysis are mostly drawn from everyday speech, which they regard as authentic.

6. How is Saussure's distinction between langue and parole similar to Chomsky's distinction between competence and performance?

答： Saussure's distinction and Chomsky's are very similar, they differ at least in that Saussure took a sociological view of language and his notion of langue is a matter of social conventions, and Chomsky looks at language from a psychological point of view and to him competence is a property of the mind of each individual.

7. What characteristics of language do you think should be included in a good, comprehensive definition of language?

答： First of all, language is a system, i.e., elements of language are combined according to rules.

Second, language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between a linguistic symbol and what the symbol stands for.

Third, language is vocal because the primary medium for all languages is sound. Fourth, language is human-specific, i. e., it is very different from the communication systems other forms of life possess.

8. What are the main features of human language that have been specified by C. Hockett to show that it is essentially different from animal communication system?

答：The main features of human language are termed design features. They include: 1) Arbitrariness

Language is arbitrary. This means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds. A good example is the fact that different sounds are used to refer to the same object in different languages.

2) Productivity

Language is productive or creative in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its users. This is why they can produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences, including sentences they have never heard before.

3) Duality

Language consists of two sets of structures, or two levels. At the lower or the basic level there is a structure of sounds, which are meaningless by themselves. But the sounds of language can be grouped and regrouped into a large number of units of meaning, which are found at the higher level of the system.

4) Displacement

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. This is what “displacement” means.

5) Cultural transmission

While human capacity for language has a genetic basis, i.e., we were all born with the ability to acquire language, the details of any language system are not genetically transmitted, but instead have to be taught and learned.

9. What are the major functions of language? Think of your own examples for illustration.

答： Three main functions are often recognized of language: the descriptive function, the expressive function, and the social function.

The descriptive function is the function to convey factual information, which can be asserted or denied, and in some cases even verified. For example: “China is a large country with a long history.”

The expressive function supplies information about the user’s feelings, preferences, prejudices, and values. For example: “I will never go window-shopping with her.”

The social function serves to establish and maintain social relations between people. . For example: “We are your firm supporters.”

Chapter 2 Speech Sounds

1. What are the two major media of linguistic communication? Of the two, which one is primary and why?

答： Speech and writing are the two major media of linguistic communication.

Of the two media of language, speech is more primary than writing, for reasons, please refer to the answer to the fifth problem in the last chapter.

2. What is voicing and how is it caused?

答： Voicing is a quality of speech sounds and a feature of all vowels and some consonants in English. It is caused by the vibration of the vocal cords.

3. Explain with examples how broad transcription and narrow transcription differ?答： The transcription with letter-symbols only is called broad transcription. This is the transcription normally used in dictionaries and teaching textbooks for general purposes. The latter, i.e. the transcription with letter-symbols together with the diac

ritics is called narrow transcription. This is the transcription needed and used by the phoneticians in their study of speech sounds. With the help of the diacritics they can faithfully represent as much of the fine details as it is necessary for their purpose.

In broad transcription, the symbol [l] is used for the sounds [l] in the four words leaf [li:f], feel [fi:l], build [bild], and health [helθ]. As a matter of fact, the sound [l] in all these four sound combinations differs slightly. The [l] in [li:f], occurring before a vowel, is called a dear [l], and no diacritic is needed to indicate it; the [1] in [fi:l] and [bild], occurring at the end of a word or before another consonant, is pronounced differently from the clea r [1] as in “leaf”. It is called dark [?] and in narrow transcription the diacritic [?] is used to indicate it. Then in the sound combination [helθ], the sound [l] is followed by the English dental sound [θ], its pronunciation is somewhat affected by the d ental sound that follows it. It is thus called a dental [l], and in narrow transcription the diacritic [、] is used to indicate it. It is transcribed as [helθ].

Another example is the consonant [p]. We all know that [p] is pronounced differently in the two words pit and spit. In the word pit, the sound [p] is pronounced with a strong puff of air, but in spit the puff of air is withheld to some extent. In the case of pit, the [p] sound is said to be aspirated and in the case of spit, the [p] sound is unaspirated. This difference is not shown in broad transcription, but in narrow transcription, a small raised “h” is used to show aspiration, thus pit is transcribed as [ph?t] and spit is transcribed as [sp?t].

4. How are the English consonants classified?

答： English consonants can be classified in two ways: one is in terms of manner of articulation and the other is in terms of place of articulation. In terms of manner of articulation the English consonants can be classified into the following types: stops, fricatives, affricates, liquids, nasals and glides. In terms of place of articulation, it can be classified into following types: bilabial, labiodental, dental, alveolar, palatal, velar and glottal.

5. What criteria are used to classify the English vowels?

答： Vowels may be distinguished as front, central, and back according to which part of the tongue is held highest. To further distinguish members of each group, we need to apply another criterion, i.e. the openness of the mouth. Accordingly, we classify the vowels into four groups: close vowels, semi-close vowels, semi-open vowels, and open vowels. A third criterion that is often used in the classification of vowels is the shape of the lips. In English, all the front vowels and the central vowels are unfounded vowels, i. e., without rounding the lips, and all the back vowels, with the exception of [a:], are rounded. It should be noted that some front vowels can be pronounced with rounded lips.

6. A. Give the phonetic symbol for each of the following sound descriptions:

1) voiced palatal affricate

2) voiceless labiodental fricative

3) voiced alveolar stop

4) front, close, short

5) back, semi-open, long

6) voiceless bilabial stop

B. Give the phonetic features of each of the following sounds:

1) [ t ] 2) [ l ] 3) [?] 4) [w] 5) [?] 6) [?]

答：A. (1) [?] (2) [ f ] (3) [d ] (4) [ ? ] (5) [ ?:] (6) [p]

B. (1) voiceless alveolar stop (2) voiced alveolar liquid

(3) voiceless palatal affricate (4) voiced bilabial glide

(5) back, close, short (6) front, open

7. How do phonetics and phonology differ in their focus of study? Who do you think will be more interested in the difference between, say, [l] and [?], [ph] and [p], a phonetician or a phonologist? Why?

答： (1) Both phonology and phonetics are concerned with the same aspect of language –– the speech sounds. But while both are related to the study of sounds,, 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: how they are produced, how they differ from each other, what phonetic features they possess, how they can be classified, etc. Phonology, on the other hand, aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.

(2) A phonologist will be more interested in it. Because one of the tasks of the phonologists is to find out rule that governs the distribution of [l] and [?], [ph] and [p].

8. What is a phone? How is it different from a phoneme? How are allophones related to a phoneme?

答： A phone is a phonetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones. A phoneme is not any particular sound, but rather it is represented or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context. The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the allophones of that phoneme. For example, the phoneme /l/ in English can be realized as dark [?], clear [l], etc. which are allophones of the phoneme /l/.

9. Explain with examples the sequential rule, the assimilation rule, and the deletion rule.

答： Rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language are called sequential rules.

There are many such sequential rules in English. For example, if a word begins with a [l] or a [r], then the next sound must be a vowel. That is why [lbik] [lkbi] are impossible combinations in English. They have violated the restrictions on the sequencing of phonemes.

The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar. Assimilation of

neighbouring sounds is, for the most part, caused by articulatory or physiological processes. When we speak, we tend to increase the ease of articulation. This “sloppy” tendency may become regularized as rules of language.

We all know that nasalization is not a phonological feature in English, i.e., it does not distinguish meaning. But this does not mean that vowels in English are never nasalized in actual pronunciation; in fact they are nasalized in certain phonetic contexts. For example, the [i:] sound is nasalized in words like bean, green, team, and scream. This is because in all these sound combinations the [i:] sound is followed by a nasal [n] or [m].

The assimilation rule also accounts for the varying pronunciation of the alveolar nasal [n] in some sound combinations. The rule is that within a word, the nasal [n] assumes the same place of articulation as the consonant that follows it. We know that in English the prefix in- can be added to ma adjective to make the meaning of the word negative, e.g. discreet – indiscreet, correct – incorrect. But the [n] sound in the prefix in- is not always pronounced as an alveolar nasal. It is so in the word indiscreet because the consonant that follows it, i.e. [d], is an alveolar stop, but the [n] sound in the word incorrect is actually pronounced as a velar nasal, i.e. [?]; this is because the consonant that follows it is [k], which is a velar stop. So we can see that while pronouncing the sound [n], we are “copying”

a feature of the consonant that follows it.

Deletion rule tells us when a sound is to be deleted although it is orthographically represented. We have noticed that in the pronunciation of such words as sign, design, and paradigm, there is no [g] sound although it is represented in spelling by the letter g. But in their corresponding forms signature, designation, and paradigmatic, the [g] represented by the letter g is pronounced. The rule can be stated as: Delete a [g] when it occurs before a final nasal consonant. Given the rule, the phonemic representation of the stems in sign –signature, resign –resignation, phlegm –phlegmatic, paradigm – paradigmatic will include the phoneme /g/, which will be deleted according to the regular rule if no suffix is added.

10. What are suprasegmental features? How do the major suprasegmental features of English function in conveying meaning?

答： The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called suprasegmental features. The main suprasegmental features include stress, intonation, and tone. The location of stress in English distinguishes meaning. There are two kinds of stress: word stress and sentence stress. For example, a shift of stress may change the part of speech of a word from a noun, to a verb although its spelling remains unchanged. Tones are pitch variations which can distinguish meaning just like phonemes.

Intonation plays an important role in the conveyance of meaning in almost every language, especially in a language like English. When spoken in different tones, the same sequence of words may have different meanings.

Chapter 3 Morphology

1. Divide the following words into their separate morphemes by placing a “+”

between each morpheme and the next:

a. microfile e. telecommunication

b. bedraggled f. forefather

c. announcement g. psychophysics

d. predigestion h. mechanist

答：a. micro + file b. be + draggle + ed

c. announce + ment

d. pre + digest + ion

e. tele + communicate + ion

f. fore + father

g. psycho + physics h. mechan + ist

2. Think of three morpheme suffixes, give their meaning, and specify the types of

stem they may be suffixed to. Give at least two examples of each.

Model: -or

suffix: -or

meaning: the person or thing performing the action

stem type: added to verbs

examples: actor, “one who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, etc.”

translator, “one who translates”

答：(1) suffix: -able

meaning: something can be done or is possible

stem type: added to verbs

examples: acceptable, “can be accepted”

respectable, “can be respected”

(2) suffix: -ly

meaning: functional

stem type: added to adjectives

examples: freely. “adverbial form of ‘free’ ”

quickly, “adverbial form of 'quick' ”.

(3) suffix: -ee

meaning: the person receiving the action

stem type: added to verbs

examples: employee, “one who works in a company”

interviewee, “one who is interviewed”

3. Think of three morpheme prefixes, give their meaning, and specify the types of

stem they may be prefixed to. Give at least two examples of each.

Model: a-

prefix: a-

meaning: “without; not”

stem type: added to adjectives

examples: asymmetric, “lacking symmetry” asexual, “without sex or sex

organs”

答：(1) prefix: dis-

meaning: showing an opposite

stem type: added to verbs or nouns

examples : disapprove, “do not approve”

dishonesty, “lack of honesty”.

(2) prefix: anti-

meaning: against, opposed to

stem type: added to nouns or adjectives

examples : antinuclear, “opposing the use of atomic weapons and power”

antisocial, “opposed or harmful to the laws and customs of an organized community. ”

(3) prefix: counter-

meaning: the opposite of

stem type: added to nouns or adjectives.

examples: counterproductive, “produ cing results opposite to those intended”

counteract, “act against and reduce the force or effect of (sth.) ”

4. The italicized part in each of the following sentences is an inflectional morpheme. Study each inflectional morpheme carefully and point out its grammatical meaning. Sue moves in high-society circles in London.

A traffic warden asked John to move his car.

The club has moved to Friday, February 22nd.

The branches of the trees are moving back and forth.

答：(1) the third person singular

(2) the past tense

(3) the present perfect

(4) the present progressive

5. Determine whether the words in each of the following groups are related to one another by processes of inflection or derivation.

a) go, goes, going, gone

b) discover, discovery, discoverer, discoverable, discoverability

c) inventor, inventor’s, inventors, inventors’

d) democracy, democrat, democratic, democratize

答：(略)

6. The following sentences contain both derivational and inflectional affixes. Underline all of the derivational affixes and circle the inflectional affixes.

a) The farmer’s cows escaped.

b) It was raining.

c) Those socks are inexpensive.

d) Jim needs the newer copy.

e) The strongest rower continued.

f) She quickly closed the book.

g) The alphabetization went well.

答：(略)

Chapter 4 Syntax

1. What is syntax?

Syntax is a branch of linguistics that studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.

2. What is phrase structure rule?

The grammatical mechanism that regulates the arrangement of elements (i.e. specifiers, heads, and complements) that make up a phrase is called a phrase structure rule.

The phrase structural rule for NP, VP, AP, and PP can be written as follows:

NP → (Det) N (PP) ...

VP → (Qual) V (NP) ...

AP → (Deg) A (PP) ...

PP → (Deg) P (NP) ...

The general phrasal structural rule ( X stands for the head N, V, A or P):

The XP rule: XP → (specifier) X (complement)

3. What is category? How to determine a word's category?

Category refers to a group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language such as a sentence, a noun phrase or a verb. To determine a word's category, three criteria are usually employed, namely meaning, inflection and distribution. A word's distributional facts together with information about its meaning and inflectional capabilities help identify its syntactic category.

4. What is coordinate structure and what properties does it have?

The structure formed by joining two or more elements of the same type with the help of a conjunction is called coordinate structures.

Conjunction exhibits four important properties:

1) There is no limit on the number of coordinated categories that can appear prior to the conjunction.

2) A category at any level (a head or an entire XP) can be coordinated.

3) Coordinated categories must be of the same type.

4) The category type of the coordinate phrase is identical to the category type of the elements being conjoined.

5. What elements does a phrase contain and what role does each element play?

A phrase usually contains the following elements: head, specifier and complement. Sometimes it also contains another kind of element termed modifier.

The role of each element

Head:

Head is the word around which a phrase is formed.

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