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I. Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only.

1. Clear ［1］and dark [?] are allophones of the same one phoneme /1/.They never take the same position in sound combinations, thus they are said to be in c omplementary distribution. (P24)

2. M orphology is the smallest meaningful unit of language. (P32)

3. Consonant sounds can be either voiceless or voiced, while all v owel sounds are voiced. (P16)

4. In making conversation, the general principle that all participants are expected to observe is called the C ooperative principle proposed by J. Grice. (P86-87)

5. Language exists in time and changes through time. The description of a language at some point of time is called a s ynchronic study of language. (P4)

6. An essential difference between consonants and vowels is whether the air coming up from the lungs meets with any o bstruction when a sound is produced. (P18)

7. XP may contain more than just X. For example, the NP “the boy who likes this puppy” consists of Det, N and S, with Det being the s pecifier, N the head and S the complement. (P46)

9. While the meaning of a sentence is abstract and decontextualized, that of an u tterance is concrete and context-dependent. (P70)

11. P sycholinguistics relates the study of language to psychology. It aims to answer such questions as how the human mind works when people use language. (P70)

12. A d iachronic study of language is a historical study, it studies the historical development of language over a period of time. (P70)

13. Language is a system, which consists of two sets of structures, or two levels. At the lower level, there is a structure of meaningless sounds, which can be combined into a large number of meaningful units at the higher level. This design feature is called d uality. (P70)

14. The articulatory apparatus of a human being is contained in three important areas: the pharyngeal cavity, the o ral cavity and the nasal cavity. (P15)

16. S uprasegmental features such as stress, tone and intonation can influence the interpretation of meaning. (P70)

18. H omonymy refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings are identical in sound or spelling, or in both. (P70)

19. The three branches of phonetics are labeled as a rticulatory phonetics, auditory phonetics and acoustic phonetics respectively. (P15)

21. S yntax_ studies the sentence structure of language. (P70)

22. The noun “tear” and the verb “tear” are h omonymy. (P70)

23. S peech act theory is an important theory in the pragmatic study of language. (P70)

24. The modern linguistics is d escriptive, not prescriptive, and its investigations are based on authentic and mainly spoken language data. (P70)

25. Langue refers to the language system shared by a community of speaker while p arole contrasted with langue is the concrete act of speaking in actual situations by an individual speaker. (P70)

26. In semantic triangle, the relation between a word and a thing it refers to is not direct, and it is mediated by c oncept. (P70)

27. H. Sweet made a distinction between narrow and b road transcription. (P70)

28. In the cooperative principle, Grice introduced four categories of maxims. They are maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of r elation and maxim of manner. (P70)

29. P ragmatics is the study of language in use. (P70)

30. H istorical linguistics studies language change or historical development of language. (P70)

II. Directions：Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement.

( T )1. Language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection between words and what these words actually refer to.

( T ) 2. The syntactic rules of any language are finite in number, and yet there is no limit to the number of sentences native speakers of that language are able to produce and comprehend.

( T ) 3. Two people who are born and brought up in the same town and speak the same regional dialect may speak differently because of a number of social factors.

( T ) 4. In modern linguistic studies, the spoken form of language is given more emphasis than the written form for a number of reasons.

( F ) 5. The compound word “reading-room”is the place where a person can read books. This indicates that the meaning of a compound is the sum total of the meanings of its components.

( T ) 6. Only when a maxim under Cooperative Principle is blatantly violated and the hearer knows that it is being violated do conversational implicatures arise.

( T ) 7. In English, long vowels are also tense vowels because when we pronounce a long vowel such as /i:/,the larynx is in a state of tension.

( T ) 8. An important difference between traditional grammarians and modern linguists in their study of language is that the former tended to over-emphasize the written form of language and encourage people to imitate the “best authors” for language usage.

( T ) 9. The open-class words include prepositions.

( T ) 10. According to semantic triangle, there is no direct link between a symbol and referent, i.e. between a word and a thing it refers to.

( T ) 11. The relationship of “flower”, “violet”, “rose” and “tulip” is hyponymy.

( F ) 12. Only words of the same parts of speech can be combined to form compounds. (sunrise) ( T ) 13. Linguists believe that whatever occurs in the language people use should be described and analyzed in their investigation.

( F ) 14. The conclusions we reach about the phonology of one language can be generalized into the study of another language.

( F ) 15. The meaning-distinctive function of the tone is especially important in English because English, unlike Chinese, is a typical tone language.

( F ) 16. When we think of a concept, we actually try to see the im age of something in our mind’s eye every time we come across a linguistic symbol.

( F ) 17. All utterances can be restored to complete sentences. For example, “Good morning！” can be restored to “I wish you a good morning.”

( T ) 18. Any child who is capable of acquiring some particular human language is capable of acquiring any human language spontaneously and effortlessly.

( F ) 19. According to N. Chomsky, ”competence”is the actual realization of his knowledge in utterance.

( F ) 20. The English spelling exactly represents its pronunciation.

( F ) 21. All the grammatically well-formed sentences are semantically well-formed.

( T ) 22. Pragmatics studies the aspect of meaning that is not accounted for by semantics.

( F ) 23. An illocutionary act is the consequence of or the change brought about by the utterance. ( T ) 24. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.

( T ) 25. The writing system of a language is always a later invention used to record speech; thus there are s till many languages in today’s world that can only be spoken, but not written.

( F ) 26. In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria can be applied.

( F ) 27. Parole refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech

community.

( T ) 28. Conversational implicature is a kind of implied meaning, deduced on the basis of the conventional meaning of words together with the context, under the guidance of the CP and its maxims.

( F ) 29. Pragmatic failure may occur in cross-cultural communication, i.e. between speakers of different cultural backgrounds, but not occur in intra-cultural communication i.e. between speakers of the same cultural background.

( T ) 30. Sense and reference are two terms often encountered in the study of meaning.

III. Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration when necessary.

1. diachronic linguistics

Linguistics that studies language over a period of time, also known as historical linguistics, e.g. the study of the Chinese language since the end of the Qing dynasty up to the present.

2. synchronic linguistics

Linguistics that studies language at one particular point of time, e.g. the study of the kind of English used during Shakespeare’s time.

3. Language

Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.

4. context

Context is generally considered as constituted by the knowledge shared by the speaker and the hearer.

5. blending

A process of forming a new word by combining parts of other words. E.g. smog--- smoke + fog.

6. reference

Reference is what a linguistic form refers to in the real world; it is a matter of the relationship between the form and the reality.

7. broad transcription

Broad transcription is the transcription with letter symbols only. It is the transcription normally used in dictionaries and teaching textbooks.

8. a minimal pair

A pair of sound combinations which are identical in every way except one sound segment which occurs in the same position in the strings, e.g. /pit/ and /bit/.

9. homonymy

Homonymy refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings are identical in sound or spelling, or in both. eg. night / knight; lead v. / lead n.; fast adj. / fast v.

10. hyponymy

It refers to meaning inclusiveness, that is, the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word. e.g. The relationship of “flower”, “violet”, “rose” and “tulip” is hyponymy.

11. cultural transmission (as a defining feature of human language)

One of the major defining features of human language. Humans are born with the ability to acquire a language, but different from animals, the actual use of human language is not genetically transmitted, rather it is culturally transmitted, i.e. it has to be taught and learnt.

12. allophones

Allophones are the different phones that represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments. 13. morphology

Morphology is a branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.

14. duality

Language is a system, which consists of two sets of structures, or two levels. At the lower level, there is a structure of meaningless sounds, which can be combined into a large number of meaningful units at the higher level. This design feature is called duality.

15. pragmatics

It refers to the study of language in use.

16. bound morpheme

The morphemes that do not occur alone.

17. arbitrariness

The forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning.

18. syntax

Syntax studies the sentence structure of language.

IV. Answer the following questions.

1. What are the four maxims under the cooperative principle? （P86-87）

According to Grice, there are four maxims under the cooperative principle:

A. The maxim of quantity

1) Make your contribution as informative as required

(for the current purpose of the exchange) .

2) Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.

B. The maxim of quality

1) Do not say what you believe to be false.

2) Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.

C. The maxim of relation

Be relevant.

D. The maxim of manner

1) Avoid obscurity of expression.

2) Avoid ambiguity.

3) Be brief ( avoid unnecessary prolixity) .

4) Be orderly.

2. How are sentence meaning and utterance meaning related, and how do they differ? (P79) The meaning of a sentence is abstract and de-contextualized, while the meaning of an utterance is concrete and context-dependent. Utterance meaning is based on sentence meaning, and it is the realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication, or simply in a context.

3. How is Saussure’s distinction between langue and parole similar to Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performance? What do they differ? ( P4-5)

1) Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use. Chomsky defines competence as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language, and performance the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.

2) Both Saussure and Chomsky make the distinction between the abstract language system and the

actual use of language. Their purpose is to single out the language system for serious study. Similar to Saussure, Chomsky thinks what linguist should study is the ideal speaker’s competence, and the task of linguists is to discover and specify the rules of language.

3) Two linguists differ in that Saussure took a sociological view of language, while Chomsky looks at language from a psychological point of view.

4. What are the differences between modern linguistics and traditional grammar? (P5-6)

A. Linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive

B. Linguistics regards the spoken language as primary, not the written.

C. Linguistics differs from traditional grammar in that it does not force languages into a Latin-based framework.

5. What is the speech act theory advanced by John Austin? (P80-81)

Speech act theory is the first major theory in the pragmatic study of language, which was originated with John Austin and aims to answer the q uestion “Wh at do we do when using language”. First, he made a distinction between “constatives”（述事话语）and “performatives”（行事话语）. Later on, he set up another model to explain the way acts were performed by means of language. According to his new model, a speaker might be performing three acts simultaneously when speaking: that is, The locutionary act（言内行为）----an act of saying something, i.e. an act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology.

The illocutionary ac t（言外行为）----an act of expressing the speaker’s intention; it is the act performed in saying something.

The perlocutionary act（言后行为）----an act performed by or resulting from saying something.

6. Analyze the illocutionary acts of the following seemingly incoherent conversation between a couple:

---- (the telephone rings)

---- H: That’ the phone. (1)

---- W: I’m in the bathroom. (2)

---- H: Okay. (3)

This seemingly incoherent conversation goes on successfully because the speakers understand each other’s illocutionary acts:

(1) Making a request of his wife to go and answer the phone.

(2) A refusal to comply with the request; issuing a request of her husband to answer the phone instead.

(3) Accepting the wife’s refusal and accepting her request, meaning “all right, I’ll answer it.”

7. What are the design features of language? What does each refer to? (P8-10)

The most important five are: Arbitrariness; Productivity; Duality; Displacement; Cultural transmission.

Each refers to the following respectively: ……………………… (答案略，参见课本P8-10)

8. What is a phone? How is it different from a phoneme? How are allophones related to a phoneme? (P23-24)

A phone is a phonetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones. A phoneme is a phonological unit; it is a unit that is of distinctive value. It 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/.

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