现代语言学作业一

I. True or False questions. Decide whether the following statements are True or False. (20%, 1% each item)

( ) 1. The word darken does not contains any inflectional suffix.

( ) 2. The word “in” is an open class word.

( ) 3. Chinese is a tone language.

( ) 4. The word “above” includes 2 syllables, in which the sound [b] is the coda of the first syllable.

( ) 5. The sentence “John has a son” is the presupposition of the sentence “John’s son is an engineer.”

( ) 6. A syllable should contain at least one vowel. ( ) 7. Tongue position is one of the criteria for distinguishing different consonants.

( ) 8. The sentence “I’ll be back.” is a directive. ( ) 9. The sentence “Boys are boys” violates the quantity maxim.

( ) 10.Good: Bad is an example of complementary antonymy. II. Fill in the blanks with proper terms. (20%, 2% each item)

1. The distinction between langue and parole was proposed by _____.

2. That it is wrong to split an infinitive is an example of _____ rules.

3. In terms of semantic relationship, flower is a(n)________of lily.

4. In terms of grammatical case, he is a(n) ____________ case in the sentence “He killed a lion.”

5. The branch of phonetics that studies sounds from the speaker’s point of view is labeled _______ phonetics.

6. In terms of the place of articulation, the sounds [t], [s] and [n] share the feature of ________.

7. The hypothesis that animals, including humans, are genetically programmed to acquire certain kinds of knowledge and skill at specific times in life is called ________.

8. ____________sounds is described as “voiced bilabial stop”.

9. The hypothesis that claims that language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about is called_______.

10. Language exists in time and changes through time. The description of a language at some point of time is called a ________ study of language.

III. Define following terms. (20%, 5% each item)

1. Suprasegmental

2. syntax

3. Input Hypothesis

4. Aphasia

IV. Answer the following questions. (40%, 20% each item)

1. What are the possible methods in English for forming a verb from a noun?

2. Draw a tree structure to represent the following sentence “I know that you killed the man with a gun.”