南开大学外国语学院2004年研究生入学考试试题
考试科目：语言学 专业：英语语言文学
Ⅰ. Illustrate each of the following terms briefly. (45 points)
1. prescriptive linguistics
2. displacement
3. IPA
4. suprasegmental
5. blendings
6. denotation
7. hyponymy
8. stem
9. inflectional morpheme
10. back-formation
11. c-command
12. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
13. context of situation
14. corpus linguistics
15. CALL
Ⅱ. Name each of the following IPA symbols. (10 points)
1. []: .
2. [j]: .
3. [?]: .
4. [w]: .
5. [x]: .
6. [υ]:.
7. [æ]: .
8. [p]: .
9. [t h s]: .
10. [d]: .
Ⅲ. Read each of the following statements carefully and decide whether it is true or false. (10 points)
1. Odgen and Richards argue that the relation between a word and a thing it refers to is not direct.
2. In Hymes’ view, the learner acquires knowledge of sentences not only as grammatical but also as lexical.
3. The concept competence originally refers to the grammatical knowledge of the ideal language user and has nothing to do with the actual use of language in concrete situation.
4. An achievement test assesses how much a learner has mastered the contents of
