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天津商业大学2009年研究生入学考试试题

专 业：外国语言学及应用语言学

课程名称：语言学及翻译（807） 共5页 第1页 说明：答案标明题号写在答题纸上，写在试题纸上的无效。

Linguistics (100 marks)

I. Studying linguistics, we have come across a lot of technical terms, some of which are listed below. Please write out the most acceptable definitions for each of them. (10 %)

a) language; b) diachronic study; c)assimilation; d)morpheme e)minimal pairs

f) surface structure; g)implicature h)linguistic determinism; i)reference

j) denotation

II. Studying linguistics we have been acquainted with many linguists, some of

whom are listed below. Write out a phrase that may best represent their contributions to linguistics. （10%）

a) Noam Chomsky b) M. A. K. Halliday c) L. Bloomfield

H. P. Grice f) J. Firth g) William Labov d) Ferdinand de Saussure e)

h) D. Sperber & D. Wilson i) John Austin j) Dell Hymes

III. Linguistics as a specified discipline has its own technical ways of operation.

Try to fill the blanks to demonstrate your technical sense of linguistics. (15%)

1. Please give the corresponding sound segments according to the descriptions:

voiceless bilabial stop: a)________ alveolar nasal: b)_________

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