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青岛大学2010年硕士研究生入学考试试题 科目代码： 4页） 请考生写明题号，将答案全部答在答题纸上，答在试卷上无效 Part One Linguistics (50 points)

I. There are 10 statements/questions below. Indicate the right choice in each of them by writing the corresponding letter (A, B, C or D) in the given space. (10 points)

1. The following statement is made by ______: “From now on I will

consider language to be a set of (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements.”

A. F. Saussure B. E. Sapir C. M. A. K. Halliday D. N. Chomsky

2. A communication system with duality is considered more flexible than one without it. Lower-level sounds in duality are regarded as _______.

A. meaningful B. meaningless C. interpersonal D. informative

3. Saussure takes a _______ view of language and his notion of langue is a matter of social conventions.

A. psychological B. neurological C. sociological D.

anthropological

4. A branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and

transcription is called _______.

A. phonetics B. phonology C. articulation D. conversation study

5. Which of the following is the correct description of the English sound /p/ ? _____.

A. voiceless, bilabial, stop B. voiced, bilabial, stop

C. voiceless, alveolar, stop D. voiced, alveolar, stop

6. Which of the four sounds is not an alveolar in terms of place of

articulation? _____.

A. [ t ] B. [ z ] C. [ j ] D. [n]

7. Which of the four underlined parts does not belong to the new word class “particle”? _______.

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