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天津商业大学2010年研究生入学考试试题A

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。

(150 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) arbitrary; b) synchronic study; c)assimilation; d)allophone e)category

f) deep structure; g)context h)speech community; i) tenor of discourse

j) pidgin

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) John Searle

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

h) E. Sapir 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: voiced alveolar stop: a)_____________ voiced dental fricative: b)_________

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