general in meaning is called _s________.

17.Vowels can be nasalized.The vowel nasalization rule is an _a________ rule,which,for the most part, is caused by articulatory or physiological process in which successive sounds are made identical, or more similar, to one another.

18.One mark of an informal style is the frequent

occurrence of _s________ words and expressions, which make sense only to the people of particular social groups and serve as a mark of membership and solidarity within a given social group.

19.The brain is divided into two roughly symmetrical halves, called _h________, one on the right and one on the left.

20.Linguists often use the term native language or mother tongue instead of first language, and _t________ language instead of second language in second language acquisition literature.

Ⅲ.Directions: Judge whether each of the following

statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and give the correct version.(2%×10=20%)

21.( )Human capacity for language has a genetic basis,i.e. we are all born with the ability to acquire language and the details of a language system are genetically transmitted.

22.( )A general difference between phonetics and phonology is that phonetics is focused on the production of speech sounds while phonology is more concerned with how speech sounds distinguish meaning.

23.( )Only words of the same parts of speech can be combined to form compounds.

24.( )Sentences are not formed by randomly combining lexical items, but by following a set of syntactic rules that arrange linguistic elements in a particular order.

25.( )The same semantic feature occurs in one part of

speech only. For example, \such as \not in other parts of speech.

26.( )According to Searle's classification of illocutionary acts, inviting, ordering, advising, promising and apologizing all fall into the category of directives.

27.( )New words may be formed from existing words by subtracting an affix thought to be part of the old word; that is, ignorance sometimes can be creative. Thus \was derived from \that the \

28.( )Women in Western countries at least appear to be more status-conscious and sensitive to the social significance of certain linguistic variables.

29.( )The case of Genie confirms that the language faculty of an average human degenerates after the critical period and consequently, most linguistic skills cannot develop.

30.( )Conscious knowledge of linguistic rules does ensure acquisition of the rules and therefore an immediate guidance for actual performance.

Ⅳ.Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration. (3%×10=30%)

31.narrow transcription 32.stem

33.derivational affixes 34.grammatical relation 35.predication 36.semantic narrowing 37.nonstandard languages 38.linguistic taboo 39.angular gyrus 40.interlanguage

Ⅴ.Answer the following questions.(10%×2=20%)