194《英语语言学》答案

Synonyms  

II. Indicate the following statements true or false. Put T for true and F for   false in the 

brackets:  

( T ) 1. The Swiss linguist de Saussure regarded the linguistic sign as composed of sound image 

and referent. 

( F ) 2. Chinese is an agglutinating language. 

( F ) 3. Not all vowels are voiced. 

( T ) 4. If segments appear in the same position but the mutual substitution does not result 

in change of meaning, they are said to be in free variation. 

( F ) 5. A greenbottle is a type of bottle. 

( T ) 6. Productivity is the first and foremost striking feature of human language. 

( F ) 7. Language contains two subsystems, one of speaking and the other of writing.  

( T ) 8. Language can be used to refer to things real or imagined, past, present or future. 

( F ) 9. Modern linguistics is prescriptive rather than descriptive.  

( F ) 10. The study of speech sounds is called Phonology. 

( 

T 

) 

11. 

The 

voiceless 

bilabial 

stop 

in 

pin 

and 

the 

one 

in 

spin 

are 

in 

complementary 

distribution. 

( T ) 12. Tone is the variation of pitch to distinguish utterance meaning. 

( T ) 13. Compounding, the combination of free morphemes, is a common way to form words. 

( F ) 14. In the phrases 

a herd of cattle

, 

a flock of sheep

, both 

cattle

 and 

sheep

 contain only 

one morpheme. 

( F ) 15. The meaning of compounds is always the sum of meaning of the compounds. 

III. Multiple Choice  

1.C 2.D 3.A 4.B 5.D 6.A 7.D 8.B 9.A 

IV. For each group of sounds listed below, state the phonetic feature(s) then share:  

Example:

 [s] [f] [p] [h] voiceless