【正文】 A. predication analysis B. stylistic analysis C. ponential analysis D. proposition analysis 6. Of the three speech acts, linguists are most interested in the ( ) because this kind of speech act is identical with the speaker‘s intention. A. locutionary act B. illocutionary act C. perlocutionary act D. constative act 7. The discovery of IndoEuropean language family began with the work of the British scholar ( ). A. Sir William Jones B. John Firth C. M. A. K. Halliday D. F. D. Saussure 8. A bilingual speaker often uses two languages alternatively during a conversation with another bilingual speaker, a speech situation known as ( ). A. discourse roleswitching B. activity roleswitching C. social roleswitching D. codeswitching 9. A focal point of SLA research has been the nature and development of L2 learners‘( ). A. second language B. first language C. foreign language D. interlanguage 10. It is estimated that the number of basic words known by Englishspeaking school children of age six is around ( ). A. 7800 B. 6800 C. 5800 D. 4800 二、填空題 (每小題 1 分，共 10 分 ) 11. The description of a language at some point in time is a s________ study. 12. When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as i________. 13. According to its position in the new word, a________ are divided into two kinds: prefixes and suffixes. 14. P________ refers to the phenomenon that the same word may have a set of different meanings. 15. Whether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules called s________ restrictions. 16. The u________ meaning of the sentence varies with the context in which it is uttered. 17. Some important missions of historical linguists are to identify and classify families of related languages in a genealogical family tree, and to reconstruct the p________, the original form of a language family that has ceased to exist. 18. R________ are language varieties appropriate for use in particular speech situations. 19. Learners will subconsciously use their L1 knowledge in learning a second language. This is known as language t________. 20. A related issue with integrative motivation has been the extent to wh ich learners differ in the process of adapting to the new culture of the L2 munity. This adaptation process is called a ________. 三、判斷說明題 (判斷下列各題，正確的在題干后面的括號內填“ T”，錯誤的填“ F”，并說明理由。每小題 2 分，共 20 分 ) 21. Modern linguistics is mainly diachronic. ( ) 22. The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by ―copying‖ a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar. ( ) 23. Semantically, the meaning of a pound is often idiomatic, always being the sum total of the meanings of its ponents. ( ) 24. Syntactic movement is dictated by rules traditionally called transformational rules, whose operation may change the syntactic representation of a sentence. ( ) 25. Componential analysis is a way proposed by the generative semanticists to analyze meaning. ( ) 26. Linguists found that it would be possible to give an adequate description of meaning even if the context of language use was left unconsidered. ( ) 27. It is generally accepted that the history of the English language is divided into the periods of Old English, Middle English and Modern English. ( ) 28. When people of a munity speak the same language for different purposes, sociolinguistic situations known as diglossia and bilingualism emerge. ( ) 29. Linguistic lateralization in terms of right hemispheric dominance for language is found to exist in an overwhelming majority of human beings. ( ) 30. In order to identify the areas of learning difficulty, an interlingual contrastive procedure Contrastive Analysis was developed. ( ) 四、名詞解釋 (每小題 3 分，共 30 分 ) 31. petence and performance 32. minimal pair 33. morphology 34. finite clause 35. sense and reference 36. Cooperative Principle 37. semantic broadening 38. language planning 39. the critical period hypothesis 40. instrumental motivation vs. integrative motivation 五、論述題 (第 4 42 小題各 7 分，第 43 小題 6 分，共 20 分 ) 41. Under what conditions will two sounds be assigned to the same phoneme? 42. For the following sentence, draw a tree diagram to reveal its underlying structure. The girl ate the orange. 43. Study the passage taken from Shakespeare‘s HAMLET below carefully and identify every difference in expression between Elizabethan and Modern English that is evident. King: Where is Polonius? Hamlet: In heaven, Send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i‘ the other place yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby. Act IV, Scene iii 英語語言學試題 （ 6） Ⅰ .Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best pletes the statement and put the letter A,B,C or D in the brackets.(2% 10=20%) uses the term ( ) to refer to the actual realization of a language user‘s knowledge of the rules of his language in linguistic munication. A. langue B. petence C. parole D. performance terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of ( ). A. palatal B. alveolar C. bilabial D. dental Gener