Chapter 3 Morphology

1. Morphology refers to the ________ of words.

A. science

B. form

C. history

D. system

2. The smallest meaningful unit of language is ________.

A. morpheme

B. phone

C. phoneme

D. allomorpheme

3. The word “boyish” contains two ________.

A. phonemes

B. morphs

C. morphemes

D. allomorphs

4. ________ morphemes are those that cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.

A. Free

B. Bound

C. Root

D. Affix

5. Morphemes that represent “tense”, “number”, “gender”, “case” and so forth are called ________ morphemes.

A. inflectional

B. independent

C. free

D. derivational

6. ________ modify the meaning of the stem, but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word.

A. Prefixes

B. Suffixes

C. Roots

D. Affixes

7. In English “-ise” and “-tion” are called ________.

A. prefixes

B. suffixes

C. infixes

D. free morphemes

8. There are rules that govern which affix can be added to what type of ________ to form a new word.

A. root

B. affix

C. stem

D. word

9. The words such as “lab” and “doc” are ________.

A. formed by blending

B. acronyms

C. coined by back-formation

D. clipped words

答案(反白可见)：B A C B A A B C D