第三套

1. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is good proof that human language is ______.

A. arbitrary B. non-arbitrary C. logical D. non-productive

2. All the back vowels in English are pronounced with rounded-lips, i. e. rounded, EXCEPT ______.

3. The level of syntactic representation that exists before movement takes place is commonly termed the ______.

A. phrase structure B. surface structure

C. syntactic structure D. deep structure

4. The theory of ______ accounts for the fact that noun phrases appear only in subject and object positions.

A. Case Condition B. Adjacent Condition

C. parameter D. Adjacent parameters

5. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called ______.

A. polysemy B. hyponymy C. antonymy D. homonymy

6. The utterance "We’re already working 25 hours a day, eight days a week." obviously violates the maxim of ______.

A. quality B. quantity C. relation D. manner

7. In first language acquisition children usually ______ grammatical rules from the linguistic information they hear.

A. use B. accept C. generalize D. reconstruct

8. Standardization known as ______ is necessary in order to facilitate communications.

A. language interpretation B. language identification

C. language choice D. language planning

9. Which of the following choices is not the key biological basis for human language acquisition?

______.

A. Cerebral cortex B. Neurons C. Eyes D. Angular gyrus

10. Basically all the following categories except ______ are always missing in the children’s telegraphic speech stage.

A. the copula verb "be" B. inflectional morphemes

C. function words D. content words