全国2009年1月高等教育自学考试现代语言学试题
课程代码：00830
I. Directions：Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A，B，C，or D in the brackets. (2%×10=-20％)
1. Phonetics provides the means to describe the speech sounds，showing how they differ； phonology tells us that they function as ______，acting to contrast words. ( )
A. sounds units B. sound features
C. phonemes D. allophones
2. Alphabetic spelling represents the pronunciation of words；but it is often the case that the sounds of the words in a language are rather unsystematically represented by ______· ( )
A. writing B. orthography
C. transcription D. phonology
3. ______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. Bound B. Free
C. Inflectional D. Derivational
4. _______ categories refer to combination of words of different categories，such as noun phrases(NP)，verb phrases(VP)in English. ( )
A. Lexical B. Phrasal
C. Semantic D. Logical
5. In semantic analysis of a sentence， a(n)______ is a logical participant in a predication， largely identical with the nominal element(s)in a sentence. ( )
A. argument B. subject
C. object D. attribute
