1. If the study of meaning is conducted in the context of language use, a branch of linguistic study called _______come in being.
C. pragmatics （语用学）
2. Which of the following words is the entire arbitrary one?
B. Book （ 其他三个单词的词形或发音都有其解释或理由,但book纯属约定俗成.）
3. Which of the following items is not a design feature of human language?
C. Displacement
4. The term_____ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach which studies language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.
B. diachronic
5. _____is regarded as the “father of modern linguistics”?
B. Saussure
6. Competence refers to ____.
D. what speakers can actually do with language
7. The distinction between competence and performance is similar to the distinction between ________.
D. langue and parole
8. Children can speak before they can read or write shows that_______.
A. language is basically vocal
9. Which of the following statements about language is not true?
D. Language includes animal and artificial features of language.
10. ______are two sub-branches of linguistics that study the units at the grammatical level.
B. morphology and syntax
