求语言学高人做题2. A diachronic study of language is the description

求语言学高人做题
2. A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time.
3. Modern linguistics regards the written language as primary, not the oral language.
4. The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure.
9. If two phonetically similar sounds occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning, they are said to be in complementary distribution.
10. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing.
11. According to the manner of articulation, some of the types into which the consonants can be classified are stops, fricatives, bilabial and alveolar.
23. The syntactic rules of any language are finite in number, but there is no limit to the number of sentences native speakers of that language are able to produce and comprehend.
32 Austin made the distinction between a constative and a performative.
33. Different social classes often have their own dialects.
37. The major difference between a pidgin and a Creole is that the former usually has its native speakers while th42. Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This feature is called_________,
A. displacement B. duality C. flexibility D. cultural transmission
e latter doesn’t.
44. Which of the following pairs of phones is NOT in complementary distribution?
A. [i:]; [i] B. [kh ]; [k¬] C. [l]; [ł] D. [p] and [ph]
49. Which of the following examples of meronymy falls into the same type with “page — book”?
A. screen-computer B. province-country C. quarter-hour D. Beijing-China