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12. Stops, fricatives, affricates, liquids, and glides all have some degree of o
and are therefore consonants.
13. M
is the smallest meaningful unit of language.
14. A
is the movement of an auxiliary verb to the sentence-initial position, such as “be”, “have”, “do” etc.
15. R
is what a linguistic form refers to in the real world; it is a matter of the relationship between form and the reality.
16. In Austin’s early speech act theory, c
were statements that either state or describe, and were thus verifiable.
17. In the process of first language acquisition, children usually construct their personal grammars, and their language develops in stages until it a
the grammatical rules of the adult language.
18. A s
community is one group, all of whose members share the same language or at least a single language variety.
19. People may communicate their feelings or thoughts via n
signals such as facial expressions, gestures, postures, or proxemic space.
20. Although the development of a communicative system is not unique to human beings, the natural acquisition of l
as a system of highly abstract rules and regulations for creative communication is what distinguishes humans from all other animal species.
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.Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and give the correct version. (2
％×
10=20
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21. (
) The writing system of a language is always a later invention used to record speech; thus there are still many languages in today’s world that can only be spoken, but not written.
22. (
) In such sound combinations as /bi:p/, /geip/ and /su:p/, the voiceless stop /p/, occurring in the final position, is unaspirated, i.e. pronounced with the strong puff of air withheld to some extent.
23. (
) The part of speech of the compound is always determined by the part of speech of the second element, without exception.
24. (
) The relationship between the embedded clause and its matrix clause is one of a part to the whole.
25. (
) The contextualist view of meaning holds that meaning should be studied in terms of the situational context and linguistic context.
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