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Chapter 1 Introduction to Linguistics

1．Define the following items

Descriptive vs. prescriptive Synchronic vs. diachronicLangue & paroleCompetence and performance

2. Answer the following questions

What are the design features of language?

What are the major functions of language?

Chapter 2 Phonetics & Phonology

1．What is the relationship and difference among phoneme, allophone，phone? Try to illustrate them with examples.

2. What’s the relationship and difference between Phonetics and Phonology? Try to illustrate them with examples.

Chapter 3 Morphology1．Define the following items

morpheme

inflection

derivation allomorph

bound morpheme

2. List the bund morphemes in the following words: fearlessly, misleads, previewer, shortened, unhappier

3. What are the inflectional morphemes in these expressions? It’s raining; the cow jumped over the moon; the newest style; the singer’s new songsChapter 4 Syntax

1、What are the syntactic relations?

2、What’s your understanding of “Gender”? 3、Please disambiguate the following 5 sentences, using the tree-diagram, or any other means that you think is appropriate. 　　1. Jane showed her baby pictures.　　2. The old man is drinking in the air.　　3. We need more realistic officials to handle the economy.　　4. We are sweeping the ground cigarettes on the street.　　5. Tom exchanged the money and fell around the corner. 4、Please use X’ Theory to draw the tree diagram for these syntactic structures

He believes that she is innocent.

Who won the game?

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