English words can be motivated______.A、phonologicallyB、morphologicallyC、etymologicallyD、

A.phonologically

B.morphologically

C.etymologically

D.all the above

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第1题

In English, the phoneme/p/is pronounced differently in words such as pat, spat, or tap. Ca

n you form. a rule that can generalize this linguistic phenomenon？（南开大学2010研)

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第2题

What types of semantic change can be identified from the clues given？根据提示可以判

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第3题

"Baby talk" is a term used to label the word forms that many adults use when speaking to c

hildren. Examples in English are choo-choo for "train" and bow-wow for "dog". Baby talk seems to exist in every language and culture. At least two things seem to be universal about baby talk: the words that have baby talk forms fall into certain semantic categories(for example, food and animals)and the words are " phonetically simpler" than the adult forms(for example, tummy[t∧mi]for "stomach"[st∧m？k]). List all the baby talk words you can think of in Chinese; then(1)separate them into semantic categories, and(2)try to state general rules for the kinds of phonological simplifications that occur.

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第4题

For more than 600 years people have complained that youngsters cannot write proper English

anymore. Two universal truths emerge: languages are always changing, and older people always worry that the young are not taking proper care of the language. The problem is that conservatism works differently on writing than it does on speech. Writing is more permanent, so people choose their words carefully and conservatively. It is slow and considered, so people can avoid new usages widely seen as mistakes. It is taught carefully by adults to children, which naturally has some conservative influence on the written language. And it is often edited, so a young journalist with a casual style. may well be edited to a more traditional one by an older editor. Speech is different: instead of permanent, slow, considered and taught, it is impermanent, fast, and learned naturally by children from their surroundings. Speech will— at almost any level of language conservatism—change faster than written language. In this imperfect world, then, written language only partly reflects speech. Younger writers introduce spoken or new words or usages into their writing, annoying their elders as they do. But no one dare to be casual in spelling: English-speakers are stuck with an ancient system. Liberties with grammar—making the written language look like the spoken one— should be few and cautious. Giving the written language a little room to change, but not too much, is the only way to enjoy the best of both stability and vitality. The alternative— perfectly conservative writing—will make writing less and less like the language future generations will speak, and thus less relevant to writing about the world they live in.

It can be learned from Paragraph 1 that older people worry that______.

A．youngsters have too many complaints

B．spoken language is changing too fast

C．their English is not as good as before

D．youngsters are careless with language use

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第5题

They have learned about（）in recent years

A．several hundreds English words

B．hundreds of English words

C．hundred of English words

D．several hundred English word