2012-13香港中文大学MA语言学部试题

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1、THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONG2012-13CUHKRecruitmentTestMAinLinguisticsMAinChineseLinguisticsandLanguageAcquisitionName__________________________Email__________________________Phone__________________________University__________________________City___________________

2、_______Province__________________________9THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONGSectionOneAnswerallthequestionsinthissection.Question1Analyzethefollowingdataanddecideif[s]and[z]areallophonesofthesamephonemeorbelongtodifferentphonemes.9THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONGQuestion2

3、Lookatthefollowingdatainvolvingallomorphicvariation:(a)Whatkindofmorphologicalmeansdoesthislanguageemploytoexpressthemeaning‘in/at’?(b)Whataretheallomorphsofthismorpheme?(c)Describetheirdistributioninthedata.(d)Whatphonologicalprocessisinvolvedinsuchdistribution?Que

4、stion3Whatarethepossiblemeaningsof‘unlearnable’and‘undoable’?Drawtreediagramstoexplaintheirpossiblemeanings.9THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONGQuestion4Johndrewtwostructuresforthesentence“Thetechnicianwillfixittomorrow.”ProfessorHuangconsideredStructureAtobetherightstru

5、cture.PleasegivereasonswhyStructureAisbetterthanStructureB.Question5Thesentence‘Thestudenthittheteacherwitharuler’isambiguous.Illustratethemeaningdifferenceswithtreediagramsandappropriatelinguisticlabels.9THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONGQuestion6Explainthedifferencein

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