香港中文大学语言学部ma笔试题2013-2014

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1、THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONG2013-14CUHKRecruitmentTestMAinLinguisticsMAinChineseLinguisticsandLanguageAcquisitionName__________________________Email__________________________Phone__________________________University__________________________City_________________________

2、_Province__________________________1THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONGSectionOneAnswerallthequestionsinthissection.Question1Focuson[s]and[t]inthefollowingsetofdatafromDaga‘Iamlicking[jamosivin]‘theywilllick’[jamotain]‘grunt’[asi]‘weshouldgo’[anet]‘shout’[senao]‘hole’[urase]‘d

3、rum’[sinao]‘holiday’[wagat]‘whisper’[simura]‘little’[otu]‘hit’[topen]‘there’[use]‘old’[tave]‘salt’[siuran]‘Ikill’[tuian](1)Describethedistributionof[s]and[t].(2)Whattypeofdistributiondotheyrepresent?(3)Determinetheirphonemicstatus.i.Iftheybelongtodifferentphonemes,justify

4、youranswer.ii.Iftheybelongtothesamephoneme,givethenameofthephonologicalprocessinvolved.2THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONGQuestion2ComparetheseItalianandSpanishcognates:ItalianSpanishSpagna[spa.ɲa]España[ɛs.pa.ɲa]‘Spain’stato[sta.to]estado[ɛs.ta.do]‘state’scuola[skʊɔ.la]escue

5、la[ɛs.kʊe.la]‘school’signore[si.ɲo.re]señor[se.ɲor]‘mister’schiavo[skɪa.vo]esclavo[ɛs.kla.vo]‘slave’blasfema[blas.fe.ma]blasfemia[blas.fe.mɪa]‘blasphemy’tragico[tra.ʤi.ko]tragico[tra.hi.ko]‘tragic’Howdoyouaccountfortheorganizationofthesyllablestructureinthesetwolanguages?

6、3THECHINESEUNIVERSITYOFHONGKONGQuestion3ConsiderthefollowingdatafromSamoan[manao]‘hewishes’[mananao]‘theywish’[matua]‘heisold’[matutua]‘theyareold’[malosi]‘heisstrong’[malolosi]‘theyarestrong’[punou]‘hebends’[punonou]‘theybend’[atamaki]‘heiswise’[atamamaki]‘theyarewise’[s

7、avali]‘hetravels’[pepese]‘theysing’[laga]‘heweaves’1.WhatistheSamoanwordfor:a.theyweaveb.theytravelc.hesings2.Formulateamorphologicalrulethatstateshowtoformthepluralverbformfromthesingularverbform.Question4IntheEnglishsentences(a)—(c),alltherelativepronounsareprecededbyap

8、reposition(underlined).However,relativepronounsin(d)and(e)arenotprecededbyapreposition.Explainwh