语言学第2章习题.doc

Chapter 2:Phonology 
                 
I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:
1.        Voicing is a phonological feature that distinguishes meaning in both Chinese and English. 
2.        If two ically similar sounds occur in the same environments and they distinguish meaning, they are said to be plementary distribution. 
3.        A phone is a ic unit that distinguishes meaning. 
4.        English is a tone language while Chinese is not. 
5.        In linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing. 
6.        In munication, speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed. 
7.        Articulatory ics tries to describe the physical properties of the stream of sounds which a speaker issues with the help of a machine called spectrograph. 
8.        The articulatory apparatus of a human being are contained in three important areas: the throat, the mouth and the chest. 
9.        Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called voicing. 
10.  English consonants can be classified in terms of place of articulation and the part of the tongue that is raised the highest. 
11.  According to the manner of articulation, some of the types into which the consonants can be classified are stops, fricatives, bilabial and alveolar. 
12.  Vowel sounds can be differentiated b