课程名称︰语言学概论下 课程性质︰外文系必修 课程教师︰史嘉琳 考试日期（年月日）︰2008/06/18 考试时限（分钟）：180 是否需发放奖励金：是 （如未明确表示，则不予发放） 试题 : Answer all questions on the answer paper provided. Be as concise and complete as possible in your answers. Chapter 12: Language Change/Historical Linguistics 1. a. What is the one reliable mehthod that can be used to dertermine whether two given languages are "genectically" related? (5%) b. Explain why this method is reliable, and why others are not. (10%) c. What do we mean when we assert that two languages are "related," that is, what does it imply historically? (5%) 2. a. Explain the difference between unconditioned and conditioned sound change. (10%) b. Give a major example of unconditioned sound change in the history of the English language. (10%) 3. Which five of the following languages are not Indo-European? (10%) Albanian Croatian Kurdish Georgian Farsi Finnish Lithuanian Turkish Aremenian Hungarian Catalan Basque Hindi Breton Nepali Chapter 13: Visual Languages/Sign Language 4. a. Explain the fundamental difference between American Sign Language (ASL) and manually coded English. (5%) b. Explain why ASL is a full-fledged language like any spoken one. (5%) c. Give your explanation of why anyone would have thought ASL to be anything other than a full-fledged language. (5%) Chapter 15: Language in a Wider Context/Written Language 5. a. First, name three type of writing system used for each of these three languages: English, Japanese, and Chinese. (3%) b. Next, give your thoughts on why each respective writing system is either well adapted or not well adapted to the spoken language it is used for, as opposed to some other kind of writing system. (17%) Chapter 11: Lanuguage Contact/Pidgins and Croeles 6. Some of you asked whether "Taiwan English" is a kind of pidgin. Give your own answer to this question, thinking first carefully about everything you have learned about pidgins and croeles. (15%) --

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