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1、英语专业考研语言学复习资料 主要内容第一部分 胡壮麟语言学教程第一章 语言学教程各章节提纲笔记第二章 语言学教程重难点学习提示第三章 语言学教程（修订版）测试题第四章 语言学教程课后答案第五章 胡壮麟的语言学术语英汉对照翻译表第二部分 戴炜栋简明语言学教程第三部分 语言学试题集锦精华第一部分 胡壮麟语言学教程第一章 语言学教程各章节提纲笔记Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics1.1Why study language?1.Language is very essential to human beings.2.In language there are ma
2、ny things we should know.3.For further understanding, we need to study language scientifically.1.2What is language?Language is a means of verbal communication. It is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.1.3Design features of languageThe features that define our human lang
3、uages can be called design features which can distinguish human language from any animal system of communication.1.3.1ArbitrarinessArbitrariness refers to the fact that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meanings.1.3.2DualityDuality refers to the property of having t
4、wo levels of structures, such that units of the primary level are composed of elements of the secondary level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization.1.3.3CreativityCreativity means that language is resourceful because of its duality and its recursiveness. Recursiveness ref
5、ers to the rule which can be applied repeatedly without any definite limit. The recursive nature of language provides a theoretical basis for the possibility of creating endless sentences.1.3.4DisplacementDisplacement means that human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and con
6、cepts which are not present (in time and space) at the moment of conversation.1.4Origin of language1.The bow-wow theoryIn primitive times people imitated the sounds of the animal calls in the wild environment they lived and speech developed from that.2.The pooh-pooh theoryIn the hard life of our pri
7、mitive ancestors, they utter instinctive sounds of pains, anger and joy which gradually developed into language.3.The “yo-he-ho” theoryAs primitive people worked together, they produced some rhythmic grunts which gradually developed into chants and then into language.1.5Functions of languageAs is pr
8、oposed by Jacobson, language has six functions:1.Referential: to convey message and information;2.Poetic: to indulge in language for its own sake;3.Emotive: to express attitudes, feelings and emotions;4.Conative: to persuade and influence others through commands and entreaties;5.Phatic: to establish
9、 communion with others;6.Metalingual: to clear up intentions, words and meanings.Halliday (1994) proposes a theory of metafunctions of language. It means that language has three metafunctions:1.Ideational function: to convey new information, to communicate a content that is unknown to the hearer;2.I
10、nterpersonal function: embodying all use of language to express social and personal relationships;3.Textual function: referring to the fact that language has mechanisms to make any stretch of spoken and written discourse into a coherent and unified text and make a living passage different from a ran
11、dom list of sentences.According to Hu Zhuanglin, language has at least seven functions:1.5.1InformativeThe informative function means language is the instrument of thought and people often use it to communicate new information.1.5.2Interpersonal functionThe interpersonal function means people can us
12、e language to establish and maintain their status in a society.1.5.3PerformativeThe performative function of language is primarily to change the social status of persons, as in marriage ceremonies, the sentencing of criminals, the blessing of children, the naming of a ship at a launching ceremony, a
13、nd the cursing of enemies.1.5.4Emotive functionThe emotive function is one of the most powerful uses of language because it is so crucial in changing the emotional status of an audience for or against someone or something.1.5.5Phatic communionThe phatic communion means people always use some small,
14、seemingly meaningless expressions such as Good morning, God bless you, Nice day, etc., to maintain a comfortable relationship between people without any factual content.1.5.6Recreational functionThe recreational function means people use language for the sheer joy of using it, such as a babys babbli
15、ng or a chanters chanting.1.5.7Metalingual functionThe metalingual function means people can use language to talk about itself. E.g. I can use the word “book” to talk about a book, and I can also use the expression “the word book” to talk about the sign “b-o-o-k” itself.1.6What is linguistics?Lingui
16、stics is the scientific study of language. It studies not just one language of any one community, but the language of all human beings.1.7Main branches of linguistics1.7.1PhoneticsPhonetics is the study of speech sounds, it includes three main areas: articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and a
17、uditory phonetics.1.7.2PhonologyPhonology studies the rules governing the structure, distribution, and sequencing of speech sounds and the shape of syllables.1.7.3MorphologyMorphology studies the minimal units of meaning morphemes and word-formation processes.1.7.4SyntaxSyntax refers to the rules go
18、verning the way words are combined to form sentences in a language, or simply, the study of the formation of sentences. 1.7.5SemanticsSemantics examines how meaning is encoded in a language.1.7.6PragmaticsPragmatics is the study of meaning in context.1.8MacrolinguisticsMacrolinguistics is the study
19、of language in all aspects, distinct from microlinguistics, which dealt solely with the formal aspect of language system.1.8.1PsycholinguisticsPsycholinguistics investigates the interrelation of language and mind, in processing and producing utterances and in language acquisition for example.1.8.2So
20、ciolinguisticsSociolinguistics is a term which covers a variety of different interests in language and society, including the language and the social characteristics of its users.1.8.3Anthropological linguisticsAnthropological linguistics studies the relationship between language and culture in a co
21、mmunity.1.8.4Computational linguisticsComputational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which centers around the use of computers to process or produce human language.1.9Important distinctions in linguistics1.9.1Descriptive vs. prescriptiveTo say that linguistics is a descriptive science is to
22、 say that the linguist tries to discover and record the rules to which the members of a language-community actually conform and does not seek to impose upon them other rules, or norms, of correctness.Prescriptive linguistics aims to lay down rules for the correct use of language and settle the dispu
23、tes over usage once and for all.For example, “Dont say X.” is a prescriptive command; “People dont say X.” is a descriptive statement. The distinction lies in prescribing how things ought to be and describing how things are. In the 18th century, all the main European languages were studied prescript
24、ively. However, modern linguistics is mostly descriptive because the nature of linguistics as a science determines its preoccupation with description instead of prescription.1.9.2Synchronic vs. diachronicA synchronic study takes a fixed instant (usually at present) as its point of observation. Sauss
25、ures diachronic description is the study of a language through the course of its history. E.g. a study of the features of the English used in Shakespeares time would be synchronic, and a study of the changes English has undergone since then would be a diachronic study. In modern linguistics, synchro
26、nic study seems to enjoy priority over diachronic study. The reason is that unless the various state of a language are successfully studied it would be difficult to describe the changes that have taken place in its historical development.1.9.3Langue & paroleSaussure distinguished the linguistic comp
27、etence of the speaker and the actual phenomena or data of linguistics as langue and parole. Langue is relative stable and systematic, parole is subject to personal and situational constraints; langue is not spoken by an individual, parole is always a naturally occurring event. What a linguist should
28、 do, according to Saussure, is to draw rules from a mass of confused facts, i.e. to discover the regularities governing all instances of parole and make them the subject of linguistics.1.9.4Competence and performanceAccording to Chomsky, a language users underlying knowledge about the system of rule
29、s is called the linguistic competence, and the actual use of language in concrete situations is called performance. Competence enables a speaker to produce and understand and indefinite number of sentences and to recognize grammatical mistakes and ambiguities. A speakers competence is stable while h
30、is performance is often influenced by psychological and social factors. So a speakers performance does not always match his supposed competence. Chomsky believes that linguists ought to study competence, rather than performance. Chomskys competence-performance distinction is not exactly the same as,
31、 though similar to, Saussures langue-parole distinction. Langue is a social product and a set of conventions of a community, while competence is deemed as a property of mind of each individual. Saussure looks at language more from a sociological or sociolinguistic point of view than Chomsky since th
32、e latter deals with his issues psychologically or psycholinguistically.1.9.5Etic vs. emicThese two terms are still very vague to me. After I read Ji Daohongs book, I can understand them better, but because they are vaguely mentioned in Hus book, it seems very difficult for me to understand them full
33、y. icywarmteaBeing etic means researchers making far too many, as well as behaviorally and inconsequential, differentiations, just as often the case with phonetics vs. phonemics analysis in linguistics proper.An emic set of speech acts and events must be one that is validated as meaningful via final
34、 resource to the native members of a speech community rather than via appeal to the investigators ingenuity or intuition alone.Following the suffix formations of (phon)etics vs (phon)emics, these terms were introduced into the social sciences by Kenneth Pike (1967) to denote the distinction between
35、the material and functional study of language: phonetics studies the acoustically measurable and articulatorily definable immediate sound utterances, whereas phonemics analyzes the specific selection each language makes from that universal catalogue from a functional aspect.Chapter 2 Speech Sounds2.
36、1Speech production and perceptionPhonetics is the study of speech sounds. It includes three main areas:1.Articulatory phonetics the study of the production of speech sounds2.Acoustic phonetics the study of the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech3.Auditory phonetics the study of perc
37、eption of speech soundsMost phoneticians are interested in articulatory phonetics.2.2Speech organsSpeech organs are those parts of the human body involved in the production of speech. The speech organs can be considered as consisting of three parts: the initiator of the air stream, the producer of v
38、oice and the resonating cavities.2.3Segments, divergences, and phonetic transcription2.3.1Segments and divergencesAs there are more sounds in English than its letters, each letter must represent more than one sound.2.3.2Phonetic transcriptionInternational Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): the system of symbo
39、ls for representing the pronunciation of words in any language according to the principles of the International Phonetic Association. The symbols consists of letters and diacritics. Some letters are taken from the Roman alphabet, some are special symbols.2.4Consonants2.4.1Consonants and vowelsA cons
40、onant is produced by constricting or obstructing the vocal tract at some places to divert, impede, or completely shut off the flow of air in the oral cavity.A vowel is produced without obstruction so no turbulence or a total stopping of the air can be perceived.2.4.2ConsonantsThe categories of conso
41、nant are established on the basis of several factors. The most important of these factors are:1.the actual relationship between the articulators and thus the way in which the air passes through certain parts of the vocal tract (manner of articulation);2.where in the vocal tract there is approximatio
42、n, narrowing, or the obstruction of the air (place of articulation).2.4.3Manners of articulation1.Stop/plosive: A speech sound which is produced by stopping the air stream from the lungs and then suddenly releasing it. In English, p, b, t, d, k, g are stops and m, n, N are nasal stops.2.Fricative: A
43、 speech sound which is produced by allowing the air stream from the lungs to escape with friction. This is caused by bringing the two articulators, e.g. the upper teeth and the lower lip, close together but not closes enough to stop the airstreams completely. In English, f, v, W, T, s, z, F, V, h ar
44、e fricatives.3.(Median) approximant: An articulation in which one articulator is close to another, but without the vocal tract being narrowed to such an extent that a turbulent airstream is produced. In English this class of sounds includes w, r, j.4.Lateral (approximant): A speech sound which is pr
45、oduced by partially blocking the airstream from the lungs, usually by the tongue, but letting it escape at one or both sides of the blockage. l is the only lateral in English.Other consonantal articulations include trill, tap or flap, and affricate.2.4.4Places of articulation1.Bilabial: A speech sou
46、nd which is made with the two lips.2.Labiodental: A speech sound which is made with the lower lip and the upper front teeth.3.Dental: A speech sound which is made by the tongue tip or blade and the upper front teeth.4.Alveolar: A speech sound which is made with the tongue tip or blade and the alveol
47、ar ridge.5.Postalveolar: A speech sound which is made with the tongue tip and the back of the alveolar ridge.6.Retroflex: A speech sound which is made with the tongue tip or blade curled back so that the underside of the tongue tip or blade forms a stricture with the back of the alveolar ridge or th
48、e hard palate.7.Palatal: A speech sound which is made with the front of the tongue and the hard palate.8.Velar: A speech sound which is made with the back of the tongue and the soft palate.9.Uvular: A speech sound which is made with the back of the tongue and the uvula, the short projection of the soft tissue and muscle at the posterior end of the velum.10.Pharynge
