1、Chapter one Introduction一、定义 1.语言学 Linguistics Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. 2.普通语言学 General Linguistics The study of language as a whole is often called General linguistics. 3.语言 language Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communic
2、ation. 语言是人类用来交际的任意性的有声符号体系。 4.识别特征 Design Features It refers to the defining poperties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication.语言识别特征是指人类语言区别与其他任何动物的交际体系的限定性特征。 Arbitrariness 任意性 Productivity 多产性 Duality 双重性 Displacement 移位性 Cultural transmission 文化传递 arbitrari
3、ness There is no logical connection between meanings and sounds. P.S the arbitrary nature of language is a sign of sophistication and it makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions Productivity Animals are quite limited in the messages they are able to send. Duality Lan
4、guage is a system, which consists of two sets of structures ,or two levels. Displacement Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. Cultural transmission Human capacity for language has a genetic basis, but we have to be taught and learned the det
5、ails of any language system. this showed that language is culturally transmitted. not by instinct. animals are born with the capacity to produce the set of calls peculiar to their species. 5.语言能力 Competence Competence is the ideal users knowledge of the rules of his language. 6.语言运用 performance Perf
6、ormance is the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication. 语言运用是所掌握的规则在语言交际中的体现。 7.历时语言学 Diachronic linguistics The study of language change through time. a diachronic study of language is a historical study, which studies the historical development of language over a period of
7、 time. 8.共时语言学 Synchronical linguistics The study of a given language at a given time. 9.语言 langue The abstract linguistic system shared by all members of a speech community. 10.言语 parole The realization of langue in actual use. 11.规定性 Prescriptive It aims to lay down rules for ”correct” behavior, t
8、o tell people what they should say and what should not say. 12.描述性 Descriptive A linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use. 二、知识点 1.language is not an isolated phenomenon, its a social activity carried out in a certain social environment by human beings. 语言不是一种孤立的现象，而是
9、人类在一定的社会环境下进行的一种社会活动。 2.几种观点和现象的提出者： 瑞士语言学家 F.de Saussure F.de Saussure:Langue 和 parole 的区别 U.S.A linguist N.Chomsky 美国语言学家 N.Chomsky in1950 针对 Saussures langue the description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study. In modern linguistics, synchronic study is more important.S
10、peech and writing 口头语与书面语Speech and writing are the two major media of communication. Modern linguistics regards the spoken form of language as primary, but not the written form. Reasons are: 1. Speech precedes writing; 2. There are still many languages that have only the spoken form; 3. In terms of
11、 function, the spoken language is used for a wider range of purposes than the written, and carries a larger load of communication than the written.Langue and parole 语言和言语The Swiss linguist F. de Saussure made the distinction between langue and parole early 20th century.Langue refers to the abstract
12、linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use. Saussure made the distinction in order to single out one aspect of language for serious study. He believes what linguists should do is to abstract langue from parole, to d
13、iscover the regularities governing the actual use of language and make them the subjects of study of linguistics.Competence and performance 语言能力和语言运用Proposed by American linguist N. Chomsky in the late 1950s.He defines competence as the ideal users knowledge of the rules of his language, and perform
14、ance the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication. He believes the task of the linguists is to discover and specify the language rules.Chapter Two Phonology一、定义 1.宽式音标 Broad transcription The transcription of speech sounds with letter symbols only. 2.窄式音标 Narrow transcription
15、 The transcription of speech sound with letters symbols and the diacritics. 3.清音 Voiceless When the vocal cords are drawn wide apart ,letting air go through without causing vibration ,the sounds produced in such a condition are called voiceless sounds. 4.浊音 Voicing Sounds produced while the vocal co
16、rds are vibrating are called voiced sounds. 5.元音 Vowel The sounds in the production of which no articulators come very close together and the air stream passes through the vocal tract without obstruction are called vowels. 6.辅音 Consonants The sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction
17、 of the air stream at some point of the vocal tract are called consonants. 7.音位 Phoneme The basic unit in phonology, its a collection of distinctive phonetic features. 8.音位变体 Allophones Different phones which can represent a phoneme in different environments are called the allophones of that phoneme
18、. 9.音素 phone A phonetic unit or segment. it doesnot necessarily distinguish meaning, its a speech sound we use when speaking a language. 10.最小对立对 Minimal pair When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two words
19、 are said to form a minimal pair. 11.超切分特征 Suprasegmental The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segment are called suprasegmental features. the main suprasegmental features include stress ,intonation and tone. 12.互补分布 complementary distribution P35 Two allophones of the same phonem
20、e are said to be in complementary distribution. 13.语言的语音媒介 Phonic medium of language The limited range of sounds which are meaningful in human communication and are of interest to linguistic studies are the phonic medium of language. 在人类交际中有着一定意义、对语言学研究来说举足轻重。有限的声音是语音媒介。 14.爆破音 stops When a obstruct
21、ion created by the speech organs is total or complete, the speech sound produced with the obstruction released and the air passing out again is called a stop or a plosive. they areb p t d k g 二、知识点 1.statistics resulting from careful investigations show that there have been over5,000languages in the
22、 world, about two thirds of which have not had written form. 2. of the two media of language,speech is more basic than writing. 3.Phonetic 组成 Articulatory phonetics 发音语音学 longest established, mostly developed Auditory phonetics 听觉语音学 Acoustic phonetics 声学语音学 4.articulatoryApparatus /Organs of Speech
23、 Pharyngeal cavity 咽腔 Oral . 口腔 greatest source of modification of air stream found here Nasal 鼻腔 5.The tongue is the most flexible, responsible for more varieties of articulation than any other, the extreme back of the tongue can be raised towards the uvula and a speech sound can be thus produced a
24、s is used in Arabic and French. 6.Obstruction between the back of the tongue and the velar area results in the pronunciation ofk andg,the narrowing of space between the hard palate and the front of the tongue leads to the soundj;the obstruction created between the tip of the tongue and the alveolar
25、ridge results in the soundstandd. 7.nasal consonants: m / n / 9. A Phone is a phonetic unit or segment. 10.Sequential rules 例子 If three consonants should cluster together at the beginning of a word, the combination should obey the following three rules: the first phoneme must be /s/ the second phone
26、me must be /p/ or /t/ or /k/ the third phoneme must be /l/ or /r/ or /w 11.English has four basic types of intonation:Falling tone;Rising tone;Fall-rise tone; Rise-fall tone三、问答题 1.what are the three branches of phonetics? how do they contribute to the study of speech sound? Articulatory describes t
27、he way our speech organs work to produce the speech sounds and how they differ. Auditory-studies the physical properties of speech sounds, reaches the important conclusion that phonetic identity is only a theoretical ideal. Acoustic-studies the physical properties of speech sounds ,the way sound tra
28、vel from the speaker to the hearer. 发音语音学描述了我们的发音器官如何发出语音，以及这些语音为何有所不同。 听觉语音学研究语音的物理性质，得出了重要结论，即语音同一只是理论上的理想。 声学语音学研究语音的物理性质，研究语音从说话者到听话者之间的传播方式。 2.how are the English consonants classified? By place of articulation and By manner of articulation 3.how do phonetics and phonology differ in their focus
29、 of study? who do you think will be more interested in the different between sayiandi,p andph,a phonetician or a philologist? why? 语音学和音位学的研究中心有何不同?语音学家和音位学家哪一个更关心清晰音的区别? 为什么? Phonetics description of all speech sounds and their find differences. Phonology description of sound systems of particular
30、languages and how sounds function to distinguish meaning. A phonetician would be more interested in such differences cos such differences will not cos differences in meaning. 4.whats a phone? how is it different from a phoneme? how are allophones related to a phoneme? Phonea speech sound ,a phonetic
31、 unit. Phoneme-a collection of abstract sound features, a phonological unit. Allophones-actual realization of a phoneme in different phonetic contexts. 5.what is a minimal pair and a minimal set? why is it important to identify the minimal set in a language?为什么区分最小对立组在一种语言中非常重要? Minimal pairtwo soun
32、d combinations identical in every way except in one sound element that occurs in the same position. 除了出现在同一位置的一个语音成分不同外,其他部分都一样的两个语音组合. Minimal seta group of sound combinations with the above feature. 一组具有上述特征的语音组合. By identifying the minimal pair or the minimal set of a language, a philologist can
33、identify its phonemes. 通过分析一种语言的最小对立对或最小对立组,音位学家能辨别出它的音位. 6.Explain with examples how broad transcription and narrow one transcription differ? Broad transcriptionone letter symbol for one sound. Narrow transcriptiondiacritics are added to the one-letter symbols to show the finer differences between
34、sounds. 7.explain the sequential rule ,the assimilation rule and the deletion rule. 有序规则 Sequential rules Rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language. 同化规则 Assimilation rules The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by copying a feature of a sequential phoneme,
35、 thus making the two phones similar. 省略规则 Deletion rule Its a phonological rule which tells us when a sound is to be deleted although its orthographically represented.Chapter Three Morphology一、定义 1.词素 Morpheme The basic unit in the study of morphology and the smallest meaningful unit of language. 2.
36、自由词素 Free Morpheme Free morphemes are independent units of meaning and can be used freely all by themselves. 3.黏着词素 Bound morphemes Bound morphemes are these morphemes that canot be used by themselves, must be combined with other morphemes to form words that can be used independently. 4.词根 Root Root
37、 is the base form of a word which cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity. 5.词缀 Affix The collective term for the type of formative that can be used only when added to another morpheme. 6.曲折词缀 inflectional affixes The manifestation of grammatical relationships through the addition
38、of inflectional affixes, such as number, tense, degree and case. 7.派生词缀 Derivational affixes The manifestation of relation between stems and affixes through the addition of derivational affixes. 8.词干 Stem A stem is the existing form to which a derivational affix can be added. a stem can be a bound r
39、oot ,a free morpheme, or a derived form itself. 9.形态学规则 Morphological rules They are rules that govern which affix can be added to what type of stem to form a new word. 10.前缀 Prefix Prefixes modify the meaning of the stem ,but usually do not change the part of speech of the original word, exceptions
40、 are the prefixes be- and en(m)- 11.后缀 Suffix Suffixes are added to the end of stems, they modify the meaning of the original word and in many cases change its part of speech. 3.In using the morphological rules, we must guard against Over-generalization. 二、知识点 Inflectional morphology 1.Morphology De
41、rivational morphology Free morphemes Morphemes Root Bound morphemes Inflectional affixes Affixes Prefix Derivational affixes 2.some words maybe said to contain a root morpheme. Suffix 4.Compound features: orthographically, a compound can be written as one word, two separate words with or without a h
42、yphen in between. Syntactically, the part of speech of a compound is determined by the last element. semantically, the meaning of a compound is idiomatic, not calculable from the meanings of all its component Chapter 5 Semantics 一、定义 1.命名论 The naming theory The naming theory, one of the oldest notio
43、ns concerning meaning, and also a very primitive one was proposed by the ancient Greek scholar Plato. According to this theory, the linguistic forms or symbols, in other words,the words used in a language are taken to be labels of the objects they stand for, so words are just names or labels for thi
44、ngs. 2.意念论 The conceptualist view It holds that there is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to; rather ,in the interpretation of meaning they are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind. 3.语境论 Conceptualism Its based on the presumption that one can derive meanin
45、g from or reduce meaning to observable contexts. her are two kinds of context: the situational and the linguistic context. 4.行为主义论 Behaviorism It refers to the attempted to define the meaning of a language form as the” situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the h
46、earer”. this theory somewhat close to conceptualism emphasizes on the psychological response. 5.意义 Sense Its concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. Its the collection of all the features of the linguistic form, its abstract and de-contextualized. 6.所指意义 Reference It means what a
47、 linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world, it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience. 7.同义词 Synonymy It refers to the sameness or close similarity of meaning or we can say that words are close in meaning are called synonyms.
48、 8.多义词 Polysemy It refers to different words may have the same or similar meaning, the same one word may have more than one meaning. 9.同音(形) 异义 Homonymy It refers to the phenomenon that words have different meanings have the same form, i.e, different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in b
49、oth. 10.同音异义 Homophones It refers to two words are identical in sound. e.g. rain/reign. 11.同形异义 Homographs It refers to two words are identical in form .e.g. tear v./tear n. 12.上下义关系 Hyponymy It refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word. the word which is more general in meaning is called superordinate, and the more specific words are called its hyponyms. 13.反义词 Antonymy Its the
