2015-16 CUHK Recruitment Test
MA in Linguistics
MA in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition
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Section One
Answer all the questions in this section.
Question 1 English
1) Describe the distribution of [ʔ], [t˺] and [ɾ] as shown the data. 2) How many phonemes do [ʔ], [t˺] and [ɾ] represent? Why?
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Question 2
Swedish
bilar
bilen en bil
“cars” “the cars” “the car” “a car” “a cat” “a sofa” “a chair” “cats” “the cats” “the cat”
lampan lampor soffan soffor sofforna stolar
stolarna stolen tidningar
“the lamp” “lamps” “the lamps” “the sofa” “sofas” “the sofas” “chairs” “the chairs” “the chair” “newspapers” “the newspaper” “the newspapers”
bilarna
lamporna
en katt en soffa en stol kattar
en lampa “a lamp”
en tidning “a newspaper” kattarna katten
tidningaren tidningarna
1) What is the Swedish word for the indefinite article a (or an)? 2) What are the two forms of the plural morpheme in these data?
3) What are the two forms of the morpheme that make a singular word definite? 4) What is the morpheme that makes a plural word definite?
5) In what order do the various suffixes occur when there is more than one?
6) If en flicka is “a girl,” what are the forms for “girls,” “the girl,” and “the girls”? 7) If bussarna is “the buses,” what are the forms for “buses” and “the bus”?
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Question 3
English
a) I gave a bone to Pete and to Max yesterday.
b) I gave a bone to Pete and to Max yesterday. c) I wonder if Bonnie has finished packing her books. d) Martha found a lovely pillow for the couch. e) The light in this room is terrible.
1) Determine which of the boldfaced portions in the sentences are constituents. 2) What grammatical categories do they belong to? 3) Draw phrase structure trees for the constituents.
Question 4
English
Comment on the differences in the meaning of the underlined pronouns.
1. John is a close friend of mine. His daughter used to work in a local school. 2. No one could find his own nametag. 3. Every parent loves his own child. 4. If any student can solve the problem, his teacher will give him extra credits.
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Section Two
Answer one of the questions below in either English or Chinese.
Question 1
Analyze the following conversation between two strangers, a man and a woman. The conversation took place on a camping ground. The man was fiddling with his radio attempting to tune in to a station; the woman was passing by and stopped to talk to him.
Woman: Man: Woman: Man: Woman: Man: Woman: Man:
You’ve got a radio there then.
Yes (pause) I’m trying to get the weather.
I’ve been trying on mine but I can’t get a thing. Mm.
We really need to know before we leave (pause) we’re on bikes you see. Mm.
I’ve got a handicapped kiddie too (pause) we’re from Hamilton and we’re cycling to Taupo (pause) Where are you going then? Taupo.
1) What is the difference between referential and social functions of speech?
2) What do you think is the woman’s primary aim in the conversation? Is her focus mainly referential or social? How do you know?
3) Does the man interpret her intention accurately? What is his primary concern? Support your argument with evidence.
Question 2
廣義的語氣大致涵蓋以下三方面的內容，即句類（clause type）、情態
（modality）和狹義的語氣（mood）。這三方面的區別是什麼？請舉例說明。
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Section Three
Choose one of the following questions and write a one-page essay in response to the question. Please follow the style of academic discourse, and conventions for citation and reference (if any). Please use English only.
Question 1
Discuss your final year project (大學本科畢業論文): What is the topic? What are your research questions and research hypotheses? What are your major arguments? How are you going to collect data? What are your expected findings? What is the significance of your research? You can also discuss a term paper you have completed.
Question 2
What is the Critical Period Hypothesis? How has it shaped the development of linguistic theory in the past few decades, particularly in the area of language acquisition?
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