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[单项选择]A historical study of language is a study of ______ language.
A. synchronic
B. diachronic
C. prescriptive
D. comparative
[单项选择]A historical study of language is a ______ study of language.
A. synchronic
B. diachronic
C. prescriptive
D. comparative
[单项选择]In his book The Principles of Language Study (1921), Palmer made the
point that ______were brought into play in the acquisition of spoken language
whereas studial capacities were required in development of literacy.
A. learning power
B. grammatical capacities
C. spontaneous capacities
D. understanding capacities
[单项选择]In The Principles of Language Study (1921), Palmer put forward nine
fundamental principles of good language teaching and learning, of which ______
was the first and most important.
A. reinforcement and response
B. habit-formation
C. form and meaning
D. meaning and situation
[单项选择]The study that includes an historical or evolutionary time dimension is called
A. Cultural Ecology.
B. Diachronic Study.
C. Ecosystem Approach/Model.
D. Environmental Determinism.
[单项选择]The study of language acquisition is generally known as
A. theoretical linguistics.
B. psycholinguistics.
C. applied linguistics.
D. historical linguistics.
[单项选择]If we study language as it exists at a particular point in time, it is ______.
A. lexical morphology
B. linguistic atlas
C. linguistic competence
D. synchronic study
[单项选择]The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is
A. corpus linguistics.
B. sociolinguistics.
C. theoretical linguistics.
D. psycholinguistics.
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Today the study of language in our schools is somewhat confused. It is the most traditional of scholastic subjects being taught in a time when many of our traditions no longer fit our needs. You to whom these pages are addressed speak English and are therefore in a worse case than any other literate people.
People pondering the origin of language for the first time usually arrive at the conclusion that it developed gradually as a system of conventionalised grunts, hisses, and cries and must have been a very simple affair in the beginning. But when we observe the language behavior of what we regard as primitive cultures, we find it strikingly elaborate and complicated. Stefansson, the explorer, said that "In order to get along reasonably well an Eskimo must have at the tip of his tongue a vocabulary of more than 10,000 words, much larger than the active vocabulary of an average businessman who speaks English. Moreover these Eskimo words are far m
A. nonexistent
B. only spoken by Eskimo
C. simple-minded
D. elaborate and complicated