課程名稱︰語言學概論下
課程性質︰外文系必修
課程教師︰史嘉琳
考試日期（年月日）︰2008/06/18
考試時限（分鐘）：180
是否需發放獎勵金：是
（如未明確表示，則不予發放）
試題 :
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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