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7) Men use stronger curse words than women.

8) The Relevance Theory was suggested by H. P. Grice.

9) Stream of consciousness was used in the writings of William Faulkner.

10) Machine translation can be used for restricted technical purposes, such as the weather report.

辨析题答案：

1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F

6. F 7. T 8. F 9. T 10. T

Decide whether the following statements are true or false. (15 points)

1. Arbitrariness means you can use language in any way you like.

2. The English syllable may have as many as three consonants in the coda

position.

3. When dividing syllables, we normally put consonants in the coda position.

4. “Radar” is an invented word.

5. The consonant [x] existed in Old English.

6. Today we normally say that English has two tenses: present and past.

7. According to J. Firbas, Communicative Dynamism refers to “the extent to

which the sentence element contributes to the development of the communication.”

8. Leech s conceptual meaning has two sides: sense and reference.

9. In logical symbols, means “all” and means “some”.

10. Deviation corresponds to the traditional idea of poetic license: the writer of

literature is allowed – in contrast to the everyday speaker – to deviate from rules, maxims, or conventions.

11. Couplets are two lines of verse, usually connected by a rhyme.

12. A language that has seven color terms has reached the last stage of evolution.

13. In Hopi, a simple question like Are you going to eat rice and cassava now?

will have several different translations in accordance with the actual situations.

14. MT can now be realized on the internet.

15. A concordance is a listing of the contexts in which a word appears, as

retrieved from a computer corpus.