1. Charles F. Hockett originally believed there to be 13 design features, out of which the features reserved for humans in this list are

two

three

four

None

2. A standard set of basic written symbols or graphemes used to write a language based on the general principle that the letters represent phonemes of the spoken language is called

phonemic writing

alphabet

ideography

logography

3. Within the linguistic theory André Martinet used a term to refer to the two levels of structure in which speech can be analysed the term is

double signifier

signifié

coarticulation

double articulation

4. A broad transcription is a transcription that

broadly ignores the difficult sounds

includes symbols for only the syllables

includes symbols for all the phones and write them between

includes symbols for the phonemes and write them between slashes.

5. When we study language as it exists at any given point in time we are looking at it from a point of view called

synchronic

diachronic

structural

tagmemic

6. Assertion The eighteenth to nineteenth centuries saw the development of comparative philology arising from the discovery and gradual identification of the Indo-European language family.

Assertion For the most part, however, nineteenth century comparative philology took the western classical tradition in a new direction by focusing on phonological systems.

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Both and are true.

is true, is wrong.

is wrong, is true.

Both and are wrong.

7. The necessary conditions which have to be imposed on the construction of grammars in order for them to be able to operate are

implicational universals

formal universals

substantive universals

statistical universals

8. The traditional term for a grammatical class of words is

forms

adpositions

parts of speech

particles

9. A regionally or socially distinctive variety of language, identified by a particular set of words and grammatical structures is

sociolect

register

dialect

restricted code

10. Assertion Animal communication is the transfer of information from group of animals to one or more group of animals.

Assertion Human communication through language is distinctively discrete and characterized by many design features of language.

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is correct, is wrong.

is wrong, is correct.

Both and are wrong.

Both and are correct.

11. Match the following List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below

List I List II

I. Cacuminal A. Voiceless sounds

II. Spirants B. Plosives

III. Surds C. Retroflex

IV. Occlusives D. Fricatives

Codes I II III IV

A B C D

B C D A

C D A B

D A B C

12. Assertion Pitch variation is found in all languages, and its function is same in all languages.

Assertion One is always very conscious of the rise and fall in one's own speech.

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Both and are true.

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are false.

13. Assertion Frequencies are interpreted by the listener in terms of pitch, that is, whether a sound seems relatively higher or lower than its neighbours.

Assertion Pitch meters cannot display intonation patterns since they cannot measure changing frequencies.

Codes

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are false.

Both and are true.

14. Match the following in List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the following codes

List I List II

glottal stop

voiced bilabial fricative

ß pharyngeal fricative

L voiceless dental fricative

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15. Variant forms of sounds that do not change the meaning of a word, and are all very similar to one another, but occur in phonetic contexts, differ from one another are called

Phonemes

Allophones

Archiphonemes

Geminates

16. The overlapping of adjacent articulations is known as

Secondary articulation

Adjacency pair

Double articulation

Coarticulation

17. Words such as radar, laser etc. are a result of

Diminition

Abbreviation

Acronymy

Back formation

18. Assertion The standard theory was proposed by Chomsky in his book 'Syntactic Structures'.

Assertion The modified version of standard theory was the extended standard theory.

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Both and are correct.

is correct, but is false.

is false, but is correct.

Both and are false.

19. Assertion The pro-drop parameter determines whether the subject of a clause can be suppressed.

Assertion Determining the parametric values for a given language is known as parameter setting. Codes

Both and are correct.

is correct, but is false.

is false, but is correct.

Both and are false.

20. Which of the following is the appropriate term for the string 'Boys and Girls'

Complex Noun Phrase

Co-ordinate structure

Dependent clause

Wh Island

21. Which of the following is not true for 'Aspects model'

Base provides input to deep structure.

Transformations change meaning.

Deep structure goes to surface structure via transformations.

Syntax is generative and semantics is interpretive.

22. Which of the following correctly describes in the sentence was raining'

Anticipatory

Extrapositive

Dummy

Preparatory

23. From the perspective of syntactic constructions using distributional criteria, which of the following is an endocentric construction

The big house

The man fell on the grass

On the table

Birds fly

24. Match List I with List II and select the correct response from the codes given below

List I List II

on a ship Adjectival phrase

The blue ship Noun phrase

Very dark Prepositional phrase

eat the fish Verb phrase

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25. Language used for establishing social contact rather than for exchanging information is said to perform the

phatic function

emotive function

referential function

cognitive function

26. The ambiguity solely due to the alternative meanings of an individual lexical item is referred to as

structural ambiguity

grammatical ambiguity

metaphorical ambiguity

lexical ambiguity

27. A term derived from formal logic that refers to a relation between a pair of sentences such that the truth of the second sentence necessarily follows from the truth of the first is

implicature

entailment

inclusion

hyponymy

28. Assertion Indo-Aryan languages are known for their full relative clause constructions.

Assertion Dravidian languages are known for their reduced relative clause or participial constructions.

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Both and are true.

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are false.

29. In historical linguistics, the merger of features from two or more segments into a single segment, is called

dissimilation

coalescence

assimilation

epenthesis

30. What kind of borrowing occurs in the rendering of 'Peace courier' as ša:nti du:t in Hindi

loan shift

vernacularisation

loan blend

loan translation

31. A language for which there is no probative evidence whatsoever for outside genetic relationship is called an isolate

Khasi

Nagamese

Sinhala

Burushaski

32. The glottal stop is a characteristic feature of which language family

Tibeto Burman

Austro Asiatic

Dravidian

Indo Aryan

33. If in a language the morphemes used in a word can be easily identified and assigned meanings or grammatical functions, what type of language is it

Polysynthetic

Synthetic

Inflectional

Agglutinative

34. The two basic claims that sound change is regular and is purely phonetically conditioned have come to characterize

Verner's law

Sphota theory

the Wackernagel's law

Neogrammarianism

35. In historical linguistics, the phenomenon, by which a phoneme is modified in a subset of the lexicon, and spreads to other lexical items, is

lexical homogeneity

lexical diffusion

phonemic extension

lexical crystallization

36. The number of major language families whose interaction has led India to be a linguistic area is

3

4

5

6

37. Assertion Diachronic studies of languages presuppose synchronic studies.

Assertion Diachronic and synchronic studies are not interdependent.

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Both and are correct.

is correct, but is wrong.

is wrong, but is correct.

Both and are wrong.

38. Which of the following is not correct in the context of sociolinguistic variation

Linguistic variants result from spatial differences.

Linguistic variants result from class-specific linguistic behaviour.

Linguistic variants result from situational factors such as formal v/s informal conversational contexts.

Linguistic variants result from the linguistic competence of a speaker.

39. Speakers who participate in interactions based on social and cultural norms and values that are regulated, represented and recreated through discursive practices are said to comprise

A speech community

A diglossic situation

A bilingual competence

A disadvantaged community

40. Assertion The term competence refers to the knowledge of the native language which is acquired along with the language used by an ideal speaker listener of a heterogenous speech community.

Assertion The ability to produce and understand grammatically well-formed utterances alongwith the knowledge of their appropriateness in the context in which they are made is known as communicative competence. Codes

Both and are correct.

is correct, but is false.

is false, but is correct.

Both and are false.

41. The use of statistical model to indicate the probability of use of a speaker's choice between at least two linguistic alternatives and their dependency on linguistic and extralinguistic environmental conditions is known as

variable rule

categorial rule

lexical rule

transformational rule

42. Assertion Pidginization and creilozation differ from other language contact phenomena.

Assertion Neither pidgins nor creoles can be justifiably viewed as changed versions of the languages in contact.

Codes

Both and are correct.

is correct, is false.

is false, is correct.

Both and are false.

43. The scholar who first declared to the world that in addition to the primary dialects of the language, there is a very divergent, highly codified, superposed variety, the vehicle of a large and respected body of written literature, but it is not used by any section of the community for ordinary conversation, was

Joshua Fishman

Charles Ferguson

John Gumperz

Zellig Harris

44. Assertion Language acquisition takes place in an infant and a young child at a time when he/she is acquiring many other skills and knowledge about the world.

Assertion Language learning normally starts at a later stage, when language performance has already become established and many other physical and mental processes of maturation are complete or nearing completion. Codes

Both and are correct.

is correct, but is false.

is false, but is correct.

Both and are false.

45. "Thanda Matlab Coca Cola" (Cold drink means Coca cola) is an example of

Metonymy

Metaphor

Semantic drift

Semantic change

46. The scholar who first introduced the term Inter Language was

S. Pit Corder

Robert Lado

Larry Selinker

Noam Chomsky

47. Match the following List I with List II and select the correct answer from the following codes

List I List II

Monitor Model Robert Lado

Inter-language Hypothesis Noam Chomsky

Language Acquisition Device Larry Selinker

Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis Stephen Krashen

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48. Any vocal activity in the larynx whose role is neither of initiation nor of articulation is generally termed as

burst

aspiration

phonation

stricture

49. Match the items in List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below

List I List II

London School K.L. Pike

Prague School Louis Hjemslev

American School Daniel Jones

Copenhagen School N.S. Trubetzkoy

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50. Linguistic units which cannot be substituted for each other without a change in meaning can be referred to as

complementation

contrast

free variation

phonation