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

List I List II

a. i. voiced palate-alveolar

b. ii. voiceless dental-fricative

c. a iii. voiceless palate-alveolar

d. z iv. voiced dental-fricative

Codes a b c d

(1) ii iii iv i

(2) iii iv i ii

(3) iv i ii iii

ii iii iv

2. Diphthongs with a central off glide are called centering diphthongs, diphthongs with a front off glide are called fronting diphthongs; diphthongs with a back off glide are called

Restrictive diphthongs

Retroflexive diphthongs

Resonant diphthongs

Retracting diphthongs

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

List I List II

a. Electrokymography i. involves the use of an artificial palate containing electrodes, which register the tongue and palate contacts as they are made.

b. Electromyography ii. displays a three dimensional visual record of an utterance in which time, frequency and intensity are displayed.

c. Sound spectrography iii. involves the use of face mask which can differentiate oral and nasal air flow during speech and can measure air-volume and velocity and record it visually

d. Electropalatography iv. involves the application of electrodes to observe and record the muscular contractions in the vocal tract during speech.

Codes a b c d

(1) ii iii i iv

(2) iii iv ii i

(3) iv i iii ii

4. In structural phonology, a set of techniques which can be automatically or mechanically applied to a sample of language and which will produce a correct grammatical analysis is called

Discovery procedures

Deductive procedures

Didactic procedures

Decision procedures

5. In generative phonology, the question concerning how far removed from surface structure the underlying form should be, is about

Linguistic relativity

Behaviourism vs. mentalism

Positing abstract segments

Negative condition

6. Assertion I Derivational suffixes precede the inflectional suffixes in words in Indian languages.

Assertion II Conjugation is used primarily for nouns and declension is used primarily for verbs.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

Both I and II are incorrect.

I is correct, but II is wrong.

I is wrong, but II is correct.

7. What is the process called when -er is attached to the verb cook to form the word cooker

Concord

Derivation

Inflection

Phraseology

8. Assertion I In a compound verb construction, the vector verbs are semantically empty.

Assertion II Incorporation in the finite verb of a sentence strengthens the pro-drop parameter.

Codes

Both I and II are true.

Both I and II are false.

I is true, but II is false.

I is false, but II is true.

9. In English, Brother John' is an example of

Copulative compound

Exocentric compound

Endocentric compound

No compound

10. Assertion I Total reduplication may be described as a specific form of compounding with two identical constituents.

Assertion II Partial reduplication results in a construction in which a part of a word is copied and affixed to the base word.

Codes

I is true, but II is false.

I is false, but II is true.

Both I and II are true.

Both I and II are false.

11. Which of the following is not true for scrambling

Distinction can be made between short-distance and long-distance scrambling.

It is proposed to handle the way constituents permute in fixed word order languages.

Factors influencing scrambling may be stylistic in nature.

It is an optional rule.

12. Which of following describes the sentence "I like oranges and he bananas'

Small clause

Cleft

Gapping

Pseudo cleft

13. In the X bar theory, the position of in the sentence 'who does the boy hate is

Spec of C double bar

Head of C double bar

Spec of I double bar

Head of I double bar

14. Assertion I Principles and Parameters are part of a genetically innate universal grammar which all humans possess barring any genetic disorders.

Assertion II Exposure to language does not trigger the parameters to adopt correct setting, rather parameters need to be learned.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct and II is false.

I is false and II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

15. Which of the following is not true for X-bar theory

Spec and X-single bar can be sisters.

X-single bar and complement can be sisters.

Adjunct and X-single bar can be sisters.

XP can be the mother of spec and X-single bar.

16. The view that meanings of individual words can be used to build up the meanings of larger units the meaning of the whole is determined by the meaning of its parts and the way in which they are assembled is called

Phrase structure

Concatenation

Conjoining

Compositionality

17. Assertion I Denotational meaning in one sense, equates roughly to literal meaning, and in second sense a denotation of an expression is the set of entities that it properly applies to or identifies.

Assertion II The main application of the term connotation is with reference to the emotional associations that are suggested by, or are part of a linguistic unit or item, and in the third usage it is the set of properties that something has to have to allow the expression to be applied to it.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, and II is false.

I is false, and II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

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

List I List II

a. Sam is a pillar of the community i. Oxymoron

b. The sighing of trees ii. Metonymy

c. The crown for the queen iii. Metaphor

d. Bitter sweet iv. Personification

Codes a b c d

(1) iii iv ii i

(2) ii iii i iv

ii iv iii

(4) iv i iii ii

19. Assertion I The thing in the cage is a tiger.

Assertion II The thing in the cage is an animal. Codes

I entails II.

I does not entail II.

I and II entail each other.

I and II do not entail each other.

20. Assertion I 'Shyam realised that his friend was intelligent' is a factitive expression.

Assertion II 'Shyam pretended that his friend was intelligent' is a counter-factitive expression.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, but II is false.

I is false, and II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

21. Description of the regular correspondence in Indo-European languages is largely accounted for by

Verner's Law

Hermann Paul's Law

Grimm's Law

August Schleicher's Law

22. Comparative reconstruction is usually guided by a thumb rule which is known as

'the majority wins out'

'look before you leap'

'minority should not be neglected'

'well begun is half done'

23. Assertion I Phonological reconstruction is a process in which we apply our knowledge of linguistic change so as to effect 'reverse linguistic history'.

Assertion II Comparative reconstruction frequently needs to draw on the insights provided by the method of internal reconstruction.

Codes

Both I and II are true.

I is true, but II is false.

I is false, but II is true.

Both I and II are false.

24. While speaking an Indian language when a person uses for what is the motivation for this kind of borrowing

Cultural

Intimate

Prestige

Need

25. What is the process of semantic change involving the change of meaning of old English deor 'animal' to Modern English

pejorization

meliorization

broadening

narrowing

26. A planning that is directed at the image building of a language in order to promote and intellectualize it is known as

Status planning

Corpus planning

Acquisition planning

Prestige planning

27. Languages that provide a mutually intelligible medium for speakers in multilingual society are known as

Dialect

Sociolect

Languages of wider communication

None of the above

28. Assertion I Grice's "intentionalism" is not limited to meaning.

Assertion II Grice distinguishes between what is said in an utterance and what is implied by it.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, II is wrong.

I is wrong, but II is correct.

Both I and II are wrong.

29. Match the items of List I with the items of List II. Select the correct response from the codes given below

List I List II

a. Balanced Bilingual i. Speakers are more proficient in one language than in another.

b. Dominant Bilingual ii. Equally proficient in two languages.

c. Compound Bilingual iii. Using second language with greater fluency than the native language.

d. Subtractive Bilingual iv. When individuals learn both languages simultaneously, typically from birth

Codes a b c d

ii iii iv

(2) ii i iv iii

(3) iii iv ii i

(4) iv iii i ii

30. Assertion I A pidgin is a non-primary language that is the result of language contact.

Assertion II A creole is a primary language that is the result of language contact.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, II is false.

I is false, II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

31. Chomsky maintains that the most plausible explanation for the uniformity and rapidity of first language acquisition is to posit that

the course of language acquisition is set by imitation

the course of language acquisition is determined by a biologically endowed innate language faculty.

the course of language acquisition is different in different societies.

the course of language acquisition largely depends on uniform structure of all the inputs to the children.

32. Assertion I Linguists are interested in speech errors because they hope that language in a broken-down state may be more revealing than language which is working perfectly.

Assertion II Slips of the tongue tell us more about the way a person plans and produces speech.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, but II is wrong.

I is wrong, but II is correct.

Both I and II are wrong.

33. Assertion I The Period of Large Sample Studies in the history of child language study had a focus on large samples and their systematic observation.

Assertion II Armed with linguistic sophistication the studies considered content and patterns of individual children very significant.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, but II is wrong.

I is wrong, but II is correct.

Both I and II are wrong.

34. Which of the following is true of motherese

higher pitch, special lexical items, fewer embedded clauses, expressions occurring only once.

lower pitch, special lexical items, fewer embedded clauses, repetitive expressions.

higher pitch, special lexical items, frequent embedded clauses, repetitive expressions.

higher pitch, special lexical items, fewer embedded clauses, repetitive expressions.

35. Match the words in List A with those in List B

List A List B

i. Cerebral dominance a. Kurt Goldstein

ii. Receptive aphasia b. Martin Braine

iii. Two-word stage c. Paul Broca

iv. Global model of brain-language study d. Carl Wernicke

Codes i ii iii iv

c a b d

d b c a

c d b a

a d b c

36. Assertion I Literacy empowers the illiterate.

Assertion II Literacy is not conditioned by any ideology.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, but II is false.

I is false, but II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

37. Assertion I Most newspapers focus on readability of material or news by their readers in order to attract them to the newspaper.

Assertion II The manner of presentation of news does not depend on any ideology.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, but II is false.

I is false, but II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

38. The belief that linguistic differences could be a predictor of difficulty gave rise to

Error analysis

Contrastive analysis hypothesis

Idiosyncratic dialect

Approximative system

39. A predominantly American learning theory developed in early twentieth century and associated with psychologist like Thorndike and Skinner is known as

Cognitive theory

Behaviourism

Communicative theory

Chomskyan theory

40. Assertion I Children's first utterances containing more than one word appear between 18 to 24 months of age.

Assertion II In the early stages some utterances are rote learned as a whole and others may be slot and frame patterns.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, II is wrong.

I is wrong, II is correct.

Both I and II are wrong.

41. Assertion I Formal universals are universal constraints upon the form of the grammar of any natural language.

Assertion II Substantive universals are statements about the linguistic entities that must be found in all natural languages.

Codes

Both I and II are true.

I is correct, but II is not.

I is false, but II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

42. What is the case in which the experiences construction subjects are found in most Indian languages

Nominative or ablative

Ergative or absolutive

Instrumental or locative

Dative or genitive

43. Assertion I In those languages which have the OV word order, adjectives are usually used before nouns.

Assertion II In those languages which have the VO word order, adjectives are usually used after nouns.

Codes

Both I and II are true.

Both I and II are false.

I is true, but II is false.

I is false, but II is true.

44. Who first proposed the basic word order typology

Noam Chomsky

Bernard Comrie

Joseph Greenberg

David Crystal

45. Who classified languages into three morphological types, i.e. inflecting, agglutinating and isolating

Leonard Bloomfield

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Ferdinand de Saussure

Neogrammarians

46. A word or phrase extracted from a text and listed with references to the sources in which it occurs is termed as

KWIC (Keyword in Context)

KWOC (Keyword out of context)

Nesting

Cliché

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

List I List II

a. Reverse Order Dictionary i. Synonym Dictionary

b. Onomasiological Dictionary ii. Electronic Dictionary

c. Onomastic Dictionary iii. Retrograde Dictionary

d. Machine-Readable Dictionary iv. Biographical Dictionary

Codes a b c d

iv ii iii

(2) iii i iv ii

(3) iv ii iii i

(4) ii iii i iv

48. Who made the following statement "The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination…."

R. Fowler

R. Carter

J.P. Thorne

R. Jacobson

49. The concepts of foreignization and domestication were proposed by

Lawrence Venuti

Antony Pym

Walter Benjamin

Mona Baker

50. A term used mainly in literary translation and advertising that refers to process of adapting a text from one language to another by discerning the emotional response of the audience in the source language and by working to elicit the same response in the target language audience.

Paraphrase

Transcreation

Transliteration

Formal equivalence

51. Which of the following is not true

Babbage created the 'Analytical Engine' which started work in 1810.

Babbage's first attempt at a mechanical computing device, the 'Difference Engine' was a machine designed to tabulate logarithms and trigonometric functions.

Ada Lovelace, during her work with Babbage, became the designer of the first computer algorithm which had the ability to compute Bernoulli numbers.

Godel showed that there were limits to what could be proved within a formal system by his incompleteness theorem.

52. Which of the following is true for a compiler

Does not generate an intermediate object code.

Programming languages like C use it.

Takes single instruction as input instead of the entire program.

Errors are displayed for every instruction making debugging easy.

53. In text encoding initiative an anchor is

a portion of a document.

arbitrary point in a document.

correspondence between one span of content and another.

a collection of fragments into a single logical whole.

54. A speech disorder characterized by fluency disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables words or phrases as well as involuntary hesitations is called

Dyscalculia

Stuttering

Dysphasia

Dysarthria

55. Assertion I The two functional components of PC-KIMMO are the generator and the recognizer.

Assertion II The generator in PC-KIMMO does not use the lexicon, however, it accepts the lexical form as input, applies the phonological rules and returns the corresponding surface form.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, II is false.

I is false, II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

56. Which of the following is not correct for Lexical Functional Grammar

LFG was developed by Bresnan.

In LFG, the role of grammatical functions is central, and the Lexicon is taken as primitive.

In LFG, the syntactic structure of a sentence consists of a constituent structure and a functional structure.

In LFG, the lexical component is assigned much of the role formerly associated with the syntactic component of a transformational grammar.

57. Assertion I Move a basically allows anything to move anywhere.

Assertion II There are no constraints restricting move so movement is unrestricted.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, II is false.

I is false, II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

58. One consistent aspect in the works of Ruhlen Mallinson and Blake Tomlin (1979, 86) regarding word order is that

SOV languages SVO languages

SVO languages SOV languages

SVO languages SOV languages

VSO languages SOV languages

59. Assertion I Movements are licensed in the minimalist program through the feature checking mechanism.

Assertion II A movement may occur because an interpretable feature in a lexical item may require a merger with another item where this feature is uninterpretable, before this feature can be fully understood.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, II is false.

I is false, II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

60. Assertion I Neither D-structure nor S-structure is an interface level phenomenon. Both were posted for internal reasons, to satisfy descriptive demands, not on the basis of virtual conceptual necessity.

Assertion II In Minimalism D-structure and S-structure are dispensed with.

Codes

Both I and II are correct and I is a reason for II.

Both I and II are correct but I is not a reason for II.

I is false and II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

61. In minimalism, the computational system provides link between

Lexicon and Phonetic form

Sensorimotor and conceptual-intentional system

Logical form and lexicon

Principles and parameters

62. Assertion I In optimality theory, underlying forms are input for Gen.

Assertion II In optimality theory Gen creates a finite list of candidates.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, but II is false.

I is false, but II is correct.

Both I and II are false.

63. Which of the following options is incorrect in the context of optimality theory wherein constraints are

Universal

Ranked

Non-violable

In conflict

64. In autosegmental representation of tone which of the following is incorrect

Tones and segments are represented on different tiers.

Linked elements of different tiers are pronounced as a unit.

A single tone may be linked to more than one syllable.

A single syllable may not be linked to more than one tone.

65. In the context of autosegmental phonology which of the following statements is incorrect

Association lines never cross one another.

A skeletal node can be linked to two different segments on different tiers.

Vowels link to vowels and consonants to consonants.

No feature may appear on more than one tier.

66. Assertion I Prosodic phonology studies linguistic characteristics of stress, intonation and quantity.

Assertion II Prosodic phonology also studies speech tempo and rhythm.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is false, but II is correct.

I is correct, but II is false

Both I and II are false.

67. Assertion I "Hegemonic Masculinity" is one of the concerns of gender and language study.

Assertion II The study beyond masculinities and femininities is also the concern of gender and language study.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

Both I and II are false.

I is false, but II is correct.

I is correct but II is false.

68. Code-mixing and code-switching are

Natural phenomena in the life of bilinguals.

Natural phenomena in the life of monolinguals.

Mandatory phenomena for both monolinguals and bilinguals.

Natural phenomena for neither monolinguals nor bilinguals

69. A study that pays particular attention to everyday interaction such as chat, and ordinary narratives is known as

Discourse analysis

Conversational analysis

Lexical analysis

Contrastive analysis

70. A "rank structure" view of discourse was developed by

Sinclair and Coulthard

Zellig Harris

Chimombo, Moira and Henry Roseberry

M.A.K. Halliday and Raquiya Hasan

71. "Can I have a cup of coffee, please" Can be interpreted as

Optative

Imperative

Politeness strategy

Mode of communication

72. Assertion I Aphasia is a communication disorder that results from damage to the parts of the brain that contain language.

Assertion II Aphasia does not provide us with a potentially valuable source of information as to how linguistic representations are implanted in the brain.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, but II is wrong.

I is wrong, but II is correct.

Both I and II are wrong.

73. Assertion I Non-words must be read entirely through a phonologically mediated route.

Assertion II All the morphological and semantic paralexias seen in deep dyslexia must reflect the internal organization and nature of activation of entries in a lexical-cognitive system when that system is accessed through a direct reading route.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, but II is wrong.

I is wrong, but II is correct.

Both I and II are wrong.

74. Assertion I Aphasia is a generic term that refers to language breakdown due to brain pathology.

Assertion II It is striking how great the connectionist approach to the classification of aphasic patients has changed in over a century of clinical observation and theory construction.

Codes

Both I and II are correct.

I is correct, but II is wrong.

I is wrong, but II is correct.

Both I and II are wrong.

75. Dyslexia characterized by errors closely related to the form of the target word and reading non-real words as real is

Dysarthria

Dysphasia

Deep dyslexia

Surface dyslexia