1. Reference to an already introduced entity in a sentence is called

antecedent

anaphora

reference

inference

2. Tamil has a ,script.

Brahmi

Devnagari

Roman

Cyrillic

3. Study ofPhonetic environments in which a sound occurs is called its

environment

distribution

position

contrast

4. Study of word formation is called

phonology

syntax

morphology

phonetics

5. The words which can be interpreted only on the basis of physical context are called

maxims

co-operative principles

deixis

antecedent

6. Who gave the concept of communicative competence?

David Crystal

Noam Chomsky

Harold Goodglass

Dell Hymes

7. Rhenish Fan is a

a bundle of isoglosses

a bundle of distinctive features

a bundle of· phonemes

a minimal set

8. Which of the following words is a borrowing in English?

pen

chalk

nose

boss

9. The type of language where morphemes are joined together relatively "loosely"?

agglutinating

Fusional

Synthetic

polysynthetic

10. Brunch is an example of

blending'

clipping

acronym

back-formation

11. Who coined the terms Langue and Parole?

Daniel Jones

Ferdinand de Saussure

Roman Jacobson

Zellig Harris

12. Which of the following language does not belong to Indo-Aryan family?

Konkani

Tulu

BangIa

Dogri

13. The branch of Linguistics, which deals with the analysis of crimes is called

Computational Linguistics

Forensic Linguistics

Anthropological Linguistics

Biolinguistics

14. Words that imitate natural sounds or have meanings associated with sounds of nature are called

onomatopoeia

halophrases

iconic

reflexives

15. Inability to perceive, process or produce language due to brain damage IS called

aphagia

aphasia

aplasia

alexia

16. Chemical substances, which carry information from one brain region to another are called

neurotransmitters

neuroglia

neurons

synapses

17. Conduction Aphasia is marked by severe impairment in

naming

repetition

comprehension

spontaneous speech

18. The situation in which two varieties of Language are used for clearly defined functions is called

diglossia

polyglossia

hypoglossia

triglossia

19. The technique for reconstructing the common ancestor (the Proto language) of related languages is known as

comparative method

internal reconstruction

regularity hypothesis

lexical diffusion

20. Anyway, anything are examples of

empty speech

inference

discourse markers

deixis

21. When pidgin is spoken by a couple as a Language of Communication and later their children acquire it, it is called

Lingua Franca

trade language

business language

creole

22. A child takes moon to be the name for cakes, round marks, postmarks and the letter O. This process is called

overextension

regularization

underextension

overgeneralization

23. Observation of people's behaviour, as they carryon their everyday lives by a researcher during periods of stay in a community is called

accommodation theory

domain analysis

participant observation

decision tree

24. Property of the brain such that one side of the body is controlled by the opposite hemisphere of the brain is called

contralaterality

ipsilaterality

bilaterality

unilaterality

25. The hypothesis that the world view of culture is conditioned by the structure of its language is known as

linguistic relativism

Whorfian hypothesis

regression hypothesis

regularity hypothesis

26. Complex verbs formed in Indian languages. Discuss.

27. Modal categories in Indian languages.

28. Agreement in Indian languages. Discuss with examples from a familiar Indian language.

29. Function words vs Content words.

30. Match the following:

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31. Corpus planning

32. Critical period hypothesis

33. Computational modeling

34. Maxims of conversations

35. Glottochronology

36. Parsing

37. Write a short account of the chosen area of your research connecting it with relevant work that has already been undertaken in the concerned area.