1. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II and select the correct code from those given below

List-I List-II

tone syntax

addressee historical linguistics

phrase structure phonology

reconstruction discourse

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2. The onset of first language acquisition is triggered by

external social events

religious ceremonies

formal induction of the child to an institution

biological compulsion
3. Match the items in List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below

List-I List-II

Syntactic Patterns Chambers and Trudgill

Sociolinguistic Patterns P. Mathews

Morphology Noam Chomsky

Dialectology W. Labov

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4. The ability to manipulate forms in an expression for our own pleasure is

Ideational function

Poetic function

Textual function

Interpersonal function
5. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched

The system according to which the speakers of a speech community interact is parole.

The alternative 'fillers' for the same are in paradigmatic relationship.

Any continuous part of language consisting of more than one unit may be called a syntagma.

The study of a language as it is at a particular point in time is synchronic.
6. A writing system displaying varying degrees of iconicity is known as

alphabetic

phonographic

syllabic

ideographic
7. Linguists assume

that it is possible to study human language in general but the study of particular languages will not reveal features of language that are universal.

that it is possible to study human language in general and that the study of particular languages will reveal features of language that are universal.

that it is not possible to study human language in general and that the study of particular languages will reveal features of language that are universal.

that it is not possible to study human language in general and that the study of particular languages will not reveal features that are universal.
8. A sign which refers to an object merely by virtue of its characters of its own is known as

index

icon

symbol

token
9. While speech may not be a logically necessary prerequisite for writing, it is

not a historical fact that any culture which has writing has speech.

a historical fact that any culture which has writing may or may not have speech and that it had no speech before it had writing.

a historical fact that any culture which has writing has speech and it had no speech before it had a writing system.

a historical fact that any culture which has writing has speech, and that it had speech before it had a writing system.
10. The first propounder of the concept of linguistic relativity was

B. L. Whorf

Wilhelm Von Humbolt

Edward Sapir

L. Bloomfield
11. The sounds and together are called

Labials

Nasals

Liquids

Syllabic consonants
12. Match the items in the List-I with those in List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below

List-I List-II
Velar nasal
Retroflex nasal
Palatal nasal
Uvular nasal

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13. is

Alveolar plosive

Velar lateral

Velar plosive

Alveolar lateral
14. Identify the odd one from the following list

amplitude

frequency

sine wave

diaphragm
15. The concept of practical phonemics was propounded by

H.A. Gleason

K. L. Pike

L. Bloomfield

C. F. Hockett
16. Significant phonetic features of human language that play a crucial role in the
statement of phonological rules and/or distinguish phonemes from one another are

prosodic features

distinctive features

morpheme-defining features

semantic features
17. Metathesis refers to

Re-duplication of phonemes

Assimilatory change of phonemes

Interchange of phonemes

Duplication of phonemes
18. Choose the correct bottom to top sequence from the following

word, morpheme, allomorph

allomorph, word, morpheme

allomorph, morpheme, word

morpheme, word, allomorph
19. Derivation involves the creation of one lexeme from another through many processes

compounding is not a type of derivation

compounding is a type of derivation, since it involves the creation of one lexeme from two or more other lexemes

compounding is a type of derivation, but without the creation of any lexeme

compounding is neither inflection nor derivation
20. The past tense form cut is a case of

Replacive morpheme

Suppletion

Zero modification

Affixation
21. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion and the other labelled as Reason select the correct answer from the codes given below the list

Assertion All stems are bases.

Reason Stems take the inflectional suffixes.

is correct, but is wrong.

Both and are correct.

is wrong, but is correct.

Both and are wrong.
22. Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below

List-I List-II

Indo Aryan Santhali

Dravidian Maithli

Austro Asiatic Kurukh

Tibeto Burman Manipuri

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23. Brahui belongs to the

Dravidian family

Astro-Asiatic family

Indo-Aryan family

Tibeto-Burman family
24. We can say something about the direction of language change, but

it is equally easy to know why changes take place

it is difficult to know why changes take place

it is not easy to say what change has taken place

it is difficult to give any explanation of change
25. Comparative method, to an extent, is a carry over of the principles of phonemic analysis.

True

False

Partially true

None
26. Comparative Method and Internal Reconstructing are used in reconstructing

Proto phonemes

Proto phones

Proto allophones

Archiphoneme
27. The re-construction of the proto-language can be done only for

any pair of two languages

related languages

genetically related languages

genetically un-related language
28. The tribal languages spoken in South India belongs to

Indo-Aryan family

Dravidian family

Austro-Asiatic group

Munda family
29. Germanic Old English Modern English Sing. *mus mus maŸs Pl. *musi mis maws Sing. *fot fot fŸt Pl. *foti fet fi:t The effect of phonological change on aspects of morphology evident as a process to change the stem vowel is called

internal reconstruction

sandhi

pan. in. ian construction

umlaut
30. Choose the correct bottom to top sequence from the following

Language, dialect, isogloss, idiolect

Isogloss, idiolect, language, dialect

Dialect, isogloss, language, idiolect

Idiolect, isogloss, dialect, language
31. Assertion Languages spoken in India share many phonological and morphological features.

Reason All of them belong to the same language family.

is true, but is false.

Both and are false.

Both(A) and are true.

is false, but is true.
32. CALT refers to

Computer Amplified Language Teaching

Computer Assisted Language Teaching

Catephorically Aided Language Teaching

Computational Language Teaching
33. In Sociolinguistic study hypercorrection means

Overcorrection

Grammatical correction

Lexical correction

Syntactic
34. Semantic variation means

forms having the same phonemic shape have different meanings in different areas.

Same item will have different forms in different areas.

Grammatical variations in different areas.

Variations in pronunciation.
35. Assertion The head word in a dictionary is so chosen as it represent the total paradigm.

Reason The paradigm consists of the related words.

Both and are correct.

Both and are incorrect.

is incorrect, but is correct.

is correct, but is incorrect.
36. When it comes to have a grammar and is acquired as a first language, it is

artificial language

creole

pidgin

jargon
37. Match the following

List-I List-II

Literacy Autonomous

Language Learning Theories Aphasia

Speech pathology Behaviourism

Patterns of Variation Regional










38. Although children can acquire one or more languages through normal exposure and without much in the way of specific instruction, teenagers and adults find learning a new language difficult. From the point of view of understanding language the difficulties facing the second language learner are of interest largely because

they are same as in case of first language acquisition

they highlight the almost miraculous ease with which children acquire language when they are too young to learn any other area of study.

They show language faculty enables learning only one language.

They show no differences from language acquisition.
39. Stages in language acquisition are

reflection of only the growing environmental explosions

discrete unrelated unfolding of language

developmental milestones without any linguistic features

developmental milestones characterized with the emergence of certain features of language
40. Learners' dictionary is a

Special dictionary

General dictionary

Theoretical dictionary

Reverse dictionary
41. Tick out the odd pair from the following

Direct method Language Teaching

Dialect study Dialect Survey

Aphasia Multilingualism

Word structure Morphology
42. The term used to identify the main aim of those who hold that the ultimate purpose of linguistics is to specify precisely the possible form of a human grammar and especially the restrictions on the form such grammars can take is

functional grammar

scale and category grammar

universal grammar

transformational grammar
43. Arrange chronologically the publication of the following books. Use codes given below

i. Aspects of the theory of syntax
ii. Syntactic structures
iii. Reflections on language
iv. Language and mind

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44. Select the correct combination.

gender, number, person, synonym

gender, male, person, tense

gender, number, person, tense

pronoun, number, person, tense
45. Languages do not all use just the same grammatical categories, but all languages

do not require any grammatical or lexical information

do require grammatical but no lexical information

do not require grammatical but require lexical information

do require grammatical as well as lexical information
46. 'Projection principle' is a further principle of

Case theory

Government theory

Theta theory

None of the above
47. Semantics is the field of linguistics that deals with

interpretation of statements

language in use

signs

meaning, the relationship between words, phrases and sentences on the one hand and entities such as objects, properties, relations and situations on the other.
48. In English "buy" and "sell", and "buyer" and "seller" are such pairs of words in the sense that if A buys good from B then one can say B sells goods to A. The pairs of words are

converses

reverses

directives

none of the above
49. Which of the following pair is not correctly matched

A linguistic unit referring forward to another unit Cataphora.

A construction where a single clause is divided into two separate sections, each with its own verb.

Features of language which refer directly to the personal, temporal or locational characteristics of the situation deixis.

A term which does not refer to the omission of some of the sounds occurring in a sequence Haplology.
50. The more general term that embraces a number of more particular terms is a

synonym

antonym

hyponym

hypernym