1. Human language -unlike animal language can refer to a thing or event which is not present in the immediate environment. This property is called

(A)Competence

(B)Creativity

(C)Displacement

(D)Arbitrariness

2. Paradigmatic relationship is

(A)Linear relationship

(B)Substitutive relationship

(C)Co-occurrence relationship

(D)Type token relationship

3. Which is the correct order of the following in the evolution of writing

(i)Pictograms
(ii)Alphabetic
Ideograms
Logograms Codes









4. Noun, verb, preposition Adjective and adverb are the five major grammatical categories of English

(A)True

(B)False

(C)Partially true

(D)Partially False

5. Deixis is

(A)Can be spatial and temporal reference

(B)Can be tenses and pronouns

(C)Can be adverbs here-there now-then ,etc.

(D)All of the above

6. Assertion I learned a new word today,

Assertion I learned a new sentence today. (A)Both and are unacceptable B)Only is acceptable

(C)Only is unacceptable

(D)Both and are acceptable

7. Descriptive linguistics is concerned with

(A)The description of language as it ought to be

(B)The description of the written language

(C)The description of language at a given point of time.

(D)The description of language as it changes

8. Semeiotics is

(A)The scientific study of the properties of Signalling system

(B)The study of meaning

(C)The study of grammar

(D)The study of word order

9. The sentence Rohan wants Rohan to win is a

structure form

structure form

(C)Phonological form

(D)Logical form


10. Match the items in List-I with II and select the correct answer.
List-I List-II

(a)Sociolinguistics Psychology

(b)Psycholinguistics Computer science

(c)Stylistics Sociology

(d)Computational Linguistics Literature

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11. Fundamental tone of voice is

(A)Resonance in the supraglottal chamber

(B)Frequency of vibration of the vocal cords

(C)The same as the phonemic tones in the language

(D)The same as the first formant of the vowel

12. In the production of a nasalised vowel the airstream passes through

(A)Oral and nasal chambers both

(B)Nasal chamber only

(C)Oral chamber only

(D)None of the above

13. Those who operate with the notion of 'Contrastive' and 'non -contrastive' which originally stem from the concept of distribution are know as

(A)Contrastive linguists

(B)Post Bloomfieldian linguists

(C)Chomskian linguists

(D)Hallidain linguists

14. Two phonefically similar sounds are allophanes of the same phoneme if

(A)They are in free variation

(B)They are in contrastive distribution

(C)They are in complementary distribution

(D)They are of the same parts of speech


15. The world Peak consists of

coda, and onset

(B)Onset and peak

onset but only peak

coda, but onset and peak

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

(a)Airstream pressure Nasalisation

(b)Oronasal process Plosion

(c)Articulatory process Voicing

(d)Phonation process Ejectives

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17. The words unintentionally and antidisestablishmentarianism contain the following numbers of morpheme respectively

and 6

and 6

and 7

(D)3and 6

18. Back formation occurs

(A)When a free morpheme is removed

(B)When a prefix is removed

(C)When an infix is removed

(D)When a suffix is removed from a complex word.

19. Identify the correct order of elements in the word commitments contains

derivational morpheme, inflectional morpheme

(B)Verb,inflectional morpheme, derivational morpheme

inflectional morpheme, derivational morpheme

free morpheme, bound morpheme


20. Match each expression under A with the statement in B that characterizes it



Noisy crow Compound noun

(b)Scarecrow Phrase consisting of a grammatical morph followed by a lexical morph

The crow Root morpheme plus inflectional affix

Crows Phrase consisting of an adjective plus noun

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21. Identify the correct statement.

(A)Immediate constituent analysis can generate all types of sentences

(B)Immediate constituent analysis fails to describe structural ambiguity

(C)Immediate constituent analysis can explain discontinues constituents

(D)Immediate constituent analysis can explain structurally similar, logically different sentences.

22. What is the chronological order of development of the following models of grammar
(i)G.B theory
(ii)T.G Grammar

P.S. Grammar
I.C Analysis Codes









23. Choose the correct options of sequence of grammatical functions and categories below in which they appear in the sentence. Bhaskar gave the book to vijaya Use the code below
(i)Indirect object
(ii)Direct object

Subject
Verb Code









24. Which of the following constraints is violated in the ungrammatical sentence. Vho did mala make the claim that she met in the department

(A)Sentential Subject constraint

(B)Complex NP constraint

(C)Wh-island constraint

(D)Specified subject constraint

25. Determine the correct sequence of phrases for the sentence below using the codes provided. The girl met the woman on monday

(ii)PP

VP Codes

PP, VP

NP, VP

PP, NP

VP, PP

26. The sentence John seems to be the best student is an example of

(A)Control

(B)Raising

(C)Pro-drop

(D)Exceptional case marking

27. Indetify a control construction with arbitrary PRO from the following

(A)Juthika wants to visit the doctor.

(B)Rohan persuaded Ravi to visit the doctor.

(C)Rohan tried to make a pot.

(D)Swimming is a good excercise




28. Assertion The present king of India is bald
Assertion The prime minister of India is a sikh.

(A)Only has sense (B)Both and

have reference and sense

(C)Only has both Reference and sense

(D)Only has both Reference and sense

29. Identify an explicit performative speech act from the following

(A)Rohan is a smart student.

promise to come early

(C)Close the window.

(D)Samita is never on time.

30. The words Flower and Rose denote the sense relation of

(A)Hyponymy

(B)Part-whole

(C)Polysomy

(D)Synonymy

31. The term 'cognate' refers to

(A)Linguistic form of genetically related languages

(B)Linguistic form of typologically related languages

(C)languages of different Linguistic families

(D)None of the above

32. Identify the correct sequence of the phonetic laws

(A)Verner, Grassman Grimm

(B)Grimm ,Grassman, Verner

(C)Verner, Grimm, Grassman

Grimm, Verner, Grassman

33. The hypothesis that sound laws have no exception, was given by

(A)Computational linguists

(B)Chomskyan grammarians

(C)Neo -grammarians

(D)Post-Bloomfieldian linguists.


34. Internal reconstruction takes the data from

number of related languages

number of unrelated languages

number of related and unrelated languages

single language

35. Languages which have one to one correspondence between words and morphemes are know as

(A)Isolating

(B)Polysynthetic

(C)Agglutinating

(D)Inflecting

36. Dravidian languages are

(A)Agglutinative

(B)Inflectional

(C)Analytical

(D)Synthetic

37. A line drawn on a map to mark the boundary of an area in which a particular linguistic feature is used is known as

(A)Isomorph

(B)Isoseme

(C)Isolex

(D)Isogloss

38. The type of relative clause found in dravidian is

(A)Participial only

(B)Relative correlative only

(C)Both participial and relative correlative only

(D)None of the above

39. Which of the following has SVO word order

(A)Malayalam

(B)Garo

(C)Hindi

(D)Khasi

40. Find out the correct combination from the following.

Adjective precedes Noun -Vietnamese

Noun precedes Adjective -Bangla

Time Adverbial precedes place Adverbial -Meiteilon

Place Adverbial precedes time adverbial -khasi

41. A sociolinguistic variable is

Fixed social communication.

a variety of sociolect

Social variation

The set of alternative ways of saying the same thing.

42. Match the items in list-I with list-II and select the correct answer

List I List II

Domain Dell Hymes

variable Rule William labov

Ethnography of communication Heinz Kloss

Corpus planning and status planning Joshua Fishman

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43. A pidgin becomes a creole when it becomes

The language of education

The official language

The mother tongue of the relevant speech community

The language of another community


44. Identify a diglossic language from the following

Hindi

Santhali

Tamil

Telugu

45. Conscious and deliberate change of language is called

Language change

Language planning

Language maintenance

Language displacement

46 Restricted code is used by

Upper class

Upper middle class

Lower class

Middle middle class

47. Match the following
List-I List-II

Monitor model Selinker

Idiosyncratic dialects B.F.Skinner

Transitional dialects Krashen

Behaviouristic theory of learning Spit corder

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48. Interlanguage Errors in SL are mostly due to

Poor knowledge of L2

Knowledge of L1

Poor teaching methods

Poor learning strategies

49. Aphasia is a communicative disorder which occurs due to

Exposure to too many languages

Lack of exposure to language

Genetic disorder

Neurological damage.

50. Translation is considered a science by

Eugene Nida

Eric Jacobsen

Robin Lakoff

Theodore savoury