LINGUISTICS PAPER III Note This paper contains seventy five objective type questions of two marks each. All questions are compulsory.

1 In Hindi, unaspirated and aspirated occur in identical environments in the words and /phal/ is known as

Complementary distribution

Contrastive distribution

Overlapping distribution

Coincidental distribution

2 The word 'fifteenth' in isolation is stressed on the second syllable, but in 'fifteenth place' the stress is on the first syllable. This process is termed as

Syllable timing

Syllable shift

Stress timing

Stress shift

3 The syllable in a tone group which carries the maximum pitch variation is

Close syllable

Open syllable

Poly syllable

Nuclear syllable

4 A level of representation in generative phonology which provides a narrow phonetic transcription of the features of pronunciation is called

Tagmamic phonetics

Systematic phonetics

Segmental phonetics

Auto segmental phonetics

5 A consonant that cannot be decided whether it belongs to the coda of the preceding syllable or to the onset of the following one is termed as

Syllabic consonant

Ambisillabi consonant

Consonant cluster

Affricate

6 An inflectional marker is distinguished from derivational marker with regard to
the productivity
the configurationality
change of meaning
change of grammatical category

Codes

only is true

only is false

All the above are false

All the above are true

7 An empty morpheme is a morpheme which has
no meaning, but has form
no meaning, no form
both meaning and form
has meaning, but no form

Codes

only is correct

all the above are correct

only is correct

only and are correct

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

List I List -II

Hardbound Left headed word
Class room Two headed word
Bread butter Headless word
Notary public Right headed word

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9 In inflectional languages, the term 'declension' refers to

the deixes and their locations

forms of adjective modifying different nouns

a noun with different case endings showing its different forms

forms of verb showing the PNG of subject object in a sentence

10 If different morphs represent the same morpheme, they are grouped together and are called ...........

Morphemes

Allomorphs

Bound morph

Portmanteau morpheme

11

Assertion In G B theory, agreement marking of a person, gender or number in finite verbs plays an important role in binding theory and case theory.

Assertion In GPSG, the control agreement principle is a semantically based principle which governs the distribution of agreement marker.

Codes

Both and are wrong

Both and are correct

is correct, is wrong

is wrong, is correct

12 Which of the following statements is not true in the context of X governs Y if and only if

Y m-commands X

X is a governor

X is ahead

No barrier intervenes

13 Which of the following is not true for the term in syntax

It is of high communicative interest.

It is new information.

Typically occurs early in the sentence.

It is marked by stress.

14

Assertion 'Gapping' in Generative Grammar refers to obscure of a repeated verb in conjoined clauses.

Assertion A small clause contains which neither contains a finite verb nor an infinitival

Codes

Both and are right

Both and are wrong

is true, is wrong

is wrong, is true

15 'This is a great story', in this sentence refers to

Time deixis

Person deixis

Place deixis

Discourse deixis

16 Sentence The White House condemned terrorism. Sentence Every citizen has a right to demand a roof over his head. The underlined words refer to

Metonymy

Meronymy

Homonymy

Ambiguity

17 A deduction or implication, that is, something that follows logically from or is implied by something else is referred to by the term

Presupposition

Entailment

Metaphor

abhidha

18 A statement or assertion that expresses a judgement or opinion is a

Proposition

Premise

Connotative meaning

Implicature

19 A conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to the fact is called

Antonym

Counterfactual

Variable truth

Antithesis

20 Words are deictic if

Their Semantic meaning is fixed but their denotational meaning varies depending on time and/or place.

Their Semantic meaning varies depending on time and/or place but their denotational meaning is fixed.

Both Semantic meaning and denotational meaning are free.

Both Semantic meaning and denotational meaning vary depending on time and/or place.

21 A semantic change with range of meanings decreased so that a word can be used appropriately only in fewer contexts than it could before the change is called

Synecdoche

Ellipsis

Elevation

Narrowing

22 Since historical linguists are concerned with change in language or languages over time, historical linguistics is also called

Prehistoric linguistics

Comparative linguistics

Diachronic linguistics

Neogrammarian linguistics

23 Sometimes several sound changes seem to be interrelated, with more far-reaching impact on the overall phonological system of the language. Such changes are called

Inter related changes

Interconnected changes

Chain shifts

Akin changes

24 A change in which or becomes usually between vowels or glides is called

Paragoge

Metathesis

Anaptyxis

Rhotacism

25 The law that embodies systematic correspondences between Germanic and Non-Germanic languages, the results of regular sound changes in Germanic is

Grassmann's Law

Verner's Law

Grimm's Law

Wilhelm Von Humboldt's Law

26 In conversation according to Grice where one tries to be truthful, and does not give information that is false or that is not supported by evidence, is

the maxim of quantity

the maxim of quality

the maxim of relation

the maxim of manner

27 The process whereby a speech community of a language changes to speaking another language, often a language perceived to be of higher status, is called

Code switching

Language loyalty

Language solidarity

Language shift

28 A language systematically used to make communication possible between persons not sharing a native language is called

Pidgin

Bridge dialect

Lingua franca

Creole

29 A political movement advocating the recognition of the Bengala language as an official language of East Bengal (current Bangladesh) is an example of

Language Freedom Movement

Linguistic Purism

Minority Movement

Language Movement

30 Ethnomethodology, as a new and distinctive approach to sociological analysis, emerged with

Basil Bernstein

William Labov

Harold Garfinkel

Dell Hymes

31 In contrast with the instances of individual languages, dialects, varieties, etc. there is also the abstract sense of 'language', which is called

Protolanguage

Holophrastic language

Language Faculty

Linguistic Competence

32

Assertion The term in child language literature has been used in the sense of a point on a continuum and also in the sense where we build upon the continuity requirement and add a new requirement that the continuity has been halted.

Assertion There is no other use of the term to add a restriction to the two already mentioned which restricts the term to cases where the behaviour that has plateaued is expected to change again at some later time.

Codes

is true, is false

is false, is true

Both and are true

Both and are false

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

M. Braine Rule based descriptions of child language
J. Piaget Biological Foundations of Language
The period of Longitudinal Pivot grammar studies
Eric H. Lenneberg Sensorimotor development

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34 Infant vocalizations have

no role in language acquisition

a role to play only after the acquisition of some lexicon

a role of just reproducing what is made available by mothers

a role in enabling the child discover his/her articulatory capacity

35 The hearer employs a set of perceptual strategies to

extract semantic information directly from surface structure

break the communication process

connect only to the body language of the speaker

revise only the presumed information

36 Which of the following is not true of cognitive linguistics

There is an autonomous linguistic faculty in the mind.

It understands Grammar in terms of conceptualization.

It claims that knowledge of language arises out of language use.

It addresses within language the structuring of basic conceptual categories such as time and space.

37

Assertion In discrete point tests many elements are tested at once.

Assertion In integrative tests focus is on one linguistic element at a time.

Codes

Both and are right

Both and are wrong

is right and is wrong

is wrong and is right

38 The language of advertising can afford to by-pass the requirements of
grammar rule
syllabification process
meaning of the word
phonetics of the sound

Codes

only is true

only is false

both and are false

all the above are false

39 The effective lesson has following parts in the respective order

Acquisition, Preparation, Proficiency, .nderstanding, Practice

.nderstanding, Practice, Proficiency, Acquisition, Preparation

Practice, .nderstanding, Evaluation, Acquisition, Preparation

Preparation, Presentation, Practice, Evaluation, Expansion

40

Assertion The main objective for the manifestation of language is the speech (speaking ability), as opposed to the written form.

Assertion The term has been coined in analogy with 'literacy', to refer to the ability of speaking and listening comprehension.

Codes

Both and are false

Both and are true

is true, is false

is false, is true

41 The morphological case of an NP depends not only on its function, but also on the relationship that the NP has with its VP. Such phenomenon is known as

Case filter

Case agreement

Case government

Case syncretism

42

Assertion Earlier typologists like Schlegel and Humboldt believed that languages have an abstract organic unity.

Assertion The formal aspects of language and the changes that happen to these forms over time were not random because these changes are reflections of an inner character of the speakers who speak these languages.

Codes

Both and are false

only is true, is false

only is true, is false

Both and are true

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

List I List -II

Branching Direction Theory Greenberg
Head and Dependent marking Venneman
Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy Matthew Dryer (NPAH)
Language .niversals .eenan and Comrie

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44

Assertion An explicator compound verb has a delexicalized verb i.e. V2 which helps the main (polar) verb to get its meaning explicated.

Assertion The vector or explicator verb i.e. V2 can NEVER contribute its full lexical meaning in an explicator compound verb.

Codes

only is true, is false

only is true, is false

Both and are true

Both and are false

45 'Non nominative subject' or 'Dative Subject construction' in South Asian languages fulfils the following requirements of 'subject hood'­
the subject must asymmetrically c-command all the elements in the sentence
the subject must co-index with an anopher
the subject must be the controller of a
A finite verb in general agrees with the subject of the sentence

Codes

only is true

both and are false

only is false

All the above are true

46 Match the items in List I with those in List II

List I List II

Wheel Car Homonymy
A type of Metal An instrument Antonymy for pressing clothes
Dark Light Hyponymy
Flower Lily Meronymy

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47

Assertion In both e dictionaries and traditional dictionaries the access to and retrieval of information is determined by alphabetical organization of the dictionary.

Assertion In both e -dictionaries and traditional dictionaries hyperlinks are used to cross-refer.

Codes

Both and are right

Both and are wrong

is right and is wrong

is wrong and is right

48 Match the following
Register Jargons, linguistic forms used in specific situations
Style Ideas as forms
Logograph Jargons used in specific disciplines
Dialect Iso glosses

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49

Assertion Translation itself may be seen as a genere in the abstract.

Assertion Genere is a function of the total effect of choices made and felt to be intrinsic to any act of translation.

Codes

Both and are true

Both and are false

is true but is false

is false but is true

50 A very vital instrument of stylistics since it deals with the variations and the options that are available to the author is referred to as

style as deviation

style as alankar

style as the man

style as choice

51 Which of the following is not true for a stored program computer

A stored program computer includes by design an instruction set and can store in memory a set of instructions that details the computation.

A stored program design also allows for self-modifying code.

It is a fixed program computer.

One early motivation for such facility was the need for a program to increment or otherwise modify the address portion of instructions, which had to be done manually in early designs.

52

Assertion Both interpreters and compilers are written in some high level programming languages and they are translated into machine code.

Assertion A compiler is generally slower than an interpreter because it processes and interprets each statement in a program as many times as the number of evaluations of each statement.

Codes

Both and are right

Both and are wrong

is right and is wrong

is wrong and is right

53 Which of the following is not a part of Indo WordNet

Indradhanush project

Dravidian WordNet

Indo Aryan WordNet

North East WordNet

54 Match the items in List I with List II and choose the correct response from the codes given below.

List I List II

GPSG Gazdar
LFG Bresnan and .aplan
HPSG Pollard and Sag
TAG Joshi

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55 Match the items in List with items in List -II and select the correct response from the codes given below
List I List II

John Mc Carthy Prolog
Niklaus Wirth LISP
Larry Wall Pascal
Alain Colmerauer Perl

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56

Assertion Chomsky (1993) revived the copy theory of movement, according to which a moved element leaves behind a trace, instead of a copy.

Assertion The conceptual underpinning for the revival of the copy theory is provided by the inclusiveness condition, a conceptual condition confining the power of syntax.

Codes

Both and are correct

Both and are wrong

is correct and is wrong

is correct and is wrong

57

Assertion Chomsky (1995) argues that a head can have as many specifiers as it has features licensing them the so called 'Multiple Spec-Hypothesis'.

Assertion As per the 'Multiple Spec Hypothesis' Chomsky (1995) does not abolish as a separate head which can project its own phrase.

Codes

only is true, is false

only is true, is false

Both and are false

Both and are true

58 Which of the following is not true of 'Procrastinate'

Minimize the number of overt operations necessary for convergence

requires global (transderivational) economy

is not included in systems that appeal to local economy as an economy principle

is a combination of Copy Merge chain

59 An optional, unordered operation that splits a structural description, sending part of information to PF and part to LF is

Chomsky Adjoin

Numeration

Spell out

Merge and Move

60 Match items in List to items in List -II and choose the correct response from the codes below. List I List II
SOV Malagasy
SVO Russian
VSO Japanese
VOS Filipino

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61

Assertion A vowel is defined as a 'vowel-like segment' that occupies the nucleus of a syllable.

Assertion A segment is considered to be a vocoid when its articulation permits the relatively close passage of air through the centre of the month.

Codes

Both and are true

Both and are false

is true but is false

is false but is true

62 In signal processing, a is any type of system that acts on an input signal to yield an output signal, whose action changes the frequency content of the input.

Formant

Acoustic

Filter

Burst

63 A linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints is

Derivational Theory of Complexity

Nasal Spread Theory

Feature Hierarchy Theory

Optimality Theory

64 As a theory of phonological representations, autosegmental phonology includes a

Well formedness condition

Phonological phrase

Constraint ranking

Intonational phrase

65 Once an inflectional marker is added to a word

no further affixation is possible

further derivation of new word is possible

only partial derivation is possible

further suffixation is possible

66 The person who first showed in detail how social tensions and processes can motivate language change was

Jacob Grimm

Hermann Paul

Edward Sapir

William Labov

67 Standard language is the variety of a language considered by its speakers to be most appropriate

in formal and educational contexts

in only educational contexts

in only elite communication

in official communication

68 A term used to describe the structure of a particular speech community and composed of a "web of ties" between individuals is

dialect community

ethnic community

social network

individual community

69 The aspect of conversational structure by which the identity of the speaker changes from time to time is

Multiple identity

Turn taking

Implicature

Content

70

Assertion In sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis, discourse refers more narrowly to the interactive and communicative dimension of language, and involves conversation analysis, semiotics and the dynamic processes of text production and understanding.

Assertion In applied linguistics, discourse is any connected piece of speech or writing in its social context.

Codes

Both and are right

Both and are wrong

is right and is wrong

is wrong and is right

71 A model of brain language study that views both behaviour and neural activity as consisting of the super imposition of increasingly complex functions upon basic capacities is called

Global model

Hierarchical model

Connectionist model

Process model

72 Language breakdown due to brain pathology and strongly characterized with more of production impairment with poor, non -fluent speech, poor naming but comprehension largely intact is

Wernicke's aphasia

Broca's aphasia

Anomic aphasia

Global aphasia

73 A dynamic active process in which the speaker is engaged in language processing to generate a linguistic signal from a concept or meaning is

Production

Articulation

Comprehension

Parsing

74 Match the items in List I to List -II and choose the correct answers from the codes given below

List I List II

Frontal lobe Auditory perception
Parietal lobe Visual perception
Occipital lobe Somatosensory perception
Temporal lobe Planning, decision making

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75

Assertion For emergence of language in humans over millions of years of evolution brain has undergone a sea change.

Assertion Evolution of language and evolution of brain are correlated.

Codes

is true, is false

is false, is true

Both and are true

Both and are false