ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, FEBRUARY 2014
M.PHIL. APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Time: 2 Hours Max. Marks: 75 Hall Ticket No:
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SECTION
Analytical Ability (25 Marks)

Consider these data from Greek, focusing on the following sounds and answer the questions from 1 to 5 below: voiceless velar fricative voiceless velar stop voiceless palatal stop voiceless palatal fricative
[kano] "do" "hand"
[xano] "lose" [kori] "daughter"
[9ino] "pour" [xori] "dances"
[cino] "move" [xrima] "money"
[kali] "charms" [krima] "shame"
[xali] "plight" [xufta] "handful" "eel" [kufeta] "bonbons"
[ceri] "candle" "no"

1. The sounds and are in
A. complementary distribution B. contrastive distribution
C. free variation D. similar distribution
2. The sounds and are in
A. complementary distribution B. contrastive distribution
C. free variation D. similar distribution
3. The sounds and are
A. allomorphs B. allophones C. distinct phonemes D. diphones
4. The sounds and are
A. allomorphs B. allophones C. distinct phonemes D. diphone
5. Select the appropriate rule that accounts for above Greek dat.a. .
A. velar] palatal] B. palatal]
C. velar] palatal] back] D. velar] [-palatal]

6. The sentence *John; likes himselfj as coindexed here is ungrammatical because, it violates
A. Principle A of Binding Theory B. Principle B ofBinding Theory
C. Principle C of Binding Theory D. The A-over-A condition
7. The sentence smiled a cat is ungrammatical because, it violates
A. Case theory B. Theta theory C. Binding theory D. Subjacency
8. Select the correct example for an object control sentence.
A. He asked me to come B. He wants to go
C. Sita promised me to help D. We tried to ask him
9. In the sentence, I have to do it, "have" is a
A. subject control verb B. modal auxiliary verb
C. object control verb D. main verb
10. In the sentence Ram believes him to be intelligent, "him" IS an example for
A. Exceptional case marking B.PRO
C. Weak crossover D. Subjacency
11. In the sentence, The man chased the intruder, "the intruder" is the
A. agent B. theme C. goal D. source
12. In the sentence, He sent him a letter, "him" is the
A. agent B. theme C. recipient D. purpose
13. In the sentence, The cat jumped from the chair onto the table, "the chair" is the
A. source B. agent C. goal D. patient
14. In the sentence, I.fight for the king, "the king" is the
A. theme B. patient C. beneficiary D. recipient
15. Which is the superordinate term for the following words in the list: man, stallion, male, boy, bull, boar
A.man B. male C. boy D. stallion

The following data come from Kinyambo, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. Analyse it and answer the questions from 16 to 25 below. nakajuna helped' barakoma 'they will tie' nitukoma are tying' naraJuna will help' nituchumba are cooking' nlmUJuna 'you are helping' orasoma 'you will read' baratura 'they will put down' nimukichumba'you are cooking bakakinaga 'they lost arakinaga 'she will lose nibatura 'they are putting down'
16. The morpheme which is
A.ni B.ar C.na D. tu
17.
The morpheme which means is A.mu B. ba C. nimu D. or

18.
The morpheme which means is

A. ni B. tu C. nit D.ma

19.
What is the meaning (in English) ofthe Kinyambo word akakisoma

A. she reads B. she will read it C. she read D. she read it

20.
What is the meaning (in English) ofthe Kinyambo word ninachumba

A. 1cook B. 1am cooking C. 1am cooking it D. I cooked

21.
The morpheme which means'cook' is

A. umba B. humba C. chumba D. achumba

22.
The morpheme which means'lose' is

A. kinaga B. inaga C. naga D.aga

23.
The morpheme which means is

A. ajuna B.juna C. una D.na

24.
The future tense morpheme in Kinyambo is

A. ara B.ra C. ora D.r

25.
The present progressive morpheme in Kinyambo is


A.u B. tu C. ba D.ni
SECTION
Applied Linguistics (25 Marks)

26. The first Dialect Atlas was prepared by
A. George Wenker B. Jules Gillieron C. Mcintosch D. Hans Kurath
27. The language of an individual speaker with its unique characteristics is referred to as the speaker's
A. dialect B. idiolect C. register D. slang
28. isa sociolinguistic term referring to the phenomenon of using multiple languages complementarily for different functions.
A. polyglossia B. multiglossia C.lingua franca D. interlanguage
29. The word powder room is a for toilet.
A. taboo B. euphemism C. slang D.jargon
30. Match the books in List 1 with the authors in List -II from the codes below: List List -II
a.
Sociolinguistic theory i. Ureil Weinreich

b.
Languages in contact ii. J. K. Chambers

c.
Class, codes and control iii. Robert Cooper

d.
Language planning and social change iv. Basil Bernstein


Codes:
a bc d

A. ii
IV 111 1

B.
111 IV 111

C.
1111 11 IV


D. 1 11 111 IV
31. Which ofthese sections ofthe brain plays an important part in language comprehension?
A. Wernicke's area B. Motor cortex C. Broca's area D. Parietal lobe
32. Select the garden path sentence from following sentences.
A. The horse raced past the bam and fell.
B. The horse that raced past the bam fell.
C. The horse raced past the bam fell.
D. The horse raced past and the bam fell.
33. ad hoc odd hack, the error here is an example for
A. spoonerism B. metathesis C. anagram D. epenthesis
34. What is it called when a child extends a known word to other objects because they have perceptual similarities (e.g., calling anything round, a ball)?
A. semantic overextension B. relational overextension'
C. analogical overextension D. categorical overextension
35. An individual who displays interactional competence adheres to accepted standards for:
A. body language B. eye contact C. physical proximity D. all the above
36. is a collection oftexts used in NLP.
A. MRD B. POS tagging C. Corpus D. Chunk
37. A regular expression to match the word color is
A. Icolou r B. Icolo*r C./colou?r D. Icol["o]r
38. Morphological generator is a
A. word synthesizer B. morphological analyzer
C. POS tagger D. chunker
39. Syntactically annotated corpus is called as
A. synset B. tree bank C. parellel corpus D. encoding
40. Machine Translation is a " intensive activity.
A. knowledge B. domain C. cultural D. grammar
41. is a language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and action.
A. Total body response B. Total physical response
C. Total response in action D. Total speech and action
42. The term "Inter language" is coined by
A. S. Pit Corder B. L. Selinker C. Bloomfield D. Uriel Weinreich
43. The stipulates that code-switching cannot occur between a lexical stem and bound morphemes.
A. free-morpheme constraint B. equivalence constraint
C. word constraint
44. Matrix insertional code-switching.
A. Carol Myers-Scotton
C. Shana Paplock
45. Esperanto is
A. natural language
C. formal language
D. lexeme constraint Language-Frame model is the dominant model of
B. David Sankoff
D. Aravind Joshi

B. artificial language D. machine language

46. The article India as a Linguistic Area is authored by
A. M. B. Emeneau B. Bh. Krishnamurti C. T. Burrow D. C. F. Fillmore
47. The type of sound change that underlies Grimm's law can be called
A. split B. merger C. shift D.loss
48. Glottal stop is a characteristic ofthe language family.
A. Indo Aryan B. Munda C. Dravidian D. Tibeto-Burman
49. The book entitled " " is written by Ladislav Zgusta.
A. Manual ofLexicography B. Manual ofTranslation
C. Manual of Language Teaching D. Manual ofHistorical Linguistics
50. is a lexical database where words are organized into sets of synonyms called synsets. .
A. Lexicon B. WordNet C. Ontology D. Semantic web

SECTION Core Linguistics (25 Marks)
51. Match each expression under A with the statement in B that characterizes it:
A
a.
Change in quality of sounds

b.
Height ofthe tongue

c.
Place of the tongue

d.
Position ofthe lips


Codes: a bc d
A. 1 11 111 IV
B. 1 IV 11 111
C. 11iii IV 1
D. 11 IV1 111
52. Frequency of sounds is measured in
A. phon B. db
53. All stops and fricatives are
A. sonorant] B. [-sonorant]
B
i. front, central and back vowels
ii. monophthongs and diphthongs
iii. round and unround vowels
iv. high, mid and low vowels
C.hz D. sone
C. [-consonantal] D. [-obstruent]
54. English uses to distinguish different words, such as produce]n and produce]v.
A. pitch B. stress C. intonation D.lengih
55. Which ofthe following statements is false?
A. Tocharian is not an Indo-European language
B. Tocharian was spoken in Chinese Turkestan
C. Tocharian appears in Buddhist texts from 600 AD
D. Tocharian was rediscovered in the 1890s
56. In the production of a nasalised vowel the airstream passes through
A. nasal chamber only
C. oral and nasal chambers both
57. Languages in which syllables
A. pitch languages
C. syllable languages
B. oral chamber only
D. None ofthe above
or words are contrasted by pitch are called
B. tone language
D. intonation languages

58. A syllable may contain
A. onset and coda B. onset, nucleus and coda
C. onset and nucleus D. nucleus
59. is a phonological unit which expresses the common features of two or more phonemes which are involved in neutralisation.
A. allophone B. neutralized phoneme C. archiphoneme D. syllable
60. The application of Rule-A: The application of Rule-B: is an example for ____ordering.
A. feeding order B. bleeding order
C. mutual bleeding order D. counter order
61. The relationship between form and meaning is
A. arbitrary B. fixed
62. In English, the plural form of child is
A. phonologically conditioned
C. lexically conditioned
63. Languages belonging to the
C. predictable D. open
B. grammatically conditioned
D. suppletive language families are agglutinative in nature.
A. Dravidian, Indo Aryan, Munda, Tibeto Burman
B. Dravidian, Munda, Tibeto Burman
C. Dravidian, Indo Aryan, Munda
D. Tibeto Burman, Munda, Indo Aryan
64. In Tamil, peN kaL 'plural marker' peNgaL is an example for
A. progressive assimilation B. regressive assimilation
C. gemination D. syncope
65. Themainproponents ofthetheory ofDistributedMorphologyare
A. Morris Halle and Mark Aronoff B. Morris Halle and Kirsten Fudeman
C. Morris Halle and Alec Marantz D. Morris Halle and Noam Chomsky
66. In the sentence, He told me that he went to the cinema, "that" is a
A. pronoun B. demonstrative C. complementlzer D. adverb
67. Burzio principle can account for movement in
A. question formation B. passivization c. relativization D. topicalization
68. Item