1. Assertion I Broca's aphasia Wernike's aphasia anarthria
Assertion II Broca's aphasia Wernick's aphasia amnesia

Codes

is true II is true.


is false II is true.


is true II is false.


(D)Both I and II are false.



2. Match the items in List I with List II

List I List II
a. Physical phonetic i. Conceptual units without neuromuscular specifications
b. Phonological representations ii. Strict subcategorizat ion
c. Lexical representations iii. Morphome structure and low level phonetic rules
d. Syntactic component iv. Neuromuscular coding

Codes

a b c d

iii iv i


i ii iii


iii i ii


iv iii ii



3. The major proposal 'regression­hypothesis' was made by Jakobson in the year of

(A)1969

1971

(C)1965

1978



4. Assertion I Until the sixth month, deaf infants continue to babble normally.
Assertion II By the age of nine months, deaf infants have last their interest in babbling.

Codes

is correct, II is wrong.


(B)Both I and II are correct.


is wrong, II is correct.


(D)Both I and II are wrong.



5. Assertion I The left hemisphere specializes in rapid small-scale operations.
Assertion II The right hemisphere handles large-scale of language.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are false.


is true and II is false.


is false and II is true.


(D)Both I and II are true.



6. Assertion I Proto-language doesnot allow any dialect variation.
Assertion II Proto-language is anabstraction.

Codes

is true, II is false.


is false, II is true.


(C)Both I and II are true.


(D)Both I and II are false.



7. Match List I with those of List II, with the codes given below

List I List II

a. Creole Studies i. William Lobou
b. On-going Sound Change ii. William S.Y. Wads
c. Neo- Grammarian Hypothesis iii. Karl Brogirana and Hermann Osthoff
d. Lexical Diffusion iv. Hugo Schichardt

Codes
a b c d

ii i iii iv

iv i iv iii

i ii iii iv

iii iv ii i

8. Assertion I Analogy brings about regularity in the paradigm.
Assertion II Analogy destroys the paradigmatic regularity.

Codes

and II are false.


and II are true.


is false, II is true.


is true, II is false.



9. The area of historical linguistics which discusses the change the meaning over time is called

(A)Phonological change


(B)Morphological change


(C)Semantic change


(D)Analogical change



10. Arrange the following concepts in chronological order in which they appeared

(A)Neo-grammarian Hypothesis, On-going Sound Change, Lexical Diffusion, Sturtevant's Paradox


(B)Lexical Diffusion, Neo­grammarian Hypothesis, On­going Sound Change, Sturtevant's Paradox


(C)On-going Sound Change, Sturtevant's Paradox, Neo­grammarian Hypothesis, Lexical Diffusion


(D)Neo-grammarian Hypothesis, Sturtevant's Paradox, On-going Sound Change, Lexical Diffusion



11. Assertion I Sound changes cannot be observed while it is in progress.
Assertion II Sound change can be observed after it accumulates for over a long period.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are true.


(B)Both I and II are false.


is true, II is false.


is false, II is true.



12. A non-finite verb form whose main function is to mark adverbial subordination is

(A)Past Participle


(B)Present Participle


(C)Conjunctive Participle


(D)Future Participle



13. "Santhali", "Mundari" and "Kuruku" belong to which of the following group of Munda family of languages of South Asia

North Munda


(B)South Munda


(C)Central Munda


(D)Koraput Munda


14. Assertion I Greenberg's first major publication on language universal's proposed a series of universals of word order and morphological categories.

Assertion II Greenberg's typological approach is often compared to the generative approach of Noam Chomsky.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are true.


(B)Both I and II are false.


is true, but II is false.


is false, but II is true.



15. Assertion I The ultimate goals of typology are to ascertain the ways in which languages are similar in structure and to determine how different human languages can be.

Assertion II Typology is not a theory of language structure.

Codes

is true but II is false.


is false, but II is true.


(C)Both I and II are false.


(D)Both I and II are true.



16. Assertion I Often reduplication has an augmentative meaning.
Assertion II It signals an increase in size, frequency or intensity.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are false.


(B)Both I and II are true.


is true and II is false.


is false and II is true.


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

List I List II

i. Isolating a. Each grammatical category is represented by a separate word.
ii. Polysynthetic b. Words are divided into separate segments with separate grammatical functions.
iii. Agglutinative c. There is a pattern of incorporation or in which affixes realize a range of semantic categories.
iv. Fusional d. There is no clear boundary within the word.

Codes
a b c d

i ii iii iv

i iii ii iv

i iv ii iii

iv iii ii i
18. Assertion In GB theory, all lexical categories are phrasal categories.

Reason INFL is not a lexical category, but a phrasal category.

Codes

is true, is true

is true, is false.

is false, is true.

Both and are false.

19. The subject NP of the sentence 'The former president of the island paradise of utopia smokes' is

(A)The former president


(B)The former president of the island


(C)The former president of the island paradise of utopia


(D)The former president of the island paradise



20. The sentence 'which have you seen is derived by

(A)NP-movement


(B)Head movement


(C)Head to head movement


(D)Wh-movement



21. Assertion I Acquiring a language involves two distinct skills the ability to produce speech in a spontaneous way; and the ability to understand the speech of others.

Assertion II The traditional comprehension view is that comprehension does not always proceed production.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are false.


(B)Both I and II are true.


is true, II is false.


is false, II is true.



22. An approach to language teaching that focuses on language functions and communicative competence is named as

(A)Grammatical approach


(B)Functional approach


(C)Communicative approach


(D)Linguistic approach



23. Critical literacy is strongly associated with the work of

(A)Hodge and Kress


(B)Clark and Ivanic


(C)Widdowson


(D)Pant preire



24. Communication between members of different cultural groups, who may bring different language paradises or ways of speaking, and different expectations and cultural understandings to an interaction is called

(A)intercultural communication


(B)Cross-cultural communication


(C)Miscommunication


(D)Mass communication



25. Assertion I Error Analysis refers to a branch of Applied Linguistics that undertakes a systematic study of the errors made by language learners, with a view to characterising the language learning process.

Assertion II In applied linguistics, forms produced by second language learners are not that same from the forms produced by adult first language speakers.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are true.


(B)Both I and II are false.


is true, but II is false.


is false, but II is true.

26. Match the concepts drawn from Grice's maxims given in List I with appropriate inferences given in List II

List I List II

a. Maxim of manner i. Do not make your contribution more or less informative than required
b. Maxim of quality ii. Be relevant
c. Maxim of quantity iii. Try to make your contribution one that is true
d. Maxim of relevance iv. Be brief and orderly

Codes
a b c d

iii i ii


iv iii i


ii iv iii


(D)iii i iv ii



27. Assertion I According to Basil Bernstein, every speaker has access to the restricted code.
Assertion II Only upper class has access to elaborated code.

Codes

and II are true.


and II are false.


is true, II is false.


is false, II is true.



28. In the language contact situation the language that provide most of the lexical items to contact variety is

(A)Lexicalization


(B)Lexical diffusion


(C)Lexifier language


(D)Lexical decision



29. Match the terms coined by linguists in List I with those of List II from the codes below

List I List II

a. Corpus planning i. Ureil Weinreich
b. Language planning ii. Charles Ferguson
c. Language determination iii. Robert Cooper
d. Language spread iv. Heinz Kloss

Codes
a b c d

i ii iii


ii iii iv


(C)iii iv ii i


iii i iv



30. Assertion I Bright hypothesizes that 'conscious' linguistic change originates in the members of higher social strata, 'unconscious' change is natural in all strata where the literacy factor does not intervene.

Assertion II Labov hypothesizes that mechanism of linguistic change originates from below, that is, change from below the level of conscious awareness to change from above, that is change brought about consciously.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are correct.


(B)Both I and II are wrong.


is wrong and II is correct.


is correct and II is wrong.

31. Which one of the following ungrammatical sentences violates the coordinate structure constraint

(A)Whom does he know a boy who studies


(B)What did stories about frighten the child


(C)Whose did you take autograph


(D)Which boy did you see my sister and



32. A concentration of acoustic energy, especially distinctive in 'vowels' and 'voiced sounds' is called

(A)Amplitude


(B)Frequency


(C)Formant


(D)Foot



33. The vocal folds may also be held lightly closed in the air-stream. Just as a blade of grass held between the thumps can be made to produce a rasping sound when air is blown past it, so the vocal folds can produce the sound. The sound produced comes under the category of

(A)voiced


(B)voiceless


(C)whispered


(D)click



34. "Minimal Pairs" helps in the identification of

Distribution patterns


(B)Pattern congruity


(C)Phonemes


(D)Allosemes



35. In English, the word domestic changes into domesticity, the change can be formulated in one of the following ways

s ti


s iti


s i


s it



36. Choose the stratum 1 affix in the
following
competitive adj

Codes

ve

ive


tive

iv



37. A standard language is a prestige variety that

(A)cuts across regional varieties


faithful to the historical facts


synonymous language standard


the grammatical dialect



38. Assertion I Social network analysis is the approach in which the researcher concentrates on how language is used to achieve communicative goals in particular social situation.

Assertion II Social network analysis is the approach in which the researcher is a participant-observer of a social group and interprets linguistic variation in terms of the kinds and densities of relationships experienced by speakers.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are wrong.


(B)Both I and II are right.


is right and II is wrong.


is wrong and II is right.

39. Assertion I Men and women speak altogether different languages.
Assertion II Men and women speak to same language but they may differ in the use of the lexicon.

Codes

and II are true.


and II are false.


is true, II is false.


is false, II is true.



40. "Turn-taking" is the subject matter for organizing conversation patterns in the speech context and groups of speakers is the domain of analysis for

(A)Pragmatics


(B)Sociolinguistics


(C)Ethnography of speaking


(D)Anthropology



41. In sentence 'John lives here' the word indicates

(A)predicative expression


(B)fixed expression


(C)indexical expression


(D)referring expression



42. Assertion I The categories of and may intersect in various ways.
Assertion II A particular model distinction may be drawn in combination with one tense, but neutralised with another.

Codes

(A)Only I is true.


(B)Only II is true.


(C)Both I and II are true.


(D)Both I and II are false.



43. The sense relation found in the pairs cow animal, rose flower etc. is termed as

(A)Synonymy

Hyponymy

Antonymy

Homonymy



44. Complete the sentence by choosing the correct item from the following A ……. is some point of usage for which two or more competing forms are available in a community, with speakers showing interesting and significant differences in the frequency with which they use one or another of these competing forms.

(A)variety

reference

(C)variable

sense



45. Select the correct order of the books according to the year in which they were published

i. Meaning and style
ii. Structural semantics
iii. Semantics Volume I
iv. Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar

iii, ii, iv

ii, iii, iv

iv, iii

iv, ii, iii



46. Assertion I Translation occurs when a message or text produced in one language is converted into a message or text in another language.
Assertion II When used in contrast to "interpreting" translation denotes the conversion of a written text.

Codes

and II are true.


and II are false.


is true, but II is false.


is false, but II is true.


47. The entries in dictionaries are arranged according to a code that is accessible to all without preparation, so that the dictionary can be consulted quickly and easily. The process of coding is known as

(A)Algorithm


Concatenation


(C)Phonetic form


(D)Logical form



48. The use of controlled defining vocabulary and a preference for user friendly style with full sentence defining is found in

(A)Bilingual Dictionary


(B)Historical Dictionary


(C)Etymological Dictionary


(D)Monolingual Learner's Dictionary



49. "Because it was raining, I picked up my coat and put it on. I went to the door and after I opened it went outside."

Assertion I The coherence of the above passage lies in less formal links, such as the logical connections between rain and coat wearing, doors and opening them.

Assertion II The passage also coheres in that it conforms to our notions of what a first person narrative should be

Codes

(A)Both I and II are true.


(B)Both I and II are false.


is true, but II is false.


is false, but II is true.



50. Assertion I A dictionary is the part of an encyclopaedia which stores information about the formal morphosyntactic and semantic specifications of language user.

Assertion II Etymological and stylistic information are not strictly a part of the dictionary.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are correct.


(B)Both I and II are wrong.


is correct, but II is wrong.


is wrong, but II is correct.



51. Match the following from the List I to List II

List I List II

a. An interlinear translation i. Convey the source's communicative effect
b. Literal translation ii. Reproduce the source's semantic content
c. Communicative translation iii. Parallel the source's exact words and syntax
d. Dynamic equivalent iv. Communicative meaning

Codes
a b c d

(A)iii ii i iv


iii iv ii


iv iii ii


i iii i



52. Word-sense disambiguation, speech tagging, syntactic analysis, and parallel text alignment are closely associated with

(A)Transformational generative grammar


(B)Case grammar


(C)Computational linguistics


(D)Neuro linguistics

53. Machine Readable Dictionary(MRD) means

(A)that the computer reads the dictionary.


(B)that it is an electronic form and can be processed and manipulated computationally.


(C)that it meant only for Database.


(D)that it is like any other dictionary.



54. Assertion I The first corpus designed to be comparable is known as LOB because of the three institutions that jointly compiled it were the Universities of Lancaster and Oslo and the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities at Bergen.

Assertion II LOB was completed in 1978 and selected corpus from British English.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are correct.


(B)Both I and II are wrong.


is correct, but II is wrong.


is wrong, but II is correct.



55. "Recycling" appears to be among the primary sources related to social motivation of sound change. Who among the following proposed the above methodology

Peter Trudgill


(B)William Labov


(C)John J. Gumperz


(D)Ronald Wardough



56. Assertion I Stems and roots belong to different strata, claim some lexical morphologists.

Assertion II Homophonous affixes have different origins, some morphologists propose that.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are true.


(B)Both I and II are false.


is true, II is false.


is false, II is true.



57. The branch of morphology which studies the way in which words vary in order to express grammatical contrasts in sentences such as singular/plural, past/present tense, is known as

(A)Derivational morphology


(B)Inflectional morphology


(C)Item and process


(D)Word and paradigm



58. The English word blackberry is an example of

(A)Endocentric construction


(B)Exocentric construction


(C)Copulative compound


(D)Secondary construction



59. A morph which does not directly realize a morpheme is

empty word


empty morph


zero morph


allomorph



60. Complex predicate can involve

(A)Explicator Verb Noun


(B)Adjective Noun Verb


(C)Verb Explicator Auxiliary


(D)Adverb Verb Postposition



61. Sabourand used Saussure's two linguistic planes. They are

(A)Selection and combination


(B)Motor and sensory


(C)Semiological and Phonological


(D)Competence and performance


62. Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched

Disorders of Sensory primary functions, control such as sight and hand


Higher Language dysfunctions disorder secondary to, or associated with, the


Higher Extra-dysfunctions linguistic related to lesions disorders outside the prime language areas of the brain, and which can be identified as distinct


A generalized Brain reduction in damage efficiency after



63. Disorders affecting the transmission of language, is due to damage to the brain areas for peripheral

(A)Visual figure-ground discrimination


(B)Fluctuation of attention


(C)Sensory and motor mechanisms


(D)Left hemisphere



64. Which of the statement is correct

(A)Hemianopia is the blindness in one half of the visual field.


(B)Hemiplegia is the paralysis of two sides of the body.


area of living tissue due to obstruction of a terminal artery.


(D)Asymbolia is ability to associate meaning with one or more classes of symbols.



65. Alzheimer's disease is a type of

(A)Developmental Disorder


(B)Acquired Disorder


(C)Dementia


(D)Anomia



66. The POS tage in a tree bank denotes

(A)Co-indexation


(B)NP-SBJ


(C)Non-terminal category


(D)Punctuation



67. Assertion I A weighted CFG (WCFG) is a context-free­grammar plus a mapping p P . R from rule productions to real valued weights.

Assertion II A probabilistic CFG (PCFG) is a WCFG with a probability assigned to each rule.

Codes

(A)Both I II are false.


is true, II is false.


is false, II is true.


(D)Both I II are true.



68. As per the optimality theory reduplication involves the following constraints and some other(s)

(A)Markedness constraint, stem constraint


(B)Markedness constraint, Root constraint


(C)Markedness constraint, Identity constraint


(D)Markedness constraint, Affixal constraint


69. Assertion I Phonological Word can consist of one or several syllables.
Assertion II Phonological word comprises one foot.

Codes

II are true.


II are false.


is true, II is false.


is false, II is true.



70. If addition of a suffix brings about number change in an example like
"Kul am Kulum" the phonological process involved reflects

(A)Rounding


(B)Raising


(C)Vowel-harmony


(D)Vowel-hierarchy



71. in Hindi is an example of

(A)Subject Raising


(B)Object Deletion


(C)Pro-drop parameter


(D)Theme-suppletion



72. Arrange the following concepts in order in which they appeared

Minimalism
Surface structure and Deep structure
Principles and parameters theory
Bare phrase structure

Codes














73. The DP hypothesis is first proposed by

(A)Stephen Abney


(B)Noam Chomsky


(C)J.Y. Pollock


Timothy Stowel



74. Assertion I 'Spellout' is the point in a derivation at which part of a syntactic structure is sent to the PF component to be mapped into a PF-representation.

Assertion II To say that an item has a 'null spellout' is to say that it is 'silent' and so has a null phonetic form.

Codes

(A)Only I is correct.


(B)Only II is correct.


(C)Both I and II are correct.


(D)Both I and II are wrong.



75. Assertion I Subject NPS precedes the verb in English in declarative sentences.

Assertion II All subject NPS are generated in SPEC VP position and then move to the SPEC VP/NP.

Codes

(A)Both I and II are true.


(B)Both I and II are false.


is true and II is false.


is false and II is true.