1. Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of

Involuntarily produced vocal symbols

Involuntarily produced non-vocal symbols

Voluntarily produced vocal symbols

Voluntarily produced non-vocal symbols


2. Assertion For words, a distinction is sometimes made between open-class words and closed -class words. Assertion Words may be classified as content words and function words. Codes
Both and are true

is true, but is false

is false, but is true

Both and are false


3. Assertion Formal universals are statements on the form of rules of grammar.
Assertion Substantive universals are elements in a grammar required for analysis of linguistic data e.g. NP, VP etc.
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Both and are false

Only is true and is false

Only is true and is false

Both and are true


4. In the sentence 'John who is my friend is a is a

Question word

Reflexive pronoun

Reciprocal

Relative pronoun


5. In the sentence 'The foolish boy gave the girl an 'The girl' is

Subject

Direct object

Indirect object

Verb

6. Identify the grammatical role and relation of the underlined items in List I and match them in the List II.
List I List II
The boy hit the dog Instrumental
The key opened the door Source
The boy felt happy Experiencer
He took out the gun from the van Agent

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7. A term in phonology used to describe the loss of distinction between two phonemes in a particular environments.

Syncopation

Assimilation

Metathesis

Neutralization

8. Match the items in List with those in List -II. Select the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
Code Metalingual function
Message Phatic function
Contact Poetic function
Addresser Emotive function

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9. Match the items in the List I with those in List II
List I List II
Assimilation Articulatory phonetics
Formant Analysis Auditory phonetics
Pitch Acoustic phonetics
Stricture types Combinatory phonetics

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10. The concept of National syllabi was proposed by

D.A. Wilkins

D. Nunan

Lydia White

S. Pit Corder

11. A term to donate the smallest sound units that can be segmented from the acoustic flow of speech and which can function as a semantically distinctive unit is

Morpheme

Phoneme

Allophone

Styleme

12. A term used for referring to a sudden, short peak of acoustic energy which occurs in the production of certain sounds is called

Foot

Formant

Burst

Filter

13. Complementary distribution describes

Allophones which occur in the same position without causing a change of meaning.

Allophones which never occur in the same phonetic environment

Allophones which sometimes occur in different phonetic environments but always have the same meaning.

Allophones which are sometimes phones.

14. The association between the words (verb, past tense) and (adjective) is termed as

Homophony

Homography

Hyponymy

Synonymy


15. The rhyme of a syllable consists of

Onset and coda

Onset and nucleus

Nucleus and coda

Ouset, coda and Nucleus

16. The action of glottis determines

Articulation

Misarticulation

Phonation

Vibration

17. Find the correct order
Foot
Phone
Distinctive feature
Syllable
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18. Match the items in List I with those in the List II. Select the correct answer from the code given below.
List I List II
Isolating Eskimo
Agglutinative Turkish
Inflectional Chinese
Incorporating Latin

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19. The fusion of and to produce as is called

Distance Assimilation

Regressive Assimilation

Progressive Assimilation

Coalescent Assimilation

20. A portmanteau morpheme is a morpheme which is used as

A morpheme which has one meaning

A morpheme which has more than one meaning

A morpheme which has no meaning

A morpheme which has bound meaning only

21. Meaningful unity of words in a linguistic utterance is

Cohesion

Coherence

Context

Connotation

22. Which of the following is not true of the Aspects model

Meaning is contained in the surface structure

Deep structure goes to surface structure through transformations

Transformations include addition, deletion, movement and substitution

Base provides input to Deep structure

23. Case is a property which is associated with of a sentence.

Verb

Noun

Adjective

Adverb

24. Linguistic competence refers to

The capacity to use language in all social situations

The capacity to find mistakes

The capacity to understand all verbal and non-verbal signs

The capacity to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences

25. The sentence-clause distinction in generative terms is found in

Optimality theory

Minimalist theory

Hyphothesis theory

Principles and parametre theory


26. In the sentence 'John himself cut the apple, 'himself' is

Reflexive

Relative Pronoun

Verb

Emphatic


27. Match the items from List I with those in List II and select the correct code from the codes given below.
List I List II
Gradable antonyms alive dead
Complementary antonyms good -bad
Converse antonyms Furniture desk
Hyponyms lend -borrow

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28. In the metalingual function

Focus is on 'message for its own sake'

The addressee is directly engaged

The addresser is engaged

Language is used to discuss itself


29. Match the items from List I with those in List II and choose the correct response from the codes below
List I List II
Referential function Corresponds to the factor of context and describes a situation, object or mental state.
Expressive function Relates to addresser
Conative function Focuses on 'message for its own sake'
Poetic function engages the addressee

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30. Which of the following is an example of polar opposition

Tenant -Landlord

Wet -Dry

Teacher -Student

Alive -Dead

31. Assertion There are some South Asian languages that show 'Ergativity' in full -scale as articulated by W.R. Dixon.
Assertion :Some languages such as Hindi-Urdu, Marathi, Nepali and Punjabi etc. are classified as 'Split-ergative' languages because Ergativity is conditioned by tense and aspect in these languages.
Code

Only is true

Both and are true

Both and are false

Only is true

32. Assertion One of the most salient properties of verb final languages is that most of them have post-positions.
Assertion Persian is a verb -final language and it has pre-positions.
Codes

Only is true and is false

Both and are false

Both and are true

Only is true

33. When extant written records do not exist to offer forms representing an earlier non extant state of a language, it is possible to hypothesize about the historical development of the languages by analysing the structural regularities and irregularities of their contemporary states and deducing underlying forms which might reflect earlier states. The process is called

Lexicostatistics

Comparative method

Lexical diffusion

Internal Reconstruction


34. A process of regularization which affects the exceptional forms in the grammar of language is referred to as

Loan blend

Merger

Coalescence

Analogy

35. The claim that sound change is a regular process has long been sufficiently well linked to

Ferdinand de Saussure

Yaska

Prague school

The Neogrammarians

36. Assertion When we find some languages which are clearly connected through a genetic relationship it therefore follows that they belong to a language family.
Assertion All these languages are descended from a single ancestral language.
Codes

is true but is false

is false but is true

Both and is true

Both and are false

37. A sound change in which a repeated sequence of sounds is simplified to a single occurrence is known as

Paragoge

Prothesis

Anaptyxis

Haplology

38. A sound change in which sounds exchange positions with one another within a word is known as

Compensatory lengthening

Paragoge

Metathesis

Aphaeresis


39. Assertion Synchronic linguistics refers to study of language across time.
Assertion Diachronic linguistics refers to study of language at a particular time.
Codes

Both and are true

is true and is false

is true and are false

Both and are false



40. Assertion Human language would presumably function much better as a medium of communication if it did not change over time.
Assertion Apparently language change is universal.

is true, is false

is false, is true

Both and are true

Both and are false


41. to a general model of grammar within which all individual varieties can be interrelated, thus providing a model of a speaker's passive competence.

Paralanguage

Panlectal

Diffusion

Diglossia


42. Assertion A cloze test involves presenting learners with a complete passage, at the end of which descriptive questions are asked.
Assertion Cloze tests have proven useful in second language classrooms as well as in psycholinguistics as tests of comprehension, and in sociolinguistics as a means of eliciting dialect words.
Codes

Both and are true

Both and are false

is true and is false

is false and is true

43. The concept of 'communicative competence' in sociolinguistics is a contribution of

William Labov

Lev Vygotsky

Dell Hymes

Charles Ferguson

44. Acquisition vs learning distinction is attributed to

S. Pit Corder

S. D. Krashen

W. S. Allen

Halliday

45. Gazetteers and Biographical Dictionaries are classified as

Onomasiological Dictionaries

Onomastic Dictionaries

Dialect Dictionaries

Learner's Dictionaries



46. Assertion Creoloid is a form of Creole arising out of mixing of features from two or more source languages but without a history of origin in a Pidgin language.
Assertion Afrikaans, and Singaporean English are both examples of Creoloids.
Codes

and are both true.

and are both false.

is false, is true.

is true, is false.


47. CALL (Computer -assisted language learning) refers to the area of technology and second language teaching and it claims to have achieved.
Judge predetermined right or wrong answer.
Provides immediate feed back
Provides output even for unexpected input
Provides motivation and engagement of human interaction
Code

Only is false

Only and are false

Only and are false

All the above are false


48. Assertion More important than learning one mode of pronunciation is acquiring the ability to style shift.
Assertion Style shifting is the ability to alter the register of speech.
Codes

is false and is true

is true and is false

Both and are true

Both and are false


49. An approach to language teaching that focuses on language functions and communicative competence is called

Linguistic approach

Communicative functional approach

Functional notional approach

Bilingual approach


50. Match the items in List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
Verbal Deficit Hypothesis Charles Ferguson
Diglossia Basil Bevnskin
Social Motivation of Sound change Dell Hymes
Communicative competence William Labov

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