1 Vowel with different pitch variations as in and in a language is an example of

Contrastive distribution

Complementary distribution

Overlapping distribution

Coincidental distribution

2 What are the 'major class features'

Syllabic, sonorant, vocoids

Syllabic, sonorant, consonantal

Anterior, coronal, distributed

Continuant, obstruent, lateral

3 Match the following
Pitch Distinctive feature
Formants Auditory phonetics
Vocal cord vibration Acoustic phonetics
Compact-diffuse Articulatory phonetics

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4 Sounds produced with a stricture in front of the palato-alveolar region are called

Coronals

Anteriors

Labials

Palato-alveolars

5 Assertion It is assumed that word formation rules of morphology are directly paired with phonological rules grouped together at various levels
Assertion The output of morphological level undergoes phonological rules of that level

Codes

is true, but is false

is false, but is true

Both and are true

Both and are false

6 The morphological model in which the relationship between word forms is that of replacement is

Item and process model

Item and arrangement model

Word and paradigm model

None of the above

7 The difference between root and stem can be characterised as

a root and a stem cannot be further analysed

a root can be further analysed where as a stem cannot be

a derivational suffix can be attached only to a root

a derivational suffix can be attached only to the stem

8 Assertion Derivational affixes change the grammatical class of stems to which they are attached
Assertion Inflectional affixes do not change the grammatical class of the stem to which they are attached
Then, identify the correct answer

is true, is false

is false, is true

Both and are true

Both and are false

9 The study of the arrangement of morphemes in a linear sequence is

Phonotactics

Syntactics

Morphotactics

Tactics

10 In the words from English
Sing Singer,
Play Player,
Write Writer,
Dance -Dancer,
The suffix er is a

Verbaliser

Nominaliser

Adjectiviser

Adverbialiser

11 Assertion Quantifier raising applies in the mapping from LF to S -structure
Assertion Quantifier raising moves a quantified NP to clause initial position, giving structures similar to those assumed in logic
Codes

Both and are correct

is false and is true

is true and is false

Both and are false

12 Principle B of Binding theory states

Every lexically realized NP must have a case

A pronominal is A-free in its governing category

Every argument is assigned one theta role

An element cannot cross more than one bounding node in a single movement

13 Assertion The head parameter is concerned with the position of heads within phrases
Assertion English is a head last language
Codes

Both and are correct

is correct, is false

is false, is correct

Both and are false

14 Which of the following is the head of tall thin bearded man'

Tall

Thin

Bearded

Man

15 In X-bar theory, the head of is

N

I

V

P

16 Words like and are called

Supplementary antonyms

Relational opposites

Co-hyponyms

Complementary antonyms

17 Speech act theory was originally proposed by which scholar

Chomsky

Yaska

Frege

Austin

18 The formal language selected in formal semantics serves as

Corpus value

Semantic component

A symbolic communication

Input to a mechanism that pairs sentence of the language with truth conditions

19 In the case of one lexeme with a variety of referents, we have an example of

homonymy

coreference

polysemy

Meronymy

20 A term used in semantic or logical analysis, referring to a set of items which express contrasts in a quantity, such as all, some, each is called

truth value

semantic field

sense relation

quantifier

21 The concept of lexical diffusion, where in spread of a sound change takes place step by step was propounded by

Wilhelm Schmidt

Wang

Jacob Grimm

None of the above

22 Comparative method of reconstruction needs to be preceded by internal reconstruction, so that

it may look at the extent of variation

it will eliminate all the dialectal variations

it is not possible to apply later

the results are inconclusive

23 Mark the correct statement

Pidginisation takes place when two unrelated languages are in contact

Pidginisation requires a situation that involves at least three languages

Pidgins are used in a wide range of social contexts

Pidgins arise as a result of imperfect learning of a second language

24 An ideal informant is one who

knows more than one language

knows only one language

has difficulty in remembering

uses his language rarely

25 A lexical word losing its 'lexical' status and becoming a grammatical one, is called

Grammaticalisation

Lexicalisation

Syncretism

None of the above

26 Sociolinguistic attitudes are indicated by

Emotive and Affective factors

Affective and referential factors

Referential and Authentic factors

Authentic and practical factors

27 Language planning is not related to the planning of

Status planning

Corpus planning

Standardization of script

Language acquisition

28 A variety emerging in a contact situation with a markedly reduced grammatical structure, lexicon and stylistic range is

Pidgin

Creole

Sociolect

Idiolect

29 A public movement advocating the recognition of a language as an official language in a state is an example of

Movement for linguistic purism

Language movement

Language freedom movement

Minority movement

30 A technique used in research where a researcher becomes part of the group which he or she wishes to study for an extended period is called

Descriptive observation

Explanatory observation

Indifferent observation

Participant observation

31 Pivot words are

highly frequent, less in number, relatively fixed in position

less frequent, more in number, relatively fixed in position

highly frequent, less in number, not relatively fixed in position

highly frequent, more in number, not relatively fixed in position

32 First language acquisition brings in
metalinguistic awareness
socialization and acculturation
words and their semantic fields
written and spoken forms of words
Codes

All are true except

All are true

and are true

None of the above are true

33 Motherese is

high pitched, non-rhythmic, repetitive

low pitched, non-rhythmic, repetitive

high pitched, rhythmic, repetitive

low pitched, rhythmic, repetitive

34 Assertion We use syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge to comprehend sentences
Assertion We use context, along with shared assumptions about communication, to understand nonliteral and metaphorical sentences
Codes

is true, is false

is false, is true

Both and are true

Both and are false

35 Match the disorders of communication in List I with the items in List II
List I List II
Agrammatism Schizophrenia
Fluency disorder Broca's aphasia
Thought disorder as reflected in discourse Stuttering
Motor speech programming Apraxia of speech

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36 Given the following implicational accessibility hierarchy
SBJ DO IO OBL GEN
State if a particular noun phrase position OBL) is accessible to relativisation, what happens to all the positions preceding it

they are accessible to relativisation

only one of them is accessible to relativisation

only two of them are accessible to relativisation

they are not accessible to relativisation

37 Assertion All languages spoken in India share quite a lot of linguistic features in syntax and semantics
Reason All of them belong to the same family
Codes

and are true

is false

is true, is false

is true

38 Which of the following is not a member of the Munda language family

Santali

Mundari

Kharia

Konyak

39 Which of the following is not true for Dravidian languages

Dravidian languages are agglutinative

Word order is SOV

Word order is strongly fixed and is adhered to very strongly

Verbs are intransitive, transitive and causative, and there are also active and passive forms

40 Match the items in the List with List -II and select the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
Tamil Analytical
Sanskrit Isolating
Vietnamese Agglutinative
Khasi Inflectional

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41 to the practice where a grammatical syllabus is accompanied by learner activities

Behavioural language learning

Community language learning

Cognitive language learning

Grammatical language learning

42 It is an area which is concerned with the comparison of two or more languages to determine the differences or similarities between them

Contrastive philology

Comparative philology

Contrastive analysis

Historical analysis

43 Assertion Learner errors are not simply due to interference from the first language
Assertion Error analysis involves employing underlying universal learner strategies
Codes

Both and are correct

Both and are false

is true, but is false

is false, but is true

44 The theory that language is learnt by imitation and when a child is born his.her mind is a blank slate is associated with

Chomsky

Skinner

Piaget

Pinker

45 Language is acquired by use in natural settings unconsciously and learned in the classroom through the study of grammar consciously

Monitor model

Grammar -translation method

Grammaticalization

None of the above

46 Nida stresses that the ST surface elements are analysed as linguistic kernel structures that can be transferred to the TL and restructured to form the TL surface elements Nida's approach bears similarity with the theory of

Bloom field

Chomsky

Saussure

Firth

47 Match the items in List I with those in List II and select the correct answers from the code given below
List I List II
Collins Cobuild English Dictionary Historical Dictionary
Longman English -Chinese Dictionary Dialect Dictionary
A Chronological English Dictionary Bi-lingual Dictionary
A Dictionary of Canadian English Monolingual Dictionary

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48 Linguistic Data Consortium is a research based organisation specialising in projects on

Pedagogical research techniques

Text corpora

Linguistic atlas

Cross references

49 According to Roman Jakobson, which one is 'translation proper'

intralingual translation

interlingual translation

intersemiotic translation

none of the above

50 'The furrow followed free' is an example of

lexical creation

phonological parallelism

semantic deviation

vakrokti

51 Assertion At the level of foot construction a combination of unstressed and stressed syllables is called iamb
Assertion At the level of foot construction a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables is called trochee
Codes

Assertion is true, but is false

Assertion is true, but is false

Both assertions and are true

Both assertions and are false

52 Assertion In autosegmental phonology the combination of a high and a low tone generally result in a falling tone
Assertion In autosegmental phonology the combination of a low and a high tone generally result in a rising tone
Codes

Assertion is true, but is false

Assertion is false, but is true

Both assertions and are true

Both assertions and are false

53 A task not performed by CV phonology

State universal principles governing syllable structure

State morpheme structure conditions

State syllable structure typology

State language specific rules governing syllable structure

54 One of the statements is false in the context of creating a 'TABLEA.' in optimality theory

Constraints are ranked horizontally

Dotted lines show crucial ranking

Candidate sets are shown vertically

A figure of indicates optimal candidate

55 Assertion Cerebral dominance hypothesis postulates that language is primarily the responsibility of one cerebral hemisphere -the left -in the right -handed population
Assertion Cerebral dominance is absolute
Codes

is true, is false

is false, is true

Both and are true

Both and are false

56 Assertion A crucial question central to brain -language study is to examine how language is represented and processed in the human brain, and how it breaks down after brain injury
Assertion While still very dependent upon contributing areas, neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology are becoming viable, autonomous areas of study

is true, is false

is false, is true

Both and are true

Both and are false

57 Assertion There is a parallel between the structure of language and that of the brain
Assertion It is possible to have joint analyses of some aspect of language and/or function and to emphasize parallels between the two
Codes

is true, is false

is false, is true

Both and are false

Both and are true

58 Assertion Cerebral dominance is the left hemispheric specialization in the right handed people is established for language
Assertion Cerebral dominance is absolute
Codes

is true, is false

is false, is true

Both and are true

Both and are false

59 Match the following
agrammatism speech disorder
dysarthria learning to read and write
auditory agnosia Broca's aphasia
dyslexia phonological perception

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60 SLI is
'Specific Language Impairment'
a developmental disorder
a disorder in which childrens have problems with the acquisition of spoken language despite normal nonverbal ability
often accompanied by neurological and sensory-motor deficits
Codes

All the above statements are true

All except are true

All except are true

All except are true

61 Which of the following is not matched correctly

C Babbage -Analytical Engine

K Zuse Z1, Z2, Z3

S Wozniak -Apple

Sussman

62 Which of the following is not a feature of using corpora in dictionary making

Giving more complete and precise definitions since a large number of natural examples are available

Registering cultural connotations and underlying ideologies which a language has

Preventing new words from entering the language

Producing and revising dictionaries very quickly

63 Which of the following is not correctly matched

GPSG Gazdar

LFG -Bresnan and Kaplan

HPSG -Von Neumann

TAG Joshi

64 Which of the following is not true of the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English

LLC derives from the SE. and SSE projects

The corpus consists of 2 million words of spoken British English

The corpus is transcribed with sophisticated marking of prosodic features

The project leader of this project was Jan Svartvik

65 Which of the following is not correct for Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

SGML is a document language and not a description of how to specify one

SGML is metadata

SGML is based on the idea that documents have structural and other semantic elements that can be described without reference to how such elements should be displayed

SGML is based somewhat on earlier generalized markup languages developed at IBM, including GML and ISIL

66 Which of the following is not true for copy theory of movement

The minimalist program endorses it

When a constituent moves, it leaves a copy of itself

A chain consists of multiple copies of the moved constituent

Copy theory replaces the Binding theory of GB

67 Which of the following is not one of the criteria discussed by Dryer (2007) to determine which word order is basic

Synonymity

Frequency

Distribution

Simplicity

68 Which of the following is not true for minimalist program

All representations and derivational processes should be as economical as possible

There have to be redundant and superfluous elements in the representation of sentence structure

Each element must play a role and must be interpreted

The four levels, D-structure, S-structure, LF and PF in standard GB theory are reduced to two LF and PF

69 In the minimalist program, a general economy constraint which puts forth that an operation should take place only when it is needed and not before

Procrastinate

Greed

Spell-out

Last resort

70 Assertion Strong features are those that need to be checked off as soon as they are introduced into the derivation triggering movement
Assertion The checking of weak features can wait until spell-out
Codes

Both and are correct

is correct and is false

is false and is correct

Both and are false

71 Assertion Being a member of a speech community has been defined as sharing the same language
Assertion Sharing rules of speaking and interpretation of speech performance
Codes

is true, but is false

is false, but is true

Both and are false

Both and are true

72 The scholar who first worked in detail on the relation between the social stratification and language variation is

William Labov

Jacob Grimm

Edward Sapir

Hermann Paul

73 Assertion Ethnography of communication is directed at the description and understanding of communicative behaviour in specific cultural settings
Assertion Ethnography of communication is directed towards the formulation of concepts and theories upon which general theory of language and its use is built
Codes

is true, but is false

is false, but is true

Both and are true

Both and are false

74 Identify the incorrect option of the levels of literacy

Individuals' ability to decode written message into speech

Ability to deal with demands of everyday life expressed in writing

Ability to attain information from writing

Ability not to act upon and transfer the knowledge and experience

75 Communicative competence does not include necessarily one of the following

Linguistic Knowledge

Interaction Skills

Cultural Knowledge

Technical Skills