1 The function of language that, according to Roman Jakobson, engages the addressee (receiver) directly and is best illustrated by vocatives and imperatives, is called

conative

phatic

emotive

metalingual

2 A regionally or socially distinctive variety of language is identified by

The interpersonal social behaviour.

A particular set of words and grammatical structures.

The folk dress.

The literary discourse.

3 Languages related in such a way that they go back to the same parent or proto-language are

areally related

typologically related

genetically related

culturally related

4 Parts of speech refers to

The traditional term for a grammatical class of words.

Form class.

A category employed by Panini.

Desiderative

5 A major perspective of language regards a language as a cognitive system. This view lays emphasis on

The social nature of language.

Language as part of any normal human being's mental or psychological structure.

The genetic relationship of a language.

The acquisition of language.

6 Which of the following is the 'subject' in the following sentence
Big cats which have long tails climbed the tree.

Big cats

cats

Big cats which have long tails

the tree

7 In the sentence 'The man killed himself', 'himself' is

Reciprocal pronoun

Reflexive pronoun

Relative pronoun

Possessive pronoun

8 Linguistics has emerged as one of the most vibrant scientific disciplines which intimately relates to

Several other disciplines in many ways.

Only humanities.

Only humanities and social sciences.

Only psychology and education.

9 The Neogrammarian Hypothesis claims that sound change is

haphazard and unsystematic.

regular and purely phonetically conditioned.

regular and grammatically conditioned.

irregular and not grammatically conditioned.

10 Assertion Anthropological linguistics studies the role of language in relation to human cultural patterns and beliefs.
Assertion Anthropological linguistics overlaps to some degree with Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics.

Both and are correct.

is correct, is wrong.

is wrong, is correct.

Both and are wrong.

11 is a symbol for

high front rounded vowel

high front unrounded vowel

high back rounded vowel

high back unrounded vowel

12 Two or more sounds which are allophones of the same phoneme in a language are

in complementary distribution.

in contrastive distribution.

allophones which sometimes occur in the same environment with the same meaning.

allophones which are free variants.

13 The word is composed of four segments.
Towards the end of the word the velum is lowered.
The last consonant in the word is a bilabial nasal.
The word is spelt phonetically.

The options are

All the four statements are true.

and are true and and are false.

and are false and and are true.

and and are true and is false.

14 Loss of distinction between two phonemes in a particular environment in phonology is called as

Dissimilation

Assimilation

Metathesis

Neutralization

15 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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16 Inflectional affixes signal.

grammatical relationships

mathematical relationships

semantic relationships

lexical relationships

17 The compounds in which one of the constituents is the semantic and syntactic head are called

exocentric

endocentric

co-ordinate

synthetic

18 The arrangement of linguistic units in a linear order involves

syntagmatic relation

hierarchical patterns

functional relation

paradigmatic relation

19 Analogical change cannot create new contrasts into the language; whereas grammatical changes bring new contrasts. True or false

false

true

partly true, partly false

neither

20 A base form of a word which cannot be further analysed without total loss of identity is termed as

stem

root

morpheme

word

21 In the sentence gave her a the indirect object is

I

gave

her

a book

22 Which of the following is not correct regarding the sentence 'The man who saw the dog ate a banana'.

'The man' is the subject.

'The man who saw the dog' is a complex noun phrase.

is a relative pronoun.

'ate a banana' is a verb phrase.

23 Assertion In an exocentric construction, in the group of words which form the construction, one of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as a whole.
Assertion In an endocentric construction, in the group of words which form the construction, none of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as a whole.

Both and are correct.

is correct and is false.

is false and is correct.

Both and are false.

24 Match the items of List I with items of List II. Select the correct response from the codes given below
List I List II
Pronoun It
Modal Books and pens
Coordinate structure May
Complex Noun Phrase The boy who likes mice

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25 Which of the following is not a constraint proposed by Ross

Complex Noun Phrase Constraint.

Complementizer Placement Constraint.

Sentential Subject Constraint.

Co-ordinate Structure Constraint.

26 Which of the following is not a parameter

Null Subject

Pro Drop

Head

Case

27 Which of the following was not a type of transformation in the 'Aspects' model

Addition

Adjoining

Deletion

Movement

28 Match the following in List I with List II and select the correct answer from the following codes
List I List II
Synonymy house roof
Antonymy colour purple
Hyponymy kind -cruel
Meronymy freedom liberty

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29 Assertion Connotation and denotation are two principal methods of describing the meanings of words.
Assertion Denotation refers to the wide array of positive and negative associations that most words naturally carry with them, whereas connotation is the precise, literal definition of a word that might be found in a dictionary.

Both and are correct.

is correct, is false.

is false, is correct.

Both and are false.

30 The argument that ideas cannot be meaning since ideas are subjective and fleeting whereas meaning is objective and (relatively) stable was proposed by

yaska

Humboldt

Labov

Frege

31 The scholar who first declared to the world that Sanskrit bore stronger relations with Latin, .reek, .erman was

G. A. Grierson

F. de Saussure

M.B. Emeneau

William Jones

32 Written records are useful to reconstruct the

Phonetics and phonology of the past language.

Phonological and grammatical structures of the past language

Grammatical structure of the past language only.

Phonetics of the past language.

33 Typological classification is based on

general structural features.

written records of languages.

areal proximity.

phonetic similarities alone.

34 Proto -Dravidian k-changes to c-in Telugu language before front vowels. This change is called

unconditioned sound change

complete merger

conditioned sound change

loss of a phoneme

35 Who propounded the concept of 'subgroups' within language family and compared it similar to that of branches in a tree

M.B. Emeneau

August Schleicher

W.S.Y. Wang

Hermann Osthoff

36 The concept of 'wave theory' was proposed by

August Schleicher

Wilhelm Schmidt

Jacob Grimm

Wilhelm von Humboldt

37 Match the items in List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
Social motivation for change Neogrammarians
Lexical diffusion William Labov
Regularity hypothesis Noam Chomsky
Transformational generativist's approach Wang and Krishnamurti

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38 Match the items in the List with List -II and select the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
Hindi SVO
Khasi OSV
Welsh SOV
Apurina VSO

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39 All South Asian language families share

an unmarked SVO order

a marked OSV order

a marked SOV order

an unmarked SOV order

40 Which one is correct

Bilingualism could be a potential source for borrowing and a source for language change.

Bilingualism could not be a potential source for borrowing, it could be a source for language change.

Bilingualism could be a potential source for borrowing, rather than a source for language change.

Bilingualism could neither be a source for borrowing, nor a source for language change.

41 A linguistic variety defined on social (as opposed to regional) grounds, e.g. correlating with a particular social class or occupational group is called a

dialect

idiolect

sociolect

register

42 Assertion Elaborated code is used in relatively formal, educated situations.
Assertion :It permits speakers to be individually empowered to handle a wider range of situations.
Codes

is true, is false.

is false, is true.

Both and are true.

Both and are false.

43 Match the items in List I with those of List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
Universal Grammar Dell Hymes
Communicative Competence William Labov
Observer's paradox August Schleicher
Comparative method Noam Chomsky

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44 The term is seen as a basic unit for the analysis of spoken interaction.

Speech Perception

Speech Event

Speech Production

Speech Reception

45 The strategies students use to improve their progress in developing skills in second language are called

Communicative strategies

Language learning strategies

Language acquisition strategies

None of the above

46 A process in foreign language learning whereby learners carry over what they already know about in their first language into their use in the foreign language

Interference

Inter language

Transfer

Performance

47 A linguistic phenomenon based on the principle of isochrony or the principle of equal timeliness is

Rhyme

Metre

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

48 The arrest of progress in language learning is

Backsliding

Interference

Transfer

Fossilization

49 The idea that child is born biologically equipped to acquire language is attributed to

B.F. Skinner

L. Bloomfield

J. Piaget

N. Chomsky

50 Learning in a relaxed situation against the background of baroque music coupled with the teacher's reading out dialogues in foreign language with a special information for learners to understand and memorize is called

Suggestopedia

The silent way

Total physical response method

Communicative language teaching