1. No particular linguistic form is naturally associated with any particular meaning, and the pairing that exists for meaning in each case is


Universal

Sound-induced

Arbitrary

Meaning-induced

2. A property of human language whereby it can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situation of the speaker is called

Arbitrariness

Double articulation

Displacement

Complementarity

3.

Assertion When linguists speak of rules, they are not referring to prescriptive rules.
Assertion Linguists try to formulate rules when they analyze language, rules that describe the actual language of some group of speakers and not some hypothetical language that speakers "should" use.
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Both and are false.

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are true.

4. Any language with a reasonably large number of speakers will develop

into a homo genous system with no varieties to emerge.

into regionally or socially distinctive varieties of language, identified by a particular set of words and grammatical structures.

into an artefact.

into a restricted code.

5. Words that sound alike are called

Homographs

Homonyms

Homophones

Homorganic

6. Languages can be described as "agglutinating", or "isolating" or "inflecting" depending on their.

Phonetic properties
Syllogis pattern
morphosyntactic structures
written forms and writing systems.
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All four are true.

All four are false.

and are false and and are true.

are true and is false.

7. Match the following List I

List II
I. William Dwight Whitney A. British School
II. Louis Hjemslev B. Prague School
III. Henry Sweet C. American School
IV. Nikolai Trubetzkoy D. Copenhagen School
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I II III IV

A C D B

D B C A

C D A B

B C D A

8. The grammatical category of in the sentence 'the car went round the corner' is

Noun

Adjective

Verb

Preposition

9. Idiolect can be referred to as a linguistic system of a/an

Community

Caste

Profession

Individual

10. Match the items in List I with items in List II

List I List II
function of language in order to achieve a result in an Conative addressee.
Conveying emotional content and identity, in terms Expressive of personality or individual creativity.
Function of higher language for describing ordinary Metalingual language.
Relationship between the entity in the external world Referential and the linguistic expression which relates to it.
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11. If in a compound no constituent functions as the head, it is called a/an

Exocentric compound

Endocentric compound

Karmadharaya compound

Tatpurusha compound

12. and are distinct in terms of their

places of articulation
manners of articulation
voicing patterns
phonemic status in the English language
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are true, are false.

All are true except (iii).

All are false except

All are false.

13.
Assertion Back sounds are articulated in the back part of the mouth.
Assertion Back sounds are articulated with the back part of the tongue.
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Both and are correct.

is correct, but is wrong.

is wrong, but is correct.

Both and are wrong.

14.

Assertion Vowel sounds are high sonority sounds because of resonances provided by the air column in the oral chamber.
Assertion Vowel sounds are characterized by a combinations of fundamental tune and formats.
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is true is false.

is true and is false.

Both are true.

Both are false.

15.

Assertion The process of phonation determines the pitch of voice.

Assertion Phonation is dependent on the elasticity of vocal cords as well as the aerodynamics of Bernoulli's effect.
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Both and are true.

Both and are false.

is true and is false.

is false and is true.

16. A set of segments that are specified by a fewer set of phonetic features constitute

a natural class

a natural hierarchy

a natural ordering

an unnatural class

17. A functional relationship between rules where the application of one rule creates a structural representation to which another rule is applicable is called

Feeding relationship.

Bleeding relationship.

Counter feeding relationship.

Counter bleeding relationship.

18. A term in phonetics and phonology which refers to the influence exercised by one segment of sound upon the articulation of another, so that the sounds become more alike or identical, is called

Dissimilation

Association

Assimilation

Cooperation

19. In many English compounds, the primary stress is located on the

whole word

last constituent

first constituent

None of the above

20. A form that resembles a word but cannot stand on its own as a normal utterance is called a/an

elitie

suffix

empty morph

prefix

21. Which of the following is not a phrase in the sentence "The old man gave the girl an apple."

The old The old man gave the girl an apple an apple The old

The old man

gave the girl an apple

an apple

22. A group of syntactically related words where one of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as a whole indicating a definable 'centre' or inside the group is

an endocentric construction

an exocentric construction

neither an endocentric or exocentric construction

both endocentric as well as exocentric construction

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

Base provides input to Deep structure.

Transformational component is a part of Deep Structure.

Strict sub-categorization and selectional restriction are contained in the Base component.

Base contains the PS rewrite rules.

24. Assertion A Head parameter specifies the positions of heads within phrases.
Assertion The null subject parameter determines whether the subject of the clause can be suppressed.
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Both and are true.

Both and are false.

is true, is false.

is false, is true.

25.

Assertion Samples of language available to a child are insufficient to explain the adult's knowledge of language.

Reason The innateness hypothesis argues that children are born with an innate knowledge of at least some of the universal structural principles of human language.
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Both and are true, and is the correct explanation of

Both and are false.

is true, is false.

is true, is false.

26. In the sentence 'there are seven cats in my is

Existential

Adverbial of place

Adverbial of time

Preposition

27. Assertion In hyponymy, the vocabulary of a language is hierarchically structured.

Assertion Hyponymy does not distinguish between the stylistic or social variables which control the choice of synonyms.
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Both and are true.

Both and are false.

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

28. Assertion In mood, semantically, a wide range of meanings is involved, especially altitudes on the part of speaker.

Assertion Semantically contrasts of mood may be signalled by alternative inflectional forms of a verb or by using auxiliaries.
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is correct, is false.

is false, is correct.

Both and are correct.

Both and are false.

29. A sentence S1 entails another sentence S2 if and only if Whenever S1 is true, S2 is also true.

Whenever S1 is false, S2 is true.

Whenever S1 is true, S2 is false.

S1 and S2 have no semantic relation.

30. Assertion The opposition between 'what a small mouse!' and 'what a small elephant!' implies negativity.

Assertion The opposition between is not single but married' and is not sad but lonely' implies comparison.
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is true, but is false.

is false, but is true

Both and are false.

Both and are true.

31. The early historical linguists noticed with regards to early Indo-European languages.

Wide gaps in linguistic continuity.

Striking differences between related languages.

Recurrent correspondences between the sounds of cognate words.

Overlapping evidence of lexical borrowing

32. Assertion 'Languages are related' means that they represent changed forms of a single parent language.

Assertion This fact may or may not be directly affected.
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is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are false.

Both and are true.

33. "If the learners have both the capacity and the motivation to acquire an exact replica of the language around them, how is change even possible Paul Kiparsky. This view is called

the change Hypothesis

the constraints problem

the regularity problem

the logical problem of language change

34. Historically some words in English ending in in the singular were re analysed by speakers of modern English as plurals, and new singulars were formed. This process of change is called

amelioration

back formation

extension

conversion

35. Assertion Language shift can occur as a gradual process.

Assertion Language shift can be explicitly planned.
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is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are true.

Both and are false.

36. Compound verbs which are commonly found in Indian languages today are due to the influence of

Tibeto Burman family

Austro-Asiatic family

Dravidian family

Indo Aryan family

37. In syntactic change the following is a major mechanism

metaphor

borrowing

grammaticalization

analogy

38. Assertion Ergativity is an important feature of some South Asian Languages.

Assertion Some South Asian languages are classified as 'split-ergative' language.
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is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are true.

Both and are false.

39. The 'Great Vowel Shift' in English is considered to be a result of

Push chain

Drag chain

Phonetic change

Phonemic change

40. Match the following

List I List II
Regularity of sound change William Jones
The logical problem of change Neogrammarians
"Discovery of Sanskrit" Internal Reconstruction
Exceptional forms in a certain pattern of a Paul Kiparsky language once being regular and hence identifiable.
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41. Techniques that learners employ when attempting to use target language for the purpose of communication are called

Competence strategies

Training strategies

Communicative strategies

Rehearsal strategies

42.

Assertion Language awareness is used in the area of Educational Linguistics.

Assertion Language awareness does not include meta linguistic awareness.
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Both and are true.

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are false.

43. A language teaching approach which focuses on language functions and communicative competence is called

Bilingual approach

National approach

Communicative functional approach

Linguistic approach

44. Match the following

List I List II
Information processing model McLaughlin
Learning strategies Selinker
Input hypothesis O'Malley and Chamot
Interlanguage Krashen
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45. Language units which are subject to social or stylistic variation are called

Compound variable

Complex variable

Sociolinguistic variable

Unique variable

46.
Assertion Elaborated code is said to be used in relatively formal, educated situations.

Assertion Elaborated code is salient for its meaningfulness or extra linguistic context (such as gestures and shared beliefs).
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is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are true.

Both and are false.

47. The concept of communicative competence in sociolinguistics is attributed to

M.A.K. Halliday

Dell Hymes

S. Pit Corder

Charles Ferguson

48. The process of standardization of language does not involve one of the following

Codification of form

Elaboration of function

Word Order

Making the language prestigious

49. A term used to refer to a situation where two different varieties of a language co-occur throughout a speech community each with a distinct range of social functions is called

Hetroglossia

Sociolect

Dialect

Diglossia

50. A language variety formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities attempting to communicate resulting is reduced grammatical structures, lexicon and sylintic range in called

Register

Pidgin

Dialect

Vernacular