1. Match he following

List I List II
F1 high-low vowels
F2 tone
F0 rounding of vowels
F3 front-back vowels
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2. Match the following

List I List II
articulatory phonetics compact-diffuse
acoustic phonetics fricative-affricate
auditory phonetics pitch, loudness
distinctive feature fundamental tone
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3. The mutual exclusiveness of a pair of sounds in a certain phonetic environment is termed as

Free variation

Elision

Complementary distribution

Syncopation

4. Functional relationship between two rules where application of one rule prevents a feeding relationship is termed

Feeding ordering

Bleeding ordering

Counter-feeding ordering

Counter-bleeding ordering

5.

Assertion Sound segments are sonorant if they exhibit spontaneous voicing

Assertion Sound segments are sonorant if the suppression of air is below that of the level of glides
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Both and are correct

is correct and is false

is false and is correct

Both and are false.

6. When all the affixes are taken out of the English word 'ungrammaticality', the remainder is called a

Base

Stem

Root

Morpheme

7. A branch of morphology, that usually takes what is called an item-and-process approach and instead of analyzing a word form as a set of morphemes arranged in a sequence, a word form is regarded as the result of applying rules that alter a word form or stem in order to produce a new one, is

lexeme-based morphology

word-based morphology

morpheme-based morphology

phonotactic morphology

8. A hypothesis, which entails that syntactic transformations operate on syntactic constituents only, and can only insert or delete designated elements, is

Base-Rule Prykothesis

Lexicalist hypothesis

Separation hypothesis

Distributed morphology

9.

Assertion In grammar, clitic refers to a form which resembles a world.

Assertion In grammar, clitic refers to a form that is dependent on a neighbouring word in a construction.
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Both and are true

is true and is false.

is false and is true.

Both and are false.

10.

Assertion An Endocentric construction refer to a group of syntactically related words where one of the words is functionally equivalent of the group as a whole.

Assertion An Exocentric construction refers to a group of syntactically related words where some words are functionally equivalent to the group as a whole.
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Both assertion and are false.

assertion is true and is false.

assertion false and is true.

Both assertion and are true.

11.

Assertion Deixis subsumes those features of language which refer directly to the personal, temporal or locational characteristics of the situation within which an utterance takes place.

Assertion The notion of deixis has proved fruitful in language acquisition studies where researchers view its acquisition/learning by children as a significant feature of early language development.
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Both and are correct.

is correct, is incorrect

is incorrect, is correct.

Both and are incorrect.

12.

Assertion Strong crossover occurs when the pronoun is in an argument position, i.e. it is an argument of the relevant verb and is not contained inside a noun phrase.

Assertion Weak crossover occurs when coreferential reading is marginal i.e. when the coreferential reading is not clearly unacceptable, but is rather unlikely to occur. Here, the expression that has been crossed over may be a possessor inside a noun phrase.
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Both and are correct.

is correct, is incorrect.

is incorrect, is correct.

Both and are incorrect.

13. An optional rule proposed to handle the way constituents permute in free word order languages, and which may be stylistic in character is

Wh-movement

Deletion

Topicalisation

Scrambling

14. 'What you are is a is an example of

Question formation

Wh-movement

Pseudo-cleft sentence

Cleft sentence

15. Which of the following are not correctly matched

DP analysis Abney

Case Grammar Filmore

Conditions on Transformations Jackendoff

Minimalist Program Chomsky

16. From the lexical relationship point of view, the word 'flower' is said have the following relation with the word

Synonym

Hypernym

Hyponym

Homonym

17. is a term used by many linguists to refer to language used for establishing an atmosphere or maintaining social contact rather than for exchanging information or ideas.

Polysynthesis

Phatic communion

Semiology

Hetrography

18. Developed as a branch at mathematical logic an approach for a formal account of the meanings of legitimate expressions in a language, is

Lexical semantics

Model-theonetic semantics

Montague Grammar

Prototype theory

19. The following sets Narrow Wide Tall Short Weak Strong Small Large are grouped as

Complementary Antonyms

Gradable Antonyms

Converses

Ungradable Antonyms


20. Lakshana denotes

Indication

Literal meaning

Suggested meaning

Ambiguity

21. The idea of the family tree model of genetic linguistic relationships in historical linguistics has come from

Geology

Anthropology

Biology

Genetics

22. The phenomena of 'change' and 'diffusion' in historical linguistics

are really similar

share no relationship at all

really contrast

diffusion occurs only in IE whereas change may occur in all languages.

23. Old English only knew two tenses, a present and a past-tense, but the Modern English also has the opposition between the 'simple' and the 'progressive' forms. Such a change is

Morphological

Semantic

Pragmatic

Syntactic

24. As case endings disappeared in the Middle English period, the various functions of the inflected old English cases (such as that of indirect object, or of adverb, etc.) were increasingly taken over by prepositional phrases with uninflected nouns. Modern English has lost most of its original inflections. Such changes are

Lexical

Semantic

Morphological

Pragmatic

25.

Assertion In situations of long and rather stable language contact, bilingual speakers tend to make their languages structurally more similar to ease communication and the acquisition of the other language(s).

Assertion Unlike the piecemeal borrowing, this mutual convergence of different linguistic systems typically involves languages of similar social status, and brings about changes in all the languages involved.
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Both and are true.

is true but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are false.

26. The terms 'restricted' and 'elaborated' codes were introduced by

John Gumperz

William Labov

Basil Bernstein

John Lyons

27.

Assertion Language in a strong marker of identity.

Assertion The forms of language variation serve to identify people belonging to an area, a social group, gender or an age group.
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Both and are true.

Both and are false.

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

28. A language which is widely used in some region for communications among people speaking a variety of languages is called

Pidgin

Creole

Langue

Lingua Franea

29. Assumption Bilingualism can be the property of an individual but equally it can be property of an entire speech community in which two or more languages are used.

Assumption There is no evidence that children raised bilingually tend to be more expressive, more original and better communicators than children raised with only one language.
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is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are true.

Both and are false.

30. Match the items in List I with those in List II and choose the correct code.

List I List II
Concern to preserve the use of Language language. Death
Move from the use of one language Language to another. Maintenance
When a language ceases to be used Language by a person or community. Spread An increased use of language in a Language given area over a period of time. Shift
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31. An ability of humans, which supports the suggestion that they are innately programmed to acquire language, is

acquisition of discourse in late childhood.

infant vocalizations.

the apparent ease with which they acquire language.

the ability to fully acquire language by the age of puberty.

32. The concept of 'stages' in language acquisition was introduced during

the period of Large sample studies.

the period of Longitudinal studies.

the period of Diary studies.

the period of Panini

33. A heuristic step in language processing which is essentially a kind of principled guess about how the words we are hearing fit into a syntactic structure is called

Phrasal step

Epicenter of decoding

Perceptual strategy

Communicative strategy

34. Non-fluent speech, difficulty in production of morpho-syntactic structures naming difficulties comprehension largely intact in cases of neural injury, is known as

Anomic aphasia

Broco's aphasia

Wernicke's aphasia

Global aphasia

35. Difficulty in speech production due to neuro-motor pathology is known as

Stammering

Dysphonia

Wernicke's aphasia

Dysarthria

36. Which of the following is not correct in the context of L1 acquisition and L2 learning contexts

Age and cognitive maturity levels are different.

Metalinguistic awareness is present in one or not in the offer.

Linguistic input provided by the environment is different in quality as well as quantity.

Phenomenon of language transfer and/or interference can be seen in one and not the other.

37. Which of the following is not correctly matched

Children follow the same path in learning a Natural order hypothesis language, and when adults learn a foreign language they use the same path they used when learning/acquiring their mother tongue.

Factors like intelligence, memory, attention, Innateness etc. have a primary role in language acquisition/learning.

Points of structural difference are identified and Contrastive analysis these are studied in areas of potential difficulties.

Models of description built from a combination Eclecticism of features originating in more than one linguistic theory.

38.

Assertion Contrastive Analysis hypothesis proposes that similarities between L1 and L2 will facilitate the learning process whereas contrasting structures in L1 and L2 will be difficult to learn.

Assertion Uriel Weinreich (1953) was the main proponent of CA hypothesis in language reaching.
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Both are true.

Both are false.

is true, is false.

is false, is true.

39. Integrative approaches to language testing are based on the assumption that different units of language at the phonological, morphological, syntactic levels, and different skills can all be tested independent of each other.
Close test and Dictation are both examples of 'Integrative approaches to language testing.
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Both are true.

Both are false.

is true, is false.

is false, is true.

40. Four levels of literacy identified by wells (1987) are from very basic to the high, identify the correct order of these levels of literacy from the basic to the highest, from the minimum to the maximum.

Informative, Performative, epistemic, functional.

Performative, informative, epistemic, functional.

Epistemic, informative, functional, performative.

Performative, functional, informative, epistemic.

41. Language typology is primarily concerned with

Common Genealogical Origin

Language contact

Language convergence

Universal preferences

42. If a language has voicing contrast among the fricatives, it is very likely to have voicing contrast among the

Plosives

Affricates

Nasals

Approximants

43. The head parameter specifies the position of the head in

a sentence

a clause

a phrase

a paragraph

44. Rule ordering conventions belong to

Logical Universals

Semantic Universals

Substantive Universals

Formal Universals

45. Clause-final complementizers like in Telugu or /bole/in Bengali are an areal features that is supposed to have spread from the

Indo-Aryan family

Dravidian family

Austroasiatic family

Tibeto-Burman family

46.

Assertion Bilingual dictionaries can be distinguished as active dictionaries or passive dictionaries, according to whether their purpose is to help with encoding (writing) or decoding (reading) activities.

Assertion By providing lexical equivalents, the monolingual dictionary helps language learners and translators to read or create texts in a foreign language.
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Both and are true.

is true, is false.

is false, is true.

Both and are false.

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

List I List II
English Pronouncing Dictionary R.R.K. Hartmanna Gregory James
A pronouncing Dictionary of American Daniel Jones English
A comprehensive English Hindi J.S. Kenyon T.A. Knot Dictionary
Dictionary of Lexicography Raghu Vira
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48. grief ago' is an example of

Parallelism

Hyperbole

Synechdoche

Deviation

49. Which of the following is not true for making a successful translator

He/she should indulge in a word-for-word translation.

He/she should translate idiom for idiom and metaphor for metaphor as for as possible.

He/she should translate intention by intention.

He/she should transcreate but must not embellish.

50. Match the items of List I with those of List II in the context of equivalence in translation.

List I List II
E. Nida (1964) Translation shift
H. Jakobson (1959) Semantic and communicative translation
J.C. Catford (1965) Formal and dynamic equivalence
P.Newmark Inter-semiotic translation
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51. DTAG, BRAT, XCDG are names of

Famous Text Corpora

Syntactic Annotation Tools

Corpora Projects

Text-to-Speech Tools

52. Which of the following languages is not a part of the TDIL corpora initiative

Tulu

Konkani

Bodo

Manipuri

53. In Brown Corpus, the tagset PP$ stands for

Pronoun Possessive

Determiner Possessive

Pronoun Singular, Reflexive

Pronoun Plural, Reflexive

54. Henry Kuara and W. Nelson Francis compiled

The British National Corpus

American National Corpus

Brown Corpus

Corpus of Contemporary English

55. From the 'item-and-arrangement' point of view.

A word like is viewed as a set of morphemes which include a root with its corresponding exponentor morph and a plural morphene with its corresponding morph.
Each piece of morphosyntactic information is paired with some morph or exponent. A word like "cats" is viewed as a rule that applies to a root paired with a set of morphosyntactic features.
The resulting phonological sequence of a combination of morphs is treated as a single piece and not as a composite of morphs.
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are correct.

Only and are correct.

Only and are correct.

Only and are correct.

56. Which of the following statements is not correct

Copy theory of movement is endorsed by the Minimalist program.

When a constituent moves it leaves a copy of itself.

A chain consists of multiple copies of the moved constituent.

Copy theory replaces the case theory.

57. The use of dummy in English, which takes place only when other options for realizing tense and agreement are blocked can be referred to as an example of

Greed

Procrastinate

Spell-out

Last resort

58. In the Minimalist program, a general economy constraint allowing the movement of an element only if it satisfies the requirements of the moved element is

Greed

Spell-out

Procrastinate

Last resort

59. In later Government and Binding theory, the term tense phrase is used for what was earlier called

an Inflection Phrase

a Complementizer Phrase

a Determiner Phrase

a Prepositional Phrase


60. In configurational languages grammatical relationships within constructions are expressed mainly by

Word order

Inflections

Derivations

Prfixation

61. Prosodies are features in prosodic phonology that

extend over stretches of utterance.

do not extend over stretches of utterance.

subsume pitch but not stress.

do not include secondary articulation.

62. A floating tone in Auto segmental phonology

is one which docks with a consonant after the application of a phonological rule.

is one which constantly attached to a syllable.

is one which has been separated from a syllable following the application of a phonolgoical rule

is one which can never be detached from a syllable.

63. In Auto segmental phonology, obligatory contour principle prohibits

two nasal consonants from being adjacent.

two identical oral consonants from being adjacent.

two identical vowels from being adjacent.

two identical tones from being adjacent.

64. An approach in phonology where an input representation is associated with a large class of candidate output representations, and various kinds of filters are used to evaluate their outputs and select the one which is most well-formed is called

Prosodic theory

Metrical theory

Natural theory

Optimality theory

65. The mechanism of GEN in optimality theory is

only able to add a segment of sound.

only able to delete a segments of sound.

only able to rearrange segments of sound.

able to add, delete and re-arrange segments of sound.

66. Social motivation of sound change was popularized mainly leg the publications of

U. Weinreich

P. Trudgill

J.J. Gumperz

W. Labov

67. In a number of studies on disglossia and gender around the world, there is a tendency to use the more prestigious language by

women

men

both women and men

neither women nor men

68. If literacy is acquired by an individual as a skill, generally within an educational context, it is called

Functional literacy

Survival literacy

Technical literacy

Autonomous model of literacy

69. As a critique of Chomsky's concept of 'linguistic competence', the concept of 'communicative competence' was proposed by

André Martinet

Victoria Fronkin

Dell Hymes

John Gumperz

70. We have been able to understand how the middle class has ties through their jobs and neighbourhoods, etc to community members above and below them on the socioeconomic spectrum with the help of the

Social network

Language ideology

Power politics

Language attitudes

71. Assertion Paul Broca proposed the localization of language in human brain.

Assertion Paul Broca posited the notion of cerebral dominance.
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Both and are true.

is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are false.

72. Assertion In evolution of language early language would have been analytic.

Assertion Bound forms are mostly derived from free forms.
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is true, but is false.

is false, but is true.

Both and are true.

Both and are false.

73. Converging evidence from studies of aphasia, split-brain patients and other studies points to left hemisphere dominance for language organization and processing in

all humans

only split-brain humans

only left-handed humans

most humans

74. Production and comprehension are

totally different.

reverse processes.

process that always reconstruct the message in the same way.

similar in some and different in other operations in processing.

75. A language disorder which is characterized by errors in the use of content words, infrequent words taking longer to retrieve, typical error patterns related to mental lexicon, is

Dysarthria

Paraphasia

Ecolalia

Developmental dyslexia