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LINGUISTICS MCQs
1. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(A) An area of the brain that plays an important role in reading … Angular Gyrus
(B) The area in the lower rear portion of the left temporal lobe of the brain….. Broca’sarea
(C) The most severe form of fluent aphasia in which the patient is completely mute…. Global aphasia.
(D) A semantic change in which the meaning of a word becomes more positive or favourable…. Pejoration.
Ans: A
2. Diagnostic tests are designed to
(A) Prepare language teaching materials for the mentally challenged.
(B) Determine the areas in which learners may need help.
(C) Determine the achievement levels of learners
(D) Evaluate the proficiency of learners at the end of course.
Ans: B
3. Stuttering is
(A) Always a genetic disorder
(B) An acquired disorder
(C) A developmental disorder
(D) Neither a genetic nor an acquired disorder.
Ans: B
4. Match the following:
List-I List-II
(a) Difficulty in writing (i) Alexia
(b) Difficulty in reading (ii) Anomia
(c) Difficulty in recall names (iii) Echolalia
(d) Difficulty in repetition of heard words (iv) Agraphia
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(B) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Ans: A
5. Form of speech used especially by mothers in talking to very young children is called
(A) Baby talk
(B) Caregiver speech
(C) Caretaker speech
(D) motherese
Ans: D
6. Assertion I: Internal reconstruction takes into consideration the data of a single language.
Assertion II: Internal reconstruction attempts to posit an earlier stage of the language.
(A) I is true, II is false
(B) I is false, II is true.
(C) Both I and II are false.
(D) Both I and II are true.
Ans: D
7. Borrowing of a linguistic item of Hindi into Punjabi is a case of
(A) Dialect Borrowing
(B) Intimate Borrowing
(C) Cultural Borrowing
(D) Calquing
Ans: B
8. A line on a map dividing areas whose dialects differ in some respects is called
(A) An isogloss
(B) An isophone
(C) An isomorph
(D) An isosyntagm
Ans: A
9. Study of Martha’s Vineyard shows that the sound change is taking place because of
(A) The pressure from above
(B) The pressure from below
(C) The residents have decided to change it
(D) The speakers did not like the variety of Martha’s Vineyard.
Ans: B
10. The word Skyline originally referred to the lexicon in general. Now it is used only in cases where the line of the horizon is decorated with a complex of tall buildings. It is a case of
(A) Extension of meaning
(B) Narrowing of meaning
(C) Transference of meaning
(D) Pejoration
Ans: B
11. When sentences are formed in such a way that the two verbal activities share the same subject and one of the activities is a temporal antecedent of the other, this construction is known as
(A) Past Participle
(B) Present Participle
(C) Conjunctive Participle
(D) Future Participle
Ans: C
12. ‘Brahmi’, “Kurux” and ‘Malto’ come under
(A) North Dravidian Group
(B) South Dravidian Group
(C) Central Dravidian Group
(D) None of the above
Ans: A
13. In 1960s Joseph Harold Greenberg became more interested in universals of language change, which he called
(A) Synchronic typology
(B) Diachronic typology
(C) Genetic typology
(D) Areal typology
Ans: B
13. Assertion – I: A dictionary is the part of an encyclopaedia which stores information about the formal morphosyntactic and semantic specifications of language user.Assertion – II: Etymological and stylistic information are not strictly a part of the dictionary.
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are correct.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is correct, but II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong, but II is correct.
Ans: A
14. Assertion I: In Greenberg’s universals there is repeated reference to the ordering of subject (S) object (O) and verb (V) in the precondition of the universal.
Assertion II: This striking fact led W.P. Lehmann to propose that the relative ordering of verbs and objects was in some sense basic to language structure.
(A) I is correct, but II is wrong.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) Both Assertion I and II are correct.
(D) I is wrong, but II is correct.
Ans: C
15. Languages where there is no clear boundary within the word are known as
(A) Isolating
(B) Fusional
(C) Polysynthetic
(D) Isolated
Ans: B
16. “Dhire Dhire” is an example of a morphological process by which a form is repeated. This is a case of
(A) Partial Reduplication
(B) Complete Reduplication
(C) Reduplicated compound
(D) Echo-formation
Ans: B
17. Complete the sentence by choosing an item which is given below. ‘In earlier works in the 1970s and 1980s, moved constituents were said to leave behind a _______ in the positions out of which they move.”
(A) pronoun
(B) Trace
(C) Shade
(D) Noun
Ans: B
18. In the sentence ‘I will be giving her some help on Monday and Bill on Tuesday’ the gapped element(s) will be
(A) verb
(B) Objects
(C) Object
(D) Verb and the objects
Ans: D
19. The complement in the sentence ‘John smokes a specific brand of Cuban cigars imported by a friend of his from Havana’ is
(A) Cuban cigars
(B) A specific brand
(C) A specific brand of Cuban cigars
(D) A specific brand of Cuban cigars imported by a friend of his from Havana
Ans: D
20. Assertion I: When the subject of an infinitive clause is null, it is called a PRO.
Assertion II: A PRO is the subject of a non-finite sentence without any phonetic realization.
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Only I is true.
(C) Only II is true.
(D) Both I and II are false.
Ans: A
21. The goal of cognitive science is to understand the structure and functioning of the human mind, and to this it uses a variety of approaches, from philosophical view point the study is called
(A) Cognitive approach
(B) Language acquisition
(C) Modularity
(D) Mentalism
Ans: B
22. The identification of structural differences between languages, seen as points of potential learning difficulty is called
(A) Cognitive analysis
(B) Contrastive analysis
(C) Comparative analysis
(D) Descriptive analysis
Ans: B
23. Assertion I: Missing Surface Inflectional hypothesis states that second language learners who produce errors actually have correct underlying representations for the structure in which they have made errors but have difficulty mapping these underlying representations to their surface forms.
Assertion II: Missing surface inflection hypothesis states that second language learners who produce errors are due to blind spots found in second language.
(A) Both I and II are right.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is right and II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong and II is right.
Ans: C
24. Match the following:
List-I List-II
(a) Minimum level of reading and writing (i) Literate
(b) Ability to read and write (ii) Illiterate
(c) Lack of reading and writing (iii) Functional literacy
(d) Lack of recognized writing (iv) Educate
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(D) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
Ans: A
25. Assertion I: Advertisements also use sound patterning to make the slogan memorable and this is simply in extension of the way poetry uses sound patterning to particular effect.
Assertion II: Whether in print or on the broadcast media, there will be sound patterning which do not help the hearer/reader to remember the advertisement.
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true, but II is false
(D) I is false, but II is true.
Ans: C
26. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and choose the correct code:
List-I List-II
(a) Phoneme (i) Acoustic phonetics
(b) Sonority (ii) Structural phonology
(c) Wave length (iii) Generative phonology
(d) High-pitch (iv) Tonology
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(D) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Ans: B
27. Hypothesis (H): If a word in its underlying representation contains some morpheme M, then at least one segment of M must be present in the Result surface representation.
Conclusion:
(A) H explains ‘wife > wives’ realization
(B) H explains ‘steal > stole’ realization
(C) H explains ‘bus > buses’ realization
(D) H explains ‘keep > kept’ realization
Ans: C
28. The following examples contain Stratum – 1 (S1) and Stratum – 2 (S2) affixes,
(S1) (S2)
lamb-a-yi
uunc-a-yi
kah-a-ni-yaN
Choose the characteristics of Stratum – 1 affixes from the following codes:
Codes:
(A) It is neutral to the phonological environment.
(B) It is non-neutral to the phonological environment.
(C) It is phonologically conditioned.
(D) It is historically conditioned.
Ans: A
29. Assertion I: In lexical morphology all irregular inflexions / derivations take place at Stratum – 1
Assertion II: All regular derivation, inflexion and compounding takes place at Stratum – 2
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true, II is false
(D) I is false, II is true.
Ans: C
30. A boundary or transition point in a phonological sequence is commonly known as
(A) Lexicalisation
(B) Juncture
(C) Morphological lengthening
(D) Word boundary
Ans: B
31. In Acoustic Phonetics the highest level of loudness at which vocal cords vibrate while articulating a voiced segment, especially a vowel is known as:
(A) Resonance
(B) Wave-length
(C) Amplitude
(D) Frequency
Ans: C
32. The basic frequency at which a sound vibrates is known as
(A) Frequency
(B) Sound wave
(C) Fundamental frequency
(D) Wavelength
Ans: C
33. Who among the following is the author of the research paper “The Pronouns of Power and Solidarity”?
(A) Brown R and M Ford
(B) Brown P and S Levison
(C) Brown G and G Yule
(D) Brown R and A Gilman
Ans: D
34. Assertion I: Variable rule analysis is the method of analyzing sociolinguistic data in which statistical procedures allow a variety of social and linguistic factors to be considered simultaneously.
Assertion II: Variable rule analysis is the method of analyzing linguistic data that allow inferring the socio-linguistic mechanism of linguistic change.
(A) Both I and II are right.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is right and II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong and II is right.
Ans: A
35. Assertion I: Basilect shows the greatest difference from the source language.
Assertion II: Mesolect and acrolect are intermediate and highest part of the creole continuum respectively.
(A) I is true and II is false
(B) I is false and II is true.
(C) Both I and II are false.
(D) Both I and II are true.
Ans: D
36. Match the items in the List – I with those of List – II with the following codes:
List-I List-II
(a) Ethnography of speaking (i) Roger Brown and Albert Gilman
(b) Pronouns of power and solidarity (ii) Dell Hymes
(c) Sociology of language (iii) Joshua Fishman
(d) Verbal Deficity Hypothesis (iv) Basil Bornslein
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(C) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(D) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Ans: B
37. Language Planning involves
(A) Graphization, Grammatication, Lexication
(B) Making the language transparent
(C) Use of the language for radio broadcast
(D) Implementing the language in literature
Ans: A
38. Assertion I: Pronoun replacement, repetition, variation and ellipsis are all cohesive devices.
Assertion II: They work by repeated reference to something within the text.
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true but II is false.
(D) I is false but II is true.
Ans: A
39. Assertion I: Translation studies are usually seen as a discipline that explores the nature of cross language communication.
Assertion II: It draws on and contributes to a wide range of fields such as semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, and communication science
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true but II is false
(D) I is false but II is true.
Ans: A
40. The use of controlled ‘defining vocabulary’ and a preference for user-friendly style with “full sentence defining” is found in
(A) Bilingual Dictionary
(B) Monolingual Learner’s Dictionary (MLD)
(C) Historical Dictionary
(D) Etymological Dictionary
Ans: B
41. Assertion I: Modern lexicography considers dictionaries to be tools that are or should be conceived to assist a specific group of users in solving problems related to specific type of extra lexicographic user situation.
Assertion II: Any theory based dictionary concept should therefore be based on a profound knowledge of the user’s characteristics, the situation of use and the specific type of problems that might arise.
(A) Both I and II are correct.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is correct but II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong but II is correct.
Ans: A
42. Match the following:
List-I List-II
(a) Source oriented translation (i) Keeping the target readership uppermost in mind.
(b) Foreignizing (ii) Reproducing the original’s stylistic individualities
(c) Idiosyncratic translation (iii) deliberately retaining source language features
(d) Target oriented translation (iv) Staying faithful to the author’s intention
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
Ans: A
43. Morphologists divide morphemes into a specific number of types, namely
(A) Root, stem, prefix, suffix
(B) Affix, infix, circumfix, allomorph
(C) Dhatu, ruup, kriya, naama
(D) Free, bound, zero portmanteau
Ans: D
44. Assertion I: Derivational Morphemes increase the vocabulary of a language.
Assertion II: Derivational Morphemes are usually added to closed classes of words.
(A) I is true, II is false
(B) I is false, II is true.
(C) Both I and II are true.
(D) Both I and II are false.
Ans: A
45. In English ‘doesn’t’ is an example of
(A) Clitic
(B) Proclitic
(C) Special clitic
(D) Complex clitic
Ans: A
46. In English “Black Board” denotes a
(A) Endo-centric Compound
(B) Copulative Compound
(C) Exo-centric compound
(D) A simple Idiom
Ans: A
47. English is a
(A) Null-subject language
(B) Non-null-subject language
(C) Head-last language
(D) Headless language
Ans: B
48. The statement ‘all nominal and pronominal expressions areD-expressions’ is related to
(A) TP analysis
(B) DP hypothesis
(C) Earliness principle
(D) Strict cyclicity principle
Ans: B
49. The statements: (i) Interpretable features enter the derivation already valued and (ii) Features which enter the derivation unvalued are uninterpretable’ are related to
(A) Feature Deletion
(B) Feature visibility condition
(C) Feature value correlation
(D) Copy deletion
Ans: C
50. The statement ‘A head which attracts a constituent containing a feature (F) attracts movement of the smallest accessible constituent containing (F) which will lead to a convergent derivation’ is related to
(A) Null-operator analysis
(B) Convergence principle
(C) Attract closest principle
(D) Functional Head constraint
Ans: B
(A) An area of the brain that plays an important role in reading … Angular Gyrus
(B) The area in the lower rear portion of the left temporal lobe of the brain….. Broca’sarea
(C) The most severe form of fluent aphasia in which the patient is completely mute…. Global aphasia.
(D) A semantic change in which the meaning of a word becomes more positive or favourable…. Pejoration.
Ans: A
2. Diagnostic tests are designed to
(A) Prepare language teaching materials for the mentally challenged.
(B) Determine the areas in which learners may need help.
(C) Determine the achievement levels of learners
(D) Evaluate the proficiency of learners at the end of course.
Ans: B
3. Stuttering is
(A) Always a genetic disorder
(B) An acquired disorder
(C) A developmental disorder
(D) Neither a genetic nor an acquired disorder.
Ans: B
4. Match the following:
List-I List-II
(a) Difficulty in writing (i) Alexia
(b) Difficulty in reading (ii) Anomia
(c) Difficulty in recall names (iii) Echolalia
(d) Difficulty in repetition of heard words (iv) Agraphia
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(B) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Ans: A
5. Form of speech used especially by mothers in talking to very young children is called
(A) Baby talk
(B) Caregiver speech
(C) Caretaker speech
(D) motherese
Ans: D
6. Assertion I: Internal reconstruction takes into consideration the data of a single language.
Assertion II: Internal reconstruction attempts to posit an earlier stage of the language.
(A) I is true, II is false
(B) I is false, II is true.
(C) Both I and II are false.
(D) Both I and II are true.
Ans: D
7. Borrowing of a linguistic item of Hindi into Punjabi is a case of
(A) Dialect Borrowing
(B) Intimate Borrowing
(C) Cultural Borrowing
(D) Calquing
Ans: B
8. A line on a map dividing areas whose dialects differ in some respects is called
(A) An isogloss
(B) An isophone
(C) An isomorph
(D) An isosyntagm
Ans: A
9. Study of Martha’s Vineyard shows that the sound change is taking place because of
(A) The pressure from above
(B) The pressure from below
(C) The residents have decided to change it
(D) The speakers did not like the variety of Martha’s Vineyard.
Ans: B
10. The word Skyline originally referred to the lexicon in general. Now it is used only in cases where the line of the horizon is decorated with a complex of tall buildings. It is a case of
(A) Extension of meaning
(B) Narrowing of meaning
(C) Transference of meaning
(D) Pejoration
Ans: B
11. When sentences are formed in such a way that the two verbal activities share the same subject and one of the activities is a temporal antecedent of the other, this construction is known as
(A) Past Participle
(B) Present Participle
(C) Conjunctive Participle
(D) Future Participle
Ans: C
12. ‘Brahmi’, “Kurux” and ‘Malto’ come under
(A) North Dravidian Group
(B) South Dravidian Group
(C) Central Dravidian Group
(D) None of the above
Ans: A
13. In 1960s Joseph Harold Greenberg became more interested in universals of language change, which he called
(A) Synchronic typology
(B) Diachronic typology
(C) Genetic typology
(D) Areal typology
Ans: B
13. Assertion – I: A dictionary is the part of an encyclopaedia which stores information about the formal morphosyntactic and semantic specifications of language user.Assertion – II: Etymological and stylistic information are not strictly a part of the dictionary.
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are correct.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is correct, but II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong, but II is correct.
Ans: A
14. Assertion I: In Greenberg’s universals there is repeated reference to the ordering of subject (S) object (O) and verb (V) in the precondition of the universal.
Assertion II: This striking fact led W.P. Lehmann to propose that the relative ordering of verbs and objects was in some sense basic to language structure.
(A) I is correct, but II is wrong.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) Both Assertion I and II are correct.
(D) I is wrong, but II is correct.
Ans: C
15. Languages where there is no clear boundary within the word are known as
(A) Isolating
(B) Fusional
(C) Polysynthetic
(D) Isolated
Ans: B
16. “Dhire Dhire” is an example of a morphological process by which a form is repeated. This is a case of
(A) Partial Reduplication
(B) Complete Reduplication
(C) Reduplicated compound
(D) Echo-formation
Ans: B
17. Complete the sentence by choosing an item which is given below. ‘In earlier works in the 1970s and 1980s, moved constituents were said to leave behind a _______ in the positions out of which they move.”
(A) pronoun
(B) Trace
(C) Shade
(D) Noun
Ans: B
18. In the sentence ‘I will be giving her some help on Monday and Bill on Tuesday’ the gapped element(s) will be
(A) verb
(B) Objects
(C) Object
(D) Verb and the objects
Ans: D
19. The complement in the sentence ‘John smokes a specific brand of Cuban cigars imported by a friend of his from Havana’ is
(A) Cuban cigars
(B) A specific brand
(C) A specific brand of Cuban cigars
(D) A specific brand of Cuban cigars imported by a friend of his from Havana
Ans: D
20. Assertion I: When the subject of an infinitive clause is null, it is called a PRO.
Assertion II: A PRO is the subject of a non-finite sentence without any phonetic realization.
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Only I is true.
(C) Only II is true.
(D) Both I and II are false.
Ans: A
21. The goal of cognitive science is to understand the structure and functioning of the human mind, and to this it uses a variety of approaches, from philosophical view point the study is called
(A) Cognitive approach
(B) Language acquisition
(C) Modularity
(D) Mentalism
Ans: B
22. The identification of structural differences between languages, seen as points of potential learning difficulty is called
(A) Cognitive analysis
(B) Contrastive analysis
(C) Comparative analysis
(D) Descriptive analysis
Ans: B
23. Assertion I: Missing Surface Inflectional hypothesis states that second language learners who produce errors actually have correct underlying representations for the structure in which they have made errors but have difficulty mapping these underlying representations to their surface forms.
Assertion II: Missing surface inflection hypothesis states that second language learners who produce errors are due to blind spots found in second language.
(A) Both I and II are right.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is right and II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong and II is right.
Ans: C
24. Match the following:
List-I List-II
(a) Minimum level of reading and writing (i) Literate
(b) Ability to read and write (ii) Illiterate
(c) Lack of reading and writing (iii) Functional literacy
(d) Lack of recognized writing (iv) Educate
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(D) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
Ans: A
25. Assertion I: Advertisements also use sound patterning to make the slogan memorable and this is simply in extension of the way poetry uses sound patterning to particular effect.
Assertion II: Whether in print or on the broadcast media, there will be sound patterning which do not help the hearer/reader to remember the advertisement.
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true, but II is false
(D) I is false, but II is true.
Ans: C
26. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and choose the correct code:
List-I List-II
(a) Phoneme (i) Acoustic phonetics
(b) Sonority (ii) Structural phonology
(c) Wave length (iii) Generative phonology
(d) High-pitch (iv) Tonology
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(D) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Ans: B
27. Hypothesis (H): If a word in its underlying representation contains some morpheme M, then at least one segment of M must be present in the Result surface representation.
Conclusion:
(A) H explains ‘wife > wives’ realization
(B) H explains ‘steal > stole’ realization
(C) H explains ‘bus > buses’ realization
(D) H explains ‘keep > kept’ realization
Ans: C
28. The following examples contain Stratum – 1 (S1) and Stratum – 2 (S2) affixes,
(S1) (S2)
lamb-a-yi
uunc-a-yi
kah-a-ni-yaN
Choose the characteristics of Stratum – 1 affixes from the following codes:
Codes:
(A) It is neutral to the phonological environment.
(B) It is non-neutral to the phonological environment.
(C) It is phonologically conditioned.
(D) It is historically conditioned.
Ans: A
29. Assertion I: In lexical morphology all irregular inflexions / derivations take place at Stratum – 1
Assertion II: All regular derivation, inflexion and compounding takes place at Stratum – 2
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true, II is false
(D) I is false, II is true.
Ans: C
30. A boundary or transition point in a phonological sequence is commonly known as
(A) Lexicalisation
(B) Juncture
(C) Morphological lengthening
(D) Word boundary
Ans: B
31. In Acoustic Phonetics the highest level of loudness at which vocal cords vibrate while articulating a voiced segment, especially a vowel is known as:
(A) Resonance
(B) Wave-length
(C) Amplitude
(D) Frequency
Ans: C
32. The basic frequency at which a sound vibrates is known as
(A) Frequency
(B) Sound wave
(C) Fundamental frequency
(D) Wavelength
Ans: C
33. Who among the following is the author of the research paper “The Pronouns of Power and Solidarity”?
(A) Brown R and M Ford
(B) Brown P and S Levison
(C) Brown G and G Yule
(D) Brown R and A Gilman
Ans: D
34. Assertion I: Variable rule analysis is the method of analyzing sociolinguistic data in which statistical procedures allow a variety of social and linguistic factors to be considered simultaneously.
Assertion II: Variable rule analysis is the method of analyzing linguistic data that allow inferring the socio-linguistic mechanism of linguistic change.
(A) Both I and II are right.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is right and II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong and II is right.
Ans: A
35. Assertion I: Basilect shows the greatest difference from the source language.
Assertion II: Mesolect and acrolect are intermediate and highest part of the creole continuum respectively.
(A) I is true and II is false
(B) I is false and II is true.
(C) Both I and II are false.
(D) Both I and II are true.
Ans: D
36. Match the items in the List – I with those of List – II with the following codes:
List-I List-II
(a) Ethnography of speaking (i) Roger Brown and Albert Gilman
(b) Pronouns of power and solidarity (ii) Dell Hymes
(c) Sociology of language (iii) Joshua Fishman
(d) Verbal Deficity Hypothesis (iv) Basil Bornslein
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(C) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(D) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Ans: B
37. Language Planning involves
(A) Graphization, Grammatication, Lexication
(B) Making the language transparent
(C) Use of the language for radio broadcast
(D) Implementing the language in literature
Ans: A
38. Assertion I: Pronoun replacement, repetition, variation and ellipsis are all cohesive devices.
Assertion II: They work by repeated reference to something within the text.
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true but II is false.
(D) I is false but II is true.
Ans: A
39. Assertion I: Translation studies are usually seen as a discipline that explores the nature of cross language communication.
Assertion II: It draws on and contributes to a wide range of fields such as semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, and communication science
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true but II is false
(D) I is false but II is true.
Ans: A
40. The use of controlled ‘defining vocabulary’ and a preference for user-friendly style with “full sentence defining” is found in
(A) Bilingual Dictionary
(B) Monolingual Learner’s Dictionary (MLD)
(C) Historical Dictionary
(D) Etymological Dictionary
Ans: B
41. Assertion I: Modern lexicography considers dictionaries to be tools that are or should be conceived to assist a specific group of users in solving problems related to specific type of extra lexicographic user situation.
Assertion II: Any theory based dictionary concept should therefore be based on a profound knowledge of the user’s characteristics, the situation of use and the specific type of problems that might arise.
(A) Both I and II are correct.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is correct but II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong but II is correct.
Ans: A
42. Match the following:
List-I List-II
(a) Source oriented translation (i) Keeping the target readership uppermost in mind.
(b) Foreignizing (ii) Reproducing the original’s stylistic individualities
(c) Idiosyncratic translation (iii) deliberately retaining source language features
(d) Target oriented translation (iv) Staying faithful to the author’s intention
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
Ans: A
43. Morphologists divide morphemes into a specific number of types, namely
(A) Root, stem, prefix, suffix
(B) Affix, infix, circumfix, allomorph
(C) Dhatu, ruup, kriya, naama
(D) Free, bound, zero portmanteau
Ans: D
44. Assertion I: Derivational Morphemes increase the vocabulary of a language.
Assertion II: Derivational Morphemes are usually added to closed classes of words.
(A) I is true, II is false
(B) I is false, II is true.
(C) Both I and II are true.
(D) Both I and II are false.
Ans: A
45. In English ‘doesn’t’ is an example of
(A) Clitic
(B) Proclitic
(C) Special clitic
(D) Complex clitic
Ans: A
46. In English “Black Board” denotes a
(A) Endo-centric Compound
(B) Copulative Compound
(C) Exo-centric compound
(D) A simple Idiom
Ans: A
47. English is a
(A) Null-subject language
(B) Non-null-subject language
(C) Head-last language
(D) Headless language
Ans: B
48. The statement ‘all nominal and pronominal expressions areD-expressions’ is related to
(A) TP analysis
(B) DP hypothesis
(C) Earliness principle
(D) Strict cyclicity principle
Ans: B
49. The statements: (i) Interpretable features enter the derivation already valued and (ii) Features which enter the derivation unvalued are uninterpretable’ are related to
(A) Feature Deletion
(B) Feature visibility condition
(C) Feature value correlation
(D) Copy deletion
Ans: C
50. The statement ‘A head which attracts a constituent containing a feature (F) attracts movement of the smallest accessible constituent containing (F) which will lead to a convergent derivation’ is related to
(A) Null-operator analysis
(B) Convergence principle
(C) Attract closest principle
(D) Functional Head constraint
Ans: B
51. Match the following from the List – I to List – II:
List – I List – II
a. An interlinear translation i. Convey the source’s communicative effect
b. Literal translation ii. Reproduce the source’s semantic content
c. Communicative translation iii. Parallel the source’s exact words and syntax
d. Dynamic equivalent iv. Communicative meaning
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iii ii i iv
(B) i iii iv ii
(C) i iv iii ii
(D) iv i iii i
Ans: A
52. Word-sense disambiguation, speech tagging, syntactic analysis, and parallel text alignment are closely associated with
(A) Transformational generative grammar
(B) Case grammar
(C) Computational linguistics
(D) Neuro linguistics
Ans: C
53. Machine Readable Dictionary (MRD) means
(A) That the computer reads the dictionary.
(B) That it is an electronic form and can be processed and manipulated computationally.
(C) That it meant only for Database.
(D) That it is like any other dictionary.
Ans: B
54. Assertion – I: The first corpus designed to be comparable is known as LOB because of the three institutions that jointly compiled it were the Universities of Lancaster and Oslo and the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities at Bergen.
Assertion – II: LOB was completed in 1978 and selected corpus from British English.
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are correct.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is correct, but II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong, but II is correct.
Ans: A
55. “Recycling” appears to be among the primary sources related to social motivation of sound change. Who among the following proposed the above methodology?
(A) Peter Trudgill
(B) William Labov
(C) John J. Gumperz
(D) Ronald Wardough
Ans: B
56. Assertion – I: Stems and roots belong to different strata, claim some lexical morphologists.
Assertion – II: Homophonous affixes have different origins, some morphologists propose that.
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true, II is false.
(D) I is false, II is true.
Ans: A
57. The branch of morphology which studies the way in which words vary in order to express grammatical contrasts in sentences such as singular/plural, past/present tense, is known as
(A) Derivational morphology
(B) Inflectional morphology
(C) Item and process
(D) Word and paradigm
Ans: B
58. The English word blackberry is an example of
(A) Endocentric construction
(B) Exocentric construction
(C) Copulative compound
(D) Secondary construction
Ans: B
59. A morph which does not directly realize a morpheme is
(A) An empty word
(B) An empty morph
(C) A zero morph
(D) An allomorph
Ans: B
60. Complex predicate can involve
(A) Explicator + Verb + Noun
(B) Adjective + Noun + Verb
(C) Verb + Explicator + Auxiliary
(D) Adverb + Verb + Postposition
Ans: C
61. Sabourand used Saussure’s two linguistic planes. They are
(A) Selection and combination
(B) Motor and sensory
(C) Semiological and Phonological
(D) Competence and performance
Ans: C
62. Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched?
(A) Disorders of primary functions, such as sight and hand: Sensory control
(B) Higher dysfunctions secondary to or associated with, the: Language disorder
(C) Higher dysfunctions related to lesions outside the prime language areas of the brain, and which can be identified as distinct: Extralinguistic disorders
(D) A generalized reduction in efficiency after: Brain damage
Ans: A
63. Disorders affecting the transmission of language, is due to damage to the brain areas for peripheral
(A) Visual figure-ground discrimination
(B) Fluctuation of attention
(C) Sensory and motor mechanisms
(D) Left hemisphere
Ans: C
64. Which of the statement is correct?
(A) Hemianopia is the blindness in one half of the visual field.
(B) Hemiplegia is the paralysis of two sides of the body.
(C) An area of living tissue due to obstruction of a terminal artery.
(D) Asymbolia is ability to associate meaning with one or more classes of symbols.
Ans: A
65. Alzheimer’s disease is a type of
(A) Developmental Disorder
(B) Acquired Disorder
(C) Dementia
(D) Anomia
Ans: C
66. The POS tage ‘none’ in a tree bank denotes
(A) Co-indexation
(B) NP-SBJ
(C) Non-terminal category
(D) Punctuation
Ans: D
67. Assertion – I: A weighted CFG (WCFG) is a context-free-grammar plus a mapping p: P -> R from rule productions to real valued weights.
Assertion – II: A probabilistic CFG (PCFG) is a WCFG with a probability assigned to each rule.
Codes:
(A) Both I & II are false.
(B) I is true, II is false.
(C) I is false, II is true.
(D) Both I & II are true.
Ans: D
68. As per the optimality theory reduplication involves the following constraints and some other(s):
(A) Markedness constraint, stem constraint
(B) Markedness constraint, Root constraint
(C) Markedness constraint, Identity constraint
(D)Markedness constraint, Affixal constraint
Ans: C
69. Assertion – I: Phonological Word (PW) can consist of one or several syllables.
Assertion – II: Phonological word comprises one foot.
Codes:
(A) I & II are true.
(B) I & II are false.
(C) I is true, II is false.
(D) I is false, II is true.
Ans: C
70. If addition of a suffix brings about number change in an example like “Kul + am > Kulum” the phonological process involved reflects
(A) Rounding
(B) Raising
(C) Vowel-harmony
(D) Vowel-hierarchy
Ans: D
71. ‘boluN’ in Hindi is an example of
(A) Subject Raising
(B) Object Deletion
(C) Pro-drop parameter
(D) Theme-suppletion
Ans: C
72. Arrange the following concepts in order in which they appeared:
(i) Minimalism
(ii) Surface structure and Deep structure
(iii) Principles and parameters theory
(iv) Bare phrase structure
Codes:
(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(B) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
(C) (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
(D) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
Ans: A
73. The DP hypothesis is first proposed by
(A) Stephen Abney
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) J.Y. Pollock
(D) Timothy Stowel
Ans: A
74. Assertion – I: ‘Spellout’ is the point in a derivation at which part of a syntactic structure is sent to the PF component to be mapped into a PF-representation.
Assertion – II: To say that an item has a ‘null spellout’ is to say that it is ‘silent’ and so has a null phonetic form.
Codes:
(A) Only I is correct.
(B) Only II is correct.
(C) Both I and II are correct.
(D) Both I and II are wrong.
Ans: C
75. Assertion – I: Subject NPS precedes the verb in English in declarative sentences.
Assertion – II: All subject NPS are generated in SPEC VP position and then move to the SPEC VP/NP.
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true and II is false.
(D) I is false and II is true.
Ans: A
76. Assertion I: Polysemy refers to cases where a lexeme has more than one meaning.
Assertion II: Chip can mean a piece of wood, a food item or electronic circuit.
Codes:
(A) (I) is correct, but (II) is wrong.
(B) Both (I) and (II) are wrong.
(C) Both (I) and (II) are correct.
(D) (I) is wrong, but (II) is correct.
Ans: C
77. The linguistic convergence between and among typologically distinct languages is known as
(A) Sprachbund
(B) Aryanization
(C) Dravidization
(D) Genetically Related
Ans: A
78. The hierarchy of number of speakers recorded for the four dominant families of languages is
(A) Indo Aryan, Dravidian, Austro Asiatic, Tibeto Burman
(B) Indo Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto Burman, Austro Asiatic
(C) Dravidian, Indo Aryan, Tibeto Burman, Austro Asiatic
(D) Austro Asiatic, Indo Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto Burman
Ans: A
79. The official language of Meghalaya is
(A) War
(B) Mon-Khmer
(C) Khasi
(D) Nicrobarese
Ans: C
80. “Nihali” which has some 2000 speakers in the Indian State of Maharashtra is generally regarded as
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Isolate
(D) Artificial
Ans: C
81. Match the item in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Retroflexion i. Brahmi, Garo, Khasi, Assamee
b. Absence of Retroflexion ii. Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Malyalam
c. Aspiration iii. Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi
d. Loss of voiced Aspirates iv. Punjabi
Codes:
a b c d
(A) ii i iii iv
(B) i ii iv iii
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) iii iv i ii
Ans: A
82. Assertion I: All South Asian languages except a few are verb final languages.
Assertion II: “Khasi” is a verb medial language.
Codes:
(A) (I) is true and (II) is false.
(B) (I) is false and (II) is true.
(C) Both (I) and (II) are true.
(D) Both (I) and (II) are false.
Ans: C
83. The MIA geminates (– cc –) were reduced to single consonant;
(A) With compensatory lengthening of the proceeding vowel, with a few exceptions.
(B) Without compensatory lengthening of the proceeding vowel.
(C) With change of the vowel quality.
(D) Without change of the vowel quality.
Ans: A
84. Sound change in which a vowel is fronted under the influence of a following front vowel or glide is known as
(A) Assimilation
(B) Umlaut
(C) Palatalization
(D) Labialization
Ans: C
85. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Aphaeresis i. Loss of one or more sounds from the interior of a word
b. Syncope ii. Loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word
c. Apocope iii. Loss of one or more sound from the end of a word
d. Haplology iv. Elimination of a syllable when two consecutive identical or similar syllabuses occur.
Codes:
a b c d
(A) ii i iii iv
(B) iii ii i iv
(C) iv i ii iii
(D) i ii iii iv
Ans: A
86. In a sound change whereby rearranging of sound or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence takes place is known as
(A) Assimilation
(B) Meta thesis
(C) Lenition
(D) Elision
Ans: B
87. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Lenition i. Sound changes that alters consonant making them sonorous
b. Epenthesis ii. Addition of one or more sounds especially to the interior of a word
c. Elision iii. Omission of one or more sound in a word or phrase
d. Assimilation iv. A phonological process whereby one sound becomes more like a nearby sound
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) iv iii ii i
(C) iii ii i iv
(D) ii i iii iv
Ans: A
88. “Because it was raining, I picked up my coat and put it on. I went to the door and after I opened it went outside.”Assertion – I: The coherence of the above passage lies in less formal links, such as the logical connections between rain and coat wearing, doors and opening them.
Assertion – II: The passage also coheres in that it conforms to our notions of what a first person narrative should be
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true, but II is false.
(D) I is false, but II is true.
Ans: A
89. The term sometimes used for the high prestige variety is
(A) Dialect
(B) Acrolect
(C) Basilect
(D) Mesolect
Ans: B
90. Assertion (A): Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society and culture.
Reason (R): Communicative competence and ethnography of communication which belong to sociolinguistics are similar notions.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) (A) is true, (R) is false.
(C) (A) is false, (R) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Ans: A
91. Identify the odd item from the following list:
(A) Lexeme
(B) Word
(C) Morpheme
(D) Diglossia
Ans: D
92. The book ‘verbal behaviour’ was written by B.F. Skinner in the year of
(A) 1967
(B) 1957
(C) 1977
(D) 1947
Ans: B
93. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Bell R. i. Sociolinguistics, 1974
b. Hudson R.A ii. Sociolinguistics, 1976
c. Pride J.B. and J. Holmes (eds) iii. Sociolinguistics, 1980
d. Trudgill. P. iv. Sociolinguistics, 1972
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i iv ii iii
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii ii iv i
(D) iv i ii iii
Ans: B
94. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Logographic i. Morpheme/word
b. Alphabetic ii. Syllable
c. Syllabic iii. Sound
d. Pictographic iv. Picture
Codes:
a b c d
(A) ii i iv iii
(B) iv ii i iii
(C) i iii ii iv
(D) iii iv i ii
Ans: C
95. A satem language is
(A) Bulgarian
(B) Welsh
(C) Portuguese
(D) Flemish
Ans: A
96. When a message engages the addressee directly as illustrated in vocatives, and optatives, it is known as
(A) Conative function
(B) Emotive function
(C) Referential function
(D) Poetic function
Ans: A
97. Assertion I: The speech of a single individual is an idiolect.
Assertion II: Any regionally or socially distinct variety of a language is a dialect.
Codes:
(A) Both (I) and (II) are true.
(B) Both (I) and (II) are false.
(C) (I) is true and (II) is false.
(D) (I) is false and (II) is true.
Ans: A
98. Identify the odd one from the following:
(A) Pragmatics
(B) Semantics
(C) Clitics
(D) Semiotics
Ans: C
99. Study of the interpretation of sign is
(A) Emotive
(B) Semiotic
(C) Phatic
(D) Conative
Ans: B
100. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. with him i. nominative
b. he ii. sociative
c. his iii. dative
d. to whom iv. genitive
Codes:
a b c d
(A) ii iv iii i
(B) iv ii i iii
(C) ii i iv iii
(D) i iii iv ii
Ans: C
List – I List – II
a. An interlinear translation i. Convey the source’s communicative effect
b. Literal translation ii. Reproduce the source’s semantic content
c. Communicative translation iii. Parallel the source’s exact words and syntax
d. Dynamic equivalent iv. Communicative meaning
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iii ii i iv
(B) i iii iv ii
(C) i iv iii ii
(D) iv i iii i
Ans: A
52. Word-sense disambiguation, speech tagging, syntactic analysis, and parallel text alignment are closely associated with
(A) Transformational generative grammar
(B) Case grammar
(C) Computational linguistics
(D) Neuro linguistics
Ans: C
53. Machine Readable Dictionary (MRD) means
(A) That the computer reads the dictionary.
(B) That it is an electronic form and can be processed and manipulated computationally.
(C) That it meant only for Database.
(D) That it is like any other dictionary.
Ans: B
54. Assertion – I: The first corpus designed to be comparable is known as LOB because of the three institutions that jointly compiled it were the Universities of Lancaster and Oslo and the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities at Bergen.
Assertion – II: LOB was completed in 1978 and selected corpus from British English.
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are correct.
(B) Both I and II are wrong.
(C) I is correct, but II is wrong.
(D) I is wrong, but II is correct.
Ans: A
55. “Recycling” appears to be among the primary sources related to social motivation of sound change. Who among the following proposed the above methodology?
(A) Peter Trudgill
(B) William Labov
(C) John J. Gumperz
(D) Ronald Wardough
Ans: B
56. Assertion – I: Stems and roots belong to different strata, claim some lexical morphologists.
Assertion – II: Homophonous affixes have different origins, some morphologists propose that.
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true, II is false.
(D) I is false, II is true.
Ans: A
57. The branch of morphology which studies the way in which words vary in order to express grammatical contrasts in sentences such as singular/plural, past/present tense, is known as
(A) Derivational morphology
(B) Inflectional morphology
(C) Item and process
(D) Word and paradigm
Ans: B
58. The English word blackberry is an example of
(A) Endocentric construction
(B) Exocentric construction
(C) Copulative compound
(D) Secondary construction
Ans: B
59. A morph which does not directly realize a morpheme is
(A) An empty word
(B) An empty morph
(C) A zero morph
(D) An allomorph
Ans: B
60. Complex predicate can involve
(A) Explicator + Verb + Noun
(B) Adjective + Noun + Verb
(C) Verb + Explicator + Auxiliary
(D) Adverb + Verb + Postposition
Ans: C
61. Sabourand used Saussure’s two linguistic planes. They are
(A) Selection and combination
(B) Motor and sensory
(C) Semiological and Phonological
(D) Competence and performance
Ans: C
62. Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched?
(A) Disorders of primary functions, such as sight and hand: Sensory control
(B) Higher dysfunctions secondary to or associated with, the: Language disorder
(C) Higher dysfunctions related to lesions outside the prime language areas of the brain, and which can be identified as distinct: Extralinguistic disorders
(D) A generalized reduction in efficiency after: Brain damage
Ans: A
63. Disorders affecting the transmission of language, is due to damage to the brain areas for peripheral
(A) Visual figure-ground discrimination
(B) Fluctuation of attention
(C) Sensory and motor mechanisms
(D) Left hemisphere
Ans: C
64. Which of the statement is correct?
(A) Hemianopia is the blindness in one half of the visual field.
(B) Hemiplegia is the paralysis of two sides of the body.
(C) An area of living tissue due to obstruction of a terminal artery.
(D) Asymbolia is ability to associate meaning with one or more classes of symbols.
Ans: A
65. Alzheimer’s disease is a type of
(A) Developmental Disorder
(B) Acquired Disorder
(C) Dementia
(D) Anomia
Ans: C
66. The POS tage ‘none’ in a tree bank denotes
(A) Co-indexation
(B) NP-SBJ
(C) Non-terminal category
(D) Punctuation
Ans: D
67. Assertion – I: A weighted CFG (WCFG) is a context-free-grammar plus a mapping p: P -> R from rule productions to real valued weights.
Assertion – II: A probabilistic CFG (PCFG) is a WCFG with a probability assigned to each rule.
Codes:
(A) Both I & II are false.
(B) I is true, II is false.
(C) I is false, II is true.
(D) Both I & II are true.
Ans: D
68. As per the optimality theory reduplication involves the following constraints and some other(s):
(A) Markedness constraint, stem constraint
(B) Markedness constraint, Root constraint
(C) Markedness constraint, Identity constraint
(D)Markedness constraint, Affixal constraint
Ans: C
69. Assertion – I: Phonological Word (PW) can consist of one or several syllables.
Assertion – II: Phonological word comprises one foot.
Codes:
(A) I & II are true.
(B) I & II are false.
(C) I is true, II is false.
(D) I is false, II is true.
Ans: C
70. If addition of a suffix brings about number change in an example like “Kul + am > Kulum” the phonological process involved reflects
(A) Rounding
(B) Raising
(C) Vowel-harmony
(D) Vowel-hierarchy
Ans: D
71. ‘boluN’ in Hindi is an example of
(A) Subject Raising
(B) Object Deletion
(C) Pro-drop parameter
(D) Theme-suppletion
Ans: C
72. Arrange the following concepts in order in which they appeared:
(i) Minimalism
(ii) Surface structure and Deep structure
(iii) Principles and parameters theory
(iv) Bare phrase structure
Codes:
(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(B) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
(C) (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
(D) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
Ans: A
73. The DP hypothesis is first proposed by
(A) Stephen Abney
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) J.Y. Pollock
(D) Timothy Stowel
Ans: A
74. Assertion – I: ‘Spellout’ is the point in a derivation at which part of a syntactic structure is sent to the PF component to be mapped into a PF-representation.
Assertion – II: To say that an item has a ‘null spellout’ is to say that it is ‘silent’ and so has a null phonetic form.
Codes:
(A) Only I is correct.
(B) Only II is correct.
(C) Both I and II are correct.
(D) Both I and II are wrong.
Ans: C
75. Assertion – I: Subject NPS precedes the verb in English in declarative sentences.
Assertion – II: All subject NPS are generated in SPEC VP position and then move to the SPEC VP/NP.
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true and II is false.
(D) I is false and II is true.
Ans: A
76. Assertion I: Polysemy refers to cases where a lexeme has more than one meaning.
Assertion II: Chip can mean a piece of wood, a food item or electronic circuit.
Codes:
(A) (I) is correct, but (II) is wrong.
(B) Both (I) and (II) are wrong.
(C) Both (I) and (II) are correct.
(D) (I) is wrong, but (II) is correct.
Ans: C
77. The linguistic convergence between and among typologically distinct languages is known as
(A) Sprachbund
(B) Aryanization
(C) Dravidization
(D) Genetically Related
Ans: A
78. The hierarchy of number of speakers recorded for the four dominant families of languages is
(A) Indo Aryan, Dravidian, Austro Asiatic, Tibeto Burman
(B) Indo Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto Burman, Austro Asiatic
(C) Dravidian, Indo Aryan, Tibeto Burman, Austro Asiatic
(D) Austro Asiatic, Indo Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto Burman
Ans: A
79. The official language of Meghalaya is
(A) War
(B) Mon-Khmer
(C) Khasi
(D) Nicrobarese
Ans: C
80. “Nihali” which has some 2000 speakers in the Indian State of Maharashtra is generally regarded as
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Isolate
(D) Artificial
Ans: C
81. Match the item in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Retroflexion i. Brahmi, Garo, Khasi, Assamee
b. Absence of Retroflexion ii. Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Malyalam
c. Aspiration iii. Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi
d. Loss of voiced Aspirates iv. Punjabi
Codes:
a b c d
(A) ii i iii iv
(B) i ii iv iii
(C) iv iii ii i
(D) iii iv i ii
Ans: A
82. Assertion I: All South Asian languages except a few are verb final languages.
Assertion II: “Khasi” is a verb medial language.
Codes:
(A) (I) is true and (II) is false.
(B) (I) is false and (II) is true.
(C) Both (I) and (II) are true.
(D) Both (I) and (II) are false.
Ans: C
83. The MIA geminates (– cc –) were reduced to single consonant;
(A) With compensatory lengthening of the proceeding vowel, with a few exceptions.
(B) Without compensatory lengthening of the proceeding vowel.
(C) With change of the vowel quality.
(D) Without change of the vowel quality.
Ans: A
84. Sound change in which a vowel is fronted under the influence of a following front vowel or glide is known as
(A) Assimilation
(B) Umlaut
(C) Palatalization
(D) Labialization
Ans: C
85. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Aphaeresis i. Loss of one or more sounds from the interior of a word
b. Syncope ii. Loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word
c. Apocope iii. Loss of one or more sound from the end of a word
d. Haplology iv. Elimination of a syllable when two consecutive identical or similar syllabuses occur.
Codes:
a b c d
(A) ii i iii iv
(B) iii ii i iv
(C) iv i ii iii
(D) i ii iii iv
Ans: A
86. In a sound change whereby rearranging of sound or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence takes place is known as
(A) Assimilation
(B) Meta thesis
(C) Lenition
(D) Elision
Ans: B
87. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Lenition i. Sound changes that alters consonant making them sonorous
b. Epenthesis ii. Addition of one or more sounds especially to the interior of a word
c. Elision iii. Omission of one or more sound in a word or phrase
d. Assimilation iv. A phonological process whereby one sound becomes more like a nearby sound
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) iv iii ii i
(C) iii ii i iv
(D) ii i iii iv
Ans: A
88. “Because it was raining, I picked up my coat and put it on. I went to the door and after I opened it went outside.”Assertion – I: The coherence of the above passage lies in less formal links, such as the logical connections between rain and coat wearing, doors and opening them.
Assertion – II: The passage also coheres in that it conforms to our notions of what a first person narrative should be
Codes:
(A) Both I and II are true.
(B) Both I and II are false.
(C) I is true, but II is false.
(D) I is false, but II is true.
Ans: A
89. The term sometimes used for the high prestige variety is
(A) Dialect
(B) Acrolect
(C) Basilect
(D) Mesolect
Ans: B
90. Assertion (A): Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society and culture.
Reason (R): Communicative competence and ethnography of communication which belong to sociolinguistics are similar notions.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) (A) is true, (R) is false.
(C) (A) is false, (R) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Ans: A
91. Identify the odd item from the following list:
(A) Lexeme
(B) Word
(C) Morpheme
(D) Diglossia
Ans: D
92. The book ‘verbal behaviour’ was written by B.F. Skinner in the year of
(A) 1967
(B) 1957
(C) 1977
(D) 1947
Ans: B
93. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Bell R. i. Sociolinguistics, 1974
b. Hudson R.A ii. Sociolinguistics, 1976
c. Pride J.B. and J. Holmes (eds) iii. Sociolinguistics, 1980
d. Trudgill. P. iv. Sociolinguistics, 1972
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i iv ii iii
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii ii iv i
(D) iv i ii iii
Ans: B
94. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Logographic i. Morpheme/word
b. Alphabetic ii. Syllable
c. Syllabic iii. Sound
d. Pictographic iv. Picture
Codes:
a b c d
(A) ii i iv iii
(B) iv ii i iii
(C) i iii ii iv
(D) iii iv i ii
Ans: C
95. A satem language is
(A) Bulgarian
(B) Welsh
(C) Portuguese
(D) Flemish
Ans: A
96. When a message engages the addressee directly as illustrated in vocatives, and optatives, it is known as
(A) Conative function
(B) Emotive function
(C) Referential function
(D) Poetic function
Ans: A
97. Assertion I: The speech of a single individual is an idiolect.
Assertion II: Any regionally or socially distinct variety of a language is a dialect.
Codes:
(A) Both (I) and (II) are true.
(B) Both (I) and (II) are false.
(C) (I) is true and (II) is false.
(D) (I) is false and (II) is true.
Ans: A
98. Identify the odd one from the following:
(A) Pragmatics
(B) Semantics
(C) Clitics
(D) Semiotics
Ans: C
99. Study of the interpretation of sign is
(A) Emotive
(B) Semiotic
(C) Phatic
(D) Conative
Ans: B
100. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. with him i. nominative
b. he ii. sociative
c. his iii. dative
d. to whom iv. genitive
Codes:
a b c d
(A) ii iv iii i
(B) iv ii i iii
(C) ii i iv iii
(D) i iii iv ii
Ans: C