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LINGUISTICS- PAGE 8


LINGUISTICS MCQs

1. Change of [u] to [i] can be described as 
(A) Raising (B) Rounding

 (C) Lowering (D) Fronting
Ans: D
 
2. A term used in Phonology to describe any analytical approach which relies on unobservable elements, such as underlying forces, is called
 (A) Natural (B) Abstract
 (C) Concrete (D) None of the above
 Ans: B
 
3. Secondary Articulation is synonymous with co-articulation.
 (A) True (B) False
 (C) Unrelated (D) Irrelevant 
 Ans: B
 
4. Tone refers to
 (A) variations in pitch contains
 (B) variations in stress patterns
 (C) phonemic use of variations in pitch
 (D) phonemic use of variations in stress patterns
 Ans: C
 
5. Assertion (i) : The history of phonology is largely taken up with the development of ideas concerning the phoneme and the subsequent alternative views proposed which reject the concept of the phoneme. 
 Assertion (ii) : The purpose of the phonological component of a generative grammar is to take the output of the syntactic component and interpret it phonetically.
 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
 
6. A compound word is different from a phrase in a sense that 
(i) Compound can be with or without a head. 
(ii) A phrase can never be without a head. 
(iii) Thus all phrases in any language are always endocentric. 
(iv) Compounds can be endocentric or exocentric and in fact copulative too. 
Codes : 
(A) All the above are true. 
(B) Only (iii) and (iv) are true.
  (C) (iii) is false, others are true. 
(D) (i) and (ii) are true and (iii) and (iv) are false.

 Ans: A
 
7. Assertion (i) : Isolating languages are simple as per the internal structure of morphology 
 Assertion (ii) : There are no bound morphomes in Isolating languages and thus every concept is expressed by a free morphome.
 Codes :
 (A) Both (i) and (ii) are false. (B) Only (i) is true, (ii) is false.
 (C) Only (ii) is true, (i) is false. (D) Both (i) and (ii) are true.
Ans: D

8. The pairs of words ‘bear – ‘bare’ and ‘weight’ – ‘wait’ in English fall under the category of 
(A) Synonyms (B) Propositions  (C) Homonyms (D) Antonyms 
 Ans: C
 
9. Assertion (i) : By reduplication process non-lexical items can be made into lexical items.
 Assertion (ii) : Expressive often function as the process of ‘Lexicalization’.
 Codes :
 (A) Both (i) and (ii) are false. (B) Only (i) is true, (ii) is false.
 (C) Only (ii) is true, (i) is false. (D) Both (i) and (ii) are true.
Ans: D
 
10. Read the following statements about morphological productivity and state the answer from the given choices : 
(i) the generalization of affix by the number of its occurrences in the language. 
(ii) productivity cannot be judged in absolute terms, rather it can be measured in terms of degree. 
(iii) productivity of an affix can be studied diachronically. 
(iv) productivity is also termed as creativity by Chomsky and other linguists in the literature. 
Codes :  
(A) Only (i) and (iii) are correct. 
(B) All the above [i.e. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)] are correct. 
(C) Only (i) and (iv) are correct. 
(D) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.

 Ans: D
 
11. Which of the following is a pseudo cleft sentence ? 
(A) And then there was a new house he wanted to build.  (B) It’s the pencil that we are looking for. 
(C) What he wanted to buy was a pencil.  (D) All he wanted to do was to buy a pencil.

 Ans: C
 
12. The expressions like ‘Good Morning’ and so on establish social contact between interlocutors. Such expressions have _______ function :  (A) Emotive (B) Social  (C) Descriptive (D) Phatic
 Ans: D 
 
13. Which statement is not correct ? 
(A) R-expression is an NP that gets its meaning by referring to an entity in the world. 
(B) A binds B if and only if A C-commands B and A and B are coindexed.  
(C) Binding Principle C states that an R-expression must be bound in its local domain. 
(D) An Anaphor is an NP that obligatorily gets its meaning from another NP in the sentence.

 Ans: C
 
14. Which of the following was not a reason for emergence of X-bar theory ? 
(A) There was no principled basis for naming a phrase. 
(B) There was no distinction between adjunct/complement. 
(C) There was no intermediate category between phrasal & lexical levels. 
(D) There was no determiner phrase level.

 Ans: D
 
15. Assertion (i) : PRO is + pronominal, – Anaphora.  Assertion (ii) : pro is + pronominal, – Anaphor 
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: D
 
16. ‘Shaila’s husband is a doctor and she is married’ is unacceptable because : 
(A) It is ungrammatical (B) It is unethical  (C) It lacks Coherence (D) It lacks rigour

 Ans: C​
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