LINGUISTICS
Paper – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1. The processes by which a child adopts to acquire a language, viz,
(i) acquiring syntactic forms from meaning and,
(ii) acquiring meaning from forms respectively are called :
(A) Semantic bootstrapping and syntactic bootstrapping
(B) Syntactic bootstrapping and semantic bootstrapping
(C) Form and content acquisition
(D) Content and form acquisition
2. Assertion I : A deep dyslexic may interact with words but they are not able to associate with the direct phonemic graphemic
relations with meaning.
Assertion II : Deep dyslexic may be termed as phonemic dyslexia.
Codes :
(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.
3. Blindness in one half of the visual field is known as
(A) Hemifield viewing
(B) Hemiplegia
(C) Hemianopia
(D) Hemiprosis
4. Match the following with List – I and List – II and choose correct answer from the codes given below :
5. “Interpersonal communicative and cognitive processes that everywhere and always shape language” is the part of
(A) Cognitive theories
(B) Constructionist theories
(C) Usage-based theories
(D) Construction grammar and phraseological theories
6. A symbolic structure is nothing more than the pairing of a
(A) syntactic structure and a semantic structure.
(B) morphological structure and a syntactic structure.
(C) semantic structure and a phonological structure.
(D) phonological structure and a syntactic structure.
7. The lexical selection is dependent on these following factors as in order below :
(A) Conceptual, Syntactic and Phonological
(B) Syntactic, Conceptual and Phonological
(C) Phonological, Conceptual and Syntactical
(D) Conceptual, Phonological and Syntactical
8. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?
(A) Receptive aphasia i. non-fluent
(B) Expressive aphasia ii. Alzheimer’s disease
(C) Pure aphasia iii. Alexia, agraphia and verbal agnosia
(D) Primary progressive aphasia iv. fluent
9. The MT system based on statistical method is
(A) Google translate
(B) Angla bharati
(C) Anusaarak
(D) Mantra
10. To articulate a central vowel the tongue is
(A) forwarded
(B) retracted
(C) raised
(D) neither forwarded nor retracted
11. The ‘Pulse’ or ‘Motor’ theory was put forward by
(A) D. Jones
(B) R.H. Stetson
(C) A.M. Bell
(D) P. Ladefoged
12. In aspirated stops, voicing
(A) takes place throughout the closure and release of the airstream in the mouth cavity.
(B) takes place during the part of the closure.
(C) starts immediately at the moment of the release of the closure.
(D) starts considerably after the release of the closure.
13. Acoustic information regarding the place of articulation of a particular stop can be obtained from
(A) voice bar
(B) transitions
(C) VOT
(D) aperiodic vibrations
14. Assertion I : The machine used for the analysis and measurement of frequency, duration of speech sounds, and the like is known as a spectrogram.
Assertion II : The output of the above machine is a spectrograph.
Codes :
(A) Both (I) and (II) are false.
(B) Both (I) and (II) are true.
(C) (I) is true and (II) is false.
(D) (I) is false and (II) is true.
15. In any preliminary transcription if separate symbols are used for two or more variants of a single phoneme, the phenomenon is known as
(A) Overextension
(B) Overdifferentiation
(C) Underdifferentiation
(D) Overcorrection
16. Match the following with List – I with those in List – II and choose correct answer from the codes given below :
17. The words in the List – I contain affixes. Match the affixes in the List – I with the types in the List – II.
18. The English word ‘biotech’ is an example of
(A) Blend
(B) Back formation
(C) Compound
(D) Acronym
19. The term ‘three dimensional phonology’ refers to
(A) Generative Phonology
(B) Structural Phonology
(C) Natural Phonology
(D) Non-linear Phonology
20. Assertion I : Generative phonology rejects the concept of phoneme, but prosodic phonology does not reject it.
Assertion II : Both generative phonology and prosodic phonology reject the concept of phoneme.
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
21. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and select the correct answer from the codes :
22. In the English word ‘handful’ the part ‘– ful’ is a/an
(A) inflectional suffix
(B) derivational suffix
(C) post position
(D) clitic
23. Assertion I : In optimality theory, the well-formedness constraints are grounded in universal markedness principles. A constraint reflects a universal tendency.
Assertion II : Constraints cannot be violated.
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
24. Match the items in List – I and with those in List – II and select the correct answer from the codes :
25. The notion ‘Transformational Grammar’ (TG) or ‘Transformational Generative Grammar’ (TGG) was first discussed by Noam Chomsky in
(A) The Sound Pattern of English, 1968
(B) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, 1965
(C) Syntactic Structures, 1957
(D) Current issues in Linguistic Theory, 1964
26. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
27. Select the correct sequence according to the development of grammars :
(A) Universal grammar, traditional grammar, transformational grammar, structural grammar.
(B) Traditional grammar, structural grammar, transformational grammar and universal grammar.
(C) Traditional grammar, universal grammar, transformational grammar, structural grammar.
(D) Transformational grammar, structural grammar, traditional grammar and universal grammar.
28. The basic word order in Dravidian languages is
(A) SVO
(B) SOV
(C) VSO
(D) VOS
29. Match the items in List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
30. In traditional dialectology the methodology involved selection of informants as :
(A) Mobile, rural older people
(B) Non-mobile, older, rural people
(C) Rural non-mobile young people
(D) Non-mobile, urban old people
31. Identify the odd item from the following :
(A) Idiolect
(B) Dialect
(C) Imperative
(D) Mutual intelligibility
32. Assertion I : Analogy brings about regularity in the paradigm.
Assertion II : Analogy destroys the paradigmatic regularity.
Codes :
(A) (I) and (II) are false
(B) (I) and (II) are true
(C) (I) is false (II) is true
(D) (I) is true (II) is false
33. Kota, Toda and Kui languages come under :
(A) Central Dravidian group
(B) North Dravidian group
(C) South Dravidian group
(D) Tibato-Burman group
34. The term isogloss is associated with
(A) Lexicograpy
(B) Graphology
(C) Dialectology
(D) Pragmatics
35. When linguistic forms of genetically related languages show phonological and semantic identify, they are termed as
(A) Relic forms
(B) Synonyms
(C) Antonyms
(D) Cognates
36. A term used in linguistics, referring to the quantification of the extent to which languages have diverged from a common source is
(A) Geographical linguistics
(B) Glottochronology
(C) Analytical linguistics
(D) Areal linguistics
37. A language which is characterized by words typically containing linear sequence of morphs is termed as
(A) Isolating language
(B) Synthetic language
(C) Agglutinating language
(D) Polysynthetic language
38. The study of a language at different points on the time dimension is called
(A) Synchronic
(B) Diachronic
(C) Contrastive
(D) Descriptive
39. Assertion I : The comparative method is a technique which allows us to trace back to the earlier stage of the languages. These languages are related and belong to the same family.
Assertion II : The technique involves to compare alternants of a single language.
Codes :
(A) Both (I) and (II) are true.
(B) Both (I) and (II) are false.
(C) (I) is false, but (II) is true.
(D) (I) is true, but (II) is false.
40. The notion that India is a linguistic area was proposed by
(A) Peter Edwin Hook
(B) M.B. Emeneau
(C) P.B. Pandit
(D) Collin P. Masica
41. Match the following with the items in List – I and in List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
42. The ability to deal adequately with a written system of communication is known as
(A) Orthography
(B) Literacy
(C) Computer
(D) Illiteracy
43. In the language of mass media the communicators strategies are sometimes ‘responsive’ and sometimes “initiative”. The ‘responsive’ strategy is known as
(A) Audience design
(B) Audience choice
(C) Audience preferences
(D) Style
44. The stage theory of ‘Cognitive Development’ is a description of cognitive development as four stages in children. The originator of the theory is
(A) Jean Piaget
(B) Bernard Weiner
(C) N. Chomsky
(D) B.F. Skinner
45. Classical conditioning is a reflexive learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response. It was first described by
(A) N. Chomsky
(B) Ivan Pavalov
(C) B.F. Skinner
(D) A. Bandura
46. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
47. Catford was very much criticized for his linguistic theory of translation. One of the most scathing criticism came from
(A) E. Nida
(B) P. Newmark
(C) Snell – Hornby
(D) Pym Anthony
48. The source text and target text words, triggering the same or similar associations in the minds of native speakers of two languages are known as
(A) Dynamic equivalence
(B) Null equivalence
(C) Formal equivalence
(D) Textual equivalence
49. Grammatically plural nouns that have no corresponding singular forms such as “scissors”, and “spectacles” are known as
(A) Pluralia tantum
(B) Pleonasm
(C) Polar autonyms
(D) Polarity
50. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II with the codes given below :
51. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
52. Match the items in List – I with those in List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
53. In the sentence “Manmohan Singh arrived in London this morning. He will address the meeting tomorrow”, the type of anaphora used is :
(A) Coreferential anaphora
(B) Non coreferential anaphora
(C) Cataphora
(D) Zero – anaphora
54. The principle that states that the meaning of a complex expression is a compositional function of the meaning of its parts is
known as
(A) Semantically opaque
(B) Principle of compositionality
(C) Principle of non-compositionality
(D) Prototypical
55. ‘Move’ in computational linguistics is a
(A) Last report operation
(B) Costly operation
(C) Optional operation
(D) Universal operation
56. Transfer method assumes
(A) One intermediate stage
(B) Two intermediate stages
(C) Three intermediate stages
(D) Four intermediate stages
57. The different word-orders of languages are the result of
(A) Universal grammar
(B) Absolute universals
(C) Parametric variation
(D) Native competence
58. Match the following items in List – I and List – II and select the correct codes given below :
59. Assertion I : Language loyalty means devotion to preserve the use of a language or the traditional form of a language.
Assertion II : Many first generation immigrants to an alien country are extremely loyal to their first language, but their loyalty may go on decreasing in their children and grand-children.
Codes :
(A) Both (I) and (II) are true.
(B) (I) is false, but (II) is true.
(C) (I) is true, but (II) is false.
(D) Both (I) and (II) are false.
60. The classical language which has been revived and remarkably developed inmodern times is
(A) Vedic Sanskrit
(B) Hebrew
(C) Latin
(D) Homeric Greek
61. A distinction between the ‘elaborated code’ used by the middle class and the ‘restricted code’ used by the working class people was made by
(A) Dell Hymes
(B) William Bright
(C) Basil Bernstein
(D) Peter Trudgill
62. Give the logical sequence of the four parameters of languages planning :
(i) Acceptance
(ii) Selection
(iii) Elaboration of function
(iv) Codification
Codes :
(A) i iii iv ii
(B) ii i iv iii
(C) iii i ii iv
(D) ii iv i iii
63. Assertion I : Spoken languages go on changing whereas their written forms lag behind.
Assertion II : Standardization of scripts becomes due in course of time.
Codes :
(A) Both (I) and (II) are true.
(B) (I) is true, but (II) is false.
(C) Both (I) and (II) are false.
(D) (I) is false, but (II) is true.
64. A phrase structure rule specifying the immediate subconstituents of a given syntactic category or phrase-type is known as
(A) Context sensitive rule
(B) Context free rule
(C) Context-free rewrite rule
(D) Case assignment rule
65. Arrange the following in order in which they appeared. Select the correct answer from the codes below :
(i) DP Hypothesis
(ii) SS Model
(iii) X – bar Theory
(iv) Aspects Model
Codes :
(A) ii iv iii i
(B) iii iv i ii
(C) i ii iii iv
(D) iv iii ii i
66. Match the following with List – I and List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
67. Assertion I : The hierarchical structure of the word ‘foolishness’ can be presented as the following :
(((fool) Root + (–ish)DA) Adj. + (–ness)DA) Noun
Assertion II : The hierarchical structure of the word ‘foolishness’ can also be presented as the following :
Codes :
(A) Both (I) and (II) are disadvantageous.
(B) Both (I) and (II) are advantageous.
(C) (I) is advantageous and (II) is dis-advantageous.
(D) (I) is disadvantageous and (II) is advantageous.
68. Typologically NIA languages can be said to be characterized by the non-universal phonological features :
(A) Bilabial, Dental and Uvular
(B) Retroflexion, Aspiration and nasalized vowel
(C) Velar, Uvular and Dental
(D) Labio-dental, Uvular and Velar
69. Austro-Asiatic and Dravidian languages do not exhibit
(A) Ergativity
(B) Negativity
(C) Affirmity
(D) Causative
70. Since the South Asian languages except “Khasi” are verb final languages, they share
(A) a number of word order universals of SVO languages
(B) a number of word order universals of SOV languages
(C) a number of word order universals of VSO languages
(D) a number of word order universals of OVS languages
71. In Tibeto Burman, Dravidian, Bengali and Marathi the negative occurs
(A) Post verbally
(B) Pre verbally
(C) Mid verbally
(D) None of the above
72. Match the items in List – I with the items in List – II and choose the correct answer from the codes :
73. Match the following List – I and List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
74. In Santhali ‘manjhi’ means ‘headman’ whereas mapanjhi means its plural form i.e. headmen. This is an example of
(A) Prefixation
(B) Suffixation
(C) Infixation
(D) Simulfixation
75. ‘Teach language, not about language’ is one of the basic tenets of
(A) Direct method
(B) Audiolingual method
(C) Grammar translation method
(D) Communicative method
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