LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2012
EL 1804 – LINGUISTICS
Date : 27-04-2012 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
Part A
- Write short notes on any two of the following in about 50 words each: (2×5=10 marks)
- Chomsky ‘s argument on competence vs performance
- Psycholinguistics
- Accuracy vs. fluency debate in ELT.
- Answer any two of the following in about 200 words each: (2×10=20 marks)
- Explain the notion of stress, tone, and accent in phonology.
- Bring out the role and nature of English consonants and present the
table of place and manner of articulation.
3.Transcribe the following words and mark the stress: a) Beautiful b) Projection
- c) Anonimity d) Conclude e) Disturbed.
- Answer any two of the following in about 50 words each. (1×20=20 marks)
- Bloomfield’s analysis of various features of language and its uses in his book Language?
- Prescriptive and descriptive nature of English language analysis and studies in second language teaching and learning.
Part – B
4 Answer any FIVE of the following questions in about 50 words each: (5 x 2 =10 marks)
- Write a short note on the Transactional function of language.
- Write a short note on ‘Objectivity’ of language.
- Write on any one feature of semantic system.
- Write a short note on meaning in context.
- What is the relevance of diachronic study of language?
- Write a short note on ‘form’ in language
5 Answer any TWO of the following questions in about 150 words each: (2 x 10 =20 marks)
- ‘That is a cricket’ .Attempt a prescriptive study of this statement.
- Explain the frame to study information in language
- Explain different formation of Verb in PSR.
6 Answer the following question in about 300 words: (20 marks)
Explain the salient features of collocational theory.
(or)
Write an essay on Semiotic triangle
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