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

 

1. Write short notes on any two of the following in about 50 words each:      (2×5=10 marks)
2. Chomsky ‘s argument on competence vs performance
3. Psycholinguistics
4. Accuracy vs. fluency debate in ELT.
5. Answer any two of the following in about 200 words each:                          (2×10=20 marks)
6. Explain the notion of stress, tone, and accent in phonology.
7. 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

1. c) Anonimity d) Conclude e) Disturbed.

 

3. Answer any two of the following in about 50 words each.                               (1×20=20 marks)
4. Bloomfield’s analysis of various features of language and its uses in his book Language?
5. 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)

1. Write a short note on the Transactional function of language.
2. Write a short note on ‘Objectivity’ of language.
3. Write on any one feature of semantic system.
4. Write a short note on meaning in context.
5. What is the relevance of diachronic study of language?
6. 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)

1. ‘That is a cricket’ .Attempt a prescriptive study of this statement.
2. Explain the frame to study information in language
3. 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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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

EL 1804 – LINGUISTICS

 

 

Date : 01/11/2012            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

I Write short notes on any two of the following in about 50 words each:                       (2×5=10marks)

1. Universal grammar according to Chomsky.
2. Write short note on Psycholinguistics.
3. Cognitive ability and language skills.

II Answer any two of the following in about 200 words each:                                     (2×10=20 marks)

1. Explain the supra segmental features in phonology.
2. Explain the English vowels with their diagrams of articulation.
3. Transcribe the following words:  a) Projection    b) Comfort     c) Desire    d) Continual

1. e) Productivity.

III Answer any one of the following in about 400 words:                                             (1×20=20 marks)

1. Explain the nuances of study and use of language according to Bloomfield.
2. How various schools of linguistics and some noted linguists like Chomsky and Skinner have analysed the role and function of language and the way it is learnt and used?

IV Write short notes on any two of the following in about 50 words each:                    (2×5=10 marks)

1. Treat Language as a network of subsystems.
2. What is Prescriptive study of Language?
3. What is Synchronic study of Language?

V Answer any two of the following in about 200 words each:                                     (2×10=20 marks)

1. Explain the investment of meaning.
2. Treat Psycholinguistics as a combination sociology and anthropology.
3. What is Case Grammar?

VI Answer any one of the following in about 300 words:                                            (1×20=20 marks)

1. Explain Functional Grammar.
2. Linguistics as a theoretical Construct.

 

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