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REVISION - A
1. In the Element of Discourse analyses, __________ has to do with the relationship between
a speaker and the addressee in a given situation
A) Mode B) Tenor C) Domain D) Cohesion.
2. __________ is particularly important because It is related to the distinction between speech
and writing and has to do with the effects of the medium in which the language is
transmitted
A) Mode B) Domain C) Cohesion D) Coherence.
3. __________ are defined as soundling alike, but processing different meaning.
A) Polysemy B) Homonymy C) Synonymy D) Hyponymy.
4. The word “Bank” is the example of ________ word.
A) Hyponymy B) Polysemy C) Homophone D) Homonymy.
5. The word ‘eye’ is the example of ___________ words.
A) Hyponymy B) Polysemy C) Homophone D) Homonymy.
6. The concept of ________ implies oppositeness of meaning.
A) Homonymy B) Hetrogenuous C) polysemy D) Antonymy.
7. __________ refers to the phenomenon of more than one form having the same meaning
like ‘prison’ and ‘Jail’
A) Polysemy B) Homonymy C) Hyponymy D) Synonmy.
8. The ‘Mango’ is ________ to ‘fruit’ which is super ordinate word
A) Synonymons B) Hyponymous C) Polysemy D) Homonymy.
9. _______ refers to ‘Meaning Inclusion’, The Meaning of one word Includes the meaning
of another word
A) Hyponymy B) Polysemy C) Homophone D) Homonymy.
10. In Semantics Structure, ___________ is the meaning which a word acquires in the
company of certain words that Co-occur with certain words
A) The Reflective meaning B) The Thematic Meaning
C) Collective Meaning D) Denotative Meanin.
11. __________ refers to the association that are connected to a certain word or the emotional
suggestions related to that word.
A) Denotative B) Cannotative C) Affective or Emotive D) The Reflected.
12. _________ is that level of linguistic analyses where meaning is analyzed.
A) Pragmatic B) Discourse C) Semantic D) Syntax.
13. The Sentence “Is kala singing a song?” is the example of ________
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A) Kernal sentence B) Surface structure C) Deep structure D)
Transformation.
14. ‘Competence’, according to Chomsky, is ___________
A) It is what the Native speaker actually produces at a particular context
B) It is an act of transforming from deep structure to surface structure
C) It is the speaker’s ability to understand and produce any number of sentence when the
context requires
D) Language utterance.
15. Transformational Generative Grammar was first introducd by Noam Chomsky, Grammar
accordingly is a _________
A) Sentence producing machine B) The mode for correction
C) a strength of using a language D) writing skill.
16. The __________ is a method of cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents
following Binary Analysis.
A) Clause analysis B) Syntactic Analysis C) Kernal Sentence D) ICA.
17. The Term Immediate constituent Analysis was introduced by the structural linguists is
_________
A) Noam Chomsky B) Ferdinand de Saussure C) Bloomfield D) Aristotle.
18. The Semantic grouping of words in a sentence is called as ________
A) Morphs B) Morpheme C) word D) constituents.
19. ________ is a linguistic unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked
and conveys a complete thought.
A) phrase B) clause C) sentence D) semantics.
20. In the sentence, “Jeyalalitha became powerful in 2013’; It is ______
A) SVCA B) SVOC C) SVOA D) SVAA.
21. A Second Quality often attributed to American English is
A) Spelling B) Pronunciation C) Americanism D) Archaism.
22. Sounds contrasts in several segments in phoneme are called
A) Morphology B) Supra Segmental C) Morpheme D) Allophone.
23. In inflexional ending was due parthy to phonetic changes, partly to the operation of _____
A) Analogy B) Phonology C) Morphology D) Morpheme.
24. In contemporary English ____results from an instinctive desire for freshness and Novelty
of expression.
A) Standard English B) Slang C) Idiom and phrases D) Use of Modern Techniques.
25. When the tongue is in extreme position, a vowel sound is produced, that is
A) Cardinal Vowel B) Ordinal Vowel C) Diphthongs D) Single Vowel.
26. The small opening in the vocal card are called
A) glottis B) Trachea C) Velum D) Nasal.
27. Trachea means
A) Larynex B) Epiglotis C) Uvual D) Wind pipe.
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28. The closest undoubted living relatives of English are ________
A) Scots and Frisian B) Gothic and Scandinavian C) Old Norse and Latin
D) Latin and Greek.
29. Old English contains some __________ words
A) Sixty thousand B) Eighty thousand C) twenty thousand D) thirty thousand.
30. The British Broad casting corporation was founded in _______
A) 1928 B) 1933 C) 1922 D) 1918.
31. The Main difference between Early Modern English and Late Modern English is ______
A) Spelling B) vocabulary C) Conjugation of verb D) Accent.
32. In 1786 _______ discovered that Sanskrit contained many cognates to Greek and Latin.
A) William Woundt B) Sir William Jones C) Richard D) Grimm.
33. Different forms of the same morpheme are called ________
A) Free Morpheme B) Bound Morpheme C) Allomorphs D) In flexional.
34. The smallest meaningful linguistic unit of language is _______
A) Phoneme B) Morpheme C) Jargon D) Syntax.
35. Polysemy means __________
A) Two or more words which have the same form but differ in meaning
B) a lexical item which has a range of different meaning
C) words that are given new meaning to suit new situation
D) Obsolete words.
36. Noam Chomsky introduced in 1957 transformation Generative Grammar. It intends to
explain ___________
A) Language formation B) Grammar rules C) Grammar constructively
D) Language creativity.
37. _________ coined the term ablaut where as the English linguists favored the term
Gradation
A) Jacob Grimm B) Vernor C) Grammarians D) Linguists.
38. Old English is _________ compared to Later forms of English, noted for its presents of
Latin Loan words.
A) Heterogeneous B) homogeneous C) Productive D) Multi-in flexional.
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39. The first complete English language Bible in the 14 century is by _______
A) Henry VIII B) John Wycliff C) Tyndale D) James I.
40. Find the usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group
of the language speaker
a) Dialect b) Idiolect c) Morpheme d) Semantic
41. The dialect that is supported by institutions as government recognitions as being the
'correct' form of a language in schools is called as
a) Regional dialect b) Dialect c) Certified dialect d) Standard dialect
42. By whom The Dialect Test was designed to compare different English dialects with each
other
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a) Joseph wright b) C.C.Fries c) A.C bough d) Bloomfield
43. In linguistics, a variety of language that is unique to a person, as manifested by the patterns
of vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation that he or she uses
a) Idiolect b) Dialect c) Wessex d) Regional lingua
44. In linguistics, the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given
language is
a) Morpheme b) Phoneme c) Phonetics d) Morphology
45. The minimal meaningful unit of a language is called
a) Morphology b) Morpheme c) Semantics d) Syntax
46. I-language which is taken to be the object of study in linguistic theory is
a) International b) Internal c) Inferior d) Instructional
47. E-language refers to
a) Extra b) Efficient c) External d) Emphatic
48. Soft Palate is otherwise called as
a) Larynax b) urula c) Nasal d) Velum
49. The total number of approximants in english
a) 20 b) 24 c) 3 d) 2
50. The Study of inflexion is __________
a) Free Morpheme b) Bound Morpheme c) Accidence d) Semantics
51. The windpipe is otherwise called as
a) Vocal cards b) Larinyx c) Uvula d) Trachea
52. The small opening in the vocal card are called
a) Glottis b) Voiced c) Voiceless d) Friction
53. In english language, all the vowels are _________ sounds
a) Voiceless b) Voiced c) Fricatives d) Frictionless constituents
54. C.L.T means
a) Communicative Language Teaching b) Communicative Linguistic Teaching
c) Communicative Language Technique d) Cultural Language Teaching
55. Which of the following theories of the origin of human speech is based on the imitation of
sounds of creatures or objects?
a) The Ding-dong theory b) The Pooh-pooh theory
c) The Bow-bow Theory d) The Gesture Theory
56. "To Pass Away" is an example of ________ meaning "to die"
a) Prudery b) Transference c) Euphemism d) Colouring
57. The pedagogical approach that focuses on real-world communication is called ________
a) Grammar-Translation Method b) Communicative Language Teaching
c) Audio - lingual Method d) Direct Method
58. A method of language instruction based on learning through the translation of texts is
called the ____________
a) Direct Method b) Grammar-Translation Method c) Natural Approach
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d) Task-Based Learning
59. In language pedagogy, the approach where learners use language for specific tasks is called
______________
a) Content-Based Instruction b) Task-Based Language Teaching
c) Total Physical Response d) Constructivism
60. In language pedagogy, ______ refers to the selection of language content that is taught in
a curriculum.
a) Content Selection b) Syllabus Design c) Testing and Assessment
d) Task-Based Learning
61. A key principle in _________ is that learners should be exposed to language just above
their current proficiency level.
a) Language Acquisition b) Linguistics c) Second Language Acquisition
d) Pedagogy
62. In the context of linguistics, the study of language in use in real-life situations is known as
__________
a) Phonology b) Sociolinguistics c) Pragmatics d) Lexicography
63. The __________ method of teaching emphasizes structured repetition and drills to teach
grammar and sentence patterns.
a) Communicative Method b) Grammar Translation Method
c) Audio-lingual Method d) Natural Method
64. In the field of ____________, researchers explore how language is used across different
social contexts and communities.
a) Psycholinguistics b) Sociolinguistics c) Syntax d) Phonetics
65. The _________ approach to teaching English focuses on learning through tasks and
activities that mimic real-world use of language.
a) Grammar – Translation b) Task - Based Learning c) Audio-Lingual
d) Direct Method
66. The _________hypothesis, proposed by Vygotsky, emphasizes the role of social
interaction in language learning, highlighting the zone of proximal development.
a) Inter actionist b) Monitor c) Zone of Proximal Development d) Input
67. The __________ method focuses on teaching language through repetitive drills and pattern
practice, which is effective for early stages of language learning.
a) Communicative b) Audio-lingual c) Natural d) Direct
68. The _______ model of language learning is grounded in the belief that language learning
occurs through Imitation and reinforcement.
a) Cognitive b) Behaviourist c) Constructivist d) Pragmatic
69. The main language influence on Old English was _________
a) Latin b) Celtic c) Old Norse d) French
70. In Old English, the word for 'house' was __________
a) Haus b) Hous c) Hus d) House
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71. The word 'knight' in Middle English was spelled ___________
a) Cniht b) Knight c) Knyghte d) Kniht
72. The word 'café' originally comes from ______ and means a place to drink coffee.
a) Spanish b) French c) Italian d) Greek
73. The word 'kindergarten' was borrowed from ________ in the 19th century.
a) Dutch b) Swedish c) French d) German
74. Language is defined as ___________
A) System of communication using sounds, gestures or written symbols
B) The study of language structure and meaning
C) The process of translating one language into another
D) the ability to speak multiple language.
75. _______ of the following is NOT a characteristic of human language.
A) Creativity B) Arbitrariness
C) Animal like instinct D) Displacement.
76. ________ is the term for the smallest unit of sound in a language that can
change the meaning of a word.
A) Phoneme B) Morpheme C) Syllable D) lexeme.
77. ____ is an example of a Non-verbal component of language.
A) Noun B) Verb C) Adjectives D) Facial expressions.
78. _______ theory suggests that language shapes and influences the way we perceive and
think abound the world.
A) Behaviorism B) Universal grammar
C) Linguistic determinism D) Cognitive psychology.
79. __________ is the term for the rules that determine how words are
combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences.
A) Syntax B) Semantics C) Pragmatics D) Morphology.
80. _______ is the term for the study of how language is used in social
contexts.
A) Psycholinguistics B) Socio linguistics
C) Neuro linguistics D) Applied linguistics.
81. __________ describes the relationship between dialects and language.
A) Dialects are regional variations of a language
B) Dialects are mutually intelligible with other language
C) Dialects are superior to languages in terms of complexity
D) Dialects have standardized writing systems.
82. ________ is the term for the process of acquiring a language as a first or second language.
A) Language evolution B) Language acquisition
C) Language preservation D) Language acquisition.
83. Which field of language focuses on the sounds of language?
A) Phonetics B) Phonolog y C) Pragmatics D) Semantics.
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84. Which approach in Linguistics focuses on studying the historical development and changes
of a language over time?
A) Diachronic approach B) Synchronic approach
C) Comparative approach D) Descriptive approach.
85. The Diachronic language examines language __________
A) At a particular point in time B) Across different dialects
C) Within a specific sppech community
D) Over an extended period of time.
86. The synchronic approach analyses language _____
A) By comparing it with other languages
B) based on historical records
C) As a static system at a given time D) within a sociolinguistic context.
87. _________ is concerned with the internal structure and organisation of a language at a
specific point of time
A) Diachronic approach B) Synchronic approach
C) Generative approach D) Structural approach.
88. The synchronic approach is more interested in studying ________
A) language change and evolution
B) language universals and typology
C) language acquisition and processing
D) language variations and dialects.
89. _____ is more commonly used in descriptive linguistics and language
documentions.
A) Diachronic approach B) Synchronic approach
C) Sociolinguistic approach D) Psycholinguistic approach.
90. The Diachronic approach involves analysing ________
A) The social factors influencing language use
B) The sounds and pronunciation of a language
C) The Grammar and syntax of a language
D) The historical context and language evolution.
91. The Synchronic approach is particularly useful for studying ___________
A) Language contact and borrowing
B) Language families and genetic relationship
C) Language preservation and revitalization
D) Language policies and planning.
92. _______ would be more appropriate for studying the changes in English
verb conjugation over the past few centuries.
A) Diachronic approach B) Synchronic approach
C) Comparative approach D) Sociolinguistic approach.
93. ______ is concerned with understanding language as a dynamic system
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and its usage in every day communication
A) Diachronic approach B) Synchronic approach
C) Pragmatic approach D) Cognitive approach.
94. _______ is the primary focus of phonetics
A) The study of sound systems in language
B) The study of the physical properties of speech sounds
C) The study of language variations and dialects
D) The study of the meaning of words and sentences.
95. Phonetics is concerned with the study of ________
A) Sentence structure B) Word meaning
C) speech sounds D) Language origins.
96. _________ is NOT a branch of phonetics.
A) Articulatory phonetics B) Acoustic phonetics
C) Syntactic phonetics D) auditory phonetics.
97. Phonology is a study of ________
A) speech sounds in Isolation
B) The Physical properties of speech sounds
C) The social and cultural aspect of a language
D) How speech sounds function within a particular language.
98. _______ is true about phonetics.
A) It focuses on the mental representation
B) It analyses the distribution and patterns of speech sounds in a language
C) It investigates the historical development of speech sounds in a
language
D) It examines the social and regional variations in speech sounds.
99. Phonetics helps in understanding __________
A) How worlds are formed from morphemes
B) The rules for combining words to form sentences
C) The productions, transmission and perception of speech sounds
D) The Meaning and interpretations of words and sentences.
100. _________ term refers to the physical properties of speech sounds, such as their
articulations and acoustic characteristic.
A) Phoneme B) Phonetics C) Phonotatics D) Phonology.
101. The scope of phonology includes _______
A) The study of sound pattern and rules in language
B) The analysis of individual speech sounds
C) The investigation of language acquisition and development
D) The examination of word meaning and semantic relationships.
102. ________ focuses on the functional aspects of speech sounds in a particular language, such
as their role in distinguishing word meanings.
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A) Articulatory phonetics B) Acoustic phonetic
C) Phonetic transcription D) Phonology.
103. Phonetics and Phonology are essential in ________
A) Understanding the history and evolution of language
B) Analysing the grammatical structure of sentences
C) Assessing language proficiency and pronunciation
D) Interpreting non-verbal communication cues.
104. _________ is considered the founder of modern linguistics and the father of structuralism.
A) Ferdinand de Saussure B) Leonard Bloomfield
C) Noam Chomsky D) Ferdinand Magellan.
105. ______ concept proposed by Ferdinand desaussure emphasizes the arbitrary nature of the
relationship between words and their meanings.
A) Syntagmatic analysis B) Paradigmatic analysis
C) Language and parole D) Synchronic analysis.
106. ______ introduced the concept of “Deep structure and surface structure to explain the
underlying syntactic pattern in language.
A) Ferdinand de Saussure B) Leonard Bloomfield
C) Noam Chomsky D) Edward Sapir.
107. ______ emphasized the importance of descriptive analysis and rejected the idea of
studying language based on mental processes
A) Ferdinand de Saussure B) Leonard Blooms field
C) Noam Chomsky D) Benjamin Whorf.
108. ______ is known for their influential work in transformational generative grammar and the
theory of universal grammar.
A) Ferdinand de Saussure B) Leonard Blooms field
C) Noam Choamsky D) Jacobson.
109. Phonetics is the study of _________
A) Word meaning B) Sentence structure
C) Speech Sounds D) Language change.
110. Morphology is the study of __________
A) Sentence Meaning B) Word structure
C) Language acquisition D) Language variation.
ANSWERS:
1. B) Tenor
2. A) Mode
3. B) Homonymy
4. D) Homonymy.
5. B) Polysemy
6. D) Antonymy.
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7. D) Synonmy.
8. B) Hyponymous
9. A) Hyponymy
10. C) Collective Meaning
11. B) Cannotative
12. C) Semantic
13. B) Surface structure
14. C) It is the speaker’s ability to understand and produce any number of sentence when the
context requires
15. A) Sentence producing machine
16. D) ICA.
17. C) Bloomfield
18. D) constituents.
19. C) sentence
20. A) SVCA
21. D) Archaism.
22. B) Supra Segmental
23. A) Analogy
24. B) Slang
25. A) Cardinal Vowel
26. A) glottis
27. D) Wind pipe
28. A) Scots and Frisian
29. A) Sixty thousand
30. C) 1922
31. B) vocabulary
32. B) Sir William Jones
33. C) Allomorphs
34. B) Morpheme
35. B) a lexical item which has a range of different meaning
36. D) Language creativity.
37. A) Jacob Grimm
38. B) homogeneous
39. B) John Wycliff
40. a) Dialect
41. d) Standard dialect
42. a) Joseph wright
43. a) Idiolect
44. d) Morphology
45. b) Morpheme
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46. b) Internal
47. c) External
48. d) Velum
49. c) 3
50. c) Accidence
51. d) Trachea
52. a) Glottis
53. b) Voiced
54. a) Communicative Language Teaching
55. c) The Bow-bow Theory
56. c) Euphemism
57. b) Communicative Language Teaching
58. b) Grammar-Translation Method
59. b) Task-Based Language Teaching
60. b) Syllabus Design
61. c) Second Language Acquisition
62. c) Pragmatics
63. c) Audio-lingual Method
64. b) Sociolinguistics
65. b) Task - Based Learning
66. c) Zone of Proximal Development
67. b) Audio-lingual
68. b) Behaviourist
69. c) Old Norse
70. c) Hus
71. a) Cniht
72. b) French
73. d) German
74. A) System of communication using sounds, gestures or written symbols
75. C) Animal like instinct
76. A) Phoneme
77. D) Facial expressions.
78. C) Linguistic determinism
79. A) Syntax
80. B) Socio linguistics
81. A) Dialects are regional variations of a language
82. B) Language acquisition
83. A) Phonetics
84. A) Diachronic approach
85. D) Over an extended period of time.
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86. C) As a static system at a given time
87. B) Synchronic approach
88. C) language acquisition and processing
89. B) Synchronic approach
90. D) The historical context and language evolution.
91. B) Language families and genetic relationship
92. A) Diachronic approach
93. B) Synchronic approach
94. B) The study of the physical properties of speech sounds
95. C) speech sounds
96. C) Syntactic phonetics
97. D) How speech sounds function within a particular language.
98. B) It analyses the distribution and patterns of speech sounds in a language
99. C) The productions, transmission and perception of speech sounds
100. B) Phonetics
101. A) The study of sound pattern and rules in language
102. D) Phonology.
103. C) Assessing language proficiency and pronunciation
104. A) Ferdinand de Saussure
105. C) Language and parole
106. C) Noam Chomsky
107. B) Leonard Blooms field
108. C) Noam Choamsky
109. C) Speech Sounds
110. B) Word structure
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